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Milena Ang
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Prof Ciencia Política at UPF (Barcelona).
ah being a woman academic is so amazing
“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”

www.nber.org/papers/w28494
Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 29, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Yes, he could've commuted all death row sentences but I'll take this as great news.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/u...
Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions
Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:01 PM
ah the litmus test of asking a social scientist what is political economy
December 17, 2024 at 12:48 PM
plot twist biden pardons him
December 9, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I was going to say that I wish they were transparent about the fact they hate women until I realized they actually are transparent about the fact that they hate women.
The "lung float" test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable.

“There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test," said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.”

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(Pub. Oct. 2023)
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get…
propub.li
December 9, 2024 at 5:36 PM
I'm just a girl, standing in front of a colleague, asking them to co-author
December 7, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Este Mercurio retrógrado ya me agarró de su pendeja.
December 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Never a bad day to repeat that gender affirming care saves lives.
To set the stage for what's about to happen at SCOTUS at 10:00am, the case is called US v. Skrmetti. It involves a Tennessee law that bans gender affirming care to trans minors, mainly things like hormone blockers.
December 4, 2024 at 5:20 PM
or, as we say in Mexico: el miedo no anda en burro
December 4, 2024 at 4:54 PM
goeis ya no puede uno ir a clase de yoga porque decretan y desdecretan ley marcial
December 3, 2024 at 9:39 PM
the kind of content i'm here for
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Quick reminder that crossing picket lines is bad form and brings unwanted juju.
Also Bezos' work practices and price-hiking tactics suck.
November 29, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Biscuit celebrates thanksgiving by craving turkey and staying in her pjs all day.
November 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Lo que me sorprendió (bueno, no) del comunicado sobre el COLMEX es que los firmantes muy preocupados de la libertad académica como si la decisión de cortar lazos no fuera producto de... la libertad acádemica.
PS: Los que quieran hacer investigación o coautorear con la UHJ lo harán, no se apuren.
November 28, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Amigues correlación no es causalidad pero en este caso parece que sí.
Juez cancela orden de aprehensión en contra de Yunes Márquez, luego de que se aliara con Morena y le diera el voto decisivo a favor de la reforma judicial

animalpolitico.com/politica/yun...
Juez cancela orden de aprehensión en contra de Yunes Márquez, luego de votar en favor reforma judicial
animalpolitico.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I tell someone what I need to to do to submit a paper before a date. 48 hours before deadline, they pester me until I send it. If I say "I just need to add X", they can veto the addition of X.
My Ulysses and the sirens solution to crippling perfectionism.
November 26, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Mega 🤡
El comisario jubilado Germán Rodríguez Castiñeira, quien fuera jefe de la Brigada de Información de Madrid, ha confirmado ante el juez que otro mando de la policía, al que se le vincula con la llamada 'policía patriótica', le pidió los antecedentes policiales de 69 diputados de Podemos
Un comisario confirma ante el juez que otro mando policial le pidió los antecedentes de los 69 diputados de Podemos
El exjefe de Información de Madrid, Germán Rodríguez Castiñeira, ha declarado como imputado en la Audiencia Nacional por su posible vinculación en la guerra sucia del Partido Popular contra sus advers...
elpais.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
On Sundays we become design critics
November 24, 2024 at 3:05 PM
It's Saturday, which means a puppy picture is in order.
November 23, 2024 at 5:12 PM
How long should one wait before pressing the STOP button on Rstudio while webscrapping?

My Friday is going great.
November 22, 2024 at 10:37 AM
I fucking love Chicago.
It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.
November 22, 2024 at 9:24 AM
@celebel.bsky.social como esta red social es más buenaondita me animo a decir que qué bien encontrarte aquí oye.
November 22, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Me acabo de levantar un momento a beber agua y cuando regresé le dije a Biscuit que era una hermosa, y Siri me respondió "I respect your privacy. I only listen when you're talking to me."

Is this gaslighting.
November 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM
AA meetings but make it Academics Anonymous.
November 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Feliz porque ya mandé hacer mis nuevas plantillas para que las rodillas no me truenen al bailar como tía en boda.

PS Plis invítenme a una boda.
November 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM