• ISA News:  Congratulations to Dan and Patrick!  They will be involved with ISQ — ISA’s flagship publication for the next five years.  Dan has been selected as the lead editor, Patrick as the web editor.   Congrats!
• I’m not a fan of the new grading software technologies, but maybe I can be persuaded — grading while at ISA does suck.
• Already?  Minerva (note: not Duck of) a threat to MOOCs.
• We have an answer to the universe?   It’s all code?  Cool.
• The decline in critical thinking in the US is becoming a national security concern. Can we securitize the liberal arts?
• Barbara Walter, Daniel Maliniak, and Ryan Powers find that articles written by women in IR are cited significantly less than articles written by men.

Plus:

• Why leaving Afghanistan isn’t so easy — retrograde logistics.
• Kony 2012 2013, it’s now a $5m bounty.

and…

• ISA public service announcement:   Seriously?  This is the third day of the conference  — does this really need to be spelled out?  For all of you standing in line for 30 minutes for your Starbucks coffee in the Hilton lobby — there are three Starbucks within two blocks of the hotel — closest is a half a block on Powell and O’Farrell.  #getacluealready