Sent this to some important teens in my life. I’m sure they’re rolling their eyes but I am delighted. 🤣

THERE IS A PODCAST! Come on with this! I am so excited.

Oh the role of academic wives is one of my all time favourite topics!!! How exciting!

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

THIS!!!!!

“It’s shocking … did you consider not complying with this request?” Butler said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Are you attending #APSA2025 and (thinking of) writing a book on the topic of gender and politics?! Come meet the editors of the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Cambridge Studies in Gender & Politics! Friday at 2:30pm at the Sutton Place Hotel (Salon Cezanne). We want to talk w/ you!

Currently writing up a few paragraphs to explain the science of sampling to undergraduates and am reminded of how amazing some folks are at explaining math and probability with such seeming ease. This is no simple feat even if simple random sampling is not that complex.

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Nine things I have written are in this database. I hate it.

Monday Giggle!

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

Easiest way to teach someone how difficult data prep is would be to record me using a new to me dataset. The final syntax file does not begin to cover all the things I tried and didn't work until I eventually found a way to discover the 130 observations out of 22k that need to be fixed.

Yup

I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”

Introducing Geordi! Our new Golden Doodle puppy, who at 10 weeks old is adorable and frisky and destined to be best friends with her older brother Data, the grumpy 5 year old Scottish Terrier. Her humans are in love.

#MorningReads Sex is often used as a proxy for gender (in political surveys here), but this study shows it misses nuance—about a quarter of people don’t fit neatly. A finer measure of gender improves analysis and highlights the need for better survey design. #SOGIData

Universities need to stop partnering with AI. It is confusing our students and making them think that they *should* use AI instead of training their brains. We are ensuring a future of shriveled, useless brains. The future is bleak.

86% among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the UN Convention for the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Encountering more and more GenAI/LLM produced work. It is like sewage, but without a sanitation infrastructure, no pipes, no workers, no regulations. Like shit it flows everywhere, it makes everything worse, dangerous and smelly, and no one is fixing it or taking any responsibility.

Defund education, then insert for-profit pure garbage to fill the void. The future is bleak.

over the last week, several political scientists i trust have declared trump a dictator and that america is not a full functioning democracy anymore. see here: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/where-we-a... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author... i think making a list clarifies this:

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

I’m at the stage of news consumption where I quietly whisper “unhinged” to myself before moving on to the next news story. Things *waves hands* are so fucked.

It’s the first rain we’ve had in WEEKS. It startled him so much he started barking at it. 🤣

Wow this is really good. Resonates big time.

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Professor develops a free, online course on Black Canadian history | Information Morning - NS | On Demand | CBC Listen

Whether it's Hillary Clinton wearing pantsuits or Donald Trump drawing naked women in a letter he sent to a pedophile, both candidates took a provocative approach to women's attire.

I love this!

As if we need more reasons to admire Mirya's take on academic life...this newsletter is 🔥 My (reinforcing) take: nobody normal doesn't have self-doubt.

I just really wish a lot of people "leveraging" genAI for tasks would take 30 seconds to ask whether the thing they are making actually needs to exist. Are you just making the equivalent of junk mail and distributing it to people without their consent, wasting resources in the process?

Shit’s gettin real so I have my “thinking licorice” at the ready. There ain’t no writers block happening here.

Am prepping for a 2 week writing blitz. Like she READ MY MIND, @mirya.bsky.social wrote a newsletter just for me! I am: ✅ blocking out my daily plan ✅ planning my meals so I don’t need to think about it ✅ leaving room for movement each day ✅ devising a small set of awards for when I hit my goals

This is a watershed moment. Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned. Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education. He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.

Lit reviews convince the reader that your work matters by showing what it does and where it fits. An engaged, earnest reader will approach your paper with “there are 8 million papers on X, what’s new here?” Your lit review better answer that question.

Spouse sent me this and I’m dying

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Everyone should read this article, regardless of what they thought of campus protests, and ask how any institution can expect to retain its academic freedom if it makes a deal with this government, which is a personalist dictatorship in its conduct of national security affairs.

An EXCELLENT use for glitter.

In 2011, most climate change coverage featured “emotionally benign” images of politicians. But writer and photographer @bojanfurst.bsky.social‬ believes that may finally be changing. thewalrus.ca/climate-change-i...

When educators freak out about AI, it's not because we're lamplighters fighting the invention of the lightbulb, or because we're lazy and don't want to innovate our teaching methods - it's because there's a genuine learning crisis at hand, the stupifying of society. 3/3

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #Juneteenth

I find this whole thing so interesting. The paper is cool, and these researchers are very clever. All of it reinforces for me what I already believe: we need to use our brains more, not less. If that's the only lesson I impart to my students in the next few years, I will call it a major success.

📰 Our research on the mental load is on CBS Mornings! 💥 In @jmfncfr.bsky.social, we find mothers manage 71% of family tasks—rising to 79% for daily routines. A powerful but often invisible form of inequality. Grateful to team up with @leahruppanner.bsky.social on this work -- more to come!

Electoral integrity is super important. The recent court settlement involving John Abbott and Allison Coffin has provided us with a reminder of what a ridiculous election 2021 was here in the province. This op-ed on the importance of democratic institutions, by me.

My small act of feminism: refusing to tell the cake lady if the cake was for a boy or a girl. Shocked her when I said “oh you mean for the icing? It doesn’t matter” she said “of course it does! I can’t use pink for a boy!” I said “sure you can! Boys like pink too! Choose whatever colour you want.”

Told my kid that she was sus. I probably said it wrong.

BREAKING NEWS: More otters in hats.