iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

good example of how interviewers can humiliate MAGA guys not by arguing with them but just getting them to straightforwardly describe their beliefs

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

eventbrite.com

Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub

Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wrote a bit about the data center backlash, and why it is Good, Actually. The Data Center Bankshot davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

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The Data Center Bankshot

The

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@raulpachecovega.bsky.social you would love this book! The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper www.amazon.com/Notebook-His...

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“Any person who keeps working is not a failure. They may not be great writers, but if they apply the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labour, they’ll eventually make some kind of career for themselves as writers.” — Ray Bradbury #WritingSky #AcademicSky

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.” ― Charles Bukowski #WritingSky #AcademicSky

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Day 8 of #RPVHabits wherein I follow my own advice - 10 minutes of quiet, in the dark time for myself can’t be done in Mexico City, I’ve realized. Or at least the part of Mexico City where I am. So it had to be just 10 minutes of simply sitting still and reflecting as much as possible.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 27/05/2026

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

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New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If I want to stay near Carleton University, where in Ottawa should I stay that is not overly expensive?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements. The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

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Trump wants all federal employees to sign NDAs

A breathtaking expansion of the culture of governmental secrecy

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Day 8 of #RPVHabits, in which I follow my own advice. - Slept in (5:45 am wake up time). I listen to my body regardless of how much work I have to finish. My health first. - 10 pages of a physical book were from Christine Tulley’s How Writing Faculty Write. I love Tulley’s book, frankly.

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Removing headphone jacks from mobile devices led directly to people just playing sound from their speakers in public

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This runs against the *very* strong tradition of resignation and public statement in exchange for not criticizing administration policy while an actual employee of the federal government.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I am well aware that this is extraordinarily self-indulgent, but in re-reading one of my published book chapters on comparative methods for the study of waste, I DO love my writing. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Comparison is at the core of any scholarly enterprise, regardless of the number of cases. Even
if we do not think we really are comparing, we always look for difference, even within a single
unit of analysis. Intellectually, we are humans wired to contrast and detect variations across
systems and establish patterns that help us explain how variation occurs. Comparing across
different units of analysis is also an exercise in systematization and organization of information
that can provide a foundation for structured learning about different production models, organizational
systems, institutional arrangements, countries, regions, and cities. Comparative
methods have increasingly gained popularity in policy analysis (Peters and Fontaine 2020),
public administration (Jreisat 2005), public policy (Engeli and Rothmayr Allison 2014), but
they have been a staple of the main field of political science (Collier 1993). This chapter engages
mostly with comparative politics/policy/public administration because those are the main
areas/disciplines that I was trained in and that my research and teaching contribute to, but the
various fields and disciplines in which I publish (history, geography, methods) are also closely
related. Nevertheless, I also draw examples and ideas from the fields of anthropology, sociology,
and even literature.
I want to note that there is no single “comparative method”. When I indicate comparative
method(s) and whether I use plural or singular is a deliberate choice that signals the broad range
of words that attempts to express how different types of comparisons can be undertaken across
case studies, variables, and methods. One can contrast press releases and analyze text production
across different organizations to discern how anti-waste-facility non-governmental organizations
frame their messaging to achieve specific objectives. We can also compare different
treatment processes and the decision-making processes of engineers in charge of waste managem…

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William Germano @williamgermano.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thanks, RP-V! Happy to report that Chicago has just brought a a fourth edition, substantially updated!

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This conference in honor of Dr. Donatella Della Porta looks like a Who Is Who in social movements studies: www.sns.it/it/evento/so... (no, I wasn't invited nor am I presenting, but I can recognize great work when I see it, and Dr. Della Porta has been a bastion of solid scholarship in SocMov).

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Social movement studies in intense times | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore

Programme3rd June Plenary I4 JuneFirst SessionSecond Session

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Day 7 of #RPVHabits in which I follow my own advice. - 10 minutes of complete silence and darkness are impossible where I live, I just realized. There's always some light, some noise, SOMETHING. So I just decided to change this rule to 10 minutes of self-reflection first thing in the morning.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Day 6 of my #RPVHabits - 10 minutes of in-the-dark quiet time - 1 chapter of Howie Becker’s Writing for Social Scientists (couldn’t stop at 10 pages, my choice was Chapter 5 “Learning to Write as a Professional” - It’s a Monday and last night I was too tired to write my To-Do List. Working on it.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Folks, I will not be attending #LASA2026 My Mom's health has been a bit up-and-down over the past few months and I can't travel that far right now. I hope you all have a good time, and I am sorry I am missing you all. It was THE opportunity to see so many of you. Family first.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I am not jealous at all that you get three days in the best food city in the United States of America. Not jealous at all.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

Opinion
When I want to feel loved, Ijust go to a hardware store
Adrian Chiles

Opinion
The best filing system? The one where every piece of paper goes in the bin
Adrian Chiles

Opinion
I can't stop pilfering from other people's plates - but don't even think about grabbing my chips
Adrian Chiles

I thought my pigeon curse was lifting. Then it took a darker turn
Adrian Chiles

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Fifteen years ago, when I arrived at Columbia U, David Rosner already had the kind of research career and impact one can only hope for--and yet no one was more generous or kind. I was deeply honored to blurb his final book. I will miss him greatly. RIP David the great. May your memory be a blessing.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Dr. Planey and I are at the exact same stage.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Receiving these kinds of emails never gets old. I provide public goods to fellow academics, students and society in general largely because I strive to create a better, more humane and human academic environment.This is from a few years ago. To this day, I keep getting these emails. Really happy.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

As some of you know, I’ve been under tremendous stress over the past 5 and a half months. But what I’ve realized again is that I DO love writing. As I have said before, I live the challenge and the friction and the hard work that comes with writing, and more importe Roy, with writing well.

media.tenor.com

a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners "

ALT: a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners "

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This thread feels totally like bait for those who want to rage-engage with it, but I’ll bite. BlueSky (and surprisingly, Threads) gives me A LOT MORE control over who gets to talk to me and whose energy I get to absorb (or deflect). I have more than 15 years of experience with social media.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Day 5 of #RPVHabits in which I follow my own advice: - 10 minutes in total silence after waking up - no devices until 1 hour after waking up - no social media until after 1 hour - no checking email first thing in the morning - read 10 pages of a physical book which will motivate me to write.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family

Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

nytimes.com

Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Day 4 of #RPVHabits in which I follow my own advice. I’ve written about this on my blog before: rest is absolutely an integral part of human (and thusly) academic life. My former PhD advisor said that working 7 days a week was not healthy and that I needed at least ONE if not two day(s) of rest.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"Consider what this means in practice. Under neoliberalism, public investment in education, health care, and infrastructure crowds out private capital. Under market humanism, it is investment in the cooperative capacity of the workforce—the foundation on which all private growth depends."

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hot take: #CitationGate is happening on Twitter and (less so on here) because a Taylorist mode of scholarly production and a neoliberal approach to “manufacturing” MORE papers and research output faster is eroding our capabilities and inclinations to read carefully, understand and thusly, CITE.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Day 3 of #RPVHabits wherein I apply exactly my own principles to my own academic life. - Continued reading 10 pages of a physical book, this time @rachaelcayley.bsky.social ‘s “Thriving as a Graduate Writer”. - I wrote (by hand, with coloured pens) an index card with my notes of the 10 pages.

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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The political calculus behind whether NSF director nominee Jim O'Neill will testify before Senate HELP committee www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Research groups want Senate to vet Trump’s nominee for NSF head

A hearing would air questions about James O’Neill’s qualifications to lead the agency

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Read @chadtopaz.bsky.social 's excellent piece debunking Mike Solana's piece mocking @tressiemcphd.bsky.social 's fair warning regarding genAI. I, too, am a Gay who is very annoyed by Evil Gays. So few things make me more excited than reading a takedown of Evil Gays by one of the Good Gays.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Sure, it will take some adjusting and there will be some moving pains, but unless you want to be forced into the Gemini lifestyle, it’s time to make a plan to get off Google and start packing your virtual boxes for greener pastures.” By @parismarx.com disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

disconnect.blog

Google is its own worst enemy

In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“You will write if you write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting..." - Gertrude Stein

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Good morning, everyone! It's 4:52 am in Mexico City. May you all have a great day.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Someone I know already finished their writing commitments for the year. This was my response: #AcWri #GetYourManuscriptOut

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Do you nap? Yes, this is a question that has everything to do with academic life, as random as it sounds :)

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Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm currently editing work on BIPOC doulas and radical care; political attention economies and social movements; autonomy and care provision for adults with IDD; pretrial punishment; race, pain, and healthcare; living and dying with guns... love never knowing quite what my work will bring! #editrix

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

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Job Vacancies - Institute for Political Science

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#RPVHabits Continuing with my “follow my own advice” series, this morning: - I read 10 pages of a physical book. In this case, Joli Jensen’s Write No Matter What. - I took handwritten notes of said reading material in my Everything Notebook. - I read several materials associated with the paper

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