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Musa al-Gharbi
@Musa_alGharbi
Sociologist . Columnist . Author, "We Have Never Been Woke" forthcoming with
musaalgharbi.comJoined February 2013
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🚨New Working Paper 🚨
How do we evaluate others who are receptive to opposing political views?
New working paper with Christian Wheeler
psyarxiv.com/qr26x
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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych next year? Consider applying for the Microsabbatical Program. More info about eligibility and application here:
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"There is an inverse relationship between utility and acceptability: what makes the era’s lessons so vital is also what makes them impermissible.” economist.com/culture/2023/0
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"But the inciting incident highlights a more fundamental threat to academic freedom: the ease with which universities can fire untenured faculty — the majority of instructors at American universities today — on almost any pretense."
bostonglobe.com/2023/01/28/opi
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I have my disagreements with it, but Ovamir Anjum's 17,000 word tour-de-force of an essay is easily one of the most important and imaginative works of political theory of the past 5 years if not longer.
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In the attention economy, George Santos embodies "The show must go on!"
Read all about it, by yours truly, in
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New member opportunity!
Apply by Feb 10 to join the new HxA Writers Group. Over the course of six months, a cohort of selected HxA members will receive training and support in developing and placing work in media outlets.
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"the average audience member of The New York Post sits very close to the party and ideology of the average U.S. adult."
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New member opportunity!
Apply by Feb 10 to join the new HxA Writers Group. Over the course of six months, a cohort of selected HxA members will receive training and support in developing and placing work in media outlets.
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And if you're not just interested in writing occasionally for the public, but in pursuing a career in journalism or communications, you should 100% apply to , where I'll be a professor starting this fall:
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If you're a current or aspiring Bachelor or Master's student who'd like to work with me, consider applying to @SBUjournalism: stonybrook.edu/commcms/journa
If you’re looking at PhD programs, apply to @SBU_Sociology: stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociol
I’ll look forward to working with you!
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Are you an academic interested in engaging more outside your discipline and with non-academics?
is launching a new initiative to identify, cultivate and amplify scholars who are interested in doing publicly-engaged work. Details here:
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link.springer.com/article/10.100
This article finds that "20.7% of the studied articles in behavioral economics propose paternalist policy action and that 95.5% of these do not contain any analysis of the cognitive ability of policymakers."
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Janan Ganesh arguing there's selection pressure towards ideologies less keen on profit (=left) in culturally influential institutions like universities, comedy, art.
Those that want profit (=right) prefer jobs where there's more of it, such as business.
ft.com/content/6f84dd
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ChatGPT very frequently spits out fake facts, imaginary papers, and inaccurate analysis.
I think this has to do with the fact that unlike lines of computer code, written text simply has many different purposes.
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New member opportunity!
Apply by Feb 10 to join the new HxA Writers Group. Over the course of six months, a cohort of selected HxA members will receive training and support in developing and placing work in media outlets.
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If you're an academic (student, faculty or staff) and want to learn how to write for popular media, apply to join 's new Writers Group.
It's a six month program with and others here to help develop your media writing skills.
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“What these kinds of symbolic gestures do is allow people to feel like they’re ‘doing something’ in a world where they are unwilling or unable to make more substantive changes,” said.
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And if you're not just interested in writing occasionally for the public, but in pursuing a career in journalism or communications, you should 100% apply to , where I'll be a professor starting this fall:
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If you're a current or aspiring Bachelor or Master's student who'd like to work with me, consider applying to @SBUjournalism: stonybrook.edu/commcms/journa
If you’re looking at PhD programs, apply to @SBU_Sociology: stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociol
I’ll look forward to working with you!
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Are you an academic interested in engaging more outside your discipline and with non-academics?
is launching a new initiative to identify, cultivate and amplify scholars who are interested in doing publicly-engaged work. Details here:
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Just taught my class the classic text on microaggressions (Sue, et al. 2007) along w/ 's critique of the microaggression program, all focalized thru this clip from Insecure.
Expected to get in trouble but went well!
Hope for the future...
youtu.be/3p-HlY6eAgY
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Welcome! to Join as Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism
news.stonybrook.edu/university/al-
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Yes! 13 is way too young for kids to be on social media. Early puberty seems to be the most vulnerable period; rapid changes in identity and in frontal cortex. Let kids get through that. Raise the age to 16, and enforce it.
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Excellent. By the way, WaPo fired this guy. Stupid move.
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Poignant article from we focus too much on data, such as statistical disparities, we can lose sight of the moral and political goals we are actually trying to achieve."
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If you haven’t read the preprint yet, do yourself a favor and read this piece now that it’s out at ! Such a great piece by 👇🏼Always triggers great discussions in my classes 😮
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"Diversifying the professoriate at 3.5 times the current rate would require dramatic changes in hiring, promotion, and retention." -
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“How do I grow my newsletter audience?”
Writing a blog or newsletter is the best way to scale your ideas.
But a following doesn’t just happen - you have to build it.
When I was running comms at Substack, this is the advice I gave writers for promoting their work:
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I organized a panel discussion on Jan 17 on the implication of the debacle for teaching. Hamline Rel. Dept Chair Mark Berkson, the wrongly dismissed prof Erika Lopez Prater, Ahoo Najafian (Macalester) & (UMN) were fab!
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"Even controlling for baseline levels of representation in the professoriate, white, Asian, & male professors are overrepresented in tenured roles; Black, Hispanic, indigenous, & female professors are overrepresented in nontenure roles." -
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"What are we really aiming for when we highlight disparities? What would an ideal endgame be? These questions are fundamental, yet they are rarely made clear in discussions about (over- and under-) representation within the professoriate." -
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A chart worth printing off, taping to a wall, and meditating on for a good while.
musaalgharbi.com/2023/01/24/col
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Do university bans on terms like ‘fieldwork’ go too far? speaks to
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Follow-up essay explores what it'd take to plausibly close systematic disparities in a relatively expedient way. The likely undesirability/ untenability of the most efficient solutions can illuminate what academics/ institutions really want + care about:
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Interviewed by on the Stanford #fieldwork controversy, alongside , and who all provided interesting insights and thoughts too:
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In a world with too much research to read, review articles now play a critical (and complicated) role.
They help legitimate & consolidate fields of knowledge, but they also steal citations. The review becomes a shorthand for a subfield, so people cite it rather than other papers
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I need to be very clear, when I say this is unacceptable, I mean it is beyond the scope of journalistic ethics, into an all-new universe of shit.
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BREAKING: Buzzfeed announces it will increase the use of ChatGPT to create content after cutting 12% of its workforce last month.
Its stock has jumped up a staggering 146%.
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"What are we really aiming for when we highlight disparities? What would an ideal endgame look like? These questions are fundamental, yet rarely made clear in discussions about (over- & under-) representation w/in the professoriate."
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"{T}hree core challenges seem to drive persistent disparities in the professoriate: pipeline problems, bias and discrimination, and differential rates of change in the professoriate vs. the general society."
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