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Noah Nathan

@nlnathan.bsky.social

Political scientist @MIT nlnathan.mit.edu

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Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last wk.

The US Administration just restricted the duration of student visas. What's the problem? Now political appointees have full discretion to block most international students from staying after graduation. They've promised to use their new power to do just that. My new @piie.com post explains—>

A new US rule to restrict student visas will hurt the US economy

The Trump administration issued a final rule in July that gives it discretion to cut short the course of study of most international students at US universities. It will likely use this new power to b...

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Noah Nathan@nlnathan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edu

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American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

From our FirstView: Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design by PAIGE BOLLEN and @nlnathan.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Noah Nathan@nlnathan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edu

Paige Bollen

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American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

From our FirstView: Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design by PAIGE BOLLEN and @nlnathan.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Daniel de Kadt@dandekadt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Having gone through adjustment of status, I can tell you that this is just absolutely insane. It is yet another attempt to leave ordinary Americans worse off for no reason other than making life harder for (legal, not that it should matter) immigrants. Yet another national shame and disgrace.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services PM-602-0199 May 21, 2026 Policy Memorandum SUBJECT: Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process Purpose This memorandum reminds officers and the public that adjustment of status under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is a matter of discretion and administrative grace not designed to supersede the regular consular processing of immigrant visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reaffirms this consistent and longstanding approach and declares as a matter of general policy its intention to faithfully apply the statutes consistently with this understanding.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance" "A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble."

James North@jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For many years, Stephanie Nolen was one of the best reporters covering the HIV/AIDS in Africa health crisis. Now, finally, the #NYTimes has unleashed her again -- and here's her valuable first-hand report from #Zambia. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Abu Aardvark@abuaardvark.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People need to understand how bad, how devastating, how unjustified Israel’s bombardment of Beirut is — it’s not just yet another of the strikes that have become routinized. Catastrophic civilian harm and human suffering that simply must not be shrugged off as normal and forgotten. Stop the madness.

Ken Schultz@kschultz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo ago

All of this was very foreseeable but lots of people spent the election prosecuting their precious factional disputes rather than rallying to prevent a fascist from taking office and so here we are.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, April 7, is Kwibuka32, the commemoration of the 32d anniversary of the first full day of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Past US presidents marked the date with stock statements of “never again.” Today the president instead echoed the language & threats of the perpetrators.

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈@timlongman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Listening to Bobi Wine on BBC speaking about fleeing Uganda, it strikes me how much the recent attack on international human rights led by Trump has empowered dictators like Museveni to act with impunity. Wine was attacked and intimidated before, but now they feel free to try to kill him,

Bobi Wine: Ugandan opposition leader goes abroad after two months in hiding

Uganda's military chief has said Bobi Wine is wanted "dead or alive", although some ministers have denied he is being sought.

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Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 5mo ago

This is the part about the Gen AI revolution that gives me great pause. This is a real example: compare two PDFs, text only, tell me if one copied the other. Claude Code *cannot do it* What level of task do you trust without verification?

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 5mo ago

I would like to remain open-minded about this. I am also using the full-freight, enteprise version of Claude Code running 4.5 Sonnet to compare the text of two PDF files, and it repeatedly pulls out false text and quotes. This is the simplest of tasks, and this is March 2026.