in case you were wondering whatever became of the us institute of peace, the once-venerable congressionally chartered think tank is now a propaganda site www.usip.org

Folks, what are we doing about the real problem facing our country? The thing where you add a cite to Zotero when it's in first view, but then it's finally published and the date etc changes for the cite so now you're chasing down details which kind of defeats the purpose of a citation manager?

Delighted that the new @isanet.bsky.social Research and Policy Section Stephen J. Del Rosso award for excellence in bridging the gap between research and policy is now live: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa... Please check it out and submit nominations by September 15.

In September, the 2 Million inhabitants of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of the 16 German Länder vote for their parliament. This is the current polling 👇

Not just STEM but global talent generally

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 6d ago

I wrote last year about the US Administration's plans to eviscerate Optional Practical Training, America's largest single source of global STEM talent: www.piie.com/blogs/realti... That came to pass. The White House is sharpening its tools to shatter OPT, and thus kneecap many US universities.

What's the process for replacing Infantino?

Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d ago

CONCACAF (41 federations) join Uefa to reject Gianni Infantino's proposal.

james you just don’t understand how important firing twenty million dollar missiles into sand dunes is to kinetic lethality warfighting

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · last wk.

“DUDE WE’RE GONNA PIVOT TO CHINA WE HAVE TO CONSERVE STOCKPILES”

Calling all ISA West members (and prospective members)! Join us for ISA West's Coffee Hour. We are hoping to foster more engagement between our members outside of the annual conference. It's happening online every first Friday of the month, 11am PT. Contact Maria for the Zoom link.

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Calling all ISA West members (and prospective members)! Join us for ISA West's Coffee Hour. We are hoping to foster more engagement between our members outside of the annual conference. It's happening online every first Friday of the month, 11am PT. Contact Maria for the Zoom link.

The public admission of the open looting of other sovereign UN member-states would have ended any other presidency since Truman. But alas, everyone in power has decided that he is One Special Boy & the laws, the Constitution, & our ratified international treaty commitments do not apply to him.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump to press on Airforce One: “We are taking billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. “That will happen with Iran too.”

Lindsey’s legacy will include the mass slaughter of Iranian children in a school at Minab on the opening day of the war. Congrats, Lindsey.

www.ft.com/content/221a... China pours funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demand

China pours funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demand

Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative takes advantage of rise in appetite for renewables as Middle East conflict drags on

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Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

"there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms."

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

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The Assembly of States Parties of the #ICC - composed of the Court's member-states - has just voted to remove Prosecutor Karim Khan. Voting breakdown: Yes: 82 No: 13 Abstention: 15

*extremely late-breaking opportunity with a tight turn around* Come work with me, Meredith Loken, and Jenny Hedström on the UN-funded Women's Activities in Armed Rebellion (lnkd.in/gvhJ-57D) expansion! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

The GOP made a similar claim in 2003. Since UN inspectors couldn't prove with certainty that Iraq eliminated its WMD program, there's a possibility WMDs exist and thus we should invade. This reverses the normal burden of proof when making claims. Everything hinges on the the word "possibility."

I'm reading the final three chapters of Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation with the most care I think ever & it's AWESOME. Ch 19: Popular Gov't & Market Economy -On socialism Ch 20: History in the Gear of Social Change -Covers fascism Ch 21: Freedom in a Complex Society -Inspiring future vision

lol. lmao.

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...

Made it through @josephinequinn.bsky.social's How the World Made the West and it is fantastic. Makes the idea of connected histories very accessible imo. Initially surprised the book *ends* around 1500, but presents really compelling argument that world became, in a sense, *less* connected then.

Another reason to join the ICC is that it would resolve an underlying tension here. We don’t arrest foreign heads of state when they travel to the UN, but the same agreement that protects them in that instance can’t protect them from arrest under a different instrument of the larger UN architecture

Less than a year until a proper World Cup, with 95% less diving, thuggery, and other shenanigans.

Whoever wins today, Messi and Yamal need to reenact that photoshoot

I'm seeing similar patterns as a journal editor. The number folk who can't be bothered to check if their citations are real is stunning. It's the first thing I look at now. Also, if there's more than a couple of "it's not X, it's Y" in a manuscript, you're not editing very well.

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Worst part of this game was the ref ending it

Instant classic

Gingerspiced@gingerspiced.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*