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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 5h

I met a ton of smart & interesting people. I gained professional opportunities ranging from big (for me) press interviews to invites for talks and conference. I have been amused & informed.

Not sure any of that was worth the extremely negative impacts on our political system, but here we are.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 7h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 8h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Alexandra Guisinger @alexandraguisinger.bsky.social · 11h

Are you a scholar of International Security? Be my colleague at Temple Univ. Tenure-track Assistant Prof. position in IR: interstate war; territorial disputes; conflict res./peace-building; technology; institutions and alliances; terrorism; and related topics. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37899301...

Assistant Professor of International Relations - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with Temple University | 37899301

The Department of Political Science at Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor ...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 1d

The 2024 @electionstudies.bsky.social has the share of "pure independents" in the US at its lowest level since 1952 (7%)

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Charles Franklin @pollsandvotes.bsky.social · 11h

Informative map of where Obamacare/ACA enrollment grew the most from 2020-2025. From Wall Street Journal. Story, no paywall. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 11h

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 14h

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 14h

HAHRIE. Fantastic news! Congratulations!

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Verena Reidinger @reidingerve.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · 17h

📢 How do immigrants learn about politics under hostile conditions? Corral uses IWPS data to show how Latina/o immigrants with precarious legal status interpret racist rhetoric and discrimination as paths to political learning and group consciousness.

🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Trump es la cabeza de todo esto”: rhetoric, racism, and the political socialization of Latinx immigrants

How do immigrants learn about the political system and power hierarchies of their countries of settlement under adverse conditions? As a consequence of their migration experiences, undocumented imm...

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 17h

Watched the Yacht Rock doc a couple weeks ago and still playing the Steve Winwood channel in my car. Blasted this one this morning.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 1d

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

She is being tested, but Dolly always prevails.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

We simply cannot lose Jane Goodall and Dolly Parton in such a short interval. No timeline should be that dark.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

well no invitation to carpool karaoke for you then

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

I think of advances in rights as just one kind of advancement for women...

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

A great thread. Note how often the advancement of women into roles previously limited to men is held responsible for men's failures to be sufficiently manly.

(Ruining men is obviously the true goal of any advance for women so it's good to see it's working).

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

1936

Men Are Becoming Less Manly, Scientist Thinks

Men today are not as roughly masculine as they used to be, according to Dr. Edward K. Strong, of Palo Alto, California, noted psychology professor at Stanford University. He set forth this conclusion in an article in the current issue of the Journal of Social Psychology.

The only he-men are engineers and farmers, he stated in an account of a survey of divisions of interest among the sexes.

But if you are a minster, a lawyer, a doctor, a writer or a newspaperman, you have feminine interests, which have become stronger with each generation.

--The Bonne Terre Register, 7 Feb 1936

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute best.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

hard to beat stevie:

I know I could have loved you but you would not let me, was I just a fool?
I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, give me just a chance
You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you, was I just a fool?

a woman singing into a microphone with the words was i such a fool

ALT: a woman singing into a microphone with the words was i such a fool

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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