For anyone going to ASN today, there is a book panel for Workplace Politics with a great cast of discussants and me at 3:20. www.asnconvention.com/panel-r4a

NEW from CAWP: the Gender & Politics Research Hub is live: cawp.rutgers.edu/research-ana...

Looking forward to this talk by Andrei Yakovlev tomorrow at the Harriman Institute. harriman.columbia.edu/event/can-a-...

With the great Nahomi Ichino, I wrote a short remembrance of Kimuli Kasara. We miss her dearly. Flip to pages 23-24. www.flipsnack.com/politicalsci...

Looking forward to presenting new research tomorrow at noon harriman.columbia.edu/event/keep-i...

2+ years in the making, and our paper “Fear, soft propaganda, and the demand for government intervention” is finally out in the European Economic Review 🎉 Thanks to @nikitaz.bsky.social, @timfrye.bsky.social, Koen Schoors and Katya Borisova for being amazing coauthors 🔻Old thread + new link below

What to read before #MPSA2026? CPS's @lowande.bsky.social and Cesi Cruz will participate in authors-meet-critics sessions on "How Congress Confronts Presidential Power" and "How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections." @timfrye.bsky.social, @szakonyi.bsky.social, @uofmpress.bsky.social

i will be speaking Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 at the Jordan Center. You can watch on zoom or in person by registering below. jordanrussiacenter.org/events/workp...

i will be speaking Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 at the Jordan Center. You can watch on zoom or in person by registering below. jordanrussiacenter.org/events/workp...

Looking forward to this event on Tuesday. mailchi.mp/nyu/mattocks...

Soon the city will descend into anarchy.

Now I know that the blizzard is an emergency. Door dash has suspended services.

maybe these two stories could have been one story. NYT with a not so subtle choice of article placement.

Looking forward to taking part in this event at noon today at Harriman to launch the new issue of our magazine. Virtual access still available. I also include a link below to my article. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr... harriman.columbia.edu/reflections-...

just another reason to love NYC. ny.eater.com/dining-out-i...

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

Looking forward to taking part in this event on February 17 at noon both online and in person. It launches our articles in the newest Harriman Institute magazine. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr...

Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

Looking forward to taking part in this event on Thursday at noon. www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream...

Amount of time network evening newscasts devoted to reporting on today’s protests and general strike in MN (not including coverage ICE actions or their attempts to spin) ABC: 45 seconds NBC: 20 seconds CBS: 15 seconds PBS: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This seems important

Lovely to see the outpouring of love for Kimuli, whose presence is so very missed. I’m adding here the “in memoriam” colleagues wrote for the department (a bit more personal than the one from the university!) polisci.columbia.edu/content/memo...

Thanks for posting. Looks interesting and will read with interest. Glad to see academic posts like this on Bluesky.

This pretty damning. Hard to see how faculty will take his leadership seriously.

Did I miss something or did today's WSJ not even mention the 5th anniversary of the January 6h insurrection? www.wsj.com

Five years since the January 6th insurrection and a reminder that in the moment many Republicans and Trump voters were appalled, but many also were not.

If kidnapping a country’s leader doesn’t count as an act of war, then what does?

I've been down on the WP for a while now and this Editorial Board piece is exactly why. The argument is shallower than a kiddie pool. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Not Somali.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law

You’d really be forgiven if you had a hard time conceiving of a success on this scale. “So I’ve got this idea for an environmental and public health project, we’re gonna reduce pollution by a fifth. No no it doesn’t cost anything. Actually it’s gonna net half a billion dollars.” What!

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months? Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA? But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis. Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

edition.cnn.com/2022/04/12/u... The Kremlin Kids, Russian Hypocrisy is well known and won’t change. The West is bad, but not that bad………….’ Peskov – reportedly made $173,000 in 2020

Such a shortsighted decision at a moment of international turbulence. These centers are needed now more than ever.

College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

Come work with us. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Studies and another for an open position at the Harriman Institute. Deadline January 5. harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...

Hard agree with Kotkin here www.foreignaffairs.com/china/weakne... and if you want more detail on the Russia case, See my book, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia www.amazon.com/Weak-Strongm...

Longer thread on relevant research: bsky.app/profile/prof...

Not that you really need it in this case, but research says no. Political appointee diplomats underperform career diplomats onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A ray of hope on an otherwise bleak weekend.

We recently published a special issue societal resilience in Ukraine with a focus on local and regional governance. Take a look. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpsa20/4...

The world is a less interesting place with the passing of Kimuli Kasara. She was brilliant, funny, and caring. And was loved by many. She was a great friend and confidante. We will all miss her terribly. Rest in peace. fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...

wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t

yes it is clever.

Man, 2025 has been rough.

Looking forward to this event today. Better in person but a recording will also be made available. sofheyman.org/events/celeb...