One of my favorite genres of emails I get in academica is "We are honored to provide you with the opportunity to do more work for no additional pay." Not just we are asking but I should feel honored by the ask...

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🚨new working paper🚨 Chris Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social), Jeremy Weinstein, and I describe here The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies, in which we code de jure asylum policy for 205 countries, from 1951-2022. We hope you will find the paper and data helpful. osf.io/preprints/so...

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A family member (female, Professor) worked on Hamilton's team as a grad student. She has fond memories of literally being in the capsules with astronauts as she programmed and tested. This was an extraordinary feat of science and technology. Thank you, Margaret, for your inspirational leadership.

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Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure.

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I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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