First day for my class on Applied Government research was pretty fun! 😁

So excited for this project, and very happy to once again be working with a great team!

So proud of my students who presented their PoliSci 101 issue analyses at the 7th (!) annual Public Service Colloquium! Congrats everyone and enjoy break 😊

A colleague of mine died this evening after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. He was a month from retirement. Be careful out there folks, and hug your loved ones. 😔🌺

Heard in Politics of Inequality today: “[we] minority people don’t go ICE FISHING!”

@winls.bsky.social Writing Group today 2:30pm ET with me & @juliamarinhellwege.bsky.social ! JOIN US :)

LOL this isn’t just a stupid theory of college students but it’s a stupid theory of people. NO ONE thinks what other people tell them to. That’s not how humans work.

On Monday, I worked outside, in short sleeves. Today, we got several inches of snow. That’s normal right? More like SoDakAF!

At least 1,500 children under the age of 10, including 600 under the age of four, have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to a list released on Thursday by the health ministry there. More than 100 were listed as less than a year old. nyti.ms/45KtzKJ

Anyone have suggestions for best PRACTICAL books for teaching interviews & focus groups? TIA

Just like me to pick the last warm day to work outside just to say “I should do this more often!”

Two more on strategic coordination in states with multi-seat districts for state legislative elections. @juliamarinhellwege.bsky.social and E. Garrish on the benefits to parties from running larger slates: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 3/3

So, just to recap ... After taking fifteen votes to become Speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was forced out of that position by the hard-right fringe of his own caucus. /1 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Took me long enough to get here... Nice to see so many of you again. Thanks, @poliscigrl.bsky.social