Very excited for this book!!

John V. Kane@uptonorwell.bsky.social · yesterday

OUT TODAY! 🥳 A straightforward, non-technical guide to thinking like a quantitative social scientist. Written for students, journalists, and curious citizens. A lot of thought and heart went into this. I genuinely hope folks enjoy it!

We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.

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Virginia Sapiro@vsapiro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just because: I recommend this golden oldie, which I assigned to my students for many years from the year of its publication. Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 12, no. 4 (Summer 1987).

The appeal requests are pouring in after FIFA lifted the red card ban on Team USA’s star player, Folarin Balogun. trib.al/xBPAwVu

Trump Breaks the World Cup by Setting Off Wild Chain Reaction

The appeal requests are pouring in after FIFA lifted the red card ban on Team USA’s star player, Folarin Balogun.

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America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

I'm at home in Brooklyn with my two very young kids and ConEd has reduced our power because of the heat wave. Our lights don't work and AC is minimal. Also, there's a celebrity wedding in midtown right now and I'm unaware of any reports that they're going without.

Happy to present my new book with @drmalligaoch.bsky.social and Farida Jalalzai at the @ecprgender.bsky.social conference in Newcastle, UK. Thanks to @cvxydias.bsky.social , @petrahrens.bsky.social, and Henriette Müller for discussing on our book launch panel!

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Using original survey data from the Bundestag & German state assemblies, @sfranceschet.bsky.social and I find that institutional efforts to address the challenges of working as an elected representative while caregiving would likely be successful. Legislatures should try it! @bundestag.de #gendersky

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2mo ago

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Parties, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Politics in Germany - https://cup.org/4elxZiO - @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cvxydias.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Parties, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Politics in Germany - https://cup.org/4elxZiO - @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cvxydias.bsky.social #FirstView

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows

Experts hail daraxonrasib as ‘gamechanger’ for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer A daily pill can double survival time in patients with the world’s deadliest cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial that experts are saying is a “gamechanger” and one of the biggest breakthroughs in decades. Currently, there are few treatments for pancreatic cancer, and most do little or nothing to help. For decades, scientists have worked relentlessly trying to find clever solutions for a form of cancer that is often found late. More than half of patients are only diagnosed after it has spread. Continue reading...

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Revolution's pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival, boosts quality of life reut.rs/439RlkD

Revolution's pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival, boosts quality of life

Revolution Medicine's experimental pancreatic cancer pill doubled survival compared with chemotherapy and improved symptoms enough that some patients could resume ​activities they had previously abandoned, setting a new benchmark for this deadly cancer, researchers reported on Sunday.

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I'd forgotten half of these.

Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ORBÁN CONCEDED

today’s a pretty momentous day for women and/in space, so I hope you will re-enjoy this song with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnQ...

NASA Really Thought Sally Ride Needed 100 Tampons and Makeup in Space - Marcia Belsky

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

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Bucknell U's political science department is searching for two VAPs for next year ('26-'27) in IR & CP, respectively. Deadline is quite soon: 30 March. Please feel free to DM me with questions! bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

a white cat wearing glasses and a pink bell around its neck

Alt: a white cat wearing glasses and a pink bell around its neck

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So many old men like Sessions sending young men and women to die.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Rep. Pete Sessions: "I believe that what these 2,500 Marines would be is to secure the island. The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat circumstances. It's not like inside Iran in the cities."

"Autocratization is now truly global. (...) In 2025, Western Europe and North America registers the most notable decline on both country- and population-weighted averages. This is primarily due to the recent developments in the US." V-Dem released its latest report. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet

Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

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Yeah, well maybe you wouldn’t look like busted car upholstery if you threw a little bit of fuckin’ broccoli in the mix, chief.

I visited the Anne Frank house/museum when I was in the third grade. My parents bought me a copy of her diary at the museum gift shop -- I consumed it before we had returned home -- I lived in her head while I read, and, simultaneously, I trusted that it was not the world I lived in. Grief.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. [Survey of] Japanese Literature in Translation 2. Justice, Love, and the Ethics of Care 3. Chemical Structure 4. The German Middle Ages 5. Intensive Russian

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Dostoevsky 2. History of US labor relations 3. Ape Behavior 4. Welding 5. Milton

Das passiert, wenn eine Partei glaubt, dass sie ihre wahre Gesinnung nicht mehr verstecken muss, weil sie trotz Verfassungsfeindlichkeit einfach nicht verboten wird: Ein AfD-Rat in Sulz soll erklärt haben, sich dafür einzusetzen, dass nicht mehr an Nicht-Christen & Nicht-Deutsche vermietet werde.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

Boycott, Citizens@boycottcitizens.org · 7mo ago

36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso. The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!