Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
“Demographers and their sponsors extended the interwar eugenic project of family planning to developing countries… They received intellectual support from a younger generation of biologists, most notably Paul Ehrlich, who published The Population Bomb in 1968,”
New Veep deleted scene: Kristi Noem makes up fake George Orwell quote as she's fired by Trump via Truth Social Post.
Daron @DAcemogluMIT uses his language and authority to weigh in pointing out to the possibility of a breakdown of knowledge transmission and the reduction of the stock of skill as consequence of AI. In some societies, this has already happened in the world of "physical skills"...
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
Research article titled "Making Women Visible: How Gender Quotas Shape Global Attitudes toward Women in Politics" by Jessica Kim and Kathleen M. Fallon.
🏅In one of this week's most read articles, "Making Women Visible" Jessica Kim & Kathleen M. Fallon use multilevel modeling on 87 countries to test what impact gender quotas have on beliefs about women in politics.
Available 🌟#OpenAccess🌟
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Learning to discuss protests on Duolingo is aligned with a high A2 level of the CEFR.
I feel somehow more ahead of my autumnal conferencing season than I have ever felt. Have I made it as an academic? Or am I delusional? 🤔
Happy UN Day to all who celebrate! I was happy to chat with @erikvoeten.bsky.social at @goodauth.bsky.social about this 80th birthday for a hot mess doing its best goodauthority.org/news/united-...
The US Administration has explicitly chosen to make it much harder to build a career in research in the United States.
This policy of hollowing out our future innovation capacity will ultimately harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
Exactly! Our seed library has triggered a master gardener to share her planting calendar for our locale. And the 'share a row' harvest fed 24 families with fresh produce at our food bank.
Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.
4.9/5 on my latest teaching evaluation. Let’s gooooo!
Definitely getting my COVID-19/flu vax combo shot next week before any of this changes in Texas.
Amazing how many articles there were about “Kamala Harris, what does she do? What policy debates does she participate in? How is she “messing up the border?” And the current VP is just a full on shitposter and the political press goes, “ah well, nevertheless”
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
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A cross-country (US and UK) comparative analysis of contestants race/ethnicity dynamics would be interesting.
Texas during a legislative is so fun. Going to have to explain this in class soon.
There are many assessments that suggest PragerU "is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United States today."
One is available here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In goose meme form.
Reps. Darrell Issa (CA), and Rob Wittman (VA), and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have all voted for cuts to the CFPB.
Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints about financial products and services to the agency.
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social @propublica.org
I really like @cstross.bsky.social on similar issues.
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Assistant Professors teach courses that are significantly/substantively closer to the boundaries of knowledge that tenured and non-tenure track professors.
(This difference is equivalent to 19% of a syllabus’s content.)
If you are teaching Intro to US Politics/American Government at the college level this coming year and would like a place to share resources, ideas, and questions, please join our Slack! Email me at sara.chatfield @ du.edu for the link.
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Image of actor Idris Elba who plays Stringer Bell in “The Wire” saying “I want you to get the word out there that we back up.”
My quadriceps to my other leg muscles after the barbell squats I did yesterday.
"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning. But that time is over."
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Darren Beattie — who was fired as a speechwriter during President Trump’s first term after CNN revealed that he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists — will now serve as the acting president of the US Institute of Peace, according to a senior State Department official.
