Amanda Sahar d’Urso

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I’ve only cried [distress] three times due to academia. Twice as a graduate student, because of other people. But for the first time, last night, I cried as an assistant professor, because of myself. 😎

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime.

If I was a part of this frat, I’d no longer be a part of it. This is not fraternity.

Meet Crystal Robertson, 2026 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient Meet Crystal Robertson, University of California, Irvine Project Title: Saviors or… https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-crystal-robertson-2026-advancing-research-grants-for-early-career-scholars-recipient/

Did you hear that the Census Bureau is proposing to remove asking demographic questions, such as race, on the 2030 census? www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Cursory glance at public comments look like support for this change. Consider commenting your own thoughts.

25 years ago today America was attacked by zero Afghans, zero Iranians and zero Iraqis.

9/11 was an unspeakable tragedy. Many lives were lost on that day. Later, many first responders and survivors lost their lives from cancer, destitute. And many, many more innocent Afghans and Iraqis lost their lives in the aftermath. We should not selectively remember all the innocent lives lost.

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critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc

I want to cry 😭

New paper published in @journalrep.bsky.social by myself and @mhayes.bsky.social! In this paper we investigate whether MCs are responsive to their African American constituents by leveraging redistricting-induced changes in MCs' constituencies. 1/x

I feel I have been working and working with little to show for it. Writing a book is SO HARD. 😭 #seekingvalidation #verycringe-ily

New Article from @chloethurston.bsky.social, @asdurso.bsky.social , Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek, & Megha Patnaik Understanding employee trade-offs in remote work: toward more sustainable workplace design doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

You’d have to have saved approximately $1,000 a minute since the moment Jesus was born to be worth $1 trillion.

you know you're a scholar of racial formation when you mistype the omni hotel as the omi hotel 😅 (would winant be wyndhams?)

My uncle (an MD) sat through an entire evening of me explaining the phd process and academia. He was appalled and just kept saying, “why would anyone do this to themselves?” I did feel a little validated 😹

I’m proud of @solisrodolfo.bsky.social for sticking to his guns about doing qualitative work. He convinced me, my lab supported his training, and now he’s producing cool conceptual/theoretical work others will find valuable 😎 He’ll be on the job market in the fall.

dang doing archival work is literally unraveling threads upon threads upon threads. it is SO hard... but so exciting!!

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I was trying to use ChatGPT to help me format a bibtex (I do not use latex), and I was so annoying with its flattery that I asked it to stop and just give me a response. It literally couldn’t stop.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

New paper on remote work with Beats Wožnaik-Jechorek, @chloethurston.bsky.social & Megha Patnaik out in The Journal of Strategic Information Systems today 🤓 We show employees evaluate remote work in concordance with other workplace amenities when trading off pay 👩‍💻 Full text: bit.ly/4eTl2gN

My grandma was in my dream last night. She was with me and my mom and dad. She kept putting slices of pizza on my dad’s plate so he’d have enough to eat. If I stop to think more about my family, I will lose it.

I'm surprised he referred to us as a civilization to begin with. I thought we were supposed to be uncivilized...

“Entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night” 93 million people live in Iran. That’s larger than CA, TX, and FL combined. It’s also where my mom is from. Where a majority of my family live. My grandma. My aunt (my kindred spirit). My uncle. My cousins. 🥺

I found a book on a country in Middle East, where the cover art uses famous arabic script, but in a way that's literally gibberish. It's just so cringey!

Someone sent me this.

ICYMI my solo article on MENA identity. When MENA Americans aren’t given a “MENA” option on forms, they answer identity-related questions on politics more strongly (eg higher end of the scale) than if“MENA” had been added. Having the group label or not changes the average response!

One of the hardest nowruz’s but we are still here and celebrating. That’s our resilience.

Has your spouse asked you to be their Patrick for St Patrick’s day? If not, you should start a fight with them! 😤

Omg this semester has been sooo hard. LOL I am so desperate for summer. Anyone else?

All this. Yes.

I really wanted Ryan Coogler to win, but I also feel excited to see what else he creates. 🧿 We’re still going to analyze the heck out of it during seminar on Wednesday!! 🔥

Well I’ll admit that I do think PTA is a great director and I was surprised to learn he’d never won an Oscar before! Here I was thinking, “another one for him?” ops!!

I assigned sinners for my course on racial formation this week. I hope they win so I can feel like a genius professor who planned this ahead of time.

I know no one is in the Nowruz spirit this year. But that’s exactly how the regime continues to win, by beating down our spirit. We need to try our best not to let them win.

Sometimes it is kind of a shame we only work with students only one semester. I have had the absolute privilege of working with a handful of students for the entire year, and it's been so crazy cool to see their thinking take shape over that time.

My grandma’s apartment building has burned down. Fortunately she’s safe, and we can help her. But so many people in Iran are so poor and don’t have anyone. This regime propagated their misery for years. They funded terrorism globally while Iranian people go hungry.

My yoga instructor is Iranian. She has always a bit cool toward me since I started attending her classes. Like doesn't say hello, no smiles. Totally fine! She's a serious person! Yesterday, when we saw each other, we ran toward each other and hugged. This is what it means to us.

The mental gymnastics of seeing Iranians inside the county and globally celebrating and then still saying this isn’t what Iranians wanted…

Once again. If you said NOTHING while the regime murdered 30,000 of its own people in less than one months time, maybe you should do the same today. You don’t actually care about Iranian lives.

How about this: if you didn’t post anything when the Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of Iranians protesting for freedom in the streets, maybe you should refrain on commenting on Iran today esp if your comment is “concern for Iranians.” Honestly, it makes you look cynical and heartless.

Iranians were rising up and the regime killed thousands upon thousands of people. Regular people don’t have the arms to revolt against a regime like Iran. Not saying the US doesn’t have its own agenda, but the Iranian people have shown they don’t want the regime. Shouldnt we listen to them?

I know it’s idealistic, but I really hope the series finale of Tehran (whenever it is) will have Tamar choosing to live happily in a free Iran. Each season she’s connecting more with being Iranian, and it’s nice to see. 🥺