“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”

We are grateful to the @bjsociology.bsky.social for the quick turn around and to the two reviewers they managed to secure. Their comments really helped us advance Michael Mann's approach to state-centric sociology as still being pertinent in a world where transnational forces are important 5/5

A timely finding in an era where institutions are attacked is states with Low Despotic/High Infrastructural power (nations we think of liberal or social democratic advanced industrial) have performed well thanks to their higher levels of wealth and the prior existence of health infrastructure 4/5

In our case we used Michael Mann's typologies of states in order to show that the type of rule states built using a mixture of despotic (power over someone) and infrastructural power (power through someone) predicted vaccination success independently of other pertinent variables 3/5.

Concepts of state power are hard to use in large sample quantitative research b/c states tackled various goals (e.g. development) at different historical conjunctures. COVID and the number of nations affected has allowed for using a theoretically informed measure of state power to gauge success 2/5.

As a die hard Bruce fan this is the only way you could get me tangentially interested in a biopic. Clever on their part to focus on the darkness and intimacy of the record. Anything else from his life would seem too campy as no actor could replicate Bruce's onstage energy or zeal on born to run

Also the answer to what do you call a Batman who doesn't go to church?

I see...Myself, I feel Margo Martindale wins hands down for her cameos in Bojack Horseman and for the bitter sweet Alexander Payne short in Paris Je T'aime where she plays an American Tourist narrating her solo trip in Paris for a French class, one of the most poignant 5-minutes of film ever