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

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

this story is WILD “Lame duck session” was out, because “lame” was offensive. Even “Americans” should be avoided, the guide said, because it excluded non-U. S. citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

it's also possible to convince voters of this! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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absolutely brutal

one of the most exhausting things on here is the self righteousness of people complaining about other people still being on twitter

The Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma is recruiting graduate students who wish to earn PhDs in political science. We want students who are interested in American Politics in a area that can be supervised by one of our three faculty (Rachel Blum, Chuck Finocchiaro and myself).

i just continue to be amazed at how much i've been able to learn via ChatGPT since it got "smarter". Just an incredible tool for researchers who already have a strong technical background

it's actually fine if you don't want to vote for/send money to/post favorably about a guy who accidentally got a Nazi tattoo while drunk and kept it because he thought it looked cool. that doesn't make you unreasonably closed-minded.

i feel like you dont' see this talked about enough

well this is just a deeply upsetting read: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/s...

don't protest the Wrong way, protest the Right way

Exactly what I keep telling my students. I am and should be referred to as a community hero

if this is what your DAG is looking like i'm not sure you should be using panel data lol

police 🤝academics

Update on this ad: this position will not be the managing editor of PRQ. You will have no formal editorial responsibilities. You just have to go to a couple meetings every year. Trying to get the ad changed.

huge if true

Deadline extended! Still time to get your submissions into legislative politics section!

The University of Utah Department of Political Science is hiring a department chair at the rank of Full Professor! This job is open to any subfield. Let me know if you have questions about the search, including (as you likely are wondering) why we are hiring an external chair.

i wish AJPS would stop boycotting my papers

sociologists have discovered the people prefer romantic relationships with people who agree with them (this paper is doing numbers on reddit) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

you do not in fact gotta hand it to Sinclair

Just posted an updated/revised version of this “Statistical Methods in Public Policy Research” chapter, now under review post-R&R 🤞 I'm kinda partial and unbiased here, but I really really like this piece! HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/ SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The University of Utah Department of Political Science is hiring a department chair at the rank of Full Professor! This job is open to any subfield. Let me know if you have questions about the search, including (as you likely are wondering) why we are hiring an external chair.

qualtiative research boy, idk

100%

what's the actual research on tylenol and autism? my understanding is this is a much more open area of work than, say, autism and vaccines

Deadline Friday!

This kind of poll has been debunked over and over. It's clickbait that harms society by convincing people that their fellow citizens are stupider than they really are. academic.oup.com/poq/article-...

yes yes -- exactly why revolving door restrictions are probably social welfare worsening (in a world where we're never going to pass actual pay increases)

Trying to get onto the right blocklists: - Most of the time I like Ezra Klein - AI can be quite good sometimes - Very often, markets are effective solutions to problems - Building more housing, not necessarily affordable, is necessary for lowering housing prices

Not much is known about Nexstar as a media conglomerate. In our paper, we show it's grown substantially in the past decade and benefitted significantly from Trump's first term regulatory changes via the FCC.

The consolidation of the ownership of local TV among 3 ownership groups is probably bad for consumers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The University of Utah political science department is hiring a junior comparativist this cycle, ideally with a focus on Asia and a desire and willingness to teach grad/undergrad stats classes. I'm not on the search, but am very happy to talk to anyone interested in the job. SLC is extremely dope

The @wpsa.bsky.social 2026 annual meeting submission deadline is soon. Reminder: it's in San Diego! In April! I'm the section chair for legislative politics, please submit your papers. Also, this is a great conference for graduate students! www.wpsanet.org/meeting/

Might as well give it a shot www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

spent today catching up on email. realized i missed a lot of things. won't be catching up on email again, lesson learned there

truly insane how much bluesky is piling on Ezra Klein. exactly why this place is used as a toxic label for certain progressives

My experience is that at the height of Elon’s political involvement Bluesky was better than X but now it is worse again. On X I stay on my following feed. I feel that this place is a bit of an echo chamber and people get outraged too quickly when someone deviates from the site’s orthodoxy.

Football,,

academics with 20+ projects, grants, grad students, etc. -- do you have any tools you are using to keep track of stuff? every time i try something i inevitably find out it's too much work to keep it updated

lmao i saw this on twitter and i thought it was a bit but, no, it's real

sorry i'm a bit confused here, as academics we don't want our papers used?

alright here's probably one of my favorite chatGPT usecases so far: cleaning up archaic latex preambles!

i see this kind of opinion a lot. it removes that media respond to consumer demand -- there's a reason media production looks like it does. supply and demand

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anybody have a regression discontinuity paper outside of the US context that they like?