Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Pam Herd
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After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸
This ⬇️ is a real American hero!
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty is a Kennedy Center trustee who sued after the unlawful renaming of the center. Late Friday her suit prevailed and the center’s rightful name was restored. Thank you @repbeatty.bsky.social, we love you! ❤️
Happy 171 to Fightin' Bob La Follette
Breaking News: The U.K. government will ban social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
"Only about 12 percent of trustees at American
colleges and universities have professional experience in higher education." www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
Tonight at CAS LMU, 6.30 p.m.!
Administrative burden causes social inequality. #CASFellows Pamela Herd @pamherd.bsky.social and Donald Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social @umich.edu are leading experts in this field.
The same month U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy’s proposal to end Forest Service inspections of wildfire fighting aircraft leaked from his office, an inspector found a crack in a wing of one of his former company’s aircraft.
Since this piece about contemporary manifestations of eugenics, including “fertility crisis“ narratives, mentions evolutionary psychology, it’s worth noting that evolutionary psychologists are now actively promoting those “fertility crisis” claims in their journals
The mifespristone case shows that the abortion federalism promised by Dobbs was a lie—the goal is to ban abortion everywhere, even if that means forcing pro choice states like New York to enforce abortion bans passed by anti-choice states. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government would bar children under 16 from social media starting in 2027. The move follows similar policies in Australia and several other countries.
Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...
NBER paper on young researchers' thought about staying in Academia or in the US. "Barely 1/2 of respondents now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22 %p from how they felt 6 months earlier. The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 %p."
www.nber.org/papers/w35330
Luke Russert
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
Mark Copelovitch
The New York Times
Dan Hirschman
ProPublica
Center for Advanced Studies
Adam Serwer
Rebecca Sear
Shifting toward merit-based selection of public university board members can better protect academic freedom than politically appointed boards, which have increasingly exerted influence over state col...
'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...'
My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men.
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...
On 15 June, they will discuss with Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social, founding director of the @isi-munich.bsky.social, and further members of the #CASResearchFocus “Bureaucracy”.
@alexalenz.bsky.social @cknill.bsky.social
www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...
Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic fantasy
newhumanist.org.uk
Prof. Pamela Herd, Ph.D. (CAS Fellow/University of Michigan), Prof. Donald Moynihan, Ph.D. (CAS Fellow/University of Michigan) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Fabian Pfeffer (LMU)
