Mike Goldfien

@mikegoldfien.bsky.social

Political science & IR | Fomerly Yale, Stanford, Grinnell College | Views my own | mgoldfien.com

@monikanalepa.bsky.social was an amazing editor! @hongding-zhu.bsky.social, @soyounglee.bsky.social, @andrewkydd.bsky.social, @tjroehrig.bsky.social B Yoder, and C Glaser and the reviewers dramatically improved the paper! Thanks so much!

Mike Goldfien@mikegoldfien.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited that my article with @profmickeyj.bsky.social and #Roseanne_McManus, “The Domestic Sources of International Trust,” is now published as FirstView in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Here is a brief summary.

After years in academia, I’m exploring data science and research roles in industry. I'm a quant. social scientist (PhD Yale ’24, NYU) focused on causal inference, experiments, and large-scale data. Feel free to get in touch or share; all leads appreciated. dwstommes@gmail.com

Important statement from Amaney Jamal and Keren Yarhi-Milo: "Campuses must protect free speech, but equally advocate for mutually respectful dialogue...There is no better place for these discussions than a university campus. But sponsoring this kind of debate takes courage."

Opinion | The Conversations About the War in Gaza We Ought to Be Having

Universities should not retreat into their ivory towers because the discourse has gotten toxic; a retreat into the ivory tower will encourage even more toxic discourse.

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We know you've heard "unprecedented" a lot the last few weeks. In this piece, @profsaunders.bsky.social goes long on how US President Biden's trip to Israel is -- in fact -- unprecedented, highlighting similar trips and also telling us why this one is so different. goodauthority.org/news/biden-w...

Biden will visit Israel during a war. That’s unprecedented.

President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday, Oct. 18, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in remarks after nine hours of meetings and

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