So the bad news is that Daniel forgot to bring the Chanukiah I asked for him to bring. The good news is that I get to order the Lego set I wanted to order now. (Yellow Chanukiah was the original design; teal Chanukiah is my design)

Finished the first draft of my book proposal! Time to rot my brain with SLOMW!

Extraordinary development in COP30 plenary. President gavelled all decisions quickly, without looking up. Now many countries complaining that they had raised flags but were ignored. President keeps repeating "concerns will be noted in report."

NEW YORK CITY: all out call to canal street & Lafayette as of 12:26 pm, 11/22 — ICE made arrests, fears they might return.

I assigned almost all of Atlas of AI to my students last fall and students really enjoyed it. They said they appreciated the continuity of voice and going deep into a topic. For the next elective course I teach, I plan to integrate more books!

"Please Remove Me from this List: Reply-All-Mageddon as Survey Boosting Methods"

Greetings to the rest of Europe from the Reply All-pocolypse of my inbox

Also in honor our our anniversary please enjoy my favorite photo from our wedding

Shabbat shalom and happy 4th anniversary of being married to @chavezye.bsky.social ! Sad to not spend it together but we will get to spend some time together soon. Also grateful for an amazing week at the C40 Mayors Summit in Rio. Amazing connections and insights for our project.

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

I am genuinely confused (and potentially concerned) as to why ISA is sending out different messaging and framing to different segments of ISA membership about traveling to the 2026 conference. These are screenshots from three different scholars I know of the "same" email we received today from ISA.

Folks who spend their time talking about US Politics and don't already have a good background in Latin American politics should try to fix that, because I think it's a lot more insightful than European politics at this particular moment.

Hanging out at The Kings Garden today and there is another statute of taking something out of Khaleesi’s mouth after she’s snatched up a treat on the ground post garbage day

This whole thread is really interesting but I really encourage educators to focus on this part- this was is a great and throughtful approach to navigating accessibility needs in the classroom re: tech.

This is barbaric

Shabbat shalom! I had a great last two weeks traveling back to Canada and the US for some guest talks and to see my dogs (and Dan). This week was bookended by lost luggage (again) and having a little health flare up (again). Thankfully, not anything some soup, liquids, and rest couldn’t mostly fix.

I’m just loving the fact that the internet has collectively regarded something as mainstream as a brazen museum jewellery heist as a wholesome breath of fresh air in this fucked-up timeline.

Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular. n.pr/3WJyZn9

I have vastly underestimated how much time I would be talking to the young children of my friends about public transportation

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

Concept: Annual Apple Developers Conference, but for announcements about actual apples.

Wake up honey, new apple dropped

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I'm thrilled to announce that @isa-canada.bsky.social will have TWO workshops at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social this year! A dissertation workshop (open to all in the AM and with an invite-only track for feedback in the afternoon) and a workshop on teaching IR in the age of generative AI. More info in 🧵

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Omg I finally just realized that I successfully got off the MPSA mailing list. I DID IT

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

As @carlymclachlan.bsky.social is fond of saying, more zero, less net please. the evidence against carbon offsets keeps stacking up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The perfect faculty photo doesn't exis....

Got an email from one of my old shuls about a pizza in the sukkah event and I really feel like they missed the opportunity to call the event Pizza Hut

Finishing lecture prep on the role of institutions in security and G-d is it depressing to refer to USAID in past tense

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

Shabbat shalom! Honestly a bit of a crap week. In the positive side, I was successful in getting a good challah bake this week with my kitchen set up here (made four different smaller challahs to hedge bets) and a few new things I tried in class went pretty well thankfully

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Giving a talk about hegemony to an intro poltiical science course today and I'm so excited about this example of hegemonic stability theory I drew up

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

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Not me crying in my office 😮‍💨

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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Got to tell another one of my favorite pieces of political science lore to someone today: how Theda Skocpol saved someone from a turkey attack in Boston a couple years ago

Ah thus begins the next month or so where I am wildly confused about meeting times with global colleagues

Shabbat shalom! I think this is the first Rosh Hashanah I’ve spent alone in a very long time. I’ve been incredibly exhausted this week but otherwise recovered from being sick. Daniel had a really exciting week with some cool professional things, which was a nice omen for the new year.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

This situation is getting so dire. El Fasher has been under siege for 500+ days with over 18 months of no aid entering. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

@karenattiah.bsky.social's should get as much attention as Kimmel's and is easily as important.