"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

Looking for a postdoc in American politics? Come work with us in Ann Arbor! No obligations other than research. Preference for institutions-focused work, but we’re open to a wide range of substantive interests (including local politics!). Happy to answer any questions: apply.interfolio.com/178829

This sounds less like a grievance and more like a practical how-to for junior scholars!

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Officially out with @mayasen.bsky.social! We find defendants assigned to former public defenders are less likely to be incarcerated, providing insight into the relationship between criminal legal disparities and judicial characteristics. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This morning at @thejop.bsky.social blog, Mike and I discuss our new paper on the effects of getting the Voting Rights Act on the turnout gap — and what it might mean for the case before the Court right now. A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall! ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...

Check out this outstanding opportunity to be mentorwd by the one and only @allipatter.bsky.social!! (w/ guest appearances from myself & @arielrwhite.bsky.social!)

Periodic request to please post #psjminfo updates to www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updat...

New research finds mass shootings may increase voter turnout and support for gun reform initiatives in the United States, but the effect is hyperlocalized near the incidents. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4qYXFWP

The audience loved this project when it was presented at #Justice&Injustice!! Congrats to Nirvikar!

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Minority Power "Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages." #SocialPsyc

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e

In the newsletter this week, I point out that Stephen Miller’s great-replacement rhetoric depends on demonstrably false assumptions about immigrants’ politics. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u... A baller move by uni leaders in forward thinking states would be poach clusters of scholars from TX institutions. You’d inject a generation’s worth of teaching and productivity power to your school for bargain basement prices. Paging Ass. Deans across the nation.

📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...

¡¡VOLUME 23, ISSUE 4 IS NOW OUT!! doi.org/10.1017/S153... cambridge.org/core/journal... Incl. work by @miloward.bsky.social, @mfroman.bsky.social ,@klirro.bsky.social, @hlw.bsky.social, @arielrwhite.bsky.social, @eckhouse.bsky.social, @dramyhliu.bsky.social, @karstendonnay.bsky.social...

One of the unique things Talarico does is market progressive ideas in a religious frame. He is BOTH radical and moderate. This is the kind of thing that unidimensional discussions of “electability” can miss. This isn’t about the TX primary but about how “electability”-stans are thinking too small.

Hey hey hey y'all! Interested in the politics of #policing? The new issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social has MANY great articles! Lead by rockstar @averrilli.bsky.social ⭐ & w/ @mfroman.bsky.social (& me): "Policing Socio-Geographic Boundaries and Inequality" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I loved this conversation for Inside Philanthropy about my forthcoming book and my work at Arnold Ventures. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/7-quest...

Breaking News: Republicans in the Indiana Senate defied President Trump and joined Democrats in voting down a congressional map aimed at adding GOP seats.

So interesting! Relevant for scholars getting creative to measure micro-level dynamics in cities cc: @averrilli.bsky.social

Great opportunity for early career scholars!

Quick reminder that Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government is conducting an open (non-targeted) faculty search in American politics at the rank of full professor I encourage any interested scholars to submit their application ASAP! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418

@jamestalarico.bsky.social sent this video to his 10,000 volunteers: “We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”

That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Check out this new brief w/ @sentencingproject.bsky.social on how to get people w/ convictions who can vote out to the polls! W/ @blibal.bsky.social @nicoledporter.bsky.social #RobStewart Summarizes existing and emerging research that partners w/ community orgs already doing the work!

I am concerned that my voting rights class is a history class www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

@adambonica.bsky.social doing incredible work in this space: open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social She is a rising star and on the market!

Go get ‘em @averrilli.bsky.social!!

📢 WORKING PAPER ALERT 📢 "Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9

Another great talk, this time from Nick Ottone @nottone.bsky.social at @priec.bsky.social on the impact of group based diversity on downstream sentencing decisions (He’s on the market!! Look out, he’s on the way up!!)

Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social She is a rising star and on the market!

Off to a great start at #CUBoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social! UT grad @mirandasullivan.bsky.social presenting her excellent work on the impact of respectability politics among Latines… she finds… (She’s on the market! Keep your eye on this rising star 🌟#hookem)

Good morning everybody! Time for my favorite conference on the planet #BoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social (aside from J&IJ obvi 😉)

I’ve not been on a school bus in years. And I’d never been on one w @melissamichelson.bsky.social & @hlw.bsky.social until tonight! Thank you @sentencingproject.bsky.social for an evening of fellowship & clips of the film “And Water Brings Tomorrow” (ashleyhunt.info/andwaterbrin...)

Favorite quote from the morning plenary: “Collective resistance is political kryptonite” #CivicPower2025 @hlw.bsky.social @sentencingproject.bsky.social

And now we have a tag for our excellent coauthor @SamRothEA!! Great working with you, Sam!

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

Super excited this is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social #SamRoth & @dosocialjustice.bsky.social "Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Partnering with @dosocialjustice.bsky.social, we used a multi-method approach to find a promising means of registering justice-impacted citizens to vote @arielrwhite.bsky.social @hlw.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @polbehavior.bsky.social

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*

Looking forward to presenting our work on the political behavior of incarcerated people tomorrow at CUNY! This is one of the more exciting papers I've worked on during grad school. We're also presenting findings at ASA in Chicago later this summer.

It's also very cool that @hlw.bsky.social has the presentation slot right after us. Workshop attendees are going to get a whole afternoon full of politics-of-criminalization research :)