Structured networking activities can support students’ career readiness. Embedding these practices into an upper level seminar provided students with repeated, low stakes opportunities to develop professional outreach skills. @ihamerly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1551...

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.

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...

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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.

Marina Nord@marinanord.bsky.social · 2y ago

Autocratization can be halted and reversed! We show that 52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

"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."

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.

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

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.

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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).

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.