March 12th

@mikealbertus.bsky.social in conversation with @meganastewart.bsky.social at @literatibookstore.bsky.social : page1m.co/3D7S0K1

@haimson.bsky.social ‘s book launch in conversation with Kishonna Gray at University of Michigan: page1m.co/3Xq7rnO

🧵 (8/22)

#literati #annarbor

IR is such a US-coded discipline that you have loads of analysts and journalists with IR backgrounds still churning out wordcount about what Trump will do with US hegemony even as the geopolitical reality looks more and more like this:

We find that narcotics and rebel health care are often connected, just as the Taliban built a hospital near its poppy fields.(journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

We're delighted to announce that Justine Davis and Martha Wilfahrt won the APCG Best Article Award for their paper titled “Enumerator Experiences in Violent Research Environment.” Read the full citation here: www.afpol.org/blog/justine...

Thanks, Aaron!

See also @azelin.bsky.social www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...

Personally, working on this paper was great because we got to use all sorts of new data (historical patents, full-count censuses, and archival materials) and I got to learn a lot about something new but also familiar in terms of the knowledge creation process.

We look at WWII and find that women's labor force participation increases inventing, but the primary beneficiaries of a more diverse workplace are men, at least in the short- to medium-term. We believe these findings have implications for inventing and workplace diversity today.