Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDavid A. Simon @davidasimon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I hosted a conference for a couple years that focused on Junior Scholars. I had to take a hiatus but wonder if people are still interested in doing this again. I am hopeful next spring--but too soon to tell. 2131
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Newly added to SSRN - with glitches galore, so apologies if you‘ve already received this through multiple SSRN distribution lists! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 061
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026THE best conference. Such a good time. (And it's now so big that it's no longer possible to talk to everyone. What a challenge - this flew by!) 040
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenMartha 🍭 @marthabawn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Science happiness is the best happiness 051
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 01/04/2026A new set of papers, sharing the long-awaited result of several reproducibility and replicability projects, including commentaries, is published today. I look forward to reading the studies, and re-using the data generated! www.nature.com/collections/...nature.comReliable research in the social and behavioural and sciencesSweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences. 02911
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDoron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 27/03/2026It was a pleasure to have @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social present her timely and important article, Expert Evidence in Times of Skepticism & Distrust (forthcoming @michlawreview.bsky.social), at today’s @setonhalllaw.bsky.social faculty workshop, sparking an invigorating discussion 🔥🔥🔥 2117
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026This is not just a win, and not even just a win that will improve many people's lives. It is also proof of concept of a form of scholarship that Rachel pioneered. (Make sure to read the whole thread.) 13112
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Why is coming up with an idea and having an AI work it into a full article better than publishing the idea only? That way every reader can decide for himself whether to read the idea as is or to prompt an AI for a blog version, podcast version, law-review version, essay version, ELI5 version, etc. 091
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenAlex Klein @alexklein.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I am thrilled that my latest article, The Dirty Work of Executioners is forthcoming in the UC Irvine Law Review! The acknowledgment footnote here is long—so many people encouraged and inspired me, and asked me hard questions that made my work better. Draft coming soon to SSRN… 3233
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation 611868466
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenNila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Happy to share that Developmental Evidence Rules is forthcoming in the California Law Review! What would it mean to take childhood seriously in evidence law? This article takes up that question. 3208
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenRachel Lopez @rlopez.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness. Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 13115
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026First time presenting this work to a room of scientists. General reaction to learning about how science is evaluated for use in court: 🤯 182
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Everything is ready for the Perspectives on Scientific Error conference that starts tomorrow in Leiden! I look forward to hanging out with the mix of metascientists, philosophers of science, and statisticians! So many old friends will be there (and hopefully some new ones)! #PSE8 0509
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDanielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social · 10/02/2026My latest article with the one and only @spenceroverton.bsky.social called “Digital Ethnonationalism” forthcoming in University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.com 14116
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenNila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback! 76410
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026NOT a recent acceptance but last Feb's paper now on SSRN, w/ many thanks to the excellent editors at Georgia L. Rev. Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (Newer paper still in the cycle & on a very different topic! Sci. ev., skeptics, democracy. On SSRN soon, but lmk if you want to read.) 1172
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenItay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵 1/6 1158
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026How manipulative is this? If you turn off gmail's AI summaries (that nobody asked for), no autocorrect for you. 110
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Statistical Thermodynamics Structure and Reactivity I and II Molecular Simulations Advanced Group Theory Quantum Mechanics 141
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenElizabeth Chamblee Burch @eburch.bsky.social · 10/01/2026First signed copies of THE PAIN BROKERS at @barnesandnoble.com Athens! This story that I've held close since 2021 is in your hands now and out everywhere JAN 13. It feels a little tender & terrifying to share it with the world. I hope that you fall in love with the people in it as I have. ❤️ 041
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenTommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 11/12/2025Do you want to see the new filings at the Supreme Court each day? I built a tool to do just that. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d... 151
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenKevin Tobia @kevintobia.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This is a fascinating new experimental jurisprudence paper from Chris Jaeger on what is "reasonable." For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B<PL formula. yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...yalelawjournal.orgThe Hand Formula’s Unequal Inputs | Yale Law JournalTort law’s famous Hand Formula does not align with how laypeople judge whether conduct is reasonable. Five original experiments demonstrate that the Hand... 12310
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenEllie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I wrote a whole article about this problem with @leecarpenter.bsky.social! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comWhat Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State ConstitutionsState constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important t 1165
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025What are people's recent experiences with SSRN processing timelines? I have had a piece in the queue for 35 days now, and I've reached out twice. Rote response and still queued. @ssrn.bsky.social 201
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenChris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 01/12/2025🚨New article! "The Second Patent Bargain"!🚨 In it, I argue U.S. law can & should use patent term extension—an obscure but important provision & process—to unlock late-stage, detailed evidence of the safety & effectiveness of drugs, vaccines & other FDA-regulated products. 1/ 🧵 1123
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Worth reading in its entirety, on “healthy frictions.” 073
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Intriguing new metric. Very curious to see future work on how it correlates with replicability, spin, etc. 010
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDavid Simson @dsimson-law.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I just posted the current version of my most recent Article, "Conceptual Gerrymandering and the Weaponization of SFFA" to @ssrn.bsky.social. Abstract and TOC are attached below. Comments and (good faith) critiques very much welcome and appreciated. 🧵 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1144
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenJonathan Harris @jonathanfharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Here’s my new @LPEBlog.bsky.social post about Friday’s FTC decision to stop defending its rule banning non-competes. I also highlight how red & blue states are stepping in to defend worker mobility with new legislation & existing consumer & antitrust laws: lpeproject.org/blog/after-t...lpeproject.orgAfter the FTC’s Retreat: How States are Rewriting the Rules on Worker MobilityIn a stunning betrayal of 30 million workers, the Federal Trade Commission has abandoned its nationwide ban on non-compete agreements. Fortunately, states are filling the void with remarkable… 02315
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenGilat Bachar @gilatjbachar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for recommending my new piece, Coercive Settlements, recently published with the George Washington Law Review! @templelaw.bsky.social 1115
Reposted by Edith Beerdsengelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2025A lot of people have assumed Harvard would cave after Columbia did, especially after that piece of @nytimes.com stenography for the administration (and ridiculous Larry Summers tweet) but so far the signs point to the opposite. See below, plus the Brown deal being announced. Hang tough Harvard. 1142
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025The chapters the author shared with us at the Civil Procedure Workshop last year were so good! Looking forward to reading this. 160
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenBen Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 30/07/2025New paper! This essay takes a step toward developing what I call a "jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence.: Building on @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social's groundbreaking work, I develop an account of the legal processes that facilitate the weaponization of networks. 1/x 2247
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenBen Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Temple Law is hiring this year. We're looking in torts, tax, constitutional law, civil procedure, race/bias and the law, business law, and legal writing. The full ad and application portal is here. I'm chairing the committee; please reach out! law.temple.edu/engage/prosp...law.temple.eduTemple Law Faculty Application - Temple Law 34026
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenTomboyish Transfemme @naomihofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Really badass graffiti spotted in town 50107303021
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor. 513201396156
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenBen Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 30/06/2025This is an excellent story, which quotes my @templelaw.bsky.social colleague Laura Bingham. It also provides useful context, showing how the rise of anti-immigrant, technologically powered national security state finds precedents in Obama-era policy. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...npr.orgDOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenshipDenaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us... 23418
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Mask-off racism and fascism from Pinocchiogles — if a New York congressman tried to meddle with local Tennessee politics like this he would lose his hypocritical mind 2492092607
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenNate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 26/06/2025As folks chew on the new @pewresearch.org analysis of non-voters in 2020 and 2024, I'm here to say that the only time in U.S. history voting was made a legal duty, it happened because conservative incumbents felt threatened by a changing electorate and hoped 100% turnout would save them. 🧵pewresearch.org1. Voter turnout, 2020-2024Overall and across most demographic groups, Trump’s 2020 voters turned out at higher rates in 2024 than Biden’s did, a Pew Research Center analysis shows. 164
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenDuncan Hollis @duncanhollis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025So pleased after 3+ years of work to see this in print ... Whether you like originalism or not, I've tried to offer insights on why the Constitution uses terms like treaties & compacts (to say nothing of Benedict Arnold's 'sponsion' or Gen. Washington's 'executive' agreement with Lord Cornwallis)scholarship.law.upenn.eduThe Original Meaning of TreatiesFor nearly two centuries, all three branches of the federal government have thought that the original meaning of the Constitution’s references to treaties and compacts was lost. This Article aims to r... 053
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenSSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025#Unsticking Litigation Science In this symposium paper, the author describes how litigation science and academic science are currently on #divergent paths. Author: Edith Beerdsen Read More: spkl.io/63325fAMAL 021
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenPaul Bogdan @pbogdan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Thrilled to see a news piece by @science.org on my recent paper. By analyzing p-values across >240k papers, the study suggests that the rate of statistically questionable findings in psychology has declined since the replication crisis began www.science.org/content/arti...science.org‘A big win’: Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychologyFewer papers are reporting findings on the border of statistical significance, a potential marker of dodgy research practices 312134
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Interesting thread on the politics of science vs engineering 000
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Kind of interesting that (some of) the big-co clients are proving themselves to be more principled than (some of) the law firms. 040
Reposted by Edith BeerdsenYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 02/06/20251. NEW At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump. Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.bit.lyThe Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their ClientsAfter firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere. 361807356
Edith Beerdsen @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025. @inquirer.com, could we get some data on how much revenue comes from these international students? It's probably quite significant. These actions don't affect only the directly affected students. www.inquirer.com/education/tr...inquirer.comAs Trump targets international students, here’s who it could affect in the Philly regionMore than 41,500 international students study in Pennsylvania. Trump's targeting them could affect University of Pennsylvania, Drexel, Swarthmore, Penn State, Rutgers, Temple and others. 152