Rutgers CJ hiring up to three TT assistants, areas open but note one is for a qualitative specialist (yay!). jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/254...

Heck of an ASC election lineup! (Obviously advisor and spouse on different lines makes it easy for me but every year I do enjoy imagining which pairings result in dream teams, revolutions, or light admin coups.)

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

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Nancy La Vigne, a renowned criminal justice researcher and former leader in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Biden, has been named Dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice. Read more at go.rutgers.edu/zmmblbo0.

We all want our non-academic family and friends to show some interest in our work, not refer to us as having summers off or lecture us about our areas of expertise, etc but I’ve made my peace with it. I did not see “what’s your h index?” coming. This is worse.

Officially the parent of an adult today. She promises to always vote, is kind to others, and has known the difference between prison and jail since 5th grade.

When you finally find yourself in a reply all-unsubscribe loop (current count=380 emails), you learn who you are: My partner and I learned tonight that we are people who troll our friends for trying to unsubscribe & come up with plans to get it going again once it seems like it’s calmed down.

Started the day with an indicted Senator and ended it with a no confidence vote in my university president. This year’s transition from beach to work has left a lot to be desired.

If you wanted to read my story about men who play D&D on Texas death row, but stumbled on the NYT paywall -- here's a free version, on The Marshall Project - with even more photos and illustrations www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/d...

I don’t know about you all but I am really enjoying the long essays on materialism versus dualism in response to discussion board questions like “can you think of another example of selective observation?”

We need to align the starts and stops of school to agree on when summer is over. By this I mean your email on August 18th when I am at the beach finds me about as well as my email on December 18th when I am still grading would find you.

Breaking out my favorite City shirt (Kompany). Not sure if this makes me like the guy on Lasso with the half City-half United scarf.

Appreciating recent work on cohort diffs on risk of crime and punishment. As examples & send me more: https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi/10.1215/00703370-10863378/380376/A-Generational-Shift-Race-and-the-Declining https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107020118

Worst first skeet (?) ever but my main problem this week is that our daughter won’t go see Barbie with us because she’s going with her all friends in matching outfits and our offer to pay for all of them and dress up still won’t get us in. We’d been led to believe we were the cool parents.