I’ve done a few projects discussing son preference in Azerbaijan. And recently I was doing a little cleaning up and took a look at the 2023 UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey – which was carried out by the Azerbaijan State Statistical Committee in collaboration with UNICEF. What’s particularly interesting is that this is self-reported data…

So I’ve been thinking a lot recently about fandom, for a couple of reasons. One is that I have, for a long time, been really invested in being a fan of various K-pop groups. In December, I went to a concert of a group I really like, and I had this sort of existential crisis…

This is an update to an earlier AI policy statement, but with some additions of my AI policy in-person verbally given; and what I’m doing currently to try to decrease inappropriate AI usage. This also riffs on a previous blog post that I made about AI in the university classroom. Verbal policy Verbally – this…

Oh what a few years it has been with AI. This is built off of my previous statement. But after reading Teaching with AI, I thought more about the authors’ discussion of AI producing C-level work and that the “new” standards should be better than AI. Those authors argue that instead of banning AI, we…

Ah, the winter of 2023 – after ChatGPT publicly launched in November 2022, university instructors everywhere had a collective freakout when everyone realized that students could engage in all sorts of misconduct in an entirely new way. Certainly academic misconduct was always a part of our jobs, but this was different. AI-facilitated misconduct was more…

This is what it feels like to be teaching sometimes (made with Bing Image Creator, powered by Dall-E) It seems that all I can think about lately is AI in the classroom. I wanted to share my summer 2023 AI/LLM policy statement for my class. Feel free to use with attribution. Important to note: Artificial…

Although my research is primarily about technology and inequality in Armenia and Azerbaijan, I do dabble occasionally in studying games. Also all of my teaching, undergrad and grad, is on broader technology and society, so I keep up with the research. I got into Wordle like many others did in January 2022 and I tweeted…

These are questions that are asked of me regarding self-funded professional masters programs in marketing and communication. I’m skipping the questions regarding how well I know the person, etc. These questions are to be answered in addition to a full letter. Program A’s questions Please rate the applicant in the following areas: Motivation Analytical skills…

Word and page limits exist for a reason, but they present a challenge. These are my top tips for trimming manuscripts down. Cut references I know that this can be really difficult but these take up a lot of space. Hopefully you’re using a reference manager already, so cutting is a bit easier. What I…