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Maya Sen

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Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | msen.scholars.harvard.edu

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 New working paper from @jdeschler.bsky.social me and Justin Grimmer on how to best implement the instructions to "control for party" in Callais TLDR: the opinion is unclear from the perspective of statistical inference and, under certain conditions, the instructions can be gamed by bad actors
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I see this a lot - here, about MIT libraries; another example was the literary journal Yale Review - tracing the funding crisis to the OBBA, and I think it's too conveniently buying into what university presidents and boards would like you to believe.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
$6.2M/yr for the endowment manager guy who gets the university a lower rate of return than the S&P 500 Certainly puts the grad union's requests in perspective www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Paid Claudine Gay $1.5 Million in 2024 After Resignation, Financial Disclosures Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay earned more than $1.5 million in 2024, according to Harvard’s annual tax filings, receiving a higher compensation package in the year after she resigned from the ...
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I refuse to believe that AI will take over all white-collar jobs when we still have realtors
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s only gobbledygook when you have no idea what you’re doing
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Still thinking about these instructions In the South, minority voters express “different” preferences over candidates by being Democrats and voting for Democrats (see work by Ansolabehere) If you control for party, you control away the biggest outcome of those different preferences
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yes. I’m sure the experts here didn’t do this. Probably because it’s nuts from a social science perspective?
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We had a last minute cancellation: does anyone with policy experience working in federal administrative agencies want to come talk to my HKS admin law seminar tomorrow (Friday 4/17) at 1pm ET about the role of policy experts in federal agencies? Happy to do remote - DM me if interested!
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yikes
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Eye-popping stat here -> For college grads who “were employed, more than 40 percent held jobs that do not typically require college degrees, the highest level since 2020” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...
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Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Look, I mean, I don't know talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-r...
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Trump Rails Against ‘Shylocks And Bad People’ In Iowa Speech
President Donald Trump employed a term often used as a slur against...
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is very important to consider I think “human” instruction has much to offer and in the end many students will be willing to pay a premium for non-AI education Similar to how exclusive and expensive private elementary schools have abolished screens altogether But who knows?
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
No. NO. NO NO NO.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
seeing two different academic responses to AI in the classroom: 1) the below (go back to basics) vs. 2) incorporate it radically into a re-imagining of teaching thoughts about how things will go?
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did The students liked it as well There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 20/02/2026
The thing about the press conference is that Trump didn't say he would ask Congress to override the Court's decision, which is what a strong president whose party controlled both houses of Congress would do.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
what a day to be teaching policy students about the major questions doctrine and why it matters
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Donor Leslie Wexner Named Among Epstein Co-Conspirators, DOJ Records Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Leslie H. Wexner, a longtime Harvard megadonor, was labeled a co-conspirator of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein in a previously redacted internal FBI document from August 2019.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
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Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This + the moment RBG’s death was announced are two moments I will always remember The place I was, who I was with, the sense that everything was about to change Things changed - just not in the way I expected!
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Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Former U.S. Attorney @preetbharara.bsky.social on what politicization is doing to the Justice Department and why talented lawyers may no longer want to serve. This is how institutions erode. 🎧 Full episode (audio) live now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... 📺 Full video tomorrow on Youtube
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Author of this piece: "Scalia almost certainly wouldn’t have been happy to see how American politics have grown coarser and more polarized than ever before" ...but is there any contemporary justice who wrote more "coarser and more polarized opinions" than Scalia? www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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‘He Was the Antidote’: Samuel Alito Speaks Out on Antonin Scalia and the Drafting of Dobbs
In an exclusive interview, the Supreme Court justice remembers a friend and conservative icon’s legacy.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/02/2026
lol mind you, Pete Hegseth went to Harvard Kennedy School.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is a shame We teach many military students at the Kennedy School Our curriculum is heavy on free market economics, statistics, ethics, and US constitutional foundations - the very stuff that conservatives say they want taught
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Will never not be funny
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Re: Harvard’s negotiations with Trump, I actually did talk to some reporters yesterday and 100% stand by this on-the-record quote here where I explain that nobody knows anything
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Yes, Trump’s accusations re: Harvard’s president are worth flagging Whether you like him or not, Garber was provost for over a decade - he was the natural choice for interim when Gay was forced out He’s a consummate administrator To imply he has the job solely b/c of his religion is…noteworthy
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Trump is now demanding One Billion Dollars from Harvard, threatening criminal punishment, and insinuating Harvard’s president was chosen because of his religion (?)
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
1) the source of discontent with SCOTUS is not the leaks per se but the substance of recent rulings And 2) the fewer & less people know about the Court’s rulings the less the public can disagree with them
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom
ALT: a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
IMHO, this piece has a sensational headline but makes a very sensible recommendation: campus access should be restricted to university affiliates for the time being www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Must Keep ICE off Campus | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
The University must walk a careful line between concrete steps to protect our community and putting a target on our back. The stakes are too high for inaction and too urgent for indecision.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Reminder that in Egbert v. Boule the Supreme Court specifically said that Border Patrol agents cannot be sued for violating someone's constitutional rights. My deep dive from 2023: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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‘He didn’t deserve to die like this’: Supreme Court decision leaves family of a man killed at the border searching for justice
An analysis by NBC News found the court has effectively dismantled the ability to file lawsuits against federal officials accused of violating constitutional rights.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Local folks:
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Do Democrats have a plan for when 1) SCOTUS declares majority-minority districts unlawful and 2) the number of Congressional seats from blue states is reduced following the 2030 Census? Asking for a friend
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
local folks: www.boston.com/uncategorize...
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Trump administration starts immigration operation in Maine
The Trump administration has started an immigration enforcement operation in Maine, targeting Somali immigrants in the state.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Taps sign
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Bears repeating: had this happened with Joe Biden, Jake Tapper would have devoted an entire book chapter to it
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Polls suggest that most Cuban American registered voters, who tend to be Republican, continue to support Mr. Trump" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
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To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is * extremely * embarrassing for the Nobel committee Not only does it call into question their original judgment but it significantly cheapens the prize
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Disappointed to not see discussion in this article of why it's so hard for private citizens to sue federal agents for damages for constitutional violations - that's one of the key issues here! www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Not sure if the justices or their clerks are aware of the extent of mockery by People Who Matter of the “federal reserve board exception” to the unitary executive theory A real emperor has no clothes realization for a lot of people
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“Harvard officials, already anxious about the prospect of backlash to any settlement with a president many on campus see as autocratic, are sensitive to the details of any agreement.” What most people don’t realize is that Harvard’s admin wanted to settle months ago www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
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In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel
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