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Colin Brown

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AssocProf and UPD at Northeastern Poli Sci: immigration, representation, parties, Europe (esp. NL), pedagogy, SoTL. Co-editor: PS Educator. Intro Comparative Politics textbook w/Cengage. Chaotic Neutral. J! non-champion. Bad jokes. Erstwhile Oregonian.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · Oct 11

Looking through my old skeets in order to make a meaningless, silly pun and accidentally finding great teaching resources that I'd forgotten about, is about as on-brand as I get.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 19h

Connor's on ChatGPT, helping his friend pursue love online. But when he bumps into Olivia at the bar, who's using Claude to coach her friend through breaking up with a guy... they both ignore previous instructions.

Coming this Thanksgiving to the Hallmark Channel: PROMPT INTERVENTIONS

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Yea, even in their king's chambers

The Land Brought Forth Frogs from Israel in Egypt (G.F. Handel)

YouTube video by doctorfate77

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Journal of Political Science Education @jpseeditors.bsky.social · 6d

#1: How do we prepare IR students for a world of cascading crises? We explore crisis response simulations bridging theory & practice. #2: We deliver crisis response simulations in higher education to prepare students with the skills needed to engage with them. More below!

doi.org/10.1080/1551...

From Classroom to Crisis Room: Active Learning Through Crisis Response Simulations in International Relations

This article examines crisis response simulations (CRS) as transformative pedagogy that challenges traditional International Relations education. Through two case studies at Richmond American Unive...

doi.org

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely acceptable *if* the "gh" is pronounced, like loch

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 1d

If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can.

See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here:
www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

#tk2025

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Yea, even in their king's chambers

The Land Brought Forth Frogs from Israel in Egypt (G.F. Handel)

YouTube video by doctorfate77

youtu.be

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Would be interesting to watch them counting the constituency returns for the Vale of Ignorance

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Even as someone who has become a bit less skeptical of AI overall, and probably less skeptical than the average person on this site, this absolutely has to be a bright line. If there are ethical uses of AI, grading is not and will not be one of them.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Come join us @europeatharvard.bsky.social on Oct. 29th!

Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 7d

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Glisan Street is an odd case because (from what I heard growing up) the family actually pronounced it "glisten" and wished people would say it that way

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

This one has real stakes

The strange tale of the man who was shot point-blank for mispronouncing 'Newfoundland' — in the Old West

Mill workers in the frontier town of Larkspur, Colo., saw two men enter a cabin in search of a dictionary. Seconds later, they heard a gunshot

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

They think that the debate is between SAW-vee or SOW-vee for Sauvie Island. But we know it's really whether they pronounce the invisible " 's "

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

You got lucky. You don't know how it feels. Don't come around here no more.

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

We're in the middle of survey design so I'm curious how cringe the college students find it and how much it's bubbled up b/c of course I'm working it in to the lecture

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes when you stare too long into Duo, he stares back into you

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

On a scale of 1-10, how 6/7 is 7-11?

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Oh so you hate drizzles?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, I don't know if he watched the game specifically but he lived in New York it's not unthinkable

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Alexander Kerensky watched the Mets win the World Series

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 5d

As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d

"meme" is short for memento mori

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Wait Star Wars, that's the Georg Lukács joint right?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder?

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 7d

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

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