How fast could an Olympian speed skate from the inner harbor to, like, Cambridge or St. Michaels?

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

The daycare has ruled that my deadlines shall be blown on this modestly snowy day

At least Werner Herzog will finally be able to make Fitzcarraldo 2

🚨 an overtime Politics has just occurred

Obliged to turn on the Olympic hockey game, because I study politics for a living

I'm reminded of the joke that goes: "Academia is a cake eating contest, and if you win, the reward is more cake." If you went thru the tenure process you must LOVE this dense, inedible cake. And you're gonna go like hell to create fancier and weirder kinds of cake to share w/ your peers, forever 🍰

Is there *anything* a politician could do to lose your support? We wanted to know who says "no" to this question, and how we might encourage them to change their mind. 3 survey experiments and a large scale cross sectional study later, and we know much more about this exceptional form of bias! ⬇️

The real "perils of presidentialism:" daycare is closed today but our jobs are not

The New Yorker: making my lunch break feel impossibly short on the daily

Moore's Law of Sledding

the structure of scientific devolutions

My research methods students played "mad libs" today to create practice research questions. One asked them to propose an IV that explained variation in life satisfaction among Millennials. They proposed "running in marathons for fun" and I can't help but feel a little called out

That sinking feeling when you're on your phone and Libby tells you a book you tagged is now available at your library, and you smash the borrow button but somehow you're already 5th in line 😭

I love following university presses on here. I would have never, ever thought to seek this book out, and now here I am trying to get a copy. Posture politics!

Sooo close to 32... You can do it, Baltimore...

It increasingly feels like we are just living in the Long Woodstock '99s

I recently joined Eric Stokan (UMBC) and Nate Jensen (Texas) to publish a study that investigates how bid transparency affected the public discourse surrounding cities' frenzy to land Amazon's HQ2 in 2017. Check out a summary of our work here (out now in PSJ): psjblog.net/2025/12/17/w...

Be careful what you wish for, #Baltimore edition: The Bobcats that came to clear the snow from our street just mauled my neighbor's car...

It feels so good to be a Tar Heel

In 2022 curling became my #1 favorite spectator sport, and it will apparently never be dethroned

Pictured: me arriving at MPSA in my third year of grad school, after driving across Indiana in my nearly broken down Mitsubishi

Endooooooohohohoho... Geneity!

I've had students *intern* for Calvin Ball and I never put this together lmao

We have reached a new stage of the ongoing Maryland Snowcrete-pocalypse. A swarm of Bobcats has arrived. They're driving in circles pushing snow around in front of my house, beeping like crazy and shaking the walls. So far they have removed approximately 1 square foot of snowcrete. Good good

Just... please stahp

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another legislative shenanigan was made

Sure, we have the Big Five, but we urgently need to develop the "do you listen to Goose or Geese?" personality inventory

Sadly, political scientists have shown again and again that the public is animated by perceptions like this in virtually all realms of policy and public debate

Working from a coffee shop next to a HARD TYPIST. Just a previously unknown level of rapid fire keyboard striking. Amazed at this guy's game. His fingers must have inch thick calluses. The Hafþór Björnsson of typing.

"that's you dad, you have arms and you are tired"

Wow, campus is now closed for the rest of the week. We may never UMBC each other again!

I can't stop thinking about the MD redistricting push, its opponents, and what this story tells us about state politics under conditions of national polarization.

Day 3 of Baltimore snow-in. Colleagues are sending emails; I'm leading kid yoga sessions in between baby feedings. Morale lower than the temps

smh, all the fancy political scientists said Maryland would never become a red state

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

Lewis Hamilton is eventually gonna EGOT

Welp, my Tuesday classes are already canceled. Syllabus v1.2 on its way... ❄️

"that's you dad, you have arms and you are tired"

Delighted to learn that we are approaching publication on this GREAT edited collection of short games and simulations for political science classrooms! Even just reading the ToC gives me new ideas for active learning! www.routledge.com/Short-Games-...

We let Indiana get too powerful and now its weather has escaped containment

I U

It's happening

Enjoying herring smørrebrød and black coffee while my ancestors from the Danelaw era nod and smile knowingly behind me in force-ghost form

Still struggling to explain this Indiana football phenomenon to the uninitiated. It's like if out of the blue, Estonia were to eclipse the US and China in the summer Olympics gold medal count in 2028

Imagine watching this game and then watching today's game

Registering my long term fan cred before I get accused of bandwagoning this astonishing IU football team

Don we now our cream and crimson