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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

When you really do want to go out with your friends but you also know yourself...

Screenshot of text convo
Me: Any chance you'd pick me up tonight?

Friend: GM. Sure. 7:15pm?

Me: Perfect. (and this way I can't talk my introvert self out of going 😝)

Friend: Too funny!!

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

N of 2 so far. Anyone else getting campus safety alerts like this today?

CAMPUS ADVISORY
Threatening Emails Received; NYPD is Investigating
Thursday, Jan. 22 @ 7:25 a.m. ET – Two emails have been sent threatening violence targeting NYU—at Palladium Residence Hall and the Silver Center. NYPD and federal authorities have been notified, and the NYPD is currently conducting top-to-bottom searches of those buildings.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I love this. My policy and syllabus language is similar, but I appreciate your expanded links (especially on racism and discrimination. Thank you for sharing.

Some Thoughts on AI, LLMs and BS

I do not know how many of you use LLMs like Chat GPT. It appears at least some students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers and/or are not happy about their professors using these tools.

My recommendation and preference in this class: avoid using large language models (LLMs) like Chat GPT.

In return, I promise not to use AI detectors like TurnItIn. These technologies turn up too many false positives, provide your words - uncompensated - to large companies, and undermine the trust and community I hope we build together in class. I also use an ungrading approach to assessment that emphasizes your learning.

LLMs are tools with specific purposes that can help their users with specific tasks, e.g. computer programming and quantitative analysis. You will have plenty of opportunities here at NYU to experiment with these tools. However, LLMs cannot write. They can string together words that look like sentences, and sentences that look like paragraphs. However, they cannot write, in the sense that writing is thinking. To the extent the assignments in this class require thinking (including but not limited to memos, process journals, reflections), using LLMs like ChatGPT will not help you fulfill the assignments or achieve the goals in this class. They may create a deliverable (like a group presentation), but will not help you learn the process of building group cohesion and co-creating deliverables together (which are just as important as the deliverables themselves).

Just like traditional grading emphasizes product over process, so too do LLMs circumvent the process for the product. In the words of Frankfurt, via Hicks, et. al, “ChatGPT is bullshit”. The models do not concern themselves with the truth or accuracy of their outputs. For example, they will generate fake quotations and citations. ChatGPT may help you write an email to your group to set up a meeting. ChatGPT will not help you connect the course material to the civic engagement assignment you complete, and it will not help you reflect on your course experience to make your final grade recommendation. ChatGPT can help you look like you know what you are talking about, but I do not care about ChatGPT’s takes. I care about yours. If you need assistance with your writing, talk to (or email) me, and/or look into the university’s Writing Center.

If the reasons outlined above are not sufficient to deter you from using LLMs, I encourage you to make an informed decision about usage. Look into the environmental costs, labor practices, data mining/privacy issues, and accessibility issues. If you choose to move forward with these tools, you must acknowledge this usage.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Today was the winter solstice. Tonight marks the last night of Chanukah. May we bring these lights with us as the days themselves get longer.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Bluesky is like a virtual windowsill, right? Chanukah sameach to all who celebrate, however you chose to do so in these days.

Three chanukiot- one stained glass dwaign, one silver, one copper/bronze- lit for the first night.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Next week's politics of public policy theme: Growth of Government/Large Scale Democracy Me in August: Sure, let's talk about redistricting here. The 2022 CQ Researcher case is a good resource. Me today: Frantically timestamping links, wondering if I can just throw this up for the slide: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

screenshot of Brightspace post for students:
Current events around redistricting*
General - The fight to redraw U.S. House maps is spreading. Here’s where things stand in Missouri and other states (PBS)
Ohio - Lack of bipartisan agreement delays Ohio redistricting (NBC4)
Texas - Texas Redistricting Case could Reshape House Balance After 2026 Midterms (Bloomberg)
California - Your guide to Proposition 50: California redistricting (LA Times)
Nevada - Organizers to withdraw independent redistricting proposal after court challenge (Nevada Current)
Indiana - Braun talks federal shutdown impact in Indiana, redistricting (Indiana Capitol Chronicle)
Kansas - Kansas Republicans start redistricting process aimed at unseating Rep. Sharice Davids (KCUR)
Utah - Utah Legislature will convene in special session to discuss redistricting and other issues (Utah News Dispatch)
Maryland -Maryland House speaker says ‘now is the time’ to take up redistricting (The Baltimore Banner)
Louisiana - Supreme Court postpones Louisiana redistricting case to next term (NPR)
*NOTE : This is an evolving policy arena. These articles are up to date as of 10/3/2025, when I am posting these links.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I’m teaching a class called The Politics of Public Policy, and added a theme this semester about making the invisible work of bureaucracy/government visible. Thank you for posting this- it will make a great opening slide for my class meeting in two weeks.

Screenshot of unit: Public Policymaking: Making the Invisible Visible. Materials for the week cover the policy process, administrative burden, public data

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Had a mostly good time at the game today but Fifa and Met Life need to reevaluate their vendor policies. No water easily available (even to buy) at/after the 72nd minute was problematic (to say the least). Positive: taking public transportation from Princeton to the stadium #FifaCWC

Dear Fifa and MetLife-

I had the opportunity to attend the Fifa Club World Club this afternoon at MetLife Stadium. I want to say the experience was fantastic- great crowd, some good soccer.

However, at the 70th minute, with a heat advisory (91 degrees/feels like 96), we could not easily access water. We were willing to pay, of course, but all of the vendors we came across by our section were already closed. This policy - or practice, if not official guidance- has the potential to cause great harm. (Also, if you need the capitalist argument, it represents lost profit.)

Please reconsider your policies and practices for the other semi and final (not to mention next year's World Cup.

Thank you.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ghost thanks you for your attention and care and also hopes you get some rest soon.

White husky mix sitting on grass with esra perked and tongue out

White husky mix curled on blue couch with head on orange pillow

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This has been a heavy day for many reasons, so I am going to say goodnight with a timeline cleanse- my view of Ghost from my yoga mat this morning.

White husky mix with pointed ears curled on a blue sofa, with paws dangling off

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

NYU Wagner convocation is today. As soon as I heard about the potential NJ Transit strike I got Amtrak tickets (I'm lucky thue an option at my station). This empty parking lot is wild. I don't get this close to the front when I get here by 6:15 am, let alone 11:30 am.

Virtually empty parking lot with lots of open spots

Parking lot seen from track level. Sparsely populated with cars

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Princeton folks: come hear Lila Corwin Berman and me talk about American Jewish Philanthropy. We will be at TJC on Wed 5/14 at 7:30 pm.

LIFELONG LEARNING AT TIC
LIFELONG LEARNING
AT TJC
SPRING 2025
Wednesday, May 14 at 7:30 PM
American Jewish Philanthropy:
Its Past, Present, and Possible Futures with Jamie Levine Daniel & Lila Corwin Berman
The roundtable will feature TJC congregant Jamie Levine Daniel, Henry and Marilyn Taub Associate Professor Nonprofit Management and Public Service at New York University, and Lila Corwin Berman, Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University and author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex.
THE ROUNDTABLE WILL TAKE PLACE AT
THE JEWISH CENTER
435 NASSAU STREET
PRINCETON, NJ 08540
OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY!
Lifelong Learning programs are made possible by donations to the Adult Education Fund.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

For the past several weeks we have been wrestling with "What makes an issue a Jewish issue?" "Who gets to project a unified communal identity....and who gets to choose what that identity reflects?" Thanks @kampeas.bsky.social for giving me additional material to enrich these discussions.

screenshot: Legacy groups have long held that if the Jewish community wants to maintain influence it cannot alienate the executive branch and/or one of the major parties.

The other view is that Jewish organizations aspiring to represent the entire community should reflect the views of their constituents, however much that might irk the powers that be.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My absolute favorite, a permanent fixture on my desk

White mug orange handle. Says "for 🦊sake" with the fox as a picture of the animal with orange fur and black glasses

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This while 🧵 @goodtroublein.bsky.social called out this approach in Indiana last year when IUDs were cut out of a bill designed to expand birth control access. Article about the Indiana issue in the following post. 1/2

"I think the way this is happening is very reminiscent of how things played out for abortion access," Dr. Caroline Rouse, an OB-GYN who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine, told Mirror Indy. "Their playbook for eliminating reproductive choice is not subtle."

She is a board member for the Good Trouble Coalition, a health care advocacy group that originally supported the bill before lawmakers amended it.

"While some will argue some access is better than no access, we are concerned about the precedent this bill sets," said Dr. Gabriel Bosslet, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a coalition member, during the committee meeting.
"If hospitals only have to stock the subdermal implant, they will not stock IUDs."

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My sign and 10yo’s sign for today’s #HandsOff protest in Princeton. I've seen the crowd size estimated at 1500-2000 (in a town of 30,000).

HEALT & HUMAN SVCS
ABORTION
NOAA NIH NSF
DEPT. OF EDUCATION
SMITHSONIAN
OMB
FOREIGN AID
FIRST AMENDMENT

VOTING RIGHTS • SOCIALS SECURITY.
DUE PROCESS.VACCINES• MEDICAID.
TITLE X • BROADBAND •USPS LIBRARIES • HOUSING•USIP...

OUR DEMOCRACY

Justice justce shall you pursue

First Amendment

Hooray freedom
And good stuff
No more bad decisions TRUMP
Don't be a bad boy
Stop all the nonesence
Oh no! Trump is doing bad decisions!
For I am outrageous, that he was elected
Freedom!!!no more bad stuff!!

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I can't keep up. I am about to record an explainer re: this administration's impact on nonprofits and I am tempted to just leave this up as my one and only slide.

Screenshot of slide with text:
.*as of recording
Everything subject to change

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The @nytimes.com crossword folks would beg to differ about this entry.

Spelling Bee array of w k n o m a arranged around center tile l. Olla is submitted word, with message "not in word list"

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Certainly should be on the list, NYTimes Spelling Bee.

NYTimes spelling bee array of letters with "FAFO" as an attempted entry. Screen shows message "not in word list"

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is Ghost. He is not sure what you have, but he is asking very politely if he can have some.

White husky mix sitting with ears perked, staring up with big eyes.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This logo may not be real, but the @goodtroublein.bsky.social podcast is. New episodes drop on Fridays and are on all of your favorite platforms. (And for the record I'm on team @janeahartsock.bsky.social and support this logo 😝)

"Health is real" written in white on a black sign in a cornfield. A play in the "hell is real" sign

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We still have local democracy so I did my part. Princeton folks- don’t forget to turn out for the bond issues.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Chanukah's timing has thrown me off. I have been unsettled not lighting the full chanukiyah in 2024. At the same time, 2025 probably needs all the light it can get. Let's be the light.

Three channukiyot on a foil-lined tray. Each channukiyah has all 8 candles+shamash lit.

1) foreground, center: rectangular, mosaic of tiles that look like stained glass, yellow candles.

2) back left: silver, three tall curved rods swooshing into a rectangle with a line of candle holders, orange candles

3) back right: tree of life motif dotted with Jewish symbols, blue candles

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This paper focuses on the relationship between message framing on social media and donations. The fun part is our data came from a competition in which nonprofits went head to head for fundraising - think World Cup bracket. 2/3

figure showing two-way dialogics between information strategies (information sharing, relationship building, and call to action) and publics (latent moving to aware moving to active)

Venn Diagram showing overlaps between traditional contributory philanthropy, crowdfunding, and gamification - with competitive philanthropy at the intersection of all three

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

BREAKING: student reports good experience working on group projects. #AcademicSky

How it started/how it's going
On left - tweet saying "Group projects make me understand why Batman prefers to work alone"

On right - a picture of the Avengers Assembled

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The face of a dog who desperately (thinks he) wants durian. (No, he didn't get any.)

White husky mix sitting pretty, looking up imploringly with a singular purpose

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Just in time for spring semester, or next academic year- the 2nd edition of Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change. I was honored to write the foreword for this important work. Use it to help your students bring in critical theory to nonprofit work. #nonprofitsky

Cover of Reframing Nonprofit Organizations- white rirke on blue-green background. Authors' names in bottom right in yellow text. Cover illustration is increasingly smaller concentric circles with an almost abstract picture of a red bean on gray stone

Foreword to the second edition with my name

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Did I leave my headphones and portable charger at home? Yes Did I get heartfelt emails and even a handwritten note from some students on this last day of class? Also yes. Definitely taking the wins, including this comment regarding flexible deadlines. #academicsky

Email screenshot:
Hi Dr. JLD,
I just wanted to take the time to say thanks for an amazing semester. I enjoyed your class, especially your teaching style and emphasis on group work--it encouraged us to make friends in class and get to know everyone when we usually might not take the time to. Your flexible deadline system has to be the greatest thing ever. I was struggling with three back-to-back midterms and term papers so I was super grateful for that extra bit of cushioning in terms of submission deadlines--it really helped relieve a lot of stress and I'm sure all your future students would appreciate it if you continued to use it.

It was a great experience being in your class, and I hope to learn again with you soon!

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Two majestic creatures- a beautiful blue heron (I think) chilling on the D&R Canal, and a happy Ghost after our run along the canal.

Large gray bird with long neck and bill standing on brown leaves next to a canal with visible tree reflections

White husky mix with pointed ears, one blue eye visible, tongue hanging out of his mouth

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I've shared this pic before but it's one of my favorites. Ghost's interpretation of downward dog

White husky mix with pointed ears staring straight at the camera, stretched out on a purple yoga mat

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Ghost, approximately 5 years old, a dog running a cat operating system

White husky mix with pointrd ears sitting on a green chair, resting hia chin on the wood arm

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

HR 9495 is before the Rules Committee TODAY (11/18), on the agenda for the 4 PM meeting. Rep. Beyer (VA) submitted an amendment to strike the exempt termination language. Is your rep on the Rules committee? Call to urge them to adopt the amendment. If no amendment, urge them not to approve.

Majority members:
Chairman Michael C. Burgess (R-TX)
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC)
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)
Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN)
Rep. Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY)
Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA)

Minority members:

Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-MA)
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA)
Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO)
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM)

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is Ghost, the best dog- and yoga partner- in the world.

Medium-sized white husky mix stretched out on a purple yoga mat. Dog is looking at the camera with pointy ears perked up.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

It may be 50 degrees outside, but it's snowing in here. Aka I brushed the husky.

White husky mix amid a mess of white fur spread everywhere and evidence of grooming tools (and bribes- licky mat and treat bag)

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Not so new here but we like to say Ghost is a dog with a cat operating system and I figured the timeline could use this pile of cuteness.

White husky mix with pointy ears curled on a matching cushion of a chair with a light wood frame

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Teaching politics of public policy (undergrad) and management and leadership (grad). Figured today's a good day for treats and fidgets #academicsky

Reusable tote filled with candy, That's It bars, and fidgets

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Working for democracy on my morning commute. Yet another reason to love the train.

Image of a letter
VOTE
FORWARD

Dear -

[typed] Soon, you'll have the chance to vote in important elections that are coming up on November 5, 2024. Are you ready to vote? I vote because

[handwritten] I teach democracy and civic engagement,and want to model what I teach. As I tell my students, we all affect and are affected by public policy. We owe it to ourselves to participate in the process.

[typed]Along with the election for U.S. president, there will be many other
choices on your ballot. Your vote will help decide who represent….

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Does anyone know what is happening between DC and NY on Amtrak? I'm at Union Station and all trains to NY are currently delayed.

Departure board showing all NY bound trains are delayed

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Post Dobbs "hundreds more infants died than expected..." Who wasn't expecting this? Because I'm pretty sure I heard medical experts testifying to this as a likely outcome during Indiana's 2022 special session to ban abortion.

Screenshot of CNN article lede: the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I love the post office. Signs from this morning's visit.

SORRY!!!
All Red Sox fans must use the next window.
And no talking, either

Parents, ask about our Lollipops For Good* Children program
* All children are good

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Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Giving me hope: my Politics of Public Policy students, who have civic engagement assignments over the semester. Lots of leeway on what counts (registering to vote, posting on social media, writing to a legislator, researching a nonprofit, etc.). Uplifting to read each one & to get emails like this.

email screenshot: Volunteering to poll this election:

Hello Professor Daniel,

My name is _____ and Im in your Politics of public policy class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I wanted to share with you that with your encouragement of civic engagement and other resources I’ve volunteered to work this elections polls in addition to phone banking.

I just wanted to thank you for your support and for making me more interested about civic life.

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