Enhancing Political Science Education: Evaluating the Impact of Networking Skills Training This study looks at the effects of adding networking-skills training to a political science seminar. Students who received the training reported higher levels of comfort, confidence, and experience...

Assignments requiring weekly alumni conversations, LinkedIn/resume practice, and informational interviews meaningfully increase students’ experience with real networking tasks and improves how comfortable they feel networking. Small interventions can bring a big payoff for career readiness.

Three singers, members of the band I'm With Her, standing on a stage. Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan holding a fiddle and two guitars.

Got to see the great @imwithherband.bsky.social last night in Austin with the great @ihamerly.bsky.social. Wonderful, wonderful music.

This article is giving me hope. I'm going to assign it next semester in Comparative Government.

I call this work "Wishing I Was at a Park, Instead of Proctoring an Exam"

It's been a great semester. I was inspired by your chapter about policy analysis in the classroom so I made the whole class revolve around negotiations and policy analysis. Thanks for telling me about your book!

Codecide board game on a table

We played Codecide! yesterday in class. It was fun.

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

"Many of the people terminated on Tuesday work as program managers and experts who make decisions about funding by aligning research proposals with the right program and matching those proposals to the most qualified reviewers to assess them and make recommendations."

Scientists Just Found The Perfect Disguise to Sneak Into a Termite Colony Beneath the rocky soil of Morocco, researchers have uncovered a surprising intruder living undetected inside termite colonies.

The headline makes it sound like the scientists are the ones sneaking around the termite colonies.

For 17 Years, Swedish Scientists Were Sneaking Bob Dylan Song Titles into Their Research Papers as Part of a Bet For 17 years, a group of Swedish-based scientists had a bet to sneak Bob Dylan song titles into their scientific articles.

Two professors at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, they titled a research paper “Nitric Oxide and inflammation: The answer is blowing in the wind” (Predictably, it was about flatulence).

That is a beautiful sourdough.

We faculty heard some pretty astounding numbers yesterday. The big whopper is that our unit (all the historians and social scientists) costs the university about $1.4m a year. Because we teach so much (all those "student credit hours" we account for), we bring into the university more than 3x that.

College students caught between professors' AI bans and employers' growing demand for AI skills Research shows 75% of workers now use artificial intelligence on the job, yet many universities still classify its use as cheating.

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

The author is Anna Koliadych

I've really enjoyed these 15 minute watercolor lessons. The compositions are really different than my usual style, but I love them.

Thank you! I just ordered a copy.

This book looks amazing! I just ordered a copy. Thank you.

What a cool paper topic!

I'm about to teach an EU Politics course for the first time. I welcome recommendations for readings, news sources, learning activities, etc.

Best eraser, Dr. Handle (could have been bagels)

Best eraser,
Dr. Handle (could have been bagels)

A few more jewels today:
Dr. Handle
Dr. Handout
Dr. Handyman
Dr. Hamburger

Best wishes, Dr. I haven't heard from you

I sign every email to students the same way and I do this about 20 times a day. Despite this, Microsoft Outlook guesses wrong about how I want to close my email every.single.time.

I just got Maya Kornberg's book and congressional committees as a birthday gift. 🎉🎉🎉

Really enjoyed the Women in Legislative Studies conference. Every conference should be this interesting, friendly, and well organized.