<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear MetaSTEM community,</div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our first MetaSTEM event is this Thursday, September 25. This semester we'll meet at <b>12:30-1:30pm in SSM 230</b> (same room as past years).</div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We'll hear from Kris Gulati (EBM) on political bias in academia. Title and abstract below. </div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">See you there!</div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tyler and Christian, MetaSTEM Maestros</div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- </div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-weight:700">Title: </span>Does Politics Permeate Academia? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Political Bias in Academic Opportunity</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="font-weight:700">Abstract: </span>Higher education in the United States is undergoing a period of turbulence, facing mounting scrutiny over the politicisation of academia, declining public trust in universities, and unprecedented changes to the academic funding landscape under the recent Trump administration. Against this backdrop, we ask whether political identity shapes access to academic opportunity. To answer this, we conducted three large-scale field experiments involving more than 8,500 faculty across STEM, the social sciences, and the humanities. Faculty received randomised inquiries from fictitious prospective PhD students that varied only in their political cues. In STEM, political identity had no measurable effect on faculty responses. In the humanities and social sciences, however, applicants signaling conservative leanings were significantly less likely to receive replies than otherwise identical liberal counterparts. These results provide causal evidence that ideological gatekeeping can constrain entry into certain academic fields, which has implications for the rate and direction of academic research, the credibility and political neutrality of higher education, and the design of science policy and funding.</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">-- </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">Tyler Marghetis, Ph.D.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Assistant Professor, Cognitive & Information Sciences</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Merced</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.tylermarghetis.com/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.tylermarghetis.com</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:tyler.marghetis@gmail.com" target="_blank">tyler.marghetis@gmail.com</a> | <a href="tel:+1.619.252.7798" target="_blank">+1.619.252.7798</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I use the pronouns: he, him, his<br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I have moderate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia" target="_blank">face-blindness</a>; if you see me out of context, I may not recognize you</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM Christian Fons Rosen <<a href="mailto:cfons-rosen@ucmerced.edu">cfons-rosen@ucmerced.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4158815072412620197">




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We had you had a good summer and look forward to join our monthly seminar again.</div>
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This term the seminar will be on Thursdays from <u>12.30pm to 1.30pm</u> and lunch will be provided as usual.</div>
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The seminar will take place in the usual room at SSM and the chosen dates are:</div>
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Thursday, Sept 25th</div>
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Thursday, Oct 23rd</div>
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At the moment, all three slots are free so please email Tyler and I if you have work related to the Science of Science that you would like to present.</div>
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P.s. If someone wants to be removed from the mailing list or if you know of someone who is interested in joining the group, please let me know.</div>
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