I am teaching an undergrad political science methods class in the fall on data visualization and advanced data analysis. I am going to use @kjhealy.co's & @hankjs.bsky.social's book. Do any of you have journal articles to recommend that visualize or explain polici methods well for undergrads?

Thank you to Jim Raymo, the Global Japan Lab, and @princetonpolitics.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday at @princeton.edu to present new research with @strauszm.bsky.social on population aging and democratic representation. Really appreciated the great conversation and thoughtful comments.

Every American needs to watch this:

#OpenAccess - Conservative Politics and the Dilemma of Immigration in Japan - https://cup.org/4phhcQx - Ko Maeda & @strauszm.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Gendered views on immigration policy stances? The case of Japan - https://cup.org/4hxDATi "gender bias in voter evaluations may not be as severe as the literature expects..." - Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social & @ykshrt.bsky.social#OpenAccess #jjps

#OpenAccess - Gendered views on immigration policy stances? The case of Japan - cup.org/4lV2PiL - Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social & @ykshrt.bsky.social #FirstView

Using the military against American citizens. We are in an incredibly dark place.

🚨TENURE TRACK POLI SCI JOBS🚨 Yes, "jobs" plural. TCU is hiring two assistant professors, to begin in Fall of 2026. 1) American Politics, with a preference for Gender and Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista... 2) Public Law and/or Judicial Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

Come work with me! We’re hiring two Tenure Track positions this fall. One is in judicial politics and I’m on the committee! The other is in American Politics. Link below is for the judicial one but I’ll put the American line in the comments! 🎉 jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs found nowhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs with zero thought or debate. They probably don't even know.

I just completed version 3.0 of my R workbook, which you can find here: strauszm.github.io/AreYouReady/.... This version has new data, some new tools, and some new, clear explanations of key concepts (including of statistical significance and residuals). Take a look!

My article with Melanie Sonntag and @ykshrt.bsky.social about how supportive the Japanese public was of COVID-era entry bans on foreigners (short answer: very supportive) was just publised in Social Science Japan Journal: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

TCU is hiring in Judicial Politics. The title "Instructor" undersells it a bit. As far as non-TT jobs go, this one is pretty great.

I am delighted to annouce the publication of my new edited volume _No Island is an Island: Perspectives on Immigration to Japan_. You can order it, or ask your library to order it, here: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/no-isl...

2024 was the year that Japanese politics went Online. But there's a risk that politics will focus on the symptom rather than the cause. My latest: observingjapan.substack.com/p/the-year-j...

Gendered views may affect how voters evaluate candidates on education and national security, but they may be less salient on the issue of immigration, an experimental study in Japan shows. Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social @ykshrt.bsky.social shiraito.github.io/research/fil...

"How To Watch Election Night without Freaking Out." I made this video to help nervous election viewers know what to pay attention to on Election Night -- and, more importantly, what not to pay attention to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uamx...

Come work with me and other cool people! Instructor job for Public Law/Courts: jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/instruc...

Check out this book by one of my great colleagues!

Academic friends: we are hiring the Herman Brown Chair of Political Science at TCU (in Fort Worth, Texas). Please consider applying and please feel free to ask me any questions about the job, our department, TCU, Fort Worth, etc. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/herman-...

How do you sleep at night when your job requires you to coerce children to get head trauma to win “points”? I guess the simplest answer is you don’t care if kids get head trauma

Political scientists, and friends of political scientists: Texas Christian University is hiring an assistant professor of comparative politics, specializing in Latin America or Africa. The announcement is here: jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista... Please feel free to ask me any questions!

Here is version 2.0 of my R Workbook: strauszm.github.io/AreYouReady/.... R is tough to learn at first, but it is so rewarding and powerful. Feel free to use this workbook to teach yourself R or to teach students in a non profit educational setting. And please let me know if you are using it!

I was in the gallery for Kishida's speech to Congress. Here's what I thought: observingjapan.substack.com/p/mr-kishida...

Being this wrong this often isn't easy. Random chance would be right a lot more. You have to shun evidence and reason, force everything into a whiny, aggrieved conspiracy theory, and, whatever you do, never let being repeatedly, egregiously wrong in public lead you to try any reflection or revision.

For the first time, Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex partners count as surviving family. It’s ordered Nagoya courts to revise their decision that denied the plaintiff financial benefits given to heterosexual couples after his partner of 20 years was killed in 2014.

This is a really nice profile of one of my former students: www.tcu.edu/news/2024/he...

Looking forward to my first acknowlegement in a medical journal because I just taught my sister how to use R for her study on pediatric migraines 💁🏻‍♀️

counterpoint: How does a Quaker, rancher, Californian and a Grocer, dosed for pneumonia in a Mostly closely knit family of brothers, with wanderlust Who was bussed to school, unrefined Grow up to be the president who resigned?

I have a great student who is taking a survey as a part of an independent study. If you have 5-10 minutes, please take the survey, which you can find here: tcu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Your regular reminder that we, your professors, LOVE IT when you email us after the fact to let us know what you're up to. Truly one of the most gratifying parts of this work.

The Groupe d'études sur le politique au Japon kindly invited me to talk about: "Reform Initiatives in Health-Care Migration to Japan: A Discussion of their Political Dimensions" Please join the discussion if you can: 11/30 Thu, 10.30 am (CET) / 6.30 pm (JST) Registration: seiji.hypotheses.org

This is awful.

This is real. It is a terrible day for the Cornell community.

This is horrific, horrific news. May Sam's memory be a blessing that reminds us that we are all in this together. May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences. May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.

I wrote this book in part to remind people that immigration isn’t a crisis, it’s a profoundly human thing that many of us have had/will have to do, and we could just do much better? We don’t have to do nativism all the time? Please buy criminally discounted https://a.co/d/4tIQ841

Excited that my latest article now has an issue number at the Journal of European Public Policy! I trace the strategic divergence of religion policy in Catalonia & Alsace-Moselle to distinguish subsnational ID from 🇪🇸 & 🇫🇷. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Question from a student: does anyone know where to find inflation data for each Japanese prefecture? Japanese language is fine.

New from me @goodauth.bsky.social: I show how a change in the Cooperative Election Study from select-all-that-apply to forced-choice produce a big "shift" in immigration attitudes. Maybe only 40 people will care about this, but here's the graph! goodauthority.org/news/the-pro...

"True friends of the Jewish people don’t pick which half of the world’s Jews are the good ones and which half are the bad ones, like some sort of anti-Semitic Santa Claus." I wrote about Trump's menacing Rosh Hashana message:

@profmusgrave.bsky.social can you please add me to the polisky feed? Thanks!

New correlation/causation teaching example just dropped