Aspire to be an unknown genius www.wsj.com/business/aut...

I'm hiking in Acadia NP. I love this area in every season!

The death of Brigitte Bardot necessitated the update of this marvelous chart. Only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's banger "We Didn't Start The Fire" are still alive. Source: buff.ly/cWkphRB

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LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland, whose eloquence was exceeded only by his benevolence, dies at 85

It's a southern white Christmas

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Imagine how empty your life must be to spend Christmas with family and loved ones, when you could be online all day, furiously arguing about football

From FSU PhD @quillianbloodworth.bsky.social

Back when I was a PhD student at FSU, TurningPointUSA came to campus. A few of their claims: conservatives have a harder time than liberals establishing new student groups and inviting guest speakers to campus. I found no evidence for these claims in two experiments published in Political Behavior.

But seriously, happy solstice, Bluesky peeps. Here is the last light today over Eagle Lake in Acadia NP, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory.

Jordan Pond from North Bubble (Acadia National Park, Maine) for #SunsetSaturday Prints etc. store.alex-kunz.com/featured/nor... #LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Acadia #Maine #EastCoast #Landscape

Colorado closing its border to New Mexico in 1936 is wild www.cpr.org/2019/09/11/i...

I’m old enough to remember when one of you all said “I think we’ve learned all that we can from audit studies” a few years ago.

Former FSU student!

I also tell my grad students to “make minor adjustments”, like ball players do, when you‘re down in the count (rejected paper, R&Rs, etc.)

The Red Sox and Rockies are the only teams not to have signed a free agent to a major league contract. The Nationals and Twins have not done so officially but have signings in the works. The Rockies have a decent excuse as they have a new president of baseball ops. Quite a surprise.

Almost 10 hours hours of sleep per night, 5k to 6k calories per day (but no desserts), and 100 miles per week. Sounds about right for a runner news.cornellcollege.edu/2025/12/VanW...

This looks like a must-read for diff-in-diffs folks. www.nber.org/papers/w34550

Totally Normal

IYKYK #CalvinAndHobbes

Top of Cadillac Mtn one evening in July a couple of years ago in Acadia National Park.

Adventures in questionable translation: I do in fact find washing the smalls to be “extremely funny” Denmark 1969

There are a few things I miss about small town Iowa. Closing down streets for sledding is one of them.

This bag of cookies from a student made my day

The Maine Coast at Acadia National Park #acadia #acadianationalpark #atlanticocean #maine #mainecoast #landscapephotography

Don’t give the political scientists any ideas.

From October 2025 - Believing What Politicians Communicate: Ideological Presentation of Self and Voters’ Perceptions of Politician Ideology - https://cup.org/4gTSToM - @hjghassell.bsky.social, @michaelheseltine.bsky.social & @reuning.bsky.social ‬ #OpenAccess

The full title is actually Wicked Pissah

This is an impressive project. My reaction to what it shows though is that survey experiments have gotten out of hand in polisci. I will blog more on this, but I do not think survey experiments are emblematic of the credibility revolution. Some are already interpreting as such, which is a problem.

Jordan Pond, November.

RIP Tom Stoppard “We do stuff onstage which are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity if you look at every exit as an entrance somewhere else.” -Player, Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Estaba pensando en lo bien se siente tener un bigote! I was thinking about how good it feels to have a moustache! Rediscovering this classic. youtu.be/JAF7nHRBS34?...

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

117 days until Opening Day

Oh, Acadia!

Stata users: if you aren't already, definitely start using bookmarks to create headings and sub-headings in your .do files. Such a big help! **# in a .do file creates a heading; **## = subheading; **### = sub-subheading. Then double-click on them to jump right to that section 👍

More evidence of institutional bias in single blind review. Why are we still doing this?

We're now up to Reviewer #15

Really proud of our new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social!! @nicoravanilla.bsky.social @matthewjnanes.bsky.social What does citizen contact do to police attitudes in conflict settings? For those interested in bureaucrats, embeddedness, conflict, mixed methods: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Reviewer #13 agreed? Either this is going to be one really complicated R&R or the journal is having a hard time finding reviewers.

Read below and then watched highlights from Scotland Denmark. It all makes sense youtu.be/73cVhK9qL1o?...

My final thought of the night. Just caught this comment by Scotland midfielder John McGinn and it may be one of the most Scottish things ever 😂 "I thought we were pretty rubbish to be honest, but who cares?"

Important paper. So far most of the potential solutions I've seen mentioned (in-person surveys, high-quality/validated panels, address-based sampling) cost lots of money and will thus deepen divides based on resources. Something that we'll also need to grapple with. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55uok...

*slow whistle* Opt-in panels without verification (e.g. voter file matching) are a dead method walking.

my perspective on this (which is not particularly novel) is that we will need to move exclusively to: a) mail-based samples (or samples that can verify something concrete like voter file); b) in person samples (back to undergraduates); c) elite samples (oof) of course, lots of unknowns here

Nothing more enjoyable than watching your kids so what they love (also nerve wracking)

But according to Chris Christie in the Times, the regulation of sports gambling is going great!

One of my favorite photos from hiking in Acadia