Colin Brown

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Poli Sci Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern: migration, representation, parties, Europe (esp. NL), pedagogy & SoTL. Co-editor: Political Science Educator. Chaotic Neutral. Oregonian, originally.

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Summer #MustRead for everyone teaching in #HigherEd! #AcademicSky @cjdenial.bsky.social @derekkrissoff.bsky.social @sarosecav.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social @vijisathy.bsky.social @michellemillerphd.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.oupress.com/978080619385...

A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Presswww.oupress.com Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...

I know this isn't the place for happy news but I'm starting another five-week travel course on Dutch politics, migration and diversity with my Northeastern students today, and I still can't fully believe that I get a whole month+ of my literal dream job as part of my normal job every year.

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Excited to share our new paper “Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians”, accepted at APSR! Co-authored with @nazita.bsky.social. Available at: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

❌ (picnic, lightning) ✅ So, what happened to my mom is she was at a picnic,

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

I was ok with constitutional monarchy but we can't get into the kid's museum this morning because the Emperor of Japan is there, no choice but to go full republican.

But how did people ever get free drinking water before smartphones?

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My book, Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation, will be released in two weeks. You can read a bit of it here, and pre-order it too! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Speaking for Others — Harvard University Presswww.hup.harvard.edu A political philosopher dissects the duties and dilemmas of the unelected spokesperson, from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Greta Thunberg.Political representation is typically assumed to be the purview ...

Absolute, genuine love for this film that is as bad as you've heard but yet also legitimately great. youtu.be/sm0Wx4ZX8aw?...

Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn’t a huge hit let’s get to know each other a bit more 👀 📽️ [Stardust]

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Did not watch Scotland versus Switzerland today, having inherited the trauma of that internecine theological conflict over several generations.

While I truly love döner, possibly the greatest modern food, I do not love how it is increasingly the most accurate climate model for our planet.

Breaking: To counter the expected heat wave later this week, scientists recommend moving the earth slightly further away from the sun.

3 year old: "Who played Princess Elsa?" Me: "Idina Menzel, she was in Enchanted, too." 3yo: "Where does she live?" Me: "New York, I think." 3yo: "Oh. What is on her placemat?" Me: ??? 3yo: "On the back of her car" Me: "Are you asking what state her license plate is? 3yo: "YEAH!"

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Also, if you take a short range KLM CityHopper flight there is a small chance your pilot will be the King of the Netherlands. But that seems less practical than my original fact.

Learning looks like a network graph, not a line. Learning related but different things is generally easier than learning random facts *but also* easier than learning things in a clear sequential process.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

McRib is back.

"Property is theft"

Make a band less mild Yup They're Definitely Giants

Make a band less mild No Air Supply

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At UNESCO headquarters they have a game where you are supposed to take the flags off the flagpoles and place them on the blank globe where they belong but I guess I wasn’t putting them in the right place because when I tried to play they yelled at me

Sky getting ominous over Longwood @universalhub.com

"Considering Edtech in Political Science Teaching: Data Literacy, Privacy Rights, and the Role of Government in Regulation" by Janet L. Donavan educate.apsanet.org/considering-...

New issue of the Political Science Educator out today! Links are available via APSA Educate and we'll highlight a few articles on here today. educate.apsanet.org/political-sc... @apsa.bsky.social #TeachLearnSky #SoTLsky #polisky

Political Science Educator: Volume 28, Issue 1 - APSAeducate.apsanet.org A Newsletter from APSA’s Political Science Education Organized Section Volume 28, Issue 1 – Summer 2024 Editors: Matt Evans (Northwest Arkansas Community College) & Colin M. Brown (Northeastern Univer...

Considering Edtech in Political Science Teaching: Data Literacy, Privacy Rights, and the Role of Government in Regulation - APSAeducate.apsanet.org As a political scientist who regularly teaches Introduction to American Politics and Media and Politics, helping students develop information literacy is a key learning goal in my teaching.

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"It’s a Trap! Teaching Bureaucratic Politics with a Star Wars Simulation" by Jennifer Spindel @spindel.bsky.social educate.apsanet.org/its-a-trap-t... #SoTLsky

It's a Trap! Teaching Bureaucratic Politics with a Star Wars Simulation - APSAeducate.apsanet.org Announcing that you are going to spend a semester studying bureaucracy is a great way to kill the beginning-of-semester enthusiasm for a new course. Bureaucracy?! So boring!

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"A Critical Review of the APSA Presidential Task Force on Rethinking Political Science Education" by By Matthew Stein, Alexandra Macias, and Jennifer De Maio: educate.apsanet.org/a-critical-r... #TeachLearnSky #polisky

A Critical Review of the APSA Presidential Task Force on Rethinking Political Science Education - APSAeducate.apsanet.org On the same day we presented our research at the 2023 American Political Science Association meeting, we attended a roundtable discussion of findings from the 2020-2022 APSA Presidential Task Force on...

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I am teaching campaigns & elections for the first time since 2016. What are some great readings I can assign to undergrads? Shameless self-promotion is strongly encouraged. #polisky

I have some thoughts on this forthcoming (hopefully); it is also viewed as non-partisan which will last right up to the second someone actually tries to implement it.

Mandatory national service is a bad idea (that in addition to being bad on the merits would be hideously unpopular) and I can't believe any left of center person is contemplating supporting any version of it in the United States

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Thanks @colinmbrown.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about the star wars bureaucracy game I developed! If you're a nerd and have to talk about bureaucracy, read on!

"It’s a Trap! Teaching Bureaucratic Politics with a Star Wars Simulation" by Jennifer Spindel @spindel.bsky.social educate.apsanet.org/its-a-trap-t... #SoTLsky

"Using Non-Content-Related Quiz Questions to Build Rapport" by Rebecca A. Glazier @rebeccaglazier.bsky.social educate.apsanet.org/using-non-co... #SoTLsky

Using Non-Content-Related Quiz Questions to Build Rapport - APSAeducate.apsanet.org Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 Reflections By Rebecca A. Glazier ([email protected]) Preparing a new class can be a great way to think about pedagogy with a clean slate. But it can al...

"It’s a Trap! Teaching Bureaucratic Politics with a Star Wars Simulation" by Jennifer Spindel @spindel.bsky.social educate.apsanet.org/its-a-trap-t... #SoTLsky

Make a movie milder: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Grammy Award-winning Singer Sade

Make a Move Milder: Low-Cost Food for the Moderately Wealthy