Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى
@salmamousa.bsky.social
Political science prof at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
📢 The deadline is approaching for the APSA Experimental Research Section’s 2nd Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship! 🌱 Please consider applying, and please share this opportunity with promising early-career scholars who may be interested. 🔗 forms.gle/fXHaqYK3TEL3...
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Miguel Pereira@miguelpereira.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 The APSA Experimental Research section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its 2nd Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship. The program prrovides a mentor and some funding. (1/2) Apply by June 15 forms.gle/fXHaqYK3TEL3...
Ending violence is not the same as building peace. Do grassroots peacebuilding efforts matter for starting or ending wars? We reviewed the evidence on peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.... and found 3 tensions. Now out in Economic Policy: academic.oup.com/economicpoli...
The @compactmagazin.bsky.social article relies on cherry-picked data. Looking at ~5M employee records from public universities, we find: There isn't a secret cabal of white men pulling the strings — the *top* diversified the most. The tenure track hasn't been taken over by female or Black profs.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8mo agoGot some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Yup. "Backlash" toward DEI driven by conservative elites, not the masses. The trend is even more stark when looking at beliefs about reverse discrimination.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8mo agoMore from the important research by @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social @salmamousa.bsky.social & @kylepeyton.bsky.social: The backlash to CRT and DEI was concentrated among educated & professional class centrists & Republicans. Working class, who Yglesias says backlashed, didn't actually care