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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

2 years

1/6 I am excited to announce that my paper with @che_shani , Policing, Democratic Participation, and Reproduction of Asymmetric Citizenship, has been accepted at @apsrjournal !

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Students used to enter my classes w simplistic notions about saving the world. My job was to break those ideas down+lead them to more nuanced understandings of social change. Now, students enter class believing nothing matters, and my job is to show them ways change is feasible.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Just got the call! Effective immediately, I am now an Associate Professor of Government with tenure. 🥳🎉🎊

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@samimain @nathanwpyle Do you have ADHD? Because this is a thing with people with ADHD sometimes.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

I hadn't quite realized this shift until I got a survey on teaching development courses by @ryancbriggs .

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@Arfung My entire social movements course. Students respond most to Stonewall, ACT UP, Ni Una Menos (anti-femicide and abortion rights in Lat Am), and Chilean student movement. A big theme is that even a mvt that looks like it failed may be laying groundwork for future.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

I am a tenured Associate Prof in political science at a SLAC (Colby), and I have been part of several TT/VAP job searches. I chaired one. Here are some tips based on what I have seen over the years. 1/n

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

I keep hearing parents of kids under 12 day: “I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that they/we are going to get it.” These are parents who are vaccinated and very careful. There is a deep sense of hopelessness out here in parent-land.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Thread: Shockingly, this is a positive story about Covid on a college campus. As of today, there are only two students at Colby that have tested positive for Covid. Both contracted it before arriving on campus. NO ONE has caught it in the 2 weeks students have been here. (1/n)

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

I guess all of America now understands why political scientists have been on the verge of breaking down for the past several months.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

Am I the only one who thinks that this moment is absolutely nothing like March 2020? I kind of don’t get the comparisons

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@RottenInDenmark The answer is clearly Hillbilly Elegy, though the Gladwell oeuvre is up there

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Some people have asked to see my syllabus for my Social Movements course, which I created to help students think through how social change is possible. The class assignments are largely podcasts and films, not just readings.

GO 227 Syllabus S22.docx

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Probably my favorite paragraph I've ever written.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Hooray! I'm thrilled and humbled to announce that I have won the Clarence Stone Scholar Award from @apsaurban . 🎉🥳🎊

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

How is this possible? 1. Massive amounts of testing. Everyone tested before arrival, on arrival, 3x a week for the first two weeks, then twice a week after that. Tests are easy and we get results in 24 hours, and posted to dashboard. Cost: $10 million for the semester.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

Last night, my aunt died of Covid. She was fully vaccinated but not boostered. Go get your boosters, folks.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

5 years

In 2016, I flipped my undergrad poli sci methods course. This entailed recording approximately 45 video lectures, which range in length between 4-12 minutes. It occurs to me that the videos might be useful to someone, so here they are.

Lindsay Mayka

www.youtube.com

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

My daughter made me a happy tenure card.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Please, if you have good news A new job Tenure A publication An awesome dog Anything Please post it so I have something positive to like on this site.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@Arfung I end on a note of optimism (here and in other courses) so the final impression is empowering, not depressing. I think sequencing matters a lot.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@LizWFab When I was pregnant—a very much wanted pregnancy—I kept thinking “this would be hell on earth if I didn’t want this baby.” Made me even more pro-choice.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@julia_azari It's a weird position to be in, especially at the moment. I have to be a bastion of hope when I don't feel super hopeful... but I'm also not nihilist like many students seem to be.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

***Another key part I forgot to mention! All students live on campus, which ensures greater monitoring and adherence to community standards.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

In class today, I showed the students a picture of my kid. I told them that she gets to go to kindergarten now, and isn't fully remote like the kids of so many of my friends around the country. I thanked them for helping to keep that little girl in school.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

5 years

Hooray, my book is officially OUT TODAY! You can purchase here: Even better, order for your library!

Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change

While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we know much less about why some participatory instituti...

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

6 years

Yay! Look what came in the mail today!

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@Arfung I had alums come as guest speakers and had them do civic engagement projects for them to see what change looks like in a concrete way

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Next time around, I am going to try to add a day for the disability rights movement and assign Crip Camp on Netflix, which I loved--check it out.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

🧵1/6 I'm ✨thrilled✨ to announce that the special section of @LAPSjournal on the grassroots right in Latin America that I edited with @AmyEricaSmith is online! Here's the intro essay on the grassroots right's forms, causes, & impacts. It's open access!

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

1 year

Amazing news! We have just been authorized for THREE tenure-track lines: 1) political economy (IR) 2) conflict and human security 3) public policy and AI We are looking for someone who does work on China for one of these positions. More details coming soon!

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

These observations aee obviously premature and it may collapse in a few weeks. But if you want to bring students back, you need to do this. Schools have brought students back without protecting them bc they fear financial collapse. Higher ed needs a bailout NOW.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

2. Students are complying with the strict rules: mandatory masks, no parties. I won't say it has been perfect, but students I'm close to have told me their peers are actually behaving. I have only seen one student unmasked indoors and she immediately masked when I asked her to.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Another semester, another student evaluation complaining that I mention my experience doing research in my research methods course.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

I just got tenure this year. It’s looking likely that I’m going to become chair of my large + kinda unwieldy department next year during a once-in-a-generation transformation (lots of retirements, hires, & tenure decisions). Basically, I am really gonna need this nameplate.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

I'm looking to inject a little sunshine to counteract the doom in my Latin American Politics course. People who study/work in/know Latin America: what is something that is happening in the region that gives you hope?

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

1 year

And here is my syllabus for Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America, a writing-intensive course. I am teaching this course ungraded for the second year now. It went really, really well last year--hopefully we can replicate that experience.

GO 264 Syllabus F23.docx

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@LindsayMayka

3 years

Eeek! My coauthor and I decided to take a leap and we just submitted our paper to a top journal. The odds are obviously tiny, but we really stand behind this paper. I feel proud of us for daring to submit to a top place, especially after the past year.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Just got a conditional acceptance at a journal I never thought would publish my kind of work!!! Ahhhhh

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Honestly, I was pretty pessimistic. Now, I'm still nervous. We have a long semester to go. I hold classes and office hours outdoors and over Zoom. But I'm not freaking out anymore.

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@LindsayMayka

3 years

Goddamn it. My daughter has COVID. Thank god she is vaccinated because this is ugly. (No problems breathing thankfully)

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@LindsayMayka

3 years

Do students leave intro American politics courses understanding that our country is in a process of democratic backsliding and is likely to cross the line into non-democratic in the next few years?

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@LindsayMayka

1 year

Getting tenure is a pie eating contest with the reward of a lifetime supply of pie. You’d better love that pie

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

At Cornell for a workshop on global challenges to democracy 😍 Don’t worry about the creep of authoritarianism around the world, y’all, 25 political scientists are ON IT.

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@LindsayMayka

2 years

Cover letters: -People may disagree, but I think it's ok to go a line or two onto the third page. The most important thing is to have REALLY clear topic sentences to help me skim. -Don't mess with margins or font size. Eye strain is real. 3/n

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@LindsayMayka

4 years

A student just emailed me a five paragraph email expressing interest in meeting with me to discuss majoring in sociology because she has heard I’m a great soc professor. My transformation into sociologist is complete.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

The real money in academia is in the book royalties

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@LindsayMayka

1 year

I am withdrawing from the #apsa2023 conference, supporting the work of @unitehere11 . The union has asked us to cancel, postpone, relocate the conference out of LA, or move it online—requests that APSA has not respected.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

@_alyssacsmith @BoraJeongUNT 97k, recently tenured political scientist at a SLAC in Maine. Nervous about posting this but I believe in transparency.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

We at @Journal_CompPol are on the lookout for peer-reviewed review essays putting 3-4 newish books in convo with each other. This can be a great option for a jr scholar whose fieldwork plans were disrupted by the pandemic! For more info:

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

@APSAtweets This statement is absolutely unacceptable. To suggest that both sides need to do better places part of the blame on Democrats for efforts by Trump and Republicans to dismantle our democracy. No. Without correctly identifying who made mistakes we can’t rebuild democracy.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

@_alyssacsmith @BoraJeongUNT I think well-paid people are nervous about posting their salaries in this thread so you don't get a proper sense of the spread (and thus the inequality) in academia.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

5 years

My first semester at Berkeley, I felt very dumb during one class discussion of Polanyi. 1.5 years later, I understood: other students weren't smarter, they just had read Polanyi over and over again for every poli sci grad course.

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5 years

Maybe no one needs to hear this but if you're in your first semester of your PhD program and you feel like you understand nothing anyone is talking about, it's okay.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

(1/6) I am absolutely delighted that my article “The Power of Rights Frames in Urban Security: Lessons from Bogotá” has been accepted at @Journal_CompPol ! 🥳🎊🎉

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

@ajbauer What I see is people saying conferences should not be held in those state, because those are places where conference attendees could die because of a lack of care. Though maybe you’re seeing something different?

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@LindsayMayka

2 years

Cover letter, continued: -Tell us in the first paragraph what basic categories you fit. E.g. I study comparative, public policy, social movements, and qual methods, w/ focus on Lat America. 4/n

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1 year

There it is: attending APSA at all is now officially crossing the picket line, regardless of where you are staying.

UNITE HERE Local 11

@unitehere11

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🚨Los Angeles Hotel Strike Leads To Convention Boycott | HuffPost Impact “If tourism doesn’t pay workers a living wage, then this city will continue to collapse.” - ⁦ @kpetersen11 ⁩, Unite Here Local 11 co-president #BoycottLA #BoycottLAHotels

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Three cheers for good news during this difficult time! I'm honored to announce that I received the @LasaSubnatPolit Best Paper Award for my paper, "The Power of Human Rights Frames in Urban Security: Lessons from Bogotá", which I presented at last year's @LASACONGRESS . 🥳

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

Just got a call that they had extra vaccines and it was my turn! You can’t really tell from the photo but I was on the verge of tears the whole time. Feeling incredibly grateful, beyond words. I can’t believe this was possible in just 13 months.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

5 years

I’m super excited to announce that I just received the @lasadefense best paper by a junior section member award for “The Power of Human Rights Frames in Urban Security: Lessons from Bogotá," which I presented at @LASACONGRESS 2019. 1/3

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@LindsayMayka

2 years

@AlexandraSurcel @NeedhiBhalla Roughly speaking, millennials vs Gen Z. For the record, I love this current generation of students and they are far more thoughtful than we (late GenX) were. We just need to think about where they are coming from.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

I got my 2nd dose yesterday. I’m incredibly grateful but feeling melancholy and angry that I, a low-risk 41 year old woman, get this precious vaccine while India & Brazil face catastrophe. Call your elected officials: More $ for covax, drop patent protections for big pharma NOW

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

Hooray! Daughter is negative on day 10!! (Husband and I still negative too)

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

For all of you out there who have been editing journals and doing reviews in the middle of a global pandemic: thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

So… I am one of the beneficiaries of this grant for newly tenured faculty. I can’t even wrap my head around it still but I am incredibly grateful and honored. Excited to dream big.

Colby College

@ColbyCollege

3 years

Colby has become the inaugural college in the Haynesville Project, a first-of-its-kind pilot program made possible by a $2-million gift from Tom P’10 and Cathy Tinsley P’10 that will provide financial support for newly tenured faculty.

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1 year

I am so happy to announce that my article “Varieties of Participatory Institutions and Interest Intermediation,” coauthored with Jared Abbott, is now available at @WorldDevJournal ! Open access with this link until October 7

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Currently teaching methods (like, right now): students are working in breakout rooms to critique the measurement validity of Colby's student eval Qs & rewrite them to better capture the underlying concepts. I'm watching them rip the Qs apart on a shared google doc and I LOVE THIS

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Colby is hiring a tenure-track position in American politics! Focus is on institutions, federalism, public policy, or APD. We're especially interested in applicants who center diversity & inclusion in their pedagogy. We begin reviewing apps 10/20.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

Attention!! My amazing friend and colleague @LevanCarrie won the Bassett award at @ColbyCollege —basically, the best Professor award. After only FOUR YEARS at a liberal arts college full of AMAZING professors. She is a goddess.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Cover letter, continued: -If you have not taught a course as instructor of record, don't make it sound like you have. (And vice versa--use that phrase, instructor of record, if you taught your own course.) 7/n

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2 years

Most important thing to remember: we have a TON of applications to read. We skim at initial stage, and your materials will be read by people outside your subfield (e.g. theorist reading Americanist apps). Have non-academic friends/family read your materials for clarity. 2/n

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@LindsayMayka

1 year

The article I started SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, Varieties of Participatory Institutions and Interest Intermediation, was accepted at @WorldDevJournal ! Thank god for my coauthor, Jared Abbott, who brought a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of PIs & dragged me across the finish line

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Cover letter, continued: -At least for SLACs in the top 40 or so, I expect people to lead their cover letter with research. It's not a problem to start with teaching, though. 5/n

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

Tenure celebrations.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

It's amazing what you can do with childcare: I JUST SUBMITTED A BIG GRANT APPLICATION. And will turn in tenure statement tonight. 🥳🎊💃

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@LindsayMayka

4 years

Counterpoint: when I signed up to be a professor, I really did not think I was agreeing to lethal risks comparable to those faced by soldiers going into combat.

The Honest Broker

@RogerPielkeJr

4 years

Hm... Why colleges should open: "We are... willing to take on ourselves or impose on others risks — even lethal risks — for the good of society. We send off young men & women to war to defend the security of our nation knowing that many will not return"

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This 5000 attendees number is total BS. I withdrew and stayed at home, but according to APSA, I am still registered--just not on the program. Plenty of people withdrew and sent multiple follow-up emails to APSA and somehow are still on the program.

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Second was the claim that because ~5000 APSA members are in attendance, this illustrates that APSA members support the org's decision to ignore the picket line. This reasoning, too, didn't sit right with me, and now I know why 3/n

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Teaching statements: -Years ago, The Professor Is In said to keep these to one page single-spaced. This is wrong. They should be 2 pages. -This is maybe just me but I love to see a list of courses you will teach & short descriptions as an appendix. At least list the courses 14/n

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1 year

I know that most people have been back in the classroom for a couple weeks now, but for posterity's sake: here is my Social Movements syllabus for fall 2023

GO 227 Syllabus F23.docx

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@LindsayMayka

4 years

I have sent a short methods out for review, I have completed two peer reviews, and submitted my tenure packet since this pandemic began. I feel like a SUPER HERO.

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2 years

Cover letter, continued: -Committees often say "Do they really GET what we are doing here?" You want your letter to show you understand the mission of working w/ students while also advancing great research. -Don't mention working with PhD students, graduate courses, etc. 8/n

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@LindsayMayka

3 years

6 year old is VACCINATED!

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3 years

My experience being on a contemporary political theory search this year taught me that contemporary political theory is ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING and honestly, we should all read more theory.

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@LindsayMayka

4 years

I still kinda can't believe it's working, but it's working. Roughly 50,000 tests in and we are at 0 active cases.

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@LindsayMayka

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@SchmittTheory I don’t know this framing but it sounds very useful! I’ll look it up. Yes, our target should be something in between a feel-good hero movie and a bleak tragedy.

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@LindsayMayka

4 years

I know I have a different class background than most academics, but somehow I still find it surprising that so many profs never worked for minimum wage. It just seems normal. Also, what did they/y’all DO during summers in high school if not work?

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I don't trust colleges that say they'll be live in the fall. No matter what, I'm going to restructure my courses to be flipped classes with pre-recorded videos. Worst case scenario: I have adopted an effective teaching pedagogy. But I think I'm gonna need those video lectures.

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Cover letter, continued: -You should have a diversity statement (see below), but also talk about your contributions to equity and inclusion in the cover letter. Your DEI efforts should touch on everything you do, after all. 9/n

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@LindsayMayka

2 years

My new article with @che_shani in @apsrjournal is now available, OPEN ACCESS! We show that increasing citizen participation in policing can deepen citizenship for participants--but does so by mobilizing demands for repression against marginalized groups.

Policing, Democratic Participation, and the Reproduction of Asymmetric Citizenship | American...

Policing, Democratic Participation, and the Reproduction of Asymmetric Citizenship - Volume 117 Issue 1

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@LindsayMayka

2 years

1/6 I am excited to announce that my paper with @che_shani , Policing, Democratic Participation, and Reproduction of Asymmetric Citizenship, has been accepted at @apsrjournal !

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Sorting through comments on student evals for my tenure statement. Some annoying bits that I had blocked from memory, some touching comments, and then there's this gem from my favorite (anonymous) student of all time.

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Faculty, on your first day of class, use this proven icebreaker: ask everyone to share one boring fact about themselves. It works in poli sci classes! It works in bio classes! 💯

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@LindsayMayka I used your "boring fact" icebreaker, and I don't understand it BUT IT WORKS.

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4 years

Hey, that's me! (In an action shot from 2014)

Colby College

@ColbyCollege

4 years

Government Professor Lindsay Mayka, an expert on Latin American politics, has been named a 2020 Clarence Stone Scholar by the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

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Cover letter, continued: -Definitely mention any personal ties to the area/region, especially if it's a school in a rural area. Put this either in the first paragraph or last one. -This one is problematic, but if you attended a SLAC mention it. 11/n

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Cover letter, continued: -Tell us the courses you want to teach. If we're hiring, a colleague is probably leaving. We have concrete service courses (eg intro IR, methods) but after that there's s a ton of flexibility. You aren't restricted to what's already in the catalogue. 6/n

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1/4 The Government department at @ColbyCollege is hiring for THREE positions! You can find info on how to apply on ejobs, and I'm posting the ads below. If you have any questions, DM me or email: Lindsay.Mayka @colby .edu

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

My husband and I started watching Borgen last night finally, which gave me the thrilling opportunity to violate our informal “no poli sci talk at home” norm to explain party-list PR systems to him. 🤓

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

It’s annual Thank Your @APSAtweets Division Chair day! This job is SO SO much work with zero glory, but is essential to make conferences happen. ❤️

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

4 years

This spring, I had my students do iterative exams. First they took open-note take home exams individually. Once those were turned in, students had option to work w 1-2 other students to revise and submit a group exam. Students LOVED it, fostered learning, less grading for me. 💯

𝚃𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚊 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑-𝙱𝚘𝚣𝚊

@tanyaboza

4 years

As some of you may be thinking about pedagogy I'd like to put it out there that I have never given an exam in any class I have taught.

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

2 years

Cover letter, continued: -When discussing research, it's really important to show us why it matters: how you are filling a gap in knowledge/unsettling conventional wisdom. Again, you will have people from other subfields who have no idea if what you're doing is innovative. 10/n

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Lindsay Mayka 🦞

@LindsayMayka

3 years

Story on the amazing grant that I just received, alongside five other recently tenured colleagues here at @ColbyCollege . Featuring quotes by me! And Arnout van der Meer and Alicia Ellis!

First they got tenure, then they got $100K

www.insidehighered.com

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