Maya Sen
@mayasen.bsky.social
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
I see this a lot - here, about MIT libraries; another example was the literary journal Yale Review - tracing the funding crisis to the OBBA, and I think it's too conveniently buying into what university presidents and boards would like you to believe.
Ben Abrahamse@babrahamse.bsky.social · 2mo agono. it stems from budget cuts and the "big beautiful bill" raising the tax on endowments from 2% to 8%
$6.2M/yr for the endowment manager guy who gets the university a lower rate of return than the S&P 500 Certainly puts the grad union's requests in perspective www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid Claudine Gay $1.5 Million in 2024 After Resignation, Financial Disclosures Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay earned more than $1.5 million in 2024, according to Harvard’s annual tax filings, receiving a higher compensation package in the year after she resigned from the ...
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I refuse to believe that AI will take over all white-collar jobs when we still have realtors
It’s only gobbledygook when you have no idea what you’re doing
Still thinking about these instructions In the South, minority voters express “different” preferences over candidates by being Democrats and voting for Democrats (see work by Ansolabehere) If you control for party, you control away the biggest outcome of those different preferences
Maya Sen@mayasen.bsky.social · 3mo agoYes. I’m sure the experts here didn’t do this. Probably because it’s nuts from a social science perspective?
Yes. I’m sure the experts here didn’t do this. Probably because it’s nuts from a social science perspective?
We had a last minute cancellation: does anyone with policy experience working in federal administrative agencies want to come talk to my HKS admin law seminar tomorrow (Friday 4/17) at 1pm ET about the role of policy experts in federal agencies? Happy to do remote - DM me if interested!
Eye-popping stat here -> For college grads who “were employed, more than 40 percent held jobs that do not typically require college degrees, the highest level since 2020” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...
Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years
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Look, I mean, I don't know talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-r...
Trump Rails Against ‘Shylocks And Bad People’ In Iowa Speech
President Donald Trump employed a term often used as a slur against...
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoBREAKING: Trump administration sues Harvard, saying it violated civil rights law and seeking to recover federal money.
This is very important to consider I think “human” instruction has much to offer and in the end many students will be willing to pay a premium for non-AI education Similar to how exclusive and expensive private elementary schools have abolished screens altogether But who knows?
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 5mo agodo students really want spend between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition just to be taught by professors who have outsourced their work to AI?
This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 5mo agoNEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...
seeing two different academic responses to AI in the classroom: 1) the below (go back to basics) vs. 2) incorporate it radically into a re-imagining of teaching thoughts about how things will go?
Maya Sen@mayasen.bsky.social · 5mo agoI shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did The students liked it as well There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way
I shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did The students liked it as well There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way
Ian Bogost@ibogost.com · 5mo agoIs this bad
The thing about the press conference is that Trump didn't say he would ask Congress to override the Court's decision, which is what a strong president whose party controlled both houses of Congress would do.
what a day to be teaching policy students about the major questions doctrine and why it matters
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Donor Leslie Wexner Named Among Epstein Co-Conspirators, DOJ Records Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Leslie H. Wexner, a longtime Harvard megadonor, was labeled a co-conspirator of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein in a previously redacted internal FBI document from August 2019.
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David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 6mo agoLeslie Wexner's name is on multiple buildings at Ohio State University. His lawyer is the Chair of its Board of Trustees. Ohio State refuses to take Wexner's name off of their buildings or disassociate the school from Wexner. That's the culture at Ohio State University.
This + the moment RBG’s death was announced are two moments I will always remember The place I was, who I was with, the sense that everything was about to change Things changed - just not in the way I expected!
Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · 6mo agoHappy 10-year anniversary to this headline from the San Antonio Express-News, which disrupted the 2016 presidential election, got Donald Trump elected, and disrupted many legal and political journalists’ lives and existence. I know because we still have the scars to prove it. Support local news.
Former U.S. Attorney @preetbharara.bsky.social on what politicization is doing to the Justice Department and why talented lawyers may no longer want to serve. This is how institutions erode. 🎧 Full episode (audio) live now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... 📺 Full video tomorrow on Youtube
Author of this piece: "Scalia almost certainly wouldn’t have been happy to see how American politics have grown coarser and more polarized than ever before" ...but is there any contemporary justice who wrote more "coarser and more polarized opinions" than Scalia? www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘He Was the Antidote’: Samuel Alito Speaks Out on Antonin Scalia and the Drafting of Dobbs
In an exclusive interview, the Supreme Court justice remembers a friend and conservative icon’s legacy.
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lol mind you, Pete Hegseth went to Harvard Kennedy School.
Maya Sen@mayasen.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is a shame We teach many military students at the Kennedy School Our curriculum is heavy on free market economics, statistics, ethics, and US constitutional foundations - the very stuff that conservatives say they want taught
This is a shame We teach many military students at the Kennedy School Our curriculum is heavy on free market economics, statistics, ethics, and US constitutional foundations - the very stuff that conservatives say they want taught
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 6mo agoOne thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
Re: Harvard’s negotiations with Trump, I actually did talk to some reporters yesterday and 100% stand by this on-the-record quote here where I explain that nobody knows anything
Maya Sen@mayasen.bsky.social · 6mo agoThese NYT reporters have been wrong from the get go and have now made themselves main characters in this story Begging whichever of my colleagues is speaking to them to please stop