As an editor, I really appreciate it when people declining to review suggest potential reviewers. We (editors) don't know everybody and this is super helpful.

Academic folks: do you also notice that every now and then the number of Google Scholar citations gets trimmed significantly? If I remember correctly, my citations were close to 600 for years 2024 and 2025 and they are now around 560. Does anyone know why this can be the case?

idk if anyone's read orhan pamuk's (turkish nobel laureate in literature) museum of innocence but there's now a new netflix adaptation. it wasn't my favorite pamuk novel. what i most remember from it was this endless sense of boredom and dread. like a downward spiraling groundhog day,

Reports that FL Melania Trump will preside over the UN Security Council on Monday, March 2, as the US takes on the UNSC rotating presidency for March

IOC to Ukrainian skeleton racer w/ helmet featuring photos of dead Ukrainian athletes: "Disqualified." IOC to Catalan skimo fans waving the Estalada and Senyera: "Those are banned propaganda & we're confiscating them" IOC to Gianni Infantino, wearing a red USA 45-47 hat: "Looks good on you buddy"

One of the biggest wastes of academic productivity is the variation in page/word limits across journals in the same/related fields.

Interesting data:

As someone who has to get multiple mammograms and ultrasounds a year, I'm glad to see that Wisconsin has passed Gail's Law, which requires insurance companies to cover repeat screenings for dense, hard-to-diagnose tissue, with no out-of-pocket cost. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

I know the AI hype can drive anxiety about academic productivity, but please remember that an additional paper can have negative returns to both society and your reputation.

This made me cry.

This is big. The last kingpin. Of Mexico’s biggest cartel- CJNG. Many thought he was already dead. Now he is.

WTF? I'm more bullish about the academic potential of AI than most of my colleagues but this is a joke

Reminder that if Trump thinks tariffs are so important, he could work with Congress to pass legislation authorizing him to impose them.

Afegiria que als EUA, Alemanya, Hungria, Itàlia, França, El Salvador, Xile, Holanda, Finlàndia, Rússia, Israel, etc, també és culpa del Procés.

Very excited that my paper "National attachment, past in-group perpetratorhood, and out-group attitudes", co-authored with the great Elias Dinas & Ethan vanderWilden, has been accepted for publication at the British Journal of Political Science. Abstract copied below:

Congrats to Political Science Professor Anil Menon and co- authors who were featured in JHPPL for their article, ""Thoughts and Prayers": The (Non) Effect of Partisan Response to Mass Shootings on Public Opinion." Read article here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Catalan flags were confiscated today in the Olympic games (a Catalan won gold in Skimo) because political symbols are not allowed. As if all the nationalist symbols in the games were not political!

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Applications for the 2026 Journeys in World Politics workshop (10/1-10/3) in San Diego are being accepted (due 6/1). The workshop features Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor as senior mentors. Christina Schneider is our local host! Visit the site below to apply. www.saramitchell.org/journeys.html

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

"Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old's death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him." www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I agree that we should look at the content, not the number of mentions.

First Team USA's medal of this game is brought by a queer athlete. What will MAGA say? 🌈

And, as far as I know, she is the first queer skier to achieve this amazing feat.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to move forward with a new voter-approved congressional map that favors Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea by state Republicans and the Trump administration.

Winter Olympics: that time of the year where people who never follow winter sports decide that they like to watch winter sports...until the next Olympics.

In a functioning democracy, he would not be president by this evening

Another thing that I have noticed after nearly two decades in New York state, is that Northern liberalism really is a thing. Even rural central NY still has plenty of counterculture and free thinking (not just in Ithaca). Rural conservatives may vote Republican, but they want to leave people alone

incredible 🤣

Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Houston Chronicle editorial board says that Democrats should make state Rep. James Talarico their Senate candidate because he's running like he actually wants to win in Texas. bit.ly/4qfdZkM

Our February Issue has been published! Read it at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I still continue to have a critical view of AI. This does not make me a technophobe nor a caveman.

What’s that you say? A radical right party whose rise once seemed unstoppable is now falling to bits?

Just a reminder that "A database maintained by the right-wing Heritage Foundation found "fewer than 100 examples of non-citizens voting between 2002 and 2022, amid more than 1 billion lawfully cast ballots." via @juddlegum.bsky.social

Trump reclama ahora 1.000 millones de dólares a Harvard

Now out in the February 2026 issue of the APSR.

Wow. Is this real?

February 2026 issue of the @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

BUT YOU CANNOT DEPORT US CITIZENS. THIS IS ILLEGAL. WHY ARE YOU ASKING FOR SOMETHING IS ALREADY THE LAW. WHY.

Oh Canada 🇨🇦

New working paper with Ana Paula Pellegrino and Ben Burnley (both of them recent PhDs from Georgetown): "Between wars and words: how international conflict shapes discourse of non-belligerent political leaders" www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...

When I was a teenager, I came to the US for three or four weeks to visit a friend and improve my English. My destination were the Twin Cities, thus the first place in the US I visited by myself.

‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities

Snap elections, confidence votes, proportional representation, so many boring electoral mechanisms that I wish we had in this country

That this is happening on this very night, and that the CEOs of Apple and Amazon are attending, the symbolism is almost too much.