I’m proud of @solisrodolfo.bsky.social for sticking to his guns about doing qualitative work. He convinced me, my lab supported his training, and now he’s producing cool conceptual/theoretical work others will find valuable 😎 He’ll be on the job market in the fall.

dang doing archival work is literally unraveling threads upon threads upon threads. it is SO hard... but so exciting!!

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I was trying to use ChatGPT to help me format a bibtex (I do not use latex), and I was so annoying with its flattery that I asked it to stop and just give me a response. It literally couldn’t stop.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

New paper on remote work with Beats Wožnaik-Jechorek, @chloethurston.bsky.social & Megha Patnaik out in The Journal of Strategic Information Systems today 🤓 We show employees evaluate remote work in concordance with other workplace amenities when trading off pay 👩‍💻 Full text: bit.ly/4eTl2gN

My grandma was in my dream last night. She was with me and my mom and dad. She kept putting slices of pizza on my dad’s plate so he’d have enough to eat. If I stop to think more about my family, I will lose it.

I'm surprised he referred to us as a civilization to begin with. I thought we were supposed to be uncivilized...

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

“Entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night” 93 million people live in Iran. That’s larger than CA, TX, and FL combined. It’s also where my mom is from. Where a majority of my family live. My grandma. My aunt (my kindred spirit). My uncle. My cousins. 🥺

I found a book on a country in Middle East, where the cover art uses famous arabic script, but in a way that's literally gibberish. It's just so cringey!

Someone sent me this.

ICYMI my solo article on MENA identity. When MENA Americans aren’t given a “MENA” option on forms, they answer identity-related questions on politics more strongly (eg higher end of the scale) than if“MENA” had been added. Having the group label or not changes the average response!

One of the hardest nowruz’s but we are still here and celebrating. That’s our resilience.

Has your spouse asked you to be their Patrick for St Patrick’s day? If not, you should start a fight with them! 😤

Omg this semester has been sooo hard. LOL I am so desperate for summer. Anyone else?

All this. Yes.

I really wanted Ryan Coogler to win, but I also feel excited to see what else he creates. 🧿 We’re still going to analyze the heck out of it during seminar on Wednesday!! 🔥

Well I’ll admit that I do think PTA is a great director and I was surprised to learn he’d never won an Oscar before! Here I was thinking, “another one for him?” ops!!

I assigned sinners for my course on racial formation this week. I hope they win so I can feel like a genius professor who planned this ahead of time.

I know no one is in the Nowruz spirit this year. But that’s exactly how the regime continues to win, by beating down our spirit. We need to try our best not to let them win.

Sometimes it is kind of a shame we only work with students only one semester. I have had the absolute privilege of working with a handful of students for the entire year, and it's been so crazy cool to see their thinking take shape over that time.

My grandma’s apartment building has burned down. Fortunately she’s safe, and we can help her. But so many people in Iran are so poor and don’t have anyone. This regime propagated their misery for years. They funded terrorism globally while Iranian people go hungry.

My partner is in the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, and we both agree opera has work to do to broaden its appeal. However, these companies also employ hundreds—sometimes thousands—of employees, many of whom are unionized. Both artistically and politically, Chalamet’s point is a horrendous one.

My yoga instructor is Iranian. She has always a bit cool toward me since I started attending her classes. Like doesn't say hello, no smiles. Totally fine! She's a serious person! Yesterday, when we saw each other, we ran toward each other and hugged. This is what it means to us.

The mental gymnastics of seeing Iranians inside the county and globally celebrating and then still saying this isn’t what Iranians wanted…

Once again. If you said NOTHING while the regime murdered 30,000 of its own people in less than one months time, maybe you should do the same today. You don’t actually care about Iranian lives.

How about this: if you didn’t post anything when the Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of Iranians protesting for freedom in the streets, maybe you should refrain on commenting on Iran today esp if your comment is “concern for Iranians.” Honestly, it makes you look cynical and heartless.

Iranians were rising up and the regime killed thousands upon thousands of people. Regular people don’t have the arms to revolt against a regime like Iran. Not saying the US doesn’t have its own agenda, but the Iranian people have shown they don’t want the regime. Shouldnt we listen to them?

I know it’s idealistic, but I really hope the series finale of Tehran (whenever it is) will have Tamar choosing to live happily in a free Iran. Each season she’s connecting more with being Iranian, and it’s nice to see. 🥺

One of my guiltiest pleasures of being a professor is that the university library both drops off and picks up books at faculty offices. Omg I feel so guilty, but I loveeee itttt. Shoutout to Dawn at our library!!! @georgetownuni.bsky.social

This guy gets it.

I assigned twice as much reading for my class this week because there will be two discussion leaders. During the summer, I was pleased because that gives us more material to discuss. Tonight I am not pleased because whereas the students only need to read three of six, I need to read six of six 🙈

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Reviewed a piece and listed out a bunch of cites they had missed. None of them were of my work, bc I thought it was not as directly related. Anyway their response memo was like "OMG yes of course. We added those, but also other scholars you didn't mention like Amanda d'Urso" 😭 yay!

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

The murders Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of govt sponsored officers is also happening in the thousands in Iran. It should not happen anywhere.

Execute suggests guilt. I think you mean murder.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country. As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

For everyone tuning in from home, reminder that it's -5F with -15F windchills tonight. Every person out tonight is freezing for their country and their constitution. Minnesota Forever.

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

While what’s going on in Minnesota is absolutely horrible and needs our attention, please don’t forget about Iran. There are thousands upon thousands being gunned down in the streets. Are you mad about Renée Good? Me too. There are thousands of Renées in Iran.

Funny how these universities giving NIAC a platform are saying it’s a freedom of diverse perspectives but they don’t ever invite other perspectives like MEK or like leftists. Sureee

Friends, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is a lobbying organization connected to the Iranian regime. They’re extremely clever in hiding the ball and getting well-meaning people’s support. But they have blood on their hands. Tomorrow, founder Trita Parsi, is giving a talk at Yale.

Hearing reports that a man taken by ICE in Minneapolis died in federal custody.

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

A ProPublica investigation finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing. “These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses,” says reporter Nicole Foy.

I’m at the point in the semester that when my husband sneezed, I replied by saying “thank you” 😮‍💨

I remember as a first year undergraduate, I got into a debate with a prof about sanctions on Iran. He was against, and I was not. I’ve since learned about the politics behind these policies. It’s all come full circle for me when he reposted a comment by Trita Parsi calling him by his first name.