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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Benjamin Soskis @bensoskis.bsky.social · 1d

New HistPhil post: Nicole Marwell and Jennifer Mosley chronicle the rise of the randomized controlled trial to the top of the hierarchy of program evaluation, while also highlighting the significant ambivalence nonprofit & foundation staff have to that ascension.

histphil.org/2025/10/10/r...

Resisting the Hierarchy of Evidence: Philanthropic Foundations and the Rise of RCTs

Editors’ Note: Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley discuss their new book, Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector (Stanford University Press,…

histphil.org

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 1d

Come join OS at UM!

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964

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Job Summary:

The Interdisciplinary Program in Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer III position to begin August 25, 2026. Organizational Studies is a small but growing selective undergraduate major in the arts and sciences. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. The initial appointment period will be four (4) years, and the appointment may be renewed (based on programmatic need, funding, and performance). The appointment is subject to final approval by the college.

Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include four (4) undergraduate courses per year, including both lectures and seminars, as well as departmental service, including undergraduate advising and mentoring equivalent to a third class per semester, and service on appropriate committees. Candidates may also contribute to our core class rotation (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods), depending on program needs and candidate background. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in administrative and/or service duties.
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Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in a relevant social/behavioral science or professional discipline prior to the start date of the position and a range of instructional expertise. Candidates must be able to teach lower- and upper-level classes relevant to the study of organizations that are grounded in social/behavioral science and appeal to students looking to develop practical, transferable skills. Candidates must also be capable of teaching at least one and preferably two of our core classes (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods). We espec…

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

It is definitely not on a timeline for anything relevant to current events.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Just had a book review accepted that I wrote 14 months ago, in another timeline.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Author of ransom note suggests paying ransom is, in fact, pretty good idea.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Where we are

Two adjacent posts:
I assume we're at war with Venezuela now.

Has the U.S. attacked Norway yet?

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 1d

High-profile departures from the US - congrats to @econ.uzh.ch

Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 1d

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 4d

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:

Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 3d

j/k I'm sure someone already has

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 3d

Who's making the tiktok

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 4d

It seems very... stupid to be writing about writing right now. I think about this dog every day.

But also there are a lot of us whose job is to write and we still want to write even as <waves arms around> happens. So this is for all of us.

A gold retriever wearing a pink tie sits at a laptop. Behind the dog is an apocalyptic scene of bombs and fire and war. The dog just looks at the screen of the computer like it is just tappity tapping

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 6d

If you can find one of these documents in the wild, please deposit it with the nearest university special collections department.

This is going straight into the 21st Century U.S. History Primary Source Reader. What an ungodly rich text. I'm deeply humiliated to be implicated by it.

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 6d

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS
[also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone]
BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS
also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 6d

I was hoping someone would pop in and remind me what it actually was!

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

I think my head might explode.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

My general impression from that is that most are tuning out the news quite a bit. Yours?

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

There was some old-school study once about where people actually get their news and the answer was like "this one lady at church who keeps the radio on."

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, shocker, I'm feeling epistemologically unmoored.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

I'm trying to avoid overindexing on the five things going around on Bluesky -- both in terms of my own sense of the world, b/c Bsky can be...histrionic? -- and in what I think other people "know."

But the media ecosystem is making this increasingly hard. (Bari Weiss? Really??)

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

I don't use Instagram. But I could probably find a guitar teacher.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

Saw this yesterday, which is not the worst heuristic. Maybe I need to subscribe to People.

Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 9d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

people.com

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

Ordinary, not very politically engaged people.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

I know what five news items Blueskyers are paying attention on a given day, and I can go on X and see what's getting traction in Elon-world. But I feel like I have no grasp on what ordinary people are picking up of day-to-day events.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting article/paper.

I'm much less anti-AI than a lot of people on my feed. But pretty skeptical it can simulate human behavior effectively for social scientific purposes -- at least in cases where variation among humans, rather than acting like an average human, is what's important.

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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