An epic slides debate happening on the ALPS blog: Throwing down the gauntlet - @drpigeon.bsky.social: "My Hate/Hate relationship with Slides" - activelearningps.com/2024/06/19/m... The response by Jeremy Moulton: "In defense of slides" - activelearningps.com/2024/06/20/i... SoTLsky

I am looking for a few early-stage PhD students studying migration in Europe (pretty much any topic in poli sci/econ/soc) to present early ideas to interested undergraduates in late July. No travel budget but small cash (~€100) honorarium available + friendly audience!

Dharing my students’ Spring 2024 podcasting project for our class “IR and Popular Culture”: Colgate at the Movies. 🎧 Each picked a movie, researched/analyzed for its history/making-of/political themes/real world impacts, wrote a script and recorded it. 🥳 open.spotify.com/show/4xnWhs1...

Thank you to everybody who recommend books about teaching (broadly)! Starting with Lang’s Distracted because I found it at my library’s book sale. 🥸 Recs are compiled in this google sheet (with credit given to recommenders): docs.google.com/spreadsheets... SoTL Happy Weekend!

I am looking for book recommendations about teaching in higher education(broadly). Anybody willing to share their favorite/most impactful/most mind-shifting reads they have encountered? No discipline limitations. And yes - please self-promote your work too! SoTLsky

We're all becoming desensitized. This is how it happens. The former US president is ***threatening another coup if he loses and it's not even news***.

@proflupton.bsky.social and I curated the ultimate good authority taylor swift playlist, highlighting the political themes in her songs. 🎧🎧🎧 Polisky goodauthority.org/news/good-pl...

I'll reiterate that I've been a college professor for 16 years, I make my living thinking about college students and interacting with them, and I still don't think about them as much as NYT and Atlantic writers seem to

Reminder that just because we have “non viable pregnancy” exceptions in Alabama doesn’t mean the hospital will allow them… www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fata...

www.abortionfundofaz.org “On April 9, 2024, the Arizona Supreme Court struck a blow to our nationwide abortion crisis […]. THIS BAN WILL NOT GO INTO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY. If you need an abortion in Arizona today, please contact a clinic and reach out to our helpline for financial support.”

Arizona, are you okay?

🚨For an edit. volume on popular culture about the #EuropeanUnion/#EuropeanIdentity (under contract with R&L), I am looking for a scholar who has done work/is interested to contribute a chapter that somehow relates to/discusses #Brexit. Please share/reach out! EuSky Polisky

Challenged my students to 1) improve my taste in music & 2) help make IR more relevant to them. Excited to share their IR playlist @alpsblog.bsky.social! Shout out to Mike Tierney for original inspiration & @drjostojski.bsky.social for excellent editing. activelearningps.com/2024/01/26/a...

Margot Robbie can still be nominated if Mike Pence has the courage

Did you miss the @apsa.bsky.social workshop hosted by the Grad Status Committee about unpacking the hidden curriculum of conferences? Great news, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtw...

My favorite comment from my student evaluations was that “i wish the professor had office hours in a different office”. Happy New Year everyone!

Ever managed to misspell a word so many times that you end up questioning whether you made it up in the first place 🙈

I'm looking to hire a part-time grad student research assistant/lab manager this spring for the Policing Lab at Hamilton College. More details about the lab are here: www.hamiltonpolicinglab.com. Please help spread the word! cc polisky, intsec, dictatorsky

I went on The Europeans podcast @europeanspod.bsky.social and discussed Norwegian Christmas tree drama, the Icelandic Christmas book flood, Icelandic literature and The Night Guest, my first English translation that will be out in 2024.

Please all enjoy on Netflix “1670” - a new Polish TV show. If you ever want to learn about the Polish nobility in the 17th century but needed wanted Michael Scott to walk you through that history, then this is your show.

🚨Call for Chapter🚨 “Pop Goes the EU: Framing European Identity in Popular Culture” Submission: [email protected] Deadline: January 7, 2024 Please share within your relevant networks! Polisky EUsky

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A new post by @amandamrosen.bsky.social: "Lecture v. Active Learning: You Don’t Have to Choose" activelearningps.com/2023/12/04/l... SoTLsky

Exciting news! I just signed my first book contract with Routledge! The book is provisionally titled, Making Workshops Worth It: How to Design and Facilitate Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education. Learn more here: www.tolunoah.com/book-contrac... #HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev

Please share and apply to the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, an annual, intensive 5-wk program designed to introduce the world of doctoral study in political science to undergrad students from under-represented racial and ethnic groups. Deadline: Jan. 22 politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...

Really appreciated this post!

Are the meme accounts coming for anyone else on this platform? 🤔

🚨 BREAKING: Anti-Islam, euroskeptic radical Geert Wilders has won the Dutch election, according to an exit poll. His Freedom Party's victory puts the Netherlands on track — potentially — for a dramatic shift in direction.

This is the context: www.statesman.com/story/news/e...

New Mexico adopted a law this year that established Election Day as a state holiday. https://boltsmag.org/new-mexico-voting-rights-package/

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This week we're joined by the sparklingly excellent @dovzhyk.bsky.social for a discussion about what is happening in Ukraine right now and her complicated feelings around the struggle for international attention. Not one to miss! europeanspodcast.com/episodes/thi...

Pub alert 🚨: Carl Cilke and I published ““Experiential Learning” Is What Faculty Makes of It: Creating New Models of Understanding for Experiencing and Interpreting on Faculty-Led Short-Term Study Abroad Programs” at Frontiers (Study Abroad). frontiersjournal.org/index.php/Fr... Polisky SoTLsky

When you grade 2 out of 50 papers and then take a 4 hour Gilmore Girls break.

This is an awesome semester-long exercise. My brain is already churning on how I can implement that potentially in IR. 🤓

Just a reminder that when abortion rights have been on the ballot they have not lost anywhere. Not in Michigan. Not in Kansas, Kentucky or Montana. Now, not in Ohio.

My son’s third word (after dada and mama) is Polish (!). He has learned to say “koniec” (end) to let us know when he is done eating (after sooo much modeling 🙈). Consistency apparently works - who knew ?! This bilingual mama is over the moon!

Friend, pre-orders for -A Pedagogy of Kindness- are now open! Pre-order at the link below, or at your favorite bookstore! www.oupress.com/978080619385...

But why

The pro-European attitude of Georgian youth: ideals, frustrations and the “European identity”

Have you ever considered maybe you are reviewer 2? Join us for our professional development session ~How to Be a Journal Reviewer~ Monday, Nov 6, 12-1PM ET (9AM-10AM PT) with Profs Nadia Brown, @montoya_celeste, and @christiangrose ucr.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I did a thing about climate in class! Great interactive teaching tool from MIT/UMass Lowell! 🤓

A post by @drcathyelliott.bsky.social: "Is it in the assessment criteria?" activelearningps.com/2023/10/30/i... Polisky SoTLsky

My EU students and I spent October enjoying the company of amazing guest lecturers, sharing their expertise and passion for their work: Joanna Urbanek from the House of European History, Dr. Peo Hansen (talking about his book „Eurafrica“), and Vassilis Coutifaris from the EU delegation to the US! 💪🏻💪🏻

My brain fully comprehends that conferences take time to prep, set up, and schedule. But my heart refuses to type out abstracts 9-12 months prior to an event.

When your student realizes that an extra credit assignment requires cough cough extra work. 🤔

What a wonderful piece by @edebruin.bsky.social and Clara Harding on teaching undergraduates how to use archival documents educate.apsanet.org/teaching-und...

Now Open: Apply for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Indigenous Politics. The grant will support scholarly research on specific target areas. Please share and apply by November 3, 2023! View details and eligibility criteria: politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...