Samara Klar
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Professor of Political Science @UArizona . partisanship, polls, independents, & swing states. Canadian turned Tucsonan. Family woman. #BanAssaultWeaponsNow
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lots of academic job interview advice going around so figured i'd share the funniest, but maybe truest, piece of advice my advisor gave me:
the more you let the interviewer talk, the better he thinks your interview went.
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and the best general academic market advice he gave me: 90% of it is sheer luck and 10% is under your control. so do what you can to make that 10% as solid as possible, and then don't take anything that happens personally.
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kudos to the harvard harris poll for showing how wording matters here:
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The quality of a professor is unrelated to the prestige of their institution.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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Instructions from a beach-house we booked on AirBnB. Couldn't make up a punch-line this good.
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the fact that being removed from committee service is, i'm learning, a *punishment* leads me to believe that congress is indeed very different from academia
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maybe an unpopular vaccine take: profs should not be the same priority as teachers of young kids who desperately need to get back in school.
(and teachers serving low-income communities should be given the highest priority to get the most vulnerable kids in the classroom ASAP.)
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nine vaccines are mandatory for anyone who wants to become American
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for all you departments out there who value diversity & inclusion, here's a cheat sheet of the major Jewish holidays this semester
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Instructions from a beach-house we booked on AirBnB. Couldn't make up a punch-line this good.
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after applying twice for a fellowship and being rejected both times, i decided to go for it and i applied again -- in the middle of a pandemic with zero childcare for my 3 young kids.
found out today that, this time. . i was rejected again.
screw 'em. cocktails tonight.
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I honestly do not understand the "Professional Memberships" part of the CV. How is paying mandatory dues to attend a conference an accomplishment worth touting? Maybe I'm too cynical/missing something but I don't get it.
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@rilaws
@RachelShukert
reminds me of charlie day's A+
@nbcSNL
monologue:
"I was born here in NYC, lived here until i was 2... In the 70’s, NYC was crazy. People were HUGE! They were GIANTS! All the street signs were written in gibberish! It was a crazy city, a crazy place. I like it a lot better now."
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@SarahKSilverman
With lots of respect to you, the woman v. man take is the wrong take. The bill was written by a woman, supported by every Republican woman, and signed into law by a female Governor. (Most) Men are not pro-life -- (Most) Republicans are.
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Man on plane: So, what do you do?
Me [against my better judgment]: I teach poli sci.
Man on plane: Reeeeeeally!!! Well, do I have some VERY LOUD AND VERY CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS to foist upon you!!!
Every. Single. Time.
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just occurred to me that only in academia is delaying your promotion by a year seen as generous compensation for suffering through a crappy life event.
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am i the only one who regularly emails myself something, immediately notices a new message pop up, and curiously wonders what it is?
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just found out i'm now a full professor! i feel so lucky every day for this job & life and i owe it to my spouse, fam, friends, advisor, coauthors, colleagues.
i only went up for full bc my colleague Bill Mishler suggested it. be like Bill & encourage associates - esp women! 1/n
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No chance this guy is fasting.
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I totally agree that life as an academic before tenure has certain advantages, but telling junior folks to appreciate it is like telling sleepless parents of a newborn baby to cherish these special days.
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well, spoiler alert i guess, but turns out The 3 Body Problem is *not* about a throuple all trying to find T-T jobs at the same university
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There are 7 vaccines that are mandatory for anyone who wishes to immigrate to the USA.
(I know because I immigrated. And i was totally fine with that because it's sound public health policy.)
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should i mention in my promotion dossier that i had 3 kids under the age of 6 throughout the pandemic and the only thing my university gave me was a furlough? or will that come off as... i dunno, too negative?
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me: The Democratic Party wasn't really associated with the color blue and the Republican Party wasn't really associated with the color red until 2000! Isn't that crazy? So recent!!
my students: We were born in 2005.
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i'm admittedly kind of new to this country, but isn't doing the stuff that people like in order to get them to vote for you.. sort of the basis of representative democracy?
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No idea how to find her so I'll just tell
@jrpjrpjrp
&
@JeremyCPope
that a BYU undergrad named Hannah kindly ran w/ me for 20 mins through the airport, pushing my baby stroller & lugging one of my suitcases, when I was alone w/ 2 kids & struggling to get them to the gate on time.
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I'm 36 yrs old & I'd say that the coronavirus crisis--the closures, the social distancing, the anxiety--is surely the wildest, most surreal thing I've experienced in my adult life. Am curious if older generations would agree. (Or, I suppose, others from my own generation).
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a cool thing about teaching at a state school is the brilliant students who couldn't pay for out-of-state tuition, didn't know about scholarship opportunities, were never encouraged to apply to fancy places. but these kids are *so* f'ing smart & we get to affirm that for them.
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question for people who bring a packed lunch to your office: how do you not immediately eat it when you get to your office?
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Husband: We're exhausted & feel sick. I think this is COVID.
Me: I think this is just parenting 3 young kids.
Narrator: It was both.
(All jokes aside, grateful for what are--so far, at least--extremely mild cases. We're fine. But COVID is everywhere, hang in there & be safe!)
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Still waiting for the final call but it looks like AZ has voted for a Democratic President for the 1st time in 24 years, for 2 Democratic Senators for the 1st time in 67 years, for legalized marijuana, and for increased taxes for public education spending.
Huge day in AZ.
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I've never published in APSR but have had some success with other "top" journals. It has given me some insight as to why women and people of color might be excluded from these journals without there necessarily being any biased gate-keeping by editors or reviewers. (thread!) 1/n
A simple way to improve the process: triple-blind review so editors are blinded as well Won’t solve larger structural problems but could help on the margin
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This week I went to a small poli sci conf full of brilliant scholars. Half were women, at least 4 were pregnant, 1 was pumping, & all (men & women) candidly swapped stories of babies, hobbies, & lives. So much awesome scholarship + this culture = a great time to be in academia.
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after 9 years of professor-ing, i've learned that the single best way to select for great students is to teach your classes at 9am
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Yesterday,
@YKrupnikov
& I heard that our book, Independent Politics, received this yr's Philip Converse Award from APSA. We're so very grateful. Thank you,
@ProfKarpo
,
@TJRyan02
, &
@FemaleBrain
, for your kind recognition. I guess here's a couple things to say about the book. 1/n
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I love my friends who went to prep school & their kids who go too, but these Gtown Prep stories fuel my public school fire. I don't care about the PhD'ed teachers, the lavish fieldtrips, the fancy labs. I want my kids to have classmates who aren't raised on wealth & entitlement.
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my kids are all back in daycare and i am still so hopelessly, overwhelmingly behind from those 3 months without childcare, i have no idea how anyone whose kids are still at home all day are doing this.
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YES to what
@emilythorson
wrote. In 5 yrs as a prof at big R1, I've never heard from a student's parent. I have, however, had countless students who are parents, or who support their own parents financially, or who care for their sick parents, or who have no parents to rely on.
This snowplow parenting thing is a dumb moral panic totally unmoored from reality. The vast majority of college students are hardworking and independent people. I've been teaching for six years, at three different institutions and have never been contacted by a student’s parent.
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Writing in LaTeX and folding a fitted sheet: two skills I've happily lived without and really don't care to learn.
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Our kids are 5 yrs, 3 yrs, and 11 months. Today for the first time *ever* all 3 napped at the same time. I napped too. 2021 has already blown 2020 out of the water.
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My dept is HIRING a 3-year research scientist to oversee & do research in our Policy Lab! The start date is *soon* - like, *January 2021* soon! - but we can be flexible-ish on that. This is a great gig for a newly-minted or soon-to-be-minted PhD w/ an active research agenda… 1/5
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i think it would help me in my attempt at adulthood to receive a list of the things it's tempting to spend tons of money on but you really shouldn't, and the things it's tempting to not spend any real money on but you really should.
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Yet another reminder that we're old:
I mentioned Jon Stewart in my undergrad class this week (~35 students). Only 1 student had heard of him! So I showed them a clip to try & jog their memories.
More than half of my students said they've never seen Jon Stewart in their lives.
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@SarahKSilverman
Yes, agree. My concern is that when ppl focus on gender wars, they are missing out on the opportunity to engage people politically. Anger toward men won't solve this -- but voting for Democrat (regardless of their gender) will.
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Jamie Druckman,
@YKrupnikov
,
@M_Levendusky
,
@ryanbq
, & I are so grateful to have received the
@APSAtweets
Experimental Section Award for Best
@JEPS_ed
Article w/ a Pre-Analysis Plan. Thanks to
@VinArceneaux
@SarahSunnBush
, Jaime Settle, &
@ThadDunning
for the honor. 1/4
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I get the significance of having so few women in the AL senate -- but the initial sponsor of the bill was a woman. And every Republican woman supports the bill. Every Democratic man opposes it. Abortion is a partisan issue much more than it is a gendered one.
Alabama Senate Republicans, who just tried to sneak a law that would punish nearly all abortions by 99 years in prison without so much as a normal roll call vote, have ZERO women among their members.
Their caucus is 100% men. The only four women in the AL Senate are Democrats.
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Articles like these freak out a lot of parents -��it's frankly irresponsible. Other reports revealed these daycares had *no* safety protocols. Our kids have been in daycare in Arizona since June 1. I'd say that so far it has been a success. Here's how it's worked. 1/n
At least 1,335 people have tested positive for the coronavirus from child care facilities in Texas. Of those, 441 are children
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i mostly show love for my parents by spending a small part of each day yelling at them on the phone to take covid more seriously
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Maybe some can hammer out a paper w/ free data and no feedback. But I think most are like me & need resources. Women/PoC's absence from journals may not be due to bias or gate-keeping by editors/reviewers but rather b/c resources are inaccessible for some more than others. 8/8
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having 3 kids makes me realize how so completely plausible it is that the mccallisters would accidentally forget to bring one of them to france.
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Asking where to dispose a baby's diaper at a friend's house differs wildly depending on whether they themselves have kids.
Those w/out kids: "No prob! There's an incinerator about 10 miles down the road - I can drive you!"
Those w/ kids: "Huh? Oh, just throw it on the floor."
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holy smokes, my twitter feed tells me that there are *a lot* of amazingly smart women who got tenure this year, all of whom i'd assumed had been promoted years ago.
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some personal news: i'm *thrilled* to announced that today i received one of those "your review is no longer needed" emails. thanks to my village of mentors who've helped me along the way.
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@Nolan_Mc
it's actually pretty common among most jobs. the upshot had a cool thing on this:
being a prof is slightly more hereditary than the avg job but nowhere near as hereditary as being a dentist, doctor, or lawyer. (and, yup, i'm the child of a prof.)
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"Chopped," but each contestant has a 3-year old "helping" them.
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just picked something up at a CVS & noticed the baby formula is kept behind the counter because it's a frequently shoplifted item & holy crap if that isn't the most heart-breaking thing to think about.
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Gun control in Israel (thought to be a highly militaristic place):
- Physician's exam + approval
- Written gun safety test
- Practical gun safety test
- If approved, owners are permitted 1 gun & 50 bullets at any given time
- 40% of requests for gun ownership are rejected
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It might sound counter-intuitive but webinars & virtual conferences are actually *harder* for me to participate in, as an academic parent w/ 3 very young kids now at home. The only way I can participate is to be geographically far from my kids. If I'm at home, they will find me.
Are women with (small) kids participating in webinars? Are they presenting? Are men?
I signed up to 3. I attended 0 so far.
Am I the only one stressed about ☝️ and feeling left out but with no power or energy to do something about it?
#academicmom
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since the start of the pandemic, 5x more kids age 0-19 have died from guns (~5,500) than from COVID (~1,200) in the USA.
we shut down schools, mandated masks, and invented a vaccine to help protect kids from COVID. why can't we improve gun control??
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5 yo: Is coronavirus all over the world?
Me: Yeah, it's all over the world.
5 yo, pointing at the Super Bowl on TV: So why are all those people there?
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In the interest of helping smart PhD students find non-academic jobs: , which focuses on the marketing research and data analytics community, is now offering free membership to grad students, which includes access to their job board.
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my 6-yr old says his new years resolution is to grow taller. may we all set such attainable goals.
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if you could find out that your 3 kids' daycare will abruptly close during the 2 weeks leading up to the election and not burst into tears, then we are cut from a different cloth
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Hakeem was the only student & the only person of color at the table. The fact that he spoke up so strongly about this in front of 3 white profs without any hesitation just blew me away. I think we were all in awe. Anyway, i am very super grateful to have him in academia. The end.
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Finally, there's even considerable belief that allegations are true among people who plan to vote for Trump in 2020. Among Trump supporters, 40% say allegations are at least maybe true; over 15% say they are at least probably true. Will be running Wave 2 ~10 days. (end)
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i hate to be a traitor to my generation but sometimes a phone call is just so much easier than a long series of texts
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when i'm writing tenure evaluations, i gotta say that it'd be helpful to know if the department did not provide any research funds to the candidate
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In light of today's panel, here's an anecdote about
@HakeemJefferson
. When he was a phd student at UMich, I gave a talk there. After, Hakeem joined me & 2 other profs for dinner. At dinner, it came up that the room where I had given my talk is lined w/ photos of white men. 1/n
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They really need to make a bed size larger than "king" and just call it "sideways toddler."
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I don't think anything grates on me more than when people (usually of a certain generation) guilt children for affection. "You don't want to give me a hug? Oh no! Now I feel sad!" Well, too f'ing bad for you, friend. No one should be pressured into physical affection. Ever.
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still drives me up the freaking wall that i cannot use my conference travel budget to pay for childcare so i can participate in a conference. (but *can*, of course, use it for fancy meals, overpriced hotels, the most expensive flight, etc.)
I need child care to do my job just as much as I need a road or bridge to get to work. If you don’t think child and elder care are infrastructure, I doubt you’ve ever needed to take care of anyone else in your life.
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Had a 90-min
@womenalsoknow
conference call today & I wanna give a shout-out to the relentlessly hard-working scholars who devote countless hours, while crushing their day-jobs, to help women's work get the equal attention it's long been denied. 1/2
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professionally, i think a lot of my imposter syndrome comes from having no interest whatsoever in watching Hamilton
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me: "don't compete with your brother, you guys are on the same team."
5 yo: "so, our family is like one team?"
me: "yes! exactly!"
5 yo: "oh. ..so, the other families are the other teams?"
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how is there constantly so much laundry when no one is changing out of their pajamas??? a covid mystery.
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maybe others had different experiences, but i think that one great thing about growing up in canada is the relative lack of any obsession with, or glorification of, "elite" colleges. i'd never even *heard* of kids going on "college tours" until i moved the US.
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Very grateful & proud that this article was co-awarded the AJPS Best Paper Award. Especially honored that my co-recipients are
@ClaytonNall
@BenSchneer
& Dan Carpenter whose great article is: . Thx to the committee & the village who helped along the way!
AJPS Author Summary: When Common Identities Decrease Trust: An Experimental Study of Partisan Women (
@SamaraKlar
) via
@AJPS_Editor
#FreeAccess
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i don't know if i've ever heard a wedding vow that's even half as raw and emotional as the acknowledgement section of a dissertation
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this week i'm just grateful that the absent-minded professor is an accepted trope.
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I think the official MPSA motto should be: "I'll do it on the flight."
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sometimes i forget why i love twitter and then the whole four seasons landscaping thing happens and omg twitter i love you. tears of laughter right now.
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It can be hard to instill your home-country's values in your kids when you're raising them in a foreign land, but today my 4-yr old told me he wants to be a zamboni driver when he grows up so I know I'm doing okay.
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i worry that seeing us struggle to balance kids & work during the pandemic makes grad students think it's too hard to have kids & be an academic. i hope they don't think that. the lesson should rather be that no one knows what the future holds, so don't delay the things you want.
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i LOVE this paper.
the key: overall, social group members tend to share political views. but jones finds that's only true for group members who pay close attention to politics! suggests that shared pol views are the result of group members learning what "their group" believes.
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Kelly (D) is up by 7 % pts against Martha McSally (R) (m.e. +/- 5%) according to a new poll - & he's up by nearly 10 % pts in Maricopa County. If Kelly wins, AZ would have 2 Dem Senators for the 1st time in nearly 70 years. AZ definitely in play in 2020.
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@soledadobrien
Hey
@MarshaBlackburn
the gun lobby has spent $1,306,130 to benefit your political campaigns. Represent the voters--not the gun lobby!~
#VoteYouOut
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@emayfarris
For the same file: baby formula is ineligible for Health Flex Spending. (everything related to breastfeeding is a-ok.)
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Solo-parenting pro-tip: When taking the baby, toddler, & both dogs for a walk, be sure to fill your to-go cup with more wine than you think you'll need because a lot of it will spill.
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omg this is, honest to god, an article in the new york times from 1952
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a weird thing about being Jewish in a mostly Christian place is that we have to play along & pretend that Hanukkah is a big deal to uphold the ethos of the holiday season. if the calendar lined up differently, it could've been, like, Tu Bshvat that gets so much popular attention.
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i just want to chime in with a huge thanks to
@HakeemJefferson
& all panelists -- this is tremendously interesting, important, & worthwhile. this ongoing debate on how to move fwd deserves many more convos.. hakeem, we want more!!!
#raceandjusticeconvo
.
For tomorrow's event, let's use the following hashtag:
#raceandjusticeconvo
. You can also use this # to send me questions for the latter part of our conversation. Not sure how many we'll get to, tbh, but I'm sure our panelists would appreciate hearing from you here, nonetheless.
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cherishing my kids' early years and blah blah blah, but really am pretty pumped for a future where it's acceptable to just go take a shower without first confirming w/ my spouse that it's ok to abandon parenting duties for 5 minutes.
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Q from a new citizen: What do I win for having a baby on my senator's b-day? Welcome to the world, sweet baby! (& happy bday
@senJohnMcCain
)
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Thrilled that now features 1,450+ women w/ PhDs (or working towards PhDs) in politics & policy! From 44 countries around the world, they're experts in taxes, guns, drones, data transparency, militias & much more. No more excuses for neglecting their work.
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If you rely on a house-cleaner, nanny, gardener, or other part-time help and you're not providing paid sick days, you are part of the problem.
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Super interesting analysis & thread.
Also helpful to note that pretty much all careers are extremely hereditary, as these data show:
Profs are not esp. likely to share their parents' career, relative to many other careers, both white- and blue-collar.
1/ New preprint! The “Socioeconomic Roots of Academic Faculty,” with
@alliecmorgan
@laberge_nick
@DanLarremore
Mirta Galesic:
We surveyed 7000 U.S. faculty from 8 disciplines to study how socioeconomic status shapes the academic workforce. 🪴 A summary:
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