Efrén Pérez
efrenpolipsy.bsky.social
Efrén Pérez
@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social

UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. I play accordion 🪗 Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽

Political science 47%
Sociology 24%

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I don't know how AI should fit into higher education - none of us quite do exactly. But this is definitely worth reading and considering as we are trying to figure it out.

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Bugs me that an econ prof is willing to simply assume that professors' political views affect how they teach a subject, and that how they teach affects students' political views. Especially when studies that adjust for selection into unis & courses suggest profs' political ID has no causal effect.

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Hard to deny at this point that the President of the United States has racist attitudes.

When Hispanic Heritage ‘26 starts today, but you’ve been celebrating being Mexican since you were born🇲🇽💯😎

When my sons wheel me out during my 100th birthday to hear the norteño band they hired for me🇲🇽🪗
Great new piece by (the currently-on-the-job-market!) Daniel Blinderman.

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Social sciences colleagues working on more critical topics (e.g., inequality, racism, collective action), how are we thinking about advising our PhD students around the NSF GRFP this cycle? Is it work the effort, any sense whether they will receive fair consideration? A lost cause at the moment?