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need crowdsourcing help #polisky - if your department is not admitting PhD students this cycle, please respond with the department
i already know my department, GW, is not admitting students
so far I've got:
Boston University
Brandeis
GWU
Johns Hopkins SAIS
New School
Rochester
need crowdsourcing help #polisky - if your department is not admitting PhD students this cycle, please respond with the department
i already know my department, GW, is not admitting students
Nick Martinelli being 2nd team all big ten is absolute HORSESHIT, he's 100% first team
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Call for Applications: MENA Mentoring Initiative | Deadline: April 12, 2026
Participate in the MENA Mentoring Initiative! The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in the MENA Mentoring…
and if you're waiting for 2026, that will be out quite soon
thank my queen @rosalierubio.bsky.social, who's made it a priority to be as transparent as possible so we respect folks' time!
also nintendo suing their ass to kingdom come for ripping off the Super Smash Bros character selection screen
thank god the court is finally going to approve the financial aid antitrust settlement disbursement Wednesday
if you have your claim number you can check and see whether you’ll be getting a payout (mean is around $2510)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ice cream acquired www.traderjoes.com/home/product...
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"letting my friends exit their various positions before shit really hits the fan"
like I cannot emphasize how asking people to do free / minimally compensated labor is my least favorite part of this gig, and how y'all showing up for your colleagues really is a joy of the gig
pitch for a tall ask:
APSA has unheard-of demand for its grants & fellowships due to funding cuts. More apps = more reviewers needed. We all know burnout is high. Reviewing so someone CAN go do the work & maybe be why they stay in the profession? Worth it - volunteer
apsa.wufoo.com/forms/ccrg-r...
it's a walk to the grocery store to buy a pint of ice cream to take home in my ice cream pint cooler because it's so warm day
tbh the fears of state expropriation are high up there. heard from several folks that even major MNCs are pulling back from public-private partnership opportunities because they don't want the risk exposure to potential state expropriation (demanding IP, a nationally-owned equity stake, etc.)
To show prospective students our discipline's research priorities, I scraped the last 6 @apsa-preprints.bsky.social annual meeting programs to count papers by section, then assigned sections to subfields. Polisci remains fascinated with the American case!
*stares in did they really just say that out loud on the teevee*
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
tbh it seems like the Iran war opened the Pandora’s box of “noisy” business politics where high salience issues mean business interests are more willing to take publicly known stands & actions - see @pculpepper.bsky.social
another one: markets pricing things in / TACO:
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
Dow 36,000
cannot stress enough that this is Valencia Grace’s year
valenciagrace.com
boots down (on the ground) they’ll be deceased (for absolutely no fucking reason)
still the most difficult work of fiction I’ve ever tried to read (in a college class, about Faulkner, with an expert)
god help them if they ever tried to read a book like absalom absalom!
Forreal. My partner is in the background of the Trinidad & tobago episode because he went on a college program there with a Trini professor. His producers yelled at the student group for “following them” when his prof was really just taking them to the cool spots. Bourdain apologized & was chill
among which include Texas cop shop, which Gorsuch wanted to use to resolve bigger questions of whether district courts can issue universal injunctive relief
www.forbes.com/sites/jayadk...
Among the first things his administration did for round 2 was all-but-stop enforcing the beneficial ownership law - which took four years to write the rules under Biden and faced countless lower court legal challenges.
The NDAA during trumps last year in office in his first term included a federal beneficial ownership transparency law. It would’ve required disclosing the real person behind corporate entities like LLCs to the government.
He vetoed it.
Congress overrode his veto.