I wish the panelists offered a working definition of "woke" and "political correctness," which we're told has been "abandoned." And what is the evidence for the claim that it had been, until the backlash, institutionalized "in our workplaces and on campuses"? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

In the words of Dave Wasserman, I’ve seen enough. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The proposed cuts to the NSF would be “devastating,” says Leigh Stearns, a glaciologist at the University of Pennsylvania. “We cannot cut the pipeline and expect the output to continue. This is how the US loses its scientific leadership — with a reckless budget line.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

This & the cancellation of Title VI/FLAS funding for foreign language & area studies pose existential threats to the social sciences at every R1 university in the country. And it's been ~total 🦗🦗 from our university presidents/chancellors & a total lack of public collective action.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

You can’t vote out Trump in the midterms, but you can vote out the people who enable him.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

How is this anything but ethnic cleansing? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Cannot stress this enough. The mere fact the court took the birthright citizenship case and is treating it like a genuine dispute is a problem, no matter what the end result.

#polisky the absolute decimation of the social sciences cc @professormusgrave.bsky.social @mcopelov.bsky.social

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

All the Philly celebs are out for the No Kings Rally today. 🧵

Under Trump, immigration officers have detained parents of U.S. citizens at about twice the pace of the previous administration. And compared with Biden, Trump has detained many more people with only minor criminal histories or none at all. 👉 Read our full investigation: https://propub.li/4uVy3Mu

Delighted to see @aclu.org @brucespringsteen.net teaming up for these ads (I saw it on SURVIVOR last night) promoting and defending the all-American value of birthright citizenship.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

AWFUL. This upholds the crazy argument that for the last 30 years, no one noticed that Congress mandated detention of anyone who ever entered unlawfully. This will effectively gut most habeas lawsuits coming out of Minnesota. FWIW, the 8th Circuit is as conversative/more conservative than the 5th.

Applications opening soon! Attend the Q&A for the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Program. #APSADDRIG Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 2:00 p.m. (ET)

“The same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government,” one legal expert said about the meeting of election deniers. (Published Feb.)

Damn, this series of really brutal polls on the economy

This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.

Today is National Tamale Day Today honors the ancient Mesoamerican dish, with origins dating back as early as 5000–8000 B.C., developed as a portable, durable meal for hunters and warriors, with ancient civilizations like the Maya and Aztecs. The Mexican tamale entered the U.S. in the 1800's.

In the vein of this, and as an example, this blog post about the work of translator Anthea Bell is excellent: auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...

NEW and STUNNING: A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

Thessaloniki: Remembering the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans'

Pipeline Grants Competition The Russell Sage Foundation is proud to announce 15 awards to 19 scholars. This initiative supports early-career scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences. Two awards were co-funded with J-PAL North America. www.russellsage.org/news/seventh...

In terms of popularity, Fetterman "is down there with the Titanic."

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

The Pentagon is requesting the equivalent of $1,500 per American household to fund President Trump's unauthorized, unconstitutional, and unpopular war. Congress must say no.

Not to be a Times headline critic but they really should not reprint this Netanyahu press release as news, taking his publicly voiced “hopes” at face value, when it seems that Israel’s strategic goal is simply to turn its regional security threats into incapacitated failed states

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.

“Every single day when I’m out in public, I have to decide,” Nikson Matthews, a transgender man, told lawmakers before the bill passed. “Do I feel like going to jail today, or do I feel like being attacked?” www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

NEWS - All articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics (@journalrep.bsky.social) from 25 March 2026 will be #OpenAccess, find out more- https://cup.org/4u4S1DV #OA #JREP

Things are not okay.

“Washington has for decades dedicated less than 1% of its naval budget to mine warfare, despite mines being responsible for almost 80%of US warships disabled since 1945 and over 75% of its naval casualties since 1950. European nations now have more developed mine-warfare capabilities than the US.”

lmao i love that authors used to just be able to do this

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

Issuance of F-1 student visas by the United States, to all countries, monthly through August 2025 (latest available). The red line shows the start of the current US Administration. Shutting out the world's talented young people will impoverish the future of every Conservative and Liberal American.

My home circuit holds that under recent Supreme Court precedents, states may lawfully refuse to provide gender-affirming care through Medicaid. This is very, very bad. In part because of endemic workplace discrimination, trans folks are almost 3x as likely to live in poverty.

This ('Net Zero Costs Less Than One Fossil Fuel Shock') is also likely true for the EU. The 'excess market costs' of the Russia-Ukraine war fossil fuel shock in 2022 was about 600 billion Euro (total costs >1 trillion (1000 billion) Euro). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste

Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.