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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I am not very active on this site, but I am very happy that "(Non)belonging and (un)freedom" is out in the AJPS! I have spent a bit of time thinking about belonging as a concept, and its relationship to equality. But in this text, I focus on its relationship to freedom. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend...

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have not quite succeeded in doing this. I do give them 80 minutes to write a single essay and they have their half-page of notes. So it is like a mini term paper. Ideally, I would want to try what John Robinson does: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... but have not figured it out yet.

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A Multiday In-Class Essay for the ChatGPT Era (opinion)

John Robison explains how, using Lockdown Browser, he tried to replicate key elements of the traditional take-home humanities essay in a new assignment.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

They do! And I think that they enjoy being able to add quotes to their essays (with page numbers and all) and crafting their half-page of notes is, by itself, good studying, I think. I have used Respondus Lockdown pretty successfully too.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have moved to fully in-class assessments. I won't give them the exam questions in advance (for the reason someone else mentioned: many will probably have AI do it and memorize). For advanced classes, I allow them to bring half a page with quotes and notes from readings to use in their essays.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Jeez--what on earth?? Maybe they just asked ChatGPT what was a good setup for "learning" and the machine suggested some pre-school setups. We have similar issues where people in facilities "decide" what they think is best based on...vibes? What a startup needs?

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Chong-Ming Lim @cmlim.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

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Lecturer in Political Philosophy

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Whoa. This is pretty wild. Although it could be the former? It could have bounced? My university tech system has recently been sending legit emails to lalaland out of fear that they are phishing or whatever. Not to spam, not to a folder I can check. Just disappearing them.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/03/2026

what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop? RULES: - you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop - you must remain more or less uninjured - bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oh, I assumed they had a PhD in philosophy. My bad! (I should know not to assume). Wish they did!

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Northeastern has both Katie Creel and Chad Lee-Stronach: cssh.northeastern.edu/philosophy/p... and Annette Zimmermann is at UW Madison

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

As part of a symposium on Shmuel Nili's latest book, Beyond the Law's Reach?, I wrote an essay that was just published in Ethics & International Affairs. Here it is! Check out Nili's book, a great read, and also the two other excellent essays in the symposium by Michael Blake and Alex Zakaras.

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Alison McQueen @aejm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics

Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you are a political theory PhD student or junior scholar interested in discussing all things publishing in political theory, please join the WPSA Political Theory virtual community on Thursday, October 30th for a panel on Academic Publishing. We have a great group of panelists! Please do join us.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Please join us on Friday, August 22nd to discuss three new books in political theory!

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you: (all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

Screen capture of the first bage of an article in American Political Science Review, reading as follows:
Title: "They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business": Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen
Ann K. Heffernan, University of Michigan, United States

Contributing to a growing interest in disability in political science, this article makes the case for the central role of disability in upholding the belief in work as requisite for full citizenship. Turning to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how disability and the figure of the disabled worker were used to fortify emergent understandings of work against the changes wrought by industrial capitalism. Focusing on three sites of disabled labor—the school-based workshop, custodial institution, and industrial factory—it reveals the crucial ideological work performed by disability in sustaining the myth of the independent worker-citizen. Where existing scholarship has focused on disability either as an identity category or as a target of rights and policy, this article models an alternative approach, arguing for the relevance of disability as a concept that is integral to, and productive of, the ways we understand citizenship and political belonging.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

¡Muchas gracias a ambos! Me hicieron el día.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Looking forward to reading it! Many congratulations!!

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Join us tomorrow, at noon ET, for the next meeting of the "Interpretivists to Intepretive Methods" series organized by APSA's IMM. Richard Holtzman (Bryant) will be our presenter. The talks are free and open to everyone, but registration is required. We hope you can join! mailchi.mp/26d427dd95c8...

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TOMORROW - April 25: Richard Holtzman does Presidency Studies through an Interpretive Lens

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you are interested in interpretive methods, I hope you can join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social tomorrow for the research presentations of our Spotlight Scholars! mailchi.mp/ad01ac9a3016...

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TOMORROW - March 21: Spotlight Scholars Research Presentations

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

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Lecturer in Political Theory

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Loyola has a new search for an Assistant Professor (TT) in Italian American studies. The search is carried out, at large, by the College of Arts and Sciences, and the person hired could be part of any of CAS's departments. I would, of course, love to have a political theorist fill this role!

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

For those of you interested in ethnographic methods, please join the IMM next Friday, February 21, for a session on Intepretive Interviewing with Fred Schaffer. The sessions are held on Zoom and are open to the public, but registration is required. mailchi.mp/227367b2224a...

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NEXT WEEK - February 21: Fred Schaffer does Interpretive Interviewing

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𝙰𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚋𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚑 @abizadeh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Giving online talk on “Ethics in Academic Publishing” at the SJ Center for Business Ethics on Feb. 10 at 5pm EST. I’ll be discussing the crisis of for-profit academic journal publishing, the emerging diamond open access alternative, and what we can do. You can register to attend online here:

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Ethics in Academic Publishing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Prof. Arash Abizadeh from McGill University will be discussing the ethics and inequities in academic publishing, focusing on exploitation by commercial publishers and barriers to accessing knowledge. ...

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This was such a good read, a welcome distraction in these times.

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Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community this Friday 1/24, 4-5:30 pm ET to discuss @amitr.bsky.social and Michael Illuzzi's "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood" w/ our very own @tunablazer.bsky.social as commenter! Details here: mailchi.mp/160b383e0469... #polisky #poltheory

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REMINDER: Fri. Jan. 24 - Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron on "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood"

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Very exciting! Many congratulations and I look forward to reading!

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My book, "Local Peace, International Builders," is now OUT. It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings. To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace

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Jamie Mayerfeld @jmayerfeld.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The next meeting of the WPSA Pol Theory Virtual Colloquium, Fri. Jan. 25, will feature Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron @amitr.bsky.social presenting their paper "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood," with Yuna Blajer @tunablazer.bsky.social as discussant. Please join us! mailchi.mp/7d46c2cfd817...

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Friday, January 24 - Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron on "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood"

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

In the 1920s, Gandhi developed a distinctive, neglected position in animal ethics - "progressive ahimsaism". To encourage scholarship on this, I've extracted his series of essays "Is this humanity?" from the Collected Works and put it on PhilPapers: philpapers.org/rec/GANITH

A quotation from Gandhi's essay "Is this humanity?"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It's breathtaking both how wrong and how many things are wrong with this guy who believes everything is an alienable commodity.

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A reminder about these PhD opportunities. 6+ fully funded open studentships, plus one ring-fenced for UK minority ethnic candidates, in my school. I'm happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, including animal ethics/politics. Application deadline: 30 January. #philsky #polisky

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Please join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social on Friday, January 10th at 12:00 PM Eastern Time for the next session of the Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series! We will have a talk by the wonderful Diana Kim (Georgetown) on archival research and interpretive methods. tinyurl.com/mt8437z8

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Next Friday, January 10 - Diana Kim does Archival Research

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