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Richard Price (they/them)
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Non-binary political scientist studying the censorship of queer stories and LGBTQ educational activism. Bossed around by five cats. Blog intermittently at https://adventuresincensorship.com/

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · Nov 20
It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
Publication: Navigating a Doctrinal Grey Area — Adventures in Censorship
I have finally published my first academic article from my censorship research, a little later than I hoped thanks to the never-ending pandemic. “Navigating a doctrinal grey area” is online with Fi...
adventuresincensorship.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 2d
Even the student admitted she didn’t do the assignment. Fuck I hate this timeline
malwhere.bzky.team Holly Jolly Malwhere @malwhere.bzky.team · 2d
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”

Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”

Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”

University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”

some days I just want to scream and scream
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Richard Price, Stacy D. VanDeveer

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Holly Jolly Malwhere @malwhere.bzky.team · 2d
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”

Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”

Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”

University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”

some days I just want to scream and scream
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
My final thoughts on the censorship class. Short story: I loved it, want to teach it again, and kinda want to work in a culture war 1990s edition week in as well.
adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/12...
Censorship Class: Final Thoughts — Adventures in Censorship
As I wrote four months ago, I’ve been playing around with censorship class ideas since I started this research seven years ago. Some of this I did in small ways, such as expanding the obscenity/scanda...
adventuresincensorship.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
Absolutely right.

AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.

Let me illustrate …
spdbump.bsky.social David M Weigel @spdbump.bsky.social · 4d
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
I only trust people who outsource their thinking and work to idiotic computer systems that make shit up. Why can’t you people just build AI for what we need: cleaning our houses and doing menial chores?
wblau.bsky.social Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 5d
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
When you can’t trust a misogynistic sexual predator, who can you trust?

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 5d
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.

Reposted by Richard Price, David Bartram

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Catbus ☃️🎄❄️ @catbus.phd · 7d
David Brooks being in the Epstein pics reminded me he got divorced from his wife of 28 years for sleeping with his 20 year old research assistant, but I'd forgotten *this* was the book she assisted him with

lol
The Road to Character by David Brooks from Goodreads: The Road to Character by David Brooks (2015) is a non-fiction book that argues for building inner moral depth over external success, contrasting "résumé virtues" (wealth, fame) with "eulogy virtues" (kindness, bravery, honesty). lmao

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 8d
process is important but how do you not just dismiss this. The governments case is fucking nuts and obviously false.

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William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social · 8d
White men have been griping about the unfair advantages given to Black people since literally the day after slavery

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 8d
What the ever loving fuck. I mean I’m just a simple country interpretative scholar who doesn’t care about numbers or “generalizability” but how the fuck would you react if asked to review. Like laugh your ass off?
sabrinanorwood.bsky.social Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 9d
I'd love to see evidence of people just given a job, I mean it happened in the 1950s but that was a long fucking time ago.

And in a world where colleges are closing Physics because it isn't generating enough jobs, how the fuck did you think Classics was going to have a ton of jobs?
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
I guarantee no one actually said this, but if we accept for a moment the premise that they did… if this is the mentorship you were receiving, yeah, of course you didn’t get hired.
All this left little oxygen for anyone else. James spent nearly a decade, first at Yale Law, then at a top classics program, watching his professional pathways narrow until they seemingly disappeared. He saw people he knew—as long as they fit the right demographic profile—bypass open searches and receive tenure-track offers before they even finished their Ph.Ds. “My own advisors would say, very openly, they’re just two completely different hiring schemes,” he told me. “They’re just two completely different categories of person.”

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 9d
New book from IEHS members Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross:

Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (University of British Columbia Press, 2025)

www.ubcpress.ca/challenging-...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 9d
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.

Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'

None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.

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Reposted by Richard Price

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
I guarantee no one actually said this, but if we accept for a moment the premise that they did… if this is the mentorship you were receiving, yeah, of course you didn’t get hired.
All this left little oxygen for anyone else. James spent nearly a decade, first at Yale Law, then at a top classics program, watching his professional pathways narrow until they seemingly disappeared. He saw people he knew—as long as they fit the right demographic profile—bypass open searches and receive tenure-track offers before they even finished their Ph.Ds. “My own advisors would say, very openly, they’re just two completely different hiring schemes,” he told me. “They’re just two completely different categories of person.”

Reposted by Robert Böhm, Brady T. West, Brendan Nyhan , and 43 more

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 9d
On our last class, my censorship students took a look at the modern battles over Young Adult literature. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/12...
Censorship Class: Dangerous YA Literature — Adventures in Censorship
As mentioned in my last post about video games , I considered a few things for the last substantive week. Ultimately, it felt appropriate to end a class inspired by my censorship research with the ma...
adventuresincensorship.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 10d
Always been curious to visit Charleston.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 10d
I would have virtually nothing left to teach. I teach modern law and politics stuff. How do you do that without talking about race, gender, LGBTQ existence? I honestly think I'd give them redacted cases with all the words removed, and just sit in front of class gagged for weeks.
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10d
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Joe R. Feagin, Brendan Nyhan , and 15 more

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10d
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org

Reposted by Colin F. Camerer, Richard Price, Jen Schneider , and 1 more

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 11d
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Reposted by Richard Price, Alistair Munro, David Darmofal

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The Jerk Store called, they're running outta me @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 11d
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
In ConLaw I had not note that the once universally accepted criminal liability of Nixon (hence the pardon) is now protected by Trump v. US. The absurdity of modern politics is astounding.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d
There's an exchange during Watergate where a Nixon official is giving the lie about Rosemary Woods accidentally erasing 18 1/2 minutes from an Oval Office tape.

The reporter asks "But is that believable? Do you think people will believe that?!"

"... Uh, sure."

"HOW?"
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d
What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
As a professor I don't spend my time in lounges but I do interact with other professors. Top items:
"How exhausted are you with right wing censorship?"
"Hey, did you get 82% AI generated answers to work this semester?"
"Wouldn't it be nice if we could do our jobs without all this shit attached?"
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey (festively) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11d
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d
There's an exchange during Watergate where a Nixon official is giving the lie about Rosemary Woods accidentally erasing 18 1/2 minutes from an Oval Office tape.

The reporter asks "But is that believable? Do you think people will believe that?!"

"... Uh, sure."

"HOW?"
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d
What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?

LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.

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geoffrey (festively) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11d
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
Having had to teach it recently I continue to be amazed at this bit of just idiotic judging.
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 11d
Having read through those ratification debates when preparing our amicus brief in the immunity case, the unanimity over the question of presidential accountability was striking.
No one. Not one. Not in newspapers or manuscript discussions, argued for immunity.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
15 Historians File Amicus Brief in Trump v. US Debunking Immunity Claim
Historians show that history doesn’t support presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.
www.brennancenter.org

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 11d
Having read through those ratification debates when preparing our amicus brief in the immunity case, the unanimity over the question of presidential accountability was striking.
No one. Not one. Not in newspapers or manuscript discussions, argued for immunity.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
15 Historians File Amicus Brief in Trump v. US Debunking Immunity Claim
Historians show that history doesn’t support presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.
www.brennancenter.org