TRIP Workshop, Day 2: Electric Bugaloo

Second and final day of the TRIP workshop. I posted yesterday a series of live tweets, so I am doing that again for today's panels. Since I presented first, I didn't live tweet mine and my attention to my iPad and twitter was a bit sporadic. oops.

I am presenting a paper on testing Grand theory vs hypothesis testing today at #TRIPworkshop. very rough draft dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7252748/Appa…
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 24, 2013

Back to #TRIPworkshop, my paper got hit for using some broad indicators, need to go back and unpack. Was I fair to M&W? Not sure.
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 24, 2013

Quan Li presented fun paper asking whether quant dominates or not and why not (when it should).Most striking is 1/2 #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 24, 2013

Is the concentration of quant articles in only hardful of depts,about 70% of depts have only produced 0-1 quant IR pieces #TRIPworkshop
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 24, 2013

Last paper of #TRIPworkshop focused on how generations of different IR scholars vary in terms of what they do, value etc.Fun, fun paper
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) May 24, 2013

Overall, I learned a great deal not just about the profession but how people vary in what they see, what kinds of questions they ask when the look at the same data as myself, and about the next generation of scholars.  I was not the oldest person in the room but I was closer to that than to the youngest folks.  And the young ones are sharp, as sharp as kniiiiiiives.  Several were former William and Mary students that were turned onto IR by Mike Tierney, Sue Peterson and others at W&M.  This is the kind of place I wanted to teach when I got my PhD, and while I am quite happy with my career, I cannot help but be jealous of Mike and the W&M faculty.