Mark Benton
@mbenton.bsky.social
PhD Mizzou Public Affairs, MPA Saint Louis University. Assistant Research Professor at MU Center for Health Policy, Dept. Public Health, College of Health Sciences. Evaluation. Mixed Methods. Public Admin.
I just want to reiterate, none of you agree in reviews what the tables should look like, what should be in there, or where in the paper they go. Some people are very mean reviewers in a way that is unproductive
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I just want to reiterate, none of you agree in reviews what the tables should look like, what should be in there, or where in the paper they go. Some people are very mean reviewers in a way that is unproductive
As an interdisciplinary scholar submitting to journals in different disciplines I want you all to know that none of you agree on what goes where in the paper. The descriptive statistics either go in the findings or the methods. The thesis is either the last sentence of the first paragraph or
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
As an interdisciplinary scholar submitting to journals in different disciplines I want you all to know that none of you agree on what goes where in the paper. The descriptive statistics either go in the findings or the methods. The thesis is either the last sentence of the first paragraph or
A dance song where the dance is way too complicated and superhuman for anyone to do. The opposite of hot to go.
“You gotta spin! Seven! Times! Without touching the ground.”
“You gotta spin! Seven! Times! Without touching the ground.”
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A dance song where the dance is way too complicated and superhuman for anyone to do. The opposite of hot to go.
“You gotta spin! Seven! Times! Without touching the ground.”
“You gotta spin! Seven! Times! Without touching the ground.”
The cool parts of getting a paper rejected is getting good feedback for resubmission and not having to write as much for resubmission.
The bad part is having to change all those little things for resubmission.
The bad part is having to change all those little things for resubmission.
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The cool parts of getting a paper rejected is getting good feedback for resubmission and not having to write as much for resubmission.
The bad part is having to change all those little things for resubmission.
The bad part is having to change all those little things for resubmission.
Excited to read the evaluation of the changes to parking the university planned for a year and made a really big deal out of, then implemented this year.
I can only assume such a report is forthcoming.
I can only assume such a report is forthcoming.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Excited to read the evaluation of the changes to parking the university planned for a year and made a really big deal out of, then implemented this year.
I can only assume such a report is forthcoming.
I can only assume such a report is forthcoming.
Begging people to stop trying to learn information/teach colleagues by pretending to not know something. Because in six months it’s going to be awkward when I still assume you don’t know and that I know more about the topic, and you’re put in the awkward position of admitting a lie.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Begging people to stop trying to learn information/teach colleagues by pretending to not know something. Because in six months it’s going to be awkward when I still assume you don’t know and that I know more about the topic, and you’re put in the awkward position of admitting a lie.
Really hoping the people who still to this day deprioritize qualitative research, look at the methods of articles published in top journals in the past 8 years. It’s frustrating for me and…I’ll say makes other people look very confused. Meanwhile the other universities get the publication.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Really hoping the people who still to this day deprioritize qualitative research, look at the methods of articles published in top journals in the past 8 years. It’s frustrating for me and…I’ll say makes other people look very confused. Meanwhile the other universities get the publication.
Went for my semi annual return two Twitter.
Do not return to Twitter it’s gotten way worse.
Do not return to Twitter it’s gotten way worse.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Went for my semi annual return two Twitter.
Do not return to Twitter it’s gotten way worse.
Do not return to Twitter it’s gotten way worse.
Currently transforming my CV into a tesserect to better communicate with the P&T committee.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Currently transforming my CV into a tesserect to better communicate with the P&T committee.
Looking like chagpt is gonna be the real PI on this one folks.
October 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Looking like chagpt is gonna be the real PI on this one folks.
Reposted by Mark Benton
People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.
Whatever you think of what’s going on in this country, at this point it’s been about a decade. It’s not going away through policies of appeasement while sticking your head in the sand.
But I guess if you’re okay with what this country values today, you’ve been getting incremental wins.
But I guess if you’re okay with what this country values today, you’ve been getting incremental wins.
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Whatever you think of what’s going on in this country, at this point it’s been about a decade. It’s not going away through policies of appeasement while sticking your head in the sand.
But I guess if you’re okay with what this country values today, you’ve been getting incremental wins.
But I guess if you’re okay with what this country values today, you’ve been getting incremental wins.
I think the most consequential thing academia has lost is, the ability to offer a charitable and good faith interpretation of an opposing position and then explain why even that interpretation cannot be correct. We need to engage are opponents in good faith, and still win the argument. It’s both.
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I think the most consequential thing academia has lost is, the ability to offer a charitable and good faith interpretation of an opposing position and then explain why even that interpretation cannot be correct. We need to engage are opponents in good faith, and still win the argument. It’s both.
My impression from her writings is that Judith Shklar didn’t think that highly of 1984. She respected its influence, but didn’t think that’s how it would happen.
I don’t know if anyone could have foreseen peoples enthusiastic selection into the 2 minutes hate.
I don’t know if anyone could have foreseen peoples enthusiastic selection into the 2 minutes hate.
September 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My impression from her writings is that Judith Shklar didn’t think that highly of 1984. She respected its influence, but didn’t think that’s how it would happen.
I don’t know if anyone could have foreseen peoples enthusiastic selection into the 2 minutes hate.
I don’t know if anyone could have foreseen peoples enthusiastic selection into the 2 minutes hate.
This might be controversial but I don’t think they should have added that category to the Nobels.
September 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This might be controversial but I don’t think they should have added that category to the Nobels.
Reject Kierkegaard, embrace Keynes, Camus, and Shklar.
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reject Kierkegaard, embrace Keynes, Camus, and Shklar.
Post cats and kittens, not takes.
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Post cats and kittens, not takes.
Ah yes, the mantra of politics is just like grandpa used to say: I don’t care who started it, only that person should be allowed to finish it and I’m going to be just as bad until they do while applying impossible standards for “finished.”
September 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ah yes, the mantra of politics is just like grandpa used to say: I don’t care who started it, only that person should be allowed to finish it and I’m going to be just as bad until they do while applying impossible standards for “finished.”
I was gonna call a landscaper but in this economy I’ll just mulch it myself.
August 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I was gonna call a landscaper but in this economy I’ll just mulch it myself.
“It has been said that death and taxes are the only two constants in life, and this text has made it clear both are deeply impacted by public policy” Still got it 😏
August 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“It has been said that death and taxes are the only two constants in life, and this text has made it clear both are deeply impacted by public policy” Still got it 😏
You gotta admit it’s pretty crazy that all the leaders are just like “Yeah! Gerrymander it!”
August 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You gotta admit it’s pretty crazy that all the leaders are just like “Yeah! Gerrymander it!”
Reposted by Mark Benton
Authoritarian regimes frequently struggle to govern effectively because accurate information doesn't reach the leadership. Trump is basically designing a system to create this problem.
We don’t *know* that this administration is getting rid of any intelligence officer who provides information contrary to Trump’s decreed view; but we don’t not know that either.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Authoritarian regimes frequently struggle to govern effectively because accurate information doesn't reach the leadership. Trump is basically designing a system to create this problem.
From February: www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump says Americans could feel 'pain' in trade war with Mexico, Canada, China
Trump said he would talk with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, which have announced retaliatory tariffs of their own, but downplayed expectations that they would change his mind.
www.reuters.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
From February: www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Realizing I scheduled to leave on a vacation Sunday instead of Saturday and I’m so grateful to myself for giving myself a day to sleep before driving to the airport at 5am.
July 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Realizing I scheduled to leave on a vacation Sunday instead of Saturday and I’m so grateful to myself for giving myself a day to sleep before driving to the airport at 5am.