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There's a different way. News is a public good and so the market will undersupply it. It should be subsidized and Americans can each decide which media institutions they want to support. democracypolicy.network/agenda/stron...

Remember: news was subsidized since America’s founding via Media Mail, designed to support sending physical newspapers & magazines. When news went digital that subsidy didn’t apply, so news effectively lost its subsidy w/ the digital change. It never did pay for itself & needs new support to thrive.

I talked with @victorerikray.bsky.social about the repression we’re facing at public universities here in Florida, where the state is attempting to impose a textbook on our intro classes, insisting that no published textbook complies with state law. Here’s Part 1. Part 2 drops next week.

I guess it makes sense that as universities transformed into real estate & hedge fund profiles controlled by a growing class of asset managers w/ no meaningful academic expertise, the preferred outputs wd come to resemble airport leadership books & bullshit Ted talks— but man, what are we doing here

concept: a feed that's For You for N minutes, after which it shows you increasingly Not For You posts to get you to log off

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

As a non-academic, the arguments with respect to grade that I see basically fall into two categories: 1) we did things better in the past, so let's return to it 2) I find it hard now to use grades as signals I find neither to be a compelling argument for "let's restrict the proportion of As"

Several corrections were made to the Cumulative Data File and new data is available for download from the study page. electionstudies.org/data-center/...

New report out by yours truly @clasp.org !! ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 is Increasing Employment and Decreasing Full-Time School Enrollment for Teens in Mixed-Status Families www.clasp.org/publications...

Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, democracy reformer, gerrymandering nemesis—is running for Congress. From mapping brains to fixing maps. New Jersey is on the clock.

Breaking Bad!

I mean, all of these analyses present correlation as causation. The entire year of this has made me feel like I was taking crazy pills. Their response has been “ah you’re obsessed with complex academic minutiae like this ivory tower idea that ‘correlation is not causation’”

My manuscript "The Economics of Noncompete Clauses" is now out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Few topics have garnered more debate and policy attention over the last few years. This article brings us up to speed on the debate and the current answers. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

@ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social wrote, imo, the best practical sociology-journal-writing pieces of advice out there. assets.super.so/6b4b5d92-904... His second part came out in 2015. Has any sociologist done anything like this in the last decade?

Women are rated lower on potential despite receiving higher performance ratings, accounting for approx. half of the gender promotion gap. "Women's lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance" as they then outperform men www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... #EconSky

Documenting and characterizing a new history of US federal-level industrial policies by scanning all 12,167 Congressional Acts and 6,030 Presidential Orders from 1973 through 2022, from Jiandong Ju, Yuankun Li, and Shang-Jin Wei www.nber.org/papers/w34744

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

Now out in Sociological Science (How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!

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"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Amazing thread about an experiment in pedagogy that engaged students in crafting and carrying out assignments and work in an age of AI and LLMs 👇

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything." This is why the ICE operation in Minnesota has felt to me like crossing a new Rubicon, maybe the most horrifying yet.

I greatly appreciate the insights of Newman and coauths but I just don't see how labeling the Trump admin and other authoritarians as Neo-Royalist conveys their nature better than simply calling them "openly corrupt."

16-Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"But résumé studies only measure callbacks. They don’t tell us who actually gets hired." These authors of this brand new preprint wanted to know whether discrimination measured in résumé studies shows up in real hiring. So they linked a large résumé audit experiment to actual employment data.

Some people say that audit studies don't measure discrimination that causes real harm. These authors set out to answer this question: What are the actual welfare costs of housing discrimination? To answer this question, they combined two approaches. First, a large-scale field experiment.

New paper w/ Kulesza & @cmwitko.bsky.social A worry about campaign contribution limits is that they don't stop money, they just shift it to Citizens United/SpeechNow "independent expenditures" We find that this didn't happen. Keep calm & regulate on www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nk11m... 1/n

"i am sorry for what i have done in the past and don't yet know how to fix it, but don't want to make it worse" is legitimately about the level best you can hope for someone like this to say, and it should be strongly encouraged anywhere we see it

more on the background behind the model state policy to rebalance "non-stem" faculty positions so the great majority of their time is in the classroom, not doing research. With roughly 75% of faculty positions already contingent, this policy would drastically reshape the few TT jobs remaining

Holy Jesus I didn't look close enough, saw the green logo quickly and thought this was The Onion and started chuckling man what have we done lol

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

Why Greenland? "Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

It's very unfortunate that we're using the same term for sample selection and confounding ("selection into treatment"), otherwise this confusion might not arise so easily. p-hunermund.com/2018/10/15/s...

Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:... The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

personally I think it would be great if his colleagues—including Dr. Sweet, the department chair who acted as a conduit for the censorship demand—had his back.

These authors wanted to know whether mothers face discrimination in hiring, even when they are equally qualified as other applicants. So they ran two experiments...

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

Reading a bit about histories of AI and machine learning in the preparing for a book manuscript, and it's interesting to see what has become taken over by the term "AI". For much of "AI" history, most has lived within the realm of ML, which has historically had more to do with pattern recognition.