Thrilled to announce that I've accepted a job as an assistant professor of political science at BYU Hawaii starting this Fall! 🌺🌴🍍 Our family feels so blessed to have this opportunity and to call Laie home.

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Feeling very fortunate to be awarded @apsa.bsky.social 2025 First-Generation Scholar Travel & Accessibility Grant! I'm always happy to chat with prospective graduate students about my pathway as a FLI student. Feel free to reach out!

Wish me luck! I have 2 Girl Scouts selling cookies this year, & online sales start today! I'll put each girl's link below. Check the total sold & buy from whichever is lowest. Goal is to sell the exact same amount! 🍪 (Only select Girl Delivery if you're in Palo Alto, or DM me!)

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides in 2025. For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

May the Force Be With You ☄️🌌💫 Happy Halloween! (I made most of my costume myself and WOW, I need to calm down next year) #halloween2025 #starwars

🎶 💜🤍💛 But then suddenly we felt it Like a mighty cannon blast Every cost and battle lost of every generation past So we rose up in defiance Yes, we chose to risk it all For our sisters' silent voices Let the patriarchy fall 🎶 💜🤍💛

The young are at the gates! 💜💛🏳️🇺🇸💛💜 Matisse & Mom saw their dream musical, Suffs, all about the fight for the 19th amendment and women's rights! Thank you @lwvsf.bsky.social for hosting!

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways this piece from @whyy.org is great an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive whyy.org/segments/oze...

Me checking my email while on the academic job market

I know some people think "it is what it is" is a thought-terminating cliche or whatever, but it's getting me through job market season day by day 🤷‍♀️

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

bring back the santa robes

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Open enrollment begins on November 1, Mike.

stand by my choices for my daughter's cultural doll school project. Happy LDS General Conference weekend! 🤍 #lds #ldsconf (Her kindergarten teacher is also LDS & is gonna lol)

It's a hit ✨🧡💚🤍🧡💚🤍✨

A great day of sorrow for our faith after our President dies and a church building full of our brothers and sisters in Michigan was attacked by a gunman/arsonist. Please keep the victims and families in your thoughts and prayers at this time.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Happy to announce that my sweet daughter Matisse is playing Molly in the Palo Alto Players production of Annie! ⭐️🗽🎭 If you're in the Bay Area in November (or wanna visit), come and see her! paplayers.org/event/annie/ Her show dates🗓️: 11/7, 11/14, 11/15 evening, 11/22 matinee, 11/23

17 academic job applications down, now just 21 more to go! 😅

to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)

This is absolute nonsense. First of all, VCs don't do survey-based statistical sampling on this scale, where the error is somewhat inherent. Second, modeling errors on a much larger scale are a common and accepted risk in VC.

Want to make a conjoint experiment in Qualtrics? I'm sharing a template + how-to I made while Survey Lab manager this past semester. I hope it is helpful! sierradavisthomander.com/blogposts/de...

RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Caroline Soler, Ansolabehere, & @bfschaffner.bsky.social: “Shor’s claims about young white women and men of color supporting Trump are simply not supported by the best public data available.” tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-v...

PINCH ME, I'M DREAMING

This is extremely chilling stuff.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Dear American National Election Studies (ANES) User Community, we are pleased to announce the preliminary release of pre-election data for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study. The data and documentation can be downloaded from the study page at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Much more ANES data to come. We are most excited about the 3-wave panel with nearly 2000 completed interviews of the same respondents in 2016, 2020, and 2024. This will be coming in a few months. Very grateful to the ANES staff, Board, and of course the National Science Foundation.

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Please write your representative about this, ESPECIALLY if you live in a red/purple state! Here's a form: act.aclu.org/a/save-act

There is a lot of talk about blue states resisting, etc. and this educator would humbly suggest that this is not the way forward. I refuse to leave our people in red states behind. The Civil Rights Movement came from the Deep South. Red state progressives are some of the hardest working activists.

The American National Election Study is an NSF funded publicly available, incredibly rich dataset that tracks American public opinion, vote choice and evaluations of government that has been in the field since 1948. It is an incredible resource for teaching and research and must be protected.

There are no words that can adequately describe what losing ANES would mean

Musk has immense power and is either playing dumb or has no idea what he's doing muskwatch.com/subscribe

If a student wrote this on a paper, I'd give them an F.

The keywords “female” and “woman” under new NSF guidelines will lead to grant desk rejection, but not “man” or “male.”

It's not in this statement, but this is the current stance of the LDS Church: Public officials should create and administer laws that reflect the best of our aspirations as a just and caring society.

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

Imagine thinking a society with hungry kids you refuse to feed is meritocratic

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 Michele Swers & @daniellethomsen.bsky.social examine the (co)sponsorship of bills by Republican women to understand which of types of policies they propose move through the legislative process. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky https://buff.ly/4h3qo7w

1989: this or that 🗽