I’m a college professor, the son & brother of professors, married to a professor. & a thing I knew back when I applied, that I realize isn’t widely known: you can get an excellent education at any halfway decent school. The differences are primarily about class.

Update: now that NHC has increased the anticipated strength of #Helene to a Cat 4, I have updated this graphic. 9 major hurricane landfalls in the Gulf in just 8 years! We deserve a break!! WFLA NEWS

Nobody Knows Anything, The Beatles edition—@ritholtz illustrates how blind experts can be with the music critics and entertainment industry bigshots who, for the best part of their barely 10 year-existence, kept on disparaging the Beatles buff.ly/4ek25kt

PSJ 52(3) article! Tara Pozzi, Elise Zufall, Kyra Gmoser-Daskalakis, and Francesca Vantaggiato apply the social network analysis to explore nascent policy subsystems in the context of sea-level rise adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area! Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj.12…

"We've got 20% of the world's fresh water." – Tim Walz Was hoping to get a callout by name, but that'll do.

A reminder from Tyranny of the Minority

Our new special issue on policy learning and policy innovations is now out at Policy & Politics !

Georgia - you’ve got until 11:59pm tonight to register online! Make sure you are ready to cast your vote this election. Visit our Online Voter Registration (OLVR) portal here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/olvr-home

Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College 🧵

success = glasses + tie + glasses*tie running this regression now

I swear...

All of a sudden, it seems like everyone loves nuclear power. On Shift Key this week, Robinson Meyer & guest host Jillian Goodman talk atomic politics with Third Way Climate & Energy's Josh Freed. Listen at links below or wherever you get your podcasts. (I'll be back to the show next week).

Statistically, he is correct

Here is a remarkable demonstration of how much a pollster's choices affect the results. Joshua Clinton took a single poll and depending on the weighting scheme, he could change the Harris-Trump margin by as much as *8 points*. goodauthority.org/news/election-…

New election forecasting model!

A frank and productive exchange of views with my counterpart on key issues like expanding the global supply of candy and toys and tightening sanctions against chores.

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.