Virginia has scheduled interviews for early to mid November. Candidates are Barbara Walter (Assoc. Prof at UCSD), Julia Gray (ABD-UCLA), and Sonal Pandya (ABD-Harvard).
Source of info is departmental-wide e-mail from search chair.
On UMass-Amherst, I heard from an admininistrative assistant in the department about a week ago that they planned to "review applications during the next few weeks." Their invites might be slower in coming then, especially since they have so many lines to fill.
4:54 - From what I know first-hand, Delaware is contacting their short list to make sure those on it are still interested in the position. But, I do not believe (although I am not positive) invitations have been issued for on-campus interviews.
Anyone else think the blog moderation is slowing down the blog too much? Both the theory and comparative blogs have way more activity and interest and not the heavy moderation. Why further prevent participation?
On moderation. We didn't initially require moderator "sign off" for posts. We implemented the moderation feature after a number of troubling posts appeared that we had to retrospectively delete. Right now, we still have to delete about 10% of incoming messages because they ask inappropriate questions about candidates, committees, or are open invitations to flame wars (e.g., "what's the best department?").
If the community feels that posts appear to slowly, we will consider turning off the moderation function and going back to the old system of deleting messages post hoc. But we'd rather be a few hours behind other blogs, and also be a bit more reliable, than have IR Rumor Mill degenerate into the same sort of gossip we saw last year.
Are you kidding? Have you read the American and Comparative blog? Why on earth would you need "real time" information, especially when the trade of is including that tripe? Take a deep breath, get back to work, and check the blog once or twice a day. Or start another blog as a support group for rumor mill addicts.
on moderation -- point taken as far as removing inappropriate posts but it does dull interaction such that it is no longer possible to read the blog, respond to someone, and then get a response back without long delays. This means checking the blog becomes less frequent and less interactive and therefore less participatory in my view.
Keep it as it is. No one needs the gossip, the tasteless humor, and the other b.s. associated with the "other" blogs. This is the academy, not the stock market. "Real time" isn't a premium
Anybody know who the "R. Brown" is who is interviewing at Middlebury? No more specifics have been posted about who this person is, and "R. Brown" is kind of a hard name to google. . .
There is a Robert Brown from UCSD. He is on the market and he studies delegation of authority to IOs to counter WMD proliferation. I don't know if this is the same R. Brown, but that would be my guess.
{moderation isn't working right now, so here are recent comments}
1. "Maryland will also interview Muhammet Bas."
2. "There is a Robert Brown from UCSD. He is on the market and he studies delegation of authority to IOs to counter WMD proliferation. I don't know if this is the same R. Brown, but that would be my guess."
Holy Cross is apparently way behind the curve here -- I am just speculating, of course, but the fact that I just got the AA information card from them suggests that they may not be moving to interview people any time soon.
Holy Cross has met and developed a short list. Whether those people have been contacted for an interview, I do not know. I heard from a member of the SC close over a week ago...
The AA cards are not a good indicator at all. I got mine from two depts. that according to this blog have confirmed interviews well underway. I am just speculating but the AA info sheets may just determine the make-up of the applicant pool and how they found out about the job.
Regarding the thin envelope AA tie: that may be the case sometimes, but some departments are more efficient and can handle multiple tasks better--so the AA cards are handled without any respect to the completion of the lists.
The AA thing doesn't really work, anyhow, even (especially?) on a substantive level. You fill it out, you tell them that you fit into X underrepresented group, and then they make a short list of largely white, largely male candidates...But, they get to claim diversity in their application process. I'm not saying anything about whether this is good/fair, just that it's no real institutional constraint on these schools, and often makes them look more "progressive" than they really are.
I think there is some misunderstanding about the role of the AA letters. Departments at state universities like mine are required to collect data on the diversity of their applicant pool. These letters usually go back to the campus affirmative action office, not the hiring department. I've been involved in searches at a large state university for more than a decade, and I have never seen the affirmative action office provide information about the identities of minority candidates (or anything else) to us. Their role is to give us a hard time if our pool is radically unrepresentative. In identifying minority or female candidates, something that has mattered a lot in some searches, we have always had to rely on what we knew ourselves, or found out from the candidate.
OK, so now we have heard about Haverford, Middlebury and Washington and Lee: What's going on with Hamilton, Bucknell, Dickinson, Swarthmore and Muhlenberg?
Holy Cross has made at least one invitation for a campus interview. Can't speak beyond personal experience (I received the AA card a week after I was contacted by phone - once again, little rhyme or reason to the timing of when departments send those out)
Columbia has some talks in its ISERP that look like they are potential job talks--though they are not specified as such and are among others that clearly aren't.
We all appreciate those contributing information, but what's with the terse entries? These are most helpful when some indication of the source is included, to help sort out the informed from the rest.
Barak Mendelsohn, Terrorism and Political Violence candidate, will be giving his lecture/interview today, February 7th at 2:00 p.m. in DaHT 205C. Barak’s talk is entitled “New War?: Global Jihad and Interstate Cooperation.”
Gregory Miller’s, terrorism and political violence candidate, job talk entitled “Confronting Terrorisms: Group Characteristics and the Success of Counterterrorist Policies” is Thursday, February 9th at 1:30 p.m. in DaHT 205C
How does a videoconference interview work -- everyone has access to this at their schools? I do, but didn't think it was necessarily universal, and it can be a pain to arrange.
I did one last year, from abroad. We just did it using internet technology (this sounds better than 'web cam'), which I would venture all schools have. The whole department was able to be there. It was pretty efficient, and I got the job.
I found videoconferencing pretty frustrating. Maybe I just had a bad connection, but there was a lag, and it was impossible to gauge the audience's reactions. If your university doesn't do videoconferencing, most towns and presumably all cities have facilities. The employer should pay.
We don't have video conferencing at our university - some students have internet cams they use for MySpace, but I don't think that would work. I can understand conducting a video conference if the candidates are overseas, but if they reside in this country, it would make me wonder if the university lacks the funds for a few airline tickets. Also, why not just schedule telephone interviews? That seems standard when there is a long short list. Why, specifically, do they want to see your "smiling faces?" Honestly, it would make me think twice about the funding and the motives of that department.
[The comment below was posted on the IR Rumor Mill discussion. For context, see that thread.]
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7:08 is comment spam. We received the same message on every active thread. *However*, we let it through. Why? We discovered that it is right. There *was* (unknown to us) a tracker at the very bottom of the site. Like all of you, we just never noticed.
I accessed the account this morning. To my knowledge, I am the first person to do so since we took over the Rumor Mill. It does track IPs. What does this mean? It means that:
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In practice, it would be difficult for one of us to use this information to identify you. We tend to get many visitors at the same time. We might have been able to use it to guess that a rumor concerning, say, Big State University originated from someone *at* Big State University. Woohoo. Now we're in business :-). Seriously, you were still pretty anonymous.
But this isn't an issue anymore. A few minutes ago, after consulting with a quorum of the staff, I deleted the stats and tracking function for IR Rumor Mill.
PS: I suspect that the Rumor Mill's founder simply wanted to know if people were visiting the site and how many were doing so.
That comment wasn\'t comment spam, it was posted by a poli sci community member who wanted to warn others in the community that the potential to see where comments were being posted from.
Yes, in some cases, the only info is the IP address, i.e., the ISP or the university.
In some cases, especially mac users, the computer name is often included in the IP information. Or, if you log on to a network, your log on (initials) are included. So, your initials combined with your university can identify you.
It\'s not hard to match timestamps of particular comments to timestamps of the page visit from the stat tracker.
The original comment was posted elsewhere so that it would appear on other sites where rumor mill folks congregate, in the event that rumor mill admins decided not to allow the comment through moderation.
Moral...you\'re not as anonymous as you think on the web, especially if your network provides information about your particular machine\'s name.
This is the same administrator as from the prior message.
1) We assumed it was spam because it looked like, in essence, a solicitation to use a particular site. Since it wasn't, we apologize for that comment. We also, you should note, allowed the comment to go through on the relevant thread *and* took appropriate action, so we don't believe we hid anything from the community;
2) At the risk of repetition, we've removed tracking functionality from the site *and* we've erased all data for the site from tracksys, the free client used by the prior administrator(s);
3) I can't be sure, because I didn't look closely, but I do not believe that tracksys has any material that would indicate "login initials." It does, like sitemeter, display the OS and browser of a user. The only other IP tracking clients I've used do not have this information, nor does a "whois IP" search generate it. But if some trackers do have this information, that's interesting.
Bottom lines:
1. No one on our team even looked at this information until earlier today. 2. It was not available to the general public. 3. It no longer exists. The site no longer uses a tracker.
Thus, we feel that we have been more than responsive to the concern, and that the concern itself is a bit overblown. Even if we could use the information as you describe, we haven't. We have far more precise information about specific sources of rumors from people who email us this information directly, and we haven't done anything to abuse that. Indeed, we purge incoming mail every few days.
If there are other issues that we need to address vis-a-vis doing due diligence to maintain anonymity, please let us know.
Um, big deal. Anyone who posts anything anywhere has to know this, no? And given the comment moderation there really aren't any juicy scandals whose authors need to be revealed. This hypervigilance will only serve to scare off those with valuable information, whose identities no one really cares about anyway.
10:49am. Re-read the posts from the last several months. The current team assumed responsibility for the site approximately a year after its inception.
We assume the tracker was installed by the prior individual or individuals responsible for this site, who contacted us in late summer with the login and password to the gmail account and to the blogger account. That same login, it turned out, worked for the tracker, which is how we were able to not simply remove the code, but *disable* the tracking service itself.
We didn't realize that some of the site's readers would be do distrusting, or we would have taken a screenshot of tracksys' warning that all information pertaining to past visits would be lost if we completed the operation. But trust us, it is gone.
We cannot speak in any way to what the *prior* individual(s) responsible for the site did with the information, but we are unaware of anyone being "outed" for posting a rumor here, so we assume that the original intention wasn't nefarious.
You are, of course, entitled to do whatever you want vis-a-vis the IR Rumor Mill.
PS: if we really wanted to hide this, we could have simply rejected the original post. We think the fact that we did not -- that we let the post appear on the appropriate thread -- provides pretty compelling evidence for our good intentions.
Oh my! I am always really impressed by the self-flattery (and self-righteousness of 10:49) that people in this field have. We don't care about your identity! No one would go to the trouble. Please! I was really pleased--and others have been too--concerning the tone and helpfulness of this blog. Don't let a few paranoid and/or grandiose individuals get us off track. (And no, I don't know anyone who runs the blog, but am indebted to them.)
Come on people show some appreciation! Why blame the current admins when the only things they did were to discover the tracker, remove it and let us know?
And as if you always surf anonymously over the internet. Get this, there is no place on the net that does not track you, if the admins do not track you, the blogger itself is keeping logs of everything.
And actually I would even prefer that they could at least see the location of the post so that they can comfirm it more easily.
195 comments:
U Toronto's committee is meeting by next week
Lewis & Clark has conducted phone interviews for the non-China position.
Lewis & Clark has scheduled campus interviews for the non-China position.
Naval War College (NSDM) has completed interviews and made offers for their searches.
Cornell has made an offer.
To whom? Horowitz or Koenig?
Whom to? (That was fast)
Does anyone have any news re: Wisconsin, Columbia, Colorado, UCSD?
Columbia is searching for IPE.
Re: 11:20
Yes, Columbia advertised for an IPE position, and had a separate advertisement for a non-specified position. What's the news here?
And can we get into the practice of disclosing sources of rumors (not names but the nature of the source)--there's no word limit here.
McGill's committee does not meet until the end of next week. And often does not reach a short list after one meeting.
Cornell's general IR search is likely for IPE as well.
From the old new thread:
Anonymous said...
Any word on Vermont?
Delaware?
UW-L?
6:15 AM, October 27, 2006
Anonymous said...
Cornell has extended an offer.
5:34 PM, October 27, 2006
Anonymous said...
Three IR talks at Penn in November: Broz, Horowitz, and Pandaya.
6:39 PM, October 28, 2006
Is that Broz of the '80s classic hit, "When Will I Be Famous"?
UCSD has invited people for interviews.
I can't answer, I can't answer that...
George Washington talks are Matt Kroenig, Mike Horowitz, and Tin-bor Victoria Hui.
Sources?
Virginia has scheduled interviews for early to mid November.
Candidates are Barbara Walter (Assoc. Prof at UCSD), Julia Gray (ABD-UCLA), and Sonal Pandya (ABD-Harvard).
Source of info is departmental-wide e-mail from search chair.
Yale has made at least some calles in its IR/Comparative search. Third degree information source.
Any news on Duke? Princeton?
Re: 11:04
I heard from a member of the GW faculty. It is accurate.
Pitt and Maryland have both scheduled interviews. Source: a colleague who will be going for those interviews.
Middlebury has scheduled interviews.
The U of Delaware has a short list. Source: email from the department.
Any word on Duke?
Ky has 2 short lists. 2 candidates from each short-list (4 in all) will be chosen for interviews.
I know Duke's doing Comparative talks right now. That might delay the IR schedule.
Has anyone heard about Princeton?
Is there any news on Lehigh?
Duke's conducting a senior search. So don't expect regular job talks.
12:41 -- has UDel started contacting anyone on their short list?
Also, has anyone heard anything about UMass-Amherst's timetable?
T. Chapman gave a jobtalk at Rochester earlier today.
IS there any confirmation of the Rumor the Middlebury has invited to interviews? It is still not listed on the Big Board.
Evidently, UMass made some calls on its comparative hire last week.
On UMass-Amherst, I heard from an admininistrative assistant in the department about a week ago that they planned to "review applications during the next few weeks." Their invites might be slower in coming then, especially since they have so many lines to fill.
4:54 - From what I know first-hand, Delaware is contacting their short list to make sure those on it are still interested in the position. But, I do not believe (although I am not positive) invitations have been issued for on-campus interviews.
Any News on the North Dakota IR search?
4:54 -- would it therefore be reasonable to conclude that if I have not been contacted by UDel, then I am not on their short-list?
Has anyone heard anything from/about Tufts Poli Sci?
Re: UDel - I don't know whether all contacts have been made. I will update when I get more info.
Re Lehigh: applications are still being reviewed
Jana VonStein has a talk at
UCSD
According to the American/Comparative blog, Scott Radnitz (MIT/Belfer) has an interview for Yale's IR/CP job.
Re: Tufts, I think they are only going to start meeting next week.
Re: Naval War College, I know Colin Jackson (MIT) is starting there in the spring.
Any word on who has been contacted by Purdue?
Anyone has news about
Lewis & Clark China position?
Harvard has contacted people for thier junior IR search
I can confirm the Yale Radnitz talk
Paul Vasquez (Notre Dame) will be interviewing for the position at Hope College.
RE: 4:31 PM, October 30, 2006
Why does Kentucky have two short-lists? Is that implying there is a disagreement within the department? Can anyone confirm this?
Colorado and Middlebury have both contacted candidates.
Colorado has made initial interview invites.
Heard A&M is interviewing Sobek and E. Gweke
Paul Vasquez (Notre Dame) has a campus interview with Hope College.
At 7:10pm: You mean Eric Gartzke? BTW, A&M will also interview Hyeron Jo.
Harvard IR is interviewing Elizabeth Saunders, Kathleen Cunningham, and Terrence Chapman.
T. Chapman is interviewing at Pitt.
Lehigh is still reviewing applications and won't have a short list til at least Nov. 15th.
M. Kroenig is interviewing at Brown.
any word on LSU?
What is going on with SUNY Buffalo?
T. Chapman is interviewing at Colorado.
Harvard is also interviewing Muhammet Bas.
LSU has already interviewed and has an offered the job to a candidate.
Any word from Washington & Lee?
Washington & Lee has invited at least one candidate for an interview.
Source: The candidate who is interviewing there.
Anyone know what's going on at Claremont?
SFSU is scheduling interviews.
Has anyone heard from either UC Santa Cruz or San Francisco State?
HIERAN HO (Michigan) has a talk at Rochester
Joel Simmons (Michigan) is interviewing at WashU and Stony Brook
Comparative Blog says UCSC is interviewing.
I hear MIT is making calls today or tomorrow (from a grad student at MIT)
Anyone else think the blog moderation is slowing down the blog too much? Both the theory and comparative blogs have way more activity and interest and not the heavy moderation. Why further prevent participation?
MIT has contacted people for their first round interviews
On moderation. We didn't initially require moderator "sign off" for posts. We implemented the moderation feature after a number of troubling posts appeared that we had to retrospectively delete. Right now, we still have to delete about 10% of incoming messages because they ask inappropriate questions about candidates, committees, or are open invitations to flame wars (e.g., "what's the best department?").
If the community feels that posts appear to slowly, we will consider turning off the moderation function and going back to the old system of deleting messages post hoc. But we'd rather be a few hours behind other blogs, and also be a bit more reliable, than have IR Rumor Mill degenerate into the same sort of gossip we saw last year.
Re: 11:55
Are you kidding? Have you read the American and Comparative blog? Why on earth would you need "real time" information, especially when the trade of is including that tripe? Take a deep breath, get back to work, and check the blog once or twice a day. Or start another blog as a support group for rumor mill addicts.
who are the MIT candidates?
William and Mary is interviewing for IR/Comparative Mid East position.
Debra Shulman from Yale
Gunes Tezkur from Michigan
on moderation -- point taken as far as removing inappropriate posts but it does dull interaction such that it is no longer possible to read the blog, respond to someone, and then get a response back without long delays. This means checking the blog becomes less frequent and less interactive and therefore less participatory in my view.
RE: 12:00 *and most posts for that matter*
Source?
Anyone heard anything on UConn or U Rhode Island?
Paul Vasquez has an interview at the Univesity of Rhode Island.
Also for the Middle East position at William & Mary: Stacey Yadav (UPenn).
Keep it as it is. No one needs the gossip, the tasteless humor, and the other b.s. associated with the "other" blogs. This is the academy, not the stock market. "Real time" isn't a premium
James Madison is starting campus interviews next week.
Source: one of the interviewees.
Is there any news about IR and/or comparative searches at LACs--Holy Cross, Grinnell, Allegheny?
Who is interviewing at UCSD (besides Von Stein)?
New School began interviews.
Other blog says Grinnell has made phone interviews and will be flying people out soon. What is going on w/Allegheny?
Haverford has contacted people for their first round interviews
Any news on Vassar? UConn?
T. Chapman is interviewing at Maryland. Information is secondhand from a maryland grad. student.
Is it H. Ho or J. Ho? S/he is listed as both.
Anybody know who the "R. Brown" is who is interviewing at Middlebury? No more specifics have been posted about who this person is, and "R. Brown" is kind of a hard name to google. . .
Maryland will also interview Muhammet Bas.
There is a Robert Brown from UCSD. He is on the market and he studies delegation of authority to IOs to counter WMD proliferation. I don't know if this is the same R. Brown, but that would be my guess.
{moderation isn't working right now, so here are recent comments}
1. "Maryland will also interview Muhammet Bas."
2. "There is a Robert Brown from UCSD. He is on the market and he studies delegation of authority to IOs to counter WMD proliferation. I don't know if this is the same R. Brown, but that would be my guess."
A. Yuen is interviewing at Middlebury.
P. MacDonald is interviewing at Brown.
Texas A&M has scheduled interviews for the security job in the Bush School. I know this from one of the interviewees.
Barak Mendelsohn is interviewing at MIT
"New School began interviews" --
source? any more info?
Holy Cross is apparently way behind the curve here -- I am just speculating, of course, but the fact that I just got the AA information card from them suggests that they may not be moving to interview people any time soon.
Holy Cross has met and developed a short list. Whether those people have been contacted for an interview, I do not know. I heard from a member of the SC close over a week ago...
I have observed -- through tragic personal experience -- that the AA cards often come after the short lists are complete. Thin envelopes, you know.
The AA cards are not a good indicator at all. I got mine from two depts. that according to this blog have confirmed interviews well underway. I am just speculating but the AA info sheets may just determine the make-up of the applicant pool and how they found out about the job.
Regarding the thin envelope AA tie: that may be the case sometimes, but some departments are more efficient and can handle multiple tasks better--so the AA cards are handled without any respect to the completion of the lists.
Any updates on the MIT candidates? I have heard Mendelsohn from Cornell but that is it.
Cunningham interviewed today at Harvard.
I heard from an MIT grad student that they are also bringing in Mike Horowitz (Harvard) and Elizabeth Saunders (Yale).
MIT has posted its talks on the web: Barak Mendelshon, Mike Horowitz, and Elizabeth Horowoitz.
The AA thing doesn't really work, anyhow, even (especially?) on a substantive level. You fill it out, you tell them that you fit into X underrepresented group, and then they make a short list of largely white, largely male candidates...But, they get to claim diversity in their application process. I'm not saying anything about whether this is good/fair, just that it's no real institutional constraint on these schools, and often makes them look more "progressive" than they really are.
Where are the MIT talk listings?
Kansas State has scheduled interviews.
MIT listings are below; don't think the Sambanis talk is part of their search:
http://web.mit.edu/polisci/research/dss.html
(1) Google MIT Political Science Department.
(2) Click on "Seminar Series and Upcoming Events."
(3) Click on "Departmental Seminar Series."
Voila.
Anyone hear about Illinois State?
Barak Mendelsohn (Cornell) is interviewing at Haverford College
I think there is some misunderstanding about the role of the AA letters. Departments at state universities like mine are required to collect data on the diversity of their applicant pool. These letters usually go back to the campus affirmative action office, not the hiring department. I've been involved in searches at a large state university for more than a decade, and I have never seen the affirmative action office provide information about the identities of minority candidates (or anything else) to us. Their role is to give us a hard time if our pool is radically unrepresentative. In identifying minority or female candidates, something that has mattered a lot in some searches, we have always had to rely on what we knew ourselves, or found out from the candidate.
OK, so now we have heard about Haverford, Middlebury and Washington and Lee: What's going on with Hamilton, Bucknell, Dickinson, Swarthmore and Muhlenberg?
Interviews for joint position in political science & International Affairs at the New School:
Ato Onoma (Northwestern)
Adria Lawrence (Chicago)
Robin Hayes (Yale)
Tim Pachirat (Yale)
Dickinson's got two candidates coming in this week, and presumably more on the way.
UCONN has started campus interviews. Source: friend of one of the interviewees.
I can confirm UConn, as a friend is interviewing--confirmed on both ends
Claremont is bringing 3 candidates out, probably starting next week.
Jasen Castillo is the other candidate interviewing at Middlebury.
Can we get names on UCONN? It is kind of a defining position in USFP.
anything on Vassar?
Anything on Northwestern?
Oana Armeanu is the other candidate at Hope College
Any word yet from Kentucky?
Anything on University of Missouri?
Anything on Washington, St. Louis?
IL State?
Dennis Foster (VMI) interviewed today at UConn.
Holy Cross has made at least one invitation for a campus interview. Can't speak beyond personal experience (I received the AA card a week after I was contacted by phone - once again, little rhyme or reason to the timing of when departments send those out)
T. Chapman is interviewing at Colorado.
Concordia University is interviewing Barak Mendelsohn (Cornell)
Columbia has some talks in its ISERP that look like they are potential job talks--though they are not specified as such and are among others that clearly aren't.
http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/calendar/
This is from the JMC website, so I have no idea if these are the same positions.
James Madison College at Michigan State
Interview for IR/PE temp position:
Jose Noguera
International Political Economy position:
Robert Packer
Does anyone know who interviewed at Lewis & Clark for the IO position? Have they made an offer?
Any more news on U Delaware?
Georgetown (Govt. dept.) has made an offer.
I don't think the columbia talks are job talks
Which Concordia is interviewing? I think Toronto, River Forest, and Moorehead all had positions of some sort.
Concordia University (Montreal)
A. Yuen is interviewing at Kansas State.
Georgetown (Security) has made an offer.
We all appreciate those contributing information, but what's with the terse entries? These are most helpful when some indication of the source is included, to help sort out the informed from the rest.
Regarding Georgetown the information is from the successful candidates themselves.
Boaz Atzili (Belfer, PhD from MIT)has an interview in Northwestern. Source is a friend who heard from the candidate.
Any word on Tufts (2 slots - IR and CP)?
From Ohio U:
http://www.ou.edu/cas/psc/2-7-06.pdf
Barak Mendelsohn, Terrorism and Political Violence candidate, will be giving his lecture/interview today, February 7th at 2:00 p.m. in DaHT 205C. Barak’s talk is entitled “New War?: Global Jihad and Interstate Cooperation.”
Gregory Miller’s, terrorism and political violence candidate, job talk entitled “Confronting Terrorisms: Group Characteristics and the Success of Counterterrorist Policies” is Thursday, February 9th at 1:30 p.m. in DaHT 205C
Re: Ohio U. Good for them (not being facetious)! But February? Do talks go on that long? Guess so.
Other interviews at Rhode Island:
Kristin Johnson
Brian Mello
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/
Those OhioU are from Feb 06--old news.
Re: Ohio U, that was an announcement from last year.
Hamilton has scheduled video teleconference interviews. Oye Vey.
They must want to see your smiling faces.
Beyond Barak Mendelsohn (Cornell), does anyone know who else is being interviewed at Concordia University in Montreal?
and it's not ohio but ohlahoma university
Confirmed (1st hand): Kris Ramsay is giving a talk at UCSD.
Also confirmed: Gartze and Baum are giving talks (senior positions) at UCSD.
How does a videoconference interview work -- everyone has access to this at their schools? I do, but didn't think it was necessarily universal, and it can be a pain to arrange.
I did one last year, from abroad. We just did it using internet technology (this sounds better than 'web cam'), which I would venture all schools have. The whole department was able to be there. It was pretty efficient, and I got the job.
I found videoconferencing pretty frustrating. Maybe I just had a bad connection, but there was a lag, and it was impossible to gauge the audience's reactions. If your university doesn't do videoconferencing, most towns and presumably all cities have facilities. The employer should pay.
Ramsay has declined the UCSD interview.
Why is there a counter? Why wasn't this made transparent?
Is H. Ho (interviewing at Rochester) a different person than H. Jo (interviewing at UT, A&M), or was this a typo?
Calvin College has scheduled at least one interview.
We don't have video conferencing at our university - some students have internet cams they use for MySpace, but I don't think that would work. I can understand conducting a video conference if the candidates are overseas, but if they reside in this country, it would make me wonder if the university lacks the funds for a few airline tickets. Also, why not just schedule telephone interviews? That seems standard when there is a long short list. Why, specifically, do they want to see your "smiling faces?" Honestly, it would make me think twice about the funding and the motives of that department.
What does this post mean? "Why is there a counter? Why wasn't this made transparent?"
[The comment below was posted on the IR Rumor Mill discussion. For context, see that thread.]
One of your friendly neighborhood administrators here.
7:08 is comment spam. We received the same message on every active thread. *However*, we let it through. Why? We discovered that it is right. There *was* (unknown to us) a tracker at the very bottom of the site. Like all of you, we just never noticed.
I accessed the account this morning. To my knowledge, I am the first person to do so since we took over the Rumor Mill. It does track IPs. What does this mean? It means that:
1) If you accessed the site from a commercial ISP it will show the closest server grouping to your location, e.g., if you're a Comcast user in the New England it will show as much (or will provide an IP address that can be entered into an "IP Whois" query and will turn that up);
2) If you accessed the site from a business with its own IP -- such as a major corporation or a university -- it will allow one of the admins to find out that at least one person is visiting from that institution.
In practice, it would be difficult for one of us to use this information to identify you. We tend to get many visitors at the same time. We might have been able to use it to guess that a rumor concerning, say, Big State University originated from someone *at* Big State University. Woohoo. Now we're in business :-). Seriously, you were still pretty anonymous.
But this isn't an issue anymore. A few minutes ago, after consulting with a quorum of the staff, I deleted the stats and tracking function for IR Rumor Mill.
PS: I suspect that the Rumor Mill's founder simply wanted to know if people were visiting the site and how many were doing so.
That comment wasn\'t comment spam, it was posted by a poli sci community member who wanted to warn others in the community that the potential to see where comments were being posted from.
Yes, in some cases, the only info is the IP address, i.e., the ISP or the university.
In some cases, especially mac users, the computer name is often included in the IP information. Or, if you log on to a network, your log on (initials) are included. So, your initials combined with your university can identify you.
It\'s not hard to match timestamps of particular comments to timestamps of the page visit from the stat tracker.
The original comment was posted elsewhere so that it would appear on other sites where rumor mill folks congregate, in the event that rumor mill admins decided not to allow the comment through moderation.
Moral...you\'re not as anonymous as you think on the web, especially if your network provides information about your particular machine\'s name.
Thanks for removing the stat tracking code!
This is the same administrator as from the prior message.
1) We assumed it was spam because it looked like, in essence, a solicitation to use a particular site. Since it wasn't, we apologize for that comment. We also, you should note, allowed the comment to go through on the relevant thread *and* took appropriate action, so we don't believe we hid anything from the community;
2) At the risk of repetition, we've removed tracking functionality from the site *and* we've erased all data for the site from tracksys, the free client used by the prior administrator(s);
3) I can't be sure, because I didn't look closely, but I do not believe that tracksys has any material that would indicate "login initials." It does, like sitemeter, display the OS and browser of a user. The only other IP tracking clients I've used do not have this information, nor does a "whois IP" search generate it. But if some trackers do have this information, that's interesting.
Bottom lines:
1. No one on our team even looked at this information until earlier today.
2. It was not available to the general public.
3. It no longer exists. The site no longer uses a tracker.
Thus, we feel that we have been more than responsive to the concern, and that the concern itself is a bit overblown. Even if we could use the information as you describe, we haven't. We have far more precise information about specific sources of rumors from people who email us this information directly, and we haven't done anything to abuse that. Indeed, we purge incoming mail every few days.
If there are other issues that we need to address vis-a-vis doing due diligence to maintain anonymity, please let us know.
Um, big deal. Anyone who posts anything anywhere has to know this, no? And given the comment moderation there really aren't any juicy scandals whose authors need to be revealed. This hypervigilance will only serve to scare off those with valuable information, whose identities no one really cares about anyway.
There *was* (unknown to us) a tracker at the very bottom of the site. Like all of you, we just never noticed.
That is bonk. You HAVE TO install such a tracker. So it's impossible not to have noticed it.
I for one will no longer visit, or post, this blog. You let me (us?) down.
10:49am. Re-read the posts from the last several months. The current team assumed responsibility for the site approximately a year after its inception.
We assume the tracker was installed by the prior individual or individuals responsible for this site, who contacted us in late summer with the login and password to the gmail account and to the blogger account. That same login, it turned out, worked for the tracker, which is how we were able to not simply remove the code, but *disable* the tracking service itself.
We didn't realize that some of the site's readers would be do distrusting, or we would have taken a screenshot of tracksys' warning that all information pertaining to past visits would be lost if we completed the operation. But trust us, it is gone.
We cannot speak in any way to what the *prior* individual(s) responsible for the site did with the information, but we are unaware of anyone being "outed" for posting a rumor here, so we assume that the original intention wasn't nefarious.
You are, of course, entitled to do whatever you want vis-a-vis the IR Rumor Mill.
PS: if we really wanted to hide this, we could have simply rejected the original post. We think the fact that we did not -- that we let the post appear on the appropriate thread -- provides pretty compelling evidence for our good intentions.
Oh my! I am always really impressed by the self-flattery (and self-righteousness of 10:49) that people in this field have. We don't care about your identity! No one would go to the trouble. Please! I was really pleased--and others have been too--concerning the tone and helpfulness of this blog. Don't let a few paranoid and/or grandiose individuals get us off track. (And no, I don't know anyone who runs the blog, but am indebted to them.)
Has anyone heard anything about U Mass Amherst?
Ok, could we get back to the market? Has anybody heard what North Dakota is doing? They are moving in other areas, but I have not heard a thing in IR
This is by far the best political science rumor blog (read the others if you are not sure). Could we put the argument on another thread? again?
Any news on Marshall
Come on people show some appreciation! Why blame the current admins when the only things they did were to discover the tracker, remove it and let us know?
And as if you always surf anonymously over the internet. Get this, there is no place on the net that does not track you, if the admins do not track you, the blogger itself is keeping logs of everything.
And actually I would even prefer that they could at least see the location of the post so that they can comfirm it more easily.
This comments thread is getting a bit long in the tooth. And we've had at least one major tangent. So we've opened up a new thread. Post there.
Northwestern has contacted for 1st round.
Vassar has extended interview invitations. Who else has one? when? (mine is week after Thanksgiving)
Has anybody heard anything about the Junior Security position at Georgetown?
RE: Georgetown's Junior Security Studies- It says an offer was made- May I inquire as to whom?
8:02 am: You will want to read our policy on reporting offers.
Does anyone have the url for the wiki postings? Thanks, I can't seem to find the site.
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