Dr. Sheen S. Levine

What organizational research builds? Staircases to nowhere opined Steve Barley (ASQ 2016). Today, Emily Hu et al. attack a root cause of that 'Mystery House' dynamic. l.sslevine.com/sKsL

Most of us treat compression as housekeeping. It isn’t. A title, an abstract, the opening slide of a talk—these are acts of judgment. What to keep, what to collapse, what level of granularity the audience actually needs. Take a look @StrongDM l.sslevine.com/j9bl

Every streaming platform is, at bottom, a custody arrangement: you bring the taste, they hold the catalog, and the moment your subscription lapses, the relationship ends strictly on their terms. Parachord (free, open-source) takes the opposite position. l.sslevine.com/yPG4

Every streaming platform is, at bottom, a custody arrangement: you bring the taste, they hold the catalog, and the moment your subscription lapses, the relationship ends strictly on their terms. Parachord (free, open-source) takes the opposite position. l.sslevine.com/yPG4

What organizational research builds? Staircases to nowhere, doors that open into walls, toilets without plumbing, opined Steve Barley (ASQ 2016). Today, Emily Hu et al. attack a root cause of that 'Mystery House' dynamic. l.sslevine.com/sKsL

Audiences react differently to female economists: they’re interrupted 10–20% more, receive more positive and negative comments, and draw larger audiences. Is this bias in favor of women—or against them? l.sslevine.com/xrQR

Seminar “questions” as status plays. Across thousands of econ talks, women are interrupted more often, more negatively, and mid-sentence—even within the same series.If interruption signals “intellectual virtue,” what are we selecting for? l.sslevine.com/xrQR

How reliable is social science? We know the threats: errors, p-hacking, fraud, researcher degrees of freedom. New @Science Advances paper adds a new worry: ideology. l.sslevine.com/OnZh

Speaking to economists? Expect a tough audience. New paper explores speaker-audience interaction across thousands of seminars, showing often interruptions, sometimes hostile l.sslevine.com/xrQR

Econ seminars call themselves “rigorous.” Sometimes they’re just noisy. A new AER paper tracking interruptions across thousands of talks finds women face more cutoffs, comments, and suggestions. Are we filtering for ideas—or for endurance? l.sslevine.com/xrQR

Audiences react differently to female economists: They are more likely to be interrupted (10-20%), receive more positive and negative comments, and attract bigger audiences. Bias in favor of women – or against them? l.sslevine.com/xrQR

Econ seminars call themselves “rigorous.” Sometimes they’re just noisy. A new AER paper tracking interruptions across thousands of talks finds women face more cutoffs, comments, and suggestions. Are seminars filtering for ideas—or for endurance? l.sslevine.com/xrQR

How reliable is social science? We know the threats: errors, p-hacking, fraud, researcher degrees of freedom. New @Science Advances paper adds a new worry: ideology. l.sslevine.com/OnZh

US military interventions: Another year, another “what works?” debate, still conducted as if all interventions are the same species of policy animal. l.sslevine.com/57ew

Anything built by committee risks noble intent + fuzzy edges. I’ve been skeptical of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for that reason—broad enough to become vacuous. Still, as a coordination device, they may be useful l.sslevine.com/CZuC

I like independent music, so I donate every month to @KCRW. kcrw.co/29CQznO

US military interventions: Another year, another “what works?” debate, still conducted as if all interventions are the same species of policy animal. l.sslevine.com/57ew

Audiences react differently to female economists: They are more likely to be interrupted (10-20%), receive more positive and negative comments, and attract bigger audiences. Bias in favor of women – or against them? l.sslevine.com/xrQR

Women are treated differently, finds a new paper that explores speaker-audience interaction across thousands of seminars, workshops, conferences, job market talks. l.sslevine.com/xrQR

Speaking to economists? Expect a tough audience. New paper explores speaker-audience interaction across thousands of seminars, showing often interruptions, sometimes hostile l.sslevine.com/xrQR