Proud to take a break from our conference to join the virtual action with colleagues!

New editorial from me and @keithschnak.bsky.social. “Why Washington University must not sign Trump's 'compact'”

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

interesting!

This afternoon I was proud to represent our MIT @aaup.org chapter at a student-organized press conference about the proposed "compact"

Here's what I said about @MIT's decision to decline the compact, and why others should join us: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This afternoon I was proud to represent our MIT @aaup.org chapter at a student-organized press conference about the proposed "compact"

Finally, check out AAUP-Penn’s statement that clearly frames the compact as a “threat, not an invitation.” No to partisan interference in higher education! @aaup-penn.bsky.social Statement here👇

Mai Hassan, associate professor of @mitpolisci.bsky.social and faculty director of the MIT-Africa Program, co-authored a guest essay in @nytimes.com discussing the consequences of the international community recognizing Sudan’s juntas. Read here: nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

My quote to the AP: "What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government... Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Call for applications! The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) is seeking two Postdoctoral Associates for the 2026–27 academic year. We are looking for scholars demonstrating exceptional scholarly achievement and promise for policy- relevant research. Please visit: tinyurl.com/33d2veuf

There's a new issue of the section newsletter out! This one's on sample considerations in experiments: professional survey-takers, LLM usage, rural contexts, and more! connect.apsanet.org/s42/newslett...

I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate. The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.

Reminder: It does not matter if Lisa Cook filled out a form wrong or if the raid finds some document in a file folder in John Bolton's house. These actions are wrong no matter what because they selectively target opponents of the government. The rule of law is under attack.

NEW: The 9th Circuit permits the Trump admin to terminate TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal for now. This population includes 50,000 people who have been here legally since 1998 and will now have to leave the US or risk deportation. Many have no path to permanent status.

Check out the third cohort of Pathways@GDL Summer interns! polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/pa... @nlnathan.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social @ncatsuaggies.bsky.social @unm.edu @howard.edu @mit.edu @mit-cis.bsky.social

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

I hope Suresh Naidu is wrong, but I’m pretty sure he’s right—Columbia’s settlement with Trump is unlikely to stick: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

The latest winners of the Journal of Experimental Political Science best article awards have been announced - - Rebecca Morton Best Article Award - Best Article with a Pre-Registration - Best Replication cup.org/451FCFa cc @jepsjournal.bsky.social

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

My third demo in four days, this one with awesome colleagues at MIT at the Boston courthouse at the AAUP versus Marco ("[W]e don’t need these people in our country") Rubio trial. "Up, up with education, down, down with deportation!"

I'm writing this post in high dudgeon because what the Court endorsed today is unamerican and contemptuous not just of the role of the judiciary but also of the responsibility we have as a nation to those in our custody and those we subject to punishment. I'm mad as hell. You should be too.

We worked w/ #NJISJ to test effective ways of making newly enfranchised people aware of their rights. We combine ethnographic work with organizers w/ a field test of the strategies and tactics they viewed as successful

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

"He had an email from China, offering to move his lab to “any city, any university I want,” he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years. [He] declined, because he loves his adopted country. [Many] just setting out on their careers, however, fear there is no other option but to leave."

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

Last chance to submit papers! Due date is tomorrow 5/1

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Cambridge asking Harvard to take a stand. Great to see @ryanenos.bsky.social and many other colleagues speaking up and people cheering on a icy grey rainy day.

It's time to put in award nominations---deadline is 4/15!

Come to MIT for our conference on the politics of crime & punishment! info/call below

Last day to apply for our summer research program (see below)

🚨GIG ALERT🚨: We are hiring! We're looking for a research associate to join our team. This is an ideal position for a new graduate interested in elections & wanting to gain research experience. Spread the word, or learn more and apply:

Applications are open for the third year of the Pathways summer research program at MIT! Please share with interested undergrads. (TL;DR is: paid opportunity to check out PhD life for students who might not think it's open to them) @nlnathan.bsky.social

this is a great program for undergrads to get a sense of what PhD research is really like! (while being paid and housed and learning some new skills at MIT) bsky.app/profile/arie...

Applications are open for the third year of the Pathways summer research program at MIT! Please share with interested undergrads. (TL;DR is: paid opportunity to check out PhD life for students who might not think it's open to them) @nlnathan.bsky.social

It's awards season! Please nominate great experimental work for our various section awards by April 15. All the committees are listed here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

ICYMI: MIT is very affordable news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tui...

Apply now! Applications for the 2025 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute due Jan. 24th! The #RBSI is an intensive five-week program designed to introduce undergraduate juniors to the world of doctoral study in political science! Learn more: politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...

Ready to start the second day of the Justice & Injustice Conference. So much great research and collaboration in this room. criminaljusticepolitics.wordpress.com @arielrwhite.bsky.social @hlw.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social @darazed.bsky.social

Biked past a bunch of people in hard hats/vests standing on the GL tracks today: was confused, then realized "of course, it's the federal investigation into the latest derailment on our brand new subway extension! totally normal MBTA stuff"🙃 www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/02/m...

Just wrapped up year 2 of the Pathways@GDL summer program! @nlnathan.bsky.social will be on a panel at @apsa.bsky.social to talk about our experience running it and to learn from other schools' similar programs focused on broadening access to academia polisci.mit.edu/news/2024/pa...

MPSA is honored to announce the creation of a new Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, the “Dianne Pinderhughes Diversity PhD Student Travel Scholarship”, to help defray the travel costs associated with attending the MPSA Annual Conference. Learn more: www.mpsanet.org/about/govern...

Today I am officially tenured! Deep thanks to all my colleagues in my department and beyond for your support getting here. Excited to pay it forward.

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill that'd be a national first: The bill mandates voting centers within local jails to allow people detained there to vote in-person. Key context: People in jails typically have the right to vote but face enormous hurdles to doing so. NEW: boltsmag.org/colorado-vot...