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Maya Sen

@mayasen.bsky.social
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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
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... comments & suggestions welcome!
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Disentangling Race and Party: What <i>Callais</i> Asks and What Statistics can Answer
<p>In <i>Louisiana v. Callais</i>, the Supreme Court gave clear instructions to plaintiffs bringing redistricting claims under Section 2 of the Voting Righ
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Shifting to descriptive associations makes more sense, but even then there are estimation problems when there is a high degree of correspondence between race & party A Callais approach can also hide intentional discrimination and differences in the opportunity to elect candidates of choice
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The paper grapples w/interesting & unresolved Q's of what are -- and how to best estimate -- the right quantities of interest in this context The majority seems toggle between different causal quantities. As we argue, however, estimating a direct effect of race on voting is basically impossible
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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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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Me, about university finances
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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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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“Conditional on ideology, there’s no difference between communists and libertarians” I could go on and on
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
me, reading Alito’s paragraph
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a man in a white t-shirt is kneeling down in a room
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Setting aside conceptual post-treatment issues (big) Given low numbers of Black Rs in the South, this will be largely an analysis of Black vs White Ds Do they have different preferences? Possibly yes, in primaries But it will be hard to say anything about Republicans - and maybe that’s the point
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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
“Conditional on speed, I could have won the London marathon”
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Good catch! I’m still working my way through it
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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
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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FAS to Launch Administrative Overhaul This Summer Amid Budget Deficit | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will launch a sweeping administrative overhaul this summer as it confronts a $365 million structural deficit, Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra announced in a Wednesday email.
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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
no -- this is from a while back but also part of a historical pattern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...
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Donald Trump and antisemitism - Wikipedia
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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
Unlike legislative term limits, justice term limits would likely have healthy downstream effects - specifically limiting the likelihood of the Court becoming ideologically lopsided (as it is now) We show this in this USC law review paper chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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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
AI grading will grade AI generated material…
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Can you say more about the annotating? Is that a graded assignment?
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Yes As well, students seem to really appreciate removing AI as a temptation there’s a feeling it really punishes people trying to do the right thing (ie their own original work)
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The flip side - and there is a flip side! - is that writing longer term papers over a longer time frame really forces students to think more deeply and in a way that writing a short 90 min essay does not However it is harder to see a path forward with longer-form writing in the age of AI
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
That is a challenge!
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
mine were in-class essays, so writing/analysis can be done (though you sacrifice some depth). as for readings -- esp books -- that is hard. i teach mostly cases, which resolves that issue.
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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 · 14/02/2026
Same at Harvard 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
@daviddarmofal.bsky.social Vandy and WashU are on this list!
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Quite a list of potential targets:
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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
Just constantly dripping with disdain and contempt www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/u...
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Scalia Lands at Top of Sarcasm Index of Justices. Shocking. (Published 2015)
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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The 10 most wild lines from Antonin Scalia’s extreme dissent over gay marriage
"Ask the nearest hippie."
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
lots of examples slate.com/human-intere...
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Reading Between the Lines of Antonin Scalia’s Anti-Gay Dissents
One of the things that makes legal scholars and legal geeks tick is the challenge of separating out what the law actually allows—or what it...
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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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