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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Anyone here tried NotebookLM for lit reviews for articles?

Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Looking to put together a roundtable on ethics and difficult conversations in political science education at APSA's Teaching and Learning conference in February - anyone interested in participating? #polisky #TeachLearnSky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

That feeling when Mitch McConnell announces his retirement the day before your lecture on Congress and US foreign policy.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

That feeling when you're on deadline so you choose to reorganize all the books in your office.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

I preach on the dangers of this in every class I take - not the inclusive approach now forced on these clubs, but on the desire of too many Georgetown students to sell their souls for management consulting gigs. www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/13/g...

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Georgetown’s Elite Consulting Clubs Come Down to Earth

Wait, now ANYONE can join?

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Happy pitchers and catchers report! (and other holidays too ✝️💘)

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Calling scholars of norm entrepreneurship... sounds like a pretty clear case study in our own world.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Does anyone out there in polisky have a good glossary for terms people should know if they're studying IR? Asking on behalf of a student.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Great study, as I was talking about the failures of what should appropriately be Congressional dominance in my US foreign policy class a couple weeks ago and will return to it again soon www.aei.org/research-pro...

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Just a moment...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

How do polisky professors think about talking about DEIA questions when it comes to policy models/theories/etc.? Particularly in classrooms that may be politically divided. sotlsky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I just read about the FAFSA delays in @insidehighered.bsky.social and @chronicle.com this AM. Thinking about this in the context of how (elite) universities are gatekeepers into the IR/foreign policy world and the need for real DEI at earlier ages, this is just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

I'm not sure there's anything worse than Honor Council hearings.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

The best is happy news from former students. Got great news today on one of my "plankowners" (veterans of my first ever class) who got into an amazing grad school.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I wonder how many undergrad students actually understand how hard it is to be an adjunct. It seems that the, I don't want to call it a Ponzi scheme or a con, but the belief that tenured faculty still care about teaching, still persists... www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Advice | The Disposable, Indispensable Faculty Member

If teaching is so easy, why do so many tenured professors take such great pains to avoid it?

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

That confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery was the most offensive of anything I saw in the extensive review we did as commissioners of the Renaming Commission. Flat out celebration of slavery and armed rebellion against the U.S. government.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Entering grades for #GOVT1600 always makes me a bit sad. Sometimes I get perked up to see someone get a grade that's good and it makes me happy because I've seen their progress, but more often it feels like that's the only thing they'll take away from the class - a letter, not insights. #sotlsky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Just started Julian Gewirtz’s new book on China in the 80s and it reminds me that the CCP has always been a party focused on history and the writing thereof. Interesting to think about it through a constructivist lens.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

In the end did the Nationals win the Soto deal?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/12/2023

Breaking News: Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, announced that he would lift his blockade of nearly all the military promotions he had delayed for months in protest of a Pentagon policy ensuring abortion access for service members.

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Tuberville Says He Will Drop Military Promotion Blockade

Under pressure from senators in both parties, the Alabama Republican said he would allow more than 400 promotions to move forward, continuing to block only the most senior positions.

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Polisky: please help us spread the word about the Saltzman Institute’s postdoc, and tell your best students to apply! www.siwps.org/programs/cal...

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Call for Applications: Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, Postdoctora...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

BEYOND excited to be a part of this! More hype soon.

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Maggie Caroline @maggiecaroline.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

The #NSGSCon 2024 agenda update drops tomorrow. Subscribers will get a special discount code in their email: unicornstrategies.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... nsgscon.com

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#NatSecGirlSquad | #NSGSCon 2024

#NSGSCon 2024: January 8 - 9 in DC.

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Josh Brake @joshbrake.com · 28/11/2023

As educators, we spend a lot of time focusing on the *stuff* we're teaching students without giving much energy to the supporting scaffolds. What if we thought differently? This week I think about the foundational elements of the scaffold. open.substack.com/pub/joshbrak...

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Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

My research on tech lobbying is cited today in a New York Times Opinion piece. Glad that my work is helping make sense of this pivotal moment in global tech regulation. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/o...

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Opinion | Should Big Tech Get to Write the Rules of the Digital Economy?

The Biden administration isn’t letting the tech giants write the rules of global trade. Good.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Joe Biden Dick Cheney Ken Waltz Dave Grohl Ryan Zimmerman

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful - beyond the obvious of family and health, faith and good work - for my students. It's been a staggering semester. Maybe my "rep" is finally catching up with me, but I'm getting the students at scale that I've always wanted.

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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

A host of interesting articles in International Politics commenting on a piece by Errol A Henderson on race and racism in international relations (looks like it is part of a Special Issue). Check it out 👇 polisky link.springer.com/journal/4131...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

May be designing a new class (seminar level for advanced undergrads) in fall 2024 that would incorporate a lot of roleplaying and gaming (TTXes not hex and counter games) - what are the best practices out there to ensure pedagogical impact? polisky sotlsky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

AND I just found out my students this semester made a bingo card of my sayings... (Now I feel like I've really arrived)

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

I do love undergrad enrollment week, esp when I see former students reupping for another class with me 😍

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

The absolute best line in film. For somebody who works in white-collar policy in DC, every time somebody wrings their hands over a major failure and whinges about how hard they are working/worked… that’s a MOP, not a MOE… [see: Afghanistan]

A scene from Christmas Vacation where Audrey says “he worked really hard, grandma.”

A scene from Christmas Vacation where the grandfather replies “so do washing machines.”

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Remember: the opposite of "free will" is not "determinism." It's logically possible to accept both, and it's logically possible to accept neither. Also classical determinism is clearly false, because quantum mechanics exists.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

That moment when you're reviewing Panopto data on lectures and you find that of the 16 students who rewatched all or part of the race and gender lecture, 15 are women...

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

As I go through Carol Dweck’s Mindset, the angrier I get about our grading systems sotlsky

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

I continue to believe that learning history, like reading literature, is an intrinsic good.

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

🚨 New Publication 🚨 In the Journal of International Relations and Development, Jan Smolenski and I critique the trend of IR theorists with little expertise in regional politics making broad descriptive and prescriptive claims about the war in Ukraine. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

A 🧵 on trust and the Israeli war in Gaza. Last night Netanyahu tweeted this, following his first Q&A sessio since the war started. It denies being warned about the Hamas attack by intel agencies and *blames them* for saying Hamas was deterred and seeking settlement. 1/ CivMilSky polisky

A tweet by Benjamin Netanyahu. The tweet reads: “against false claims: at no point was the PM warned that Hamas was planning a war. On the contrary, every security agency including the heads of Military Intelligence and Shin Bet argued Hamas was deterred and headed for settlement. This was the assessment submitted time and again to the PM and cabinet by all security and intelligence agencies up to the outbreak of the war.” The tweet was later deleted.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Read this this morning and it felt rather triggering... this is the reverse of what I've dealt with in having to give a level of low grades... this deserves serious conversation polisky sotlsky edusky

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Okay if the Chronicle of Higher Ed (which REALLY should be on here) is going to publicize a big study on adjuncts, I'm going to post on it. Buckle up polisky sotlsky and let's talk. www.chronicle.com/article/adju...

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Adjunct Professors Face a ‘Constant Struggle to Not Give Up,’ Report Says

A survey of faculty members off the tenure track, the third in a series from the American Federation of Teachers, paints a familiar picture of their workplace challenges.

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Will Schlickenmaier @schlickw.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

We've been trying to make this work in both GOVT 1600 and GOVT 2604... esp. the latter, but it's awfully hard and takes a lot of investment.

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