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Stephen Meserve
@smeserve.bsky.social
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Practicing political scientist, hiker, tabletop gamer, etc in Northern Arizona

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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 1d
"run it like a business" now means your flagship doesn't have a stats department or earth sciences is wild

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Joel Sievert @jsievert.bsky.social · 1d
I am once again thankful my mother no longer works for the university. Cutting budgets in all the wrong places.
‘This hurts’: NU regents back shuttering four academic programs at UNL • Nebraska Examiner
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents voted to eliminate four academic programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
nebraskaexaminer.com

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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2d
Cloudflare outage is the adult snow day

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 5d
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
Flow chart from TX Tech memo showing that most class materials must be reviewed by chair, dean, and provost, and that all curricular material must be disclosed

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Stephen A. Meserve

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NPR @npr.org · 8d
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
n.pr

Reposted by Stephen D. Williamson, Alfie Kohn, Stephen A. Meserve

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 8d
If you actually have to do work, AI often just makes more work because you have to spend so much time making sure it didn't lie to you again.
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Stephen A. Meserve

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 8d
Yes I agree with this. The problem for grant-dependent researchers is that even if they win in court to get their illegally withheld funds, they’re sure to be denied any new grants by these corrupted agencies. 2026-2028 will be a killing field as institutions hemorrhage their research apparatus

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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 8d
Totally, like when's the last time a dean has just come to a dept telling them they can hire a tt faculty line of their choice. Gotta be 10-20+ years here

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Dustin Mulvaney, Alan Richardson , and 8 more

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, Stephen A. Meserve, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 9d
Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.
apnews.com

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 10d
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
killgrove.bsky.social Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 10d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio , and 27 more

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 10d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

Reposted by Stephen A. Meserve

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11d
One of my beliefs is that during a holiday week email shouldn't work at all for anyone

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 13d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 14d
fyi a good follow for AZ far right politics and election misinformation monitoring is @azrww.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d
me waking up and opening this app

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Joseph “offline” Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 16d
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

Reposted by Geraint Rees, Henry Farrell, Stephen A. Meserve

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 16d
Next frontier in AI safety is.....adversarial poetry?

arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org

Reposted by Will Jennings, Stephen A. Meserve

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16d
Hungary’s Orban seemed undefeatable a year ago.

Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.

Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Hungarian polling trends 2023-2026 showing Fidesz (orange line) declining from ~55% to ~40% while TISZA party (dark red line) rises from near 0% in early 2024 to ~44% by late 2025, surpassing Fidesz. Other opposition parties (DK, MM, Jobbik, etc.) remain below 10% throughout the period.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 17d
Vice provost offering to come to our meetings and tell us what curriculum our graduate programs are actually worth teaching instead was a beautiful encapsulation of higher education at the moment. Moment of levity in the room.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17d
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.

US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.

open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 17d
voting to eliminate your own poli sci grad programs is both a completely rational thing to do in reaction to the removal of virtually all resources over the past 5 years but also absolutely feels like stabbing yourself in the heart.

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Stephen Meserve @smeserve.bsky.social · 18d
I mean, I guess I would be embarrassed to rely upon AI to literally adjust my student assessments of students and read and summarize crucial emails from my provosts on issues but here we are.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
A President’s Journey to AI Adoption (opinion)
José Luis Cruz Rivera explains how he’s come to use AI in academic leadership, and the sources of inspiration and learning he’s found along the way.
www.insidehighered.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d
A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.

Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.

[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

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Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18d
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19d
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

@wsj.com
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 22d
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23d
Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.
joefore.bsky.social Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 23d
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...