The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

Letter from APSA Presidents to Senate on FY2026 Federal Budget Appropriations This letter is not an official APSA statement. The is an independent letter issued by former and some current APSA leadership shared for members' awareness. We, Presidents of the American Political Science Association,…

With everything in the news I've been reflecting on V.O. Key's Southern Politics, which traces the history, implementation, and political implications of the South's Jim Crow legal regime. I learned a few things about that history that are relevant to today. 1/ archive.org/details/sout...

Your iPhone tracks everything you do — and say. Here are three quick-fixes to tighten your security settings. P.S. No technology is safe.

The @cline-center.bsky.social report on Operation Midway Blitz for the Illinois Accountability Commission also analyzed ICE arrests in Illinois. Download our full report here: clinecenter.illinois.edu/project/fire...

Last week the @cline-center.bsky.social released a report for the Illinois Accountability Commission documenting 510 instability acts by federal actors during Operation Midway Blitz, including 63 uses of chemical weapons. Download our full report here: clinecenter.illinois.edu/project/fire...

🚨 Now out in @bjpols.bsky.social w @busbyj2.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @ckafura.bsky.social: Do American foreign policy elites know what the public wants? Partnering with @global-affairs.bsky.social, we show that elites systematically misread the room 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Illinois Accountability Commission’s final report incorporates data and analysis from the Cline Center’s Firewatch project documenting societal instability events involving federal actors during Operation Midway Blitz. Our full report and methodology:

Dear ANES community, the link below introduces our new Board of Advisors, led by Jamie Druckman. Jamie follows John Aldrich, who deftly chaired the Board for nearly 2 decades. This new group will guide us through the 2028 election cycle. Our deepest thanks to outgoing and incoming Board members!

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"Instead of treating all individuals and groups equally with respect to their status, power, or ends, a group theory of political communication requires normative analysis of the positioning of groups vis-a-vis one another and liberal democracy."

"Prediction Markets? The Accuracy and Efficiency of $2.4 Billion in the 2024 Presidential Election" osf.io/preprints/so...

“They won’t insure you,” Ms. Rojas said. “No one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New work examining how people’s use of multiple platforms is associated in being exposed to ideas they might not agree with.

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country 📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj 🧵6 findings in thread

It is finally finished and released! I was proud to be a member of the Task Force on 2024 Pre-Election Polling, and to play just a small role in producing this report. Here is the report: aapor.org/wp-content/u... And here is the Executive Summary: aapor.org/wp-content/u...

Join us on October 30th at 2:30 pm for the Annual Richard G. and Carol J. Cline Symposium. Experts will discuss “Accountable Policing after the SAFE-T Act” in a roundtable on Zoom. RSVP here: buff.ly/lKLRF2L

US soybean farmers have to be one of the strongest Trump-voting constituencies in the country.

This shift is reshaping how we interact with information. Worth a read.

Today is POW/MIA Remembrance Day in the US, a day set aside for remembering those who gave their lives for our country in wartime and are still Missing In Action. As most of you know, I'm a volunteer for Project Recover, a nonprofit that finds and repatriates the remains of American MIAs. (1/)

This coming Friday 9/19 is national POW/MIA Recognition Day in the US. One of my relatives was MIA from WW2 until earlier this year: this past May I and other relatives buried the remains of 2Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, Jr. in Livermore CA 81 years after his death. He is missing no longer. He is home.

Important issue: when journalists’ visa are reduced in length it creates uncertainty, chilling effects, and ultimately worse reporting from within the US. That might be the purpose. But it is hugely problematic. wan-ifra.org/2025/09/dont...

New Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent training to go from 18 weeks to 8 weeks, and dropping the degree requirement? If the plan is to make the FBI a laughing stock, this is the way to do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Donald Kinder Receives the 2025 Ithiel de Sola Pool Award The Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and Lectureship is presented triennially by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor a scholar whose research explores a broad range of fields pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool; including…

More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Pause Admissions in Humanities, Social Sciences

Traffic for the world’s top-50 news websites swung sharply into the red in July, according to Press Gazette’s exclusive traffic ranking pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Next week I'll begin my fifteenth year as a political communication professor. I wrote up some thoughts on what it's like trying to teach this subject while everything falls apart. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Illinois political science has two TT faculty searches open, one in US political institutions and the other in political behavior. Come join our faculty! American Political Institutions: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Political Behavior: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Our latest release of SPOTLITE data offers for the first time a comprehensive picture of the demographic characteristics of civilians involved in police uses of lethal force on a national scale, including incidents without lethal outcomes.

Examine this chart from @niemanlab.org. It ranks the top 50 LOCAL news sites by number of monthly visits. You'd expect LA Times to be high on the list. But The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY? Let @joshuabenton.com explain. And see where your local newspaper falls. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-...

So the UN Global Risks Report is out... & it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face. unglobalriskreport.org Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally. But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there! Plus...

Hooray! The 31st Issue of the #PolComm Report is out! What a fantastic lineup @igoncalves.com was able to assemble for the topic of "Teaching PolComm" 🤩 Khadijah Costley White, @kcoe.bsky.social & Diana Zulli, Regina Cazzamatta, Matthew Powers, & @sangjung-kim.bsky.social (& her students).

Residents of every county in the United States can explore SPOTLITE incident records from their own communities to better understand local trends in police uses of lethal force. clinecenter.illinois.edu/spotlite

Big news from the @cline-center.bsky.social: police uses of lethal force in the US dropped 24% from 2021 to 2023, with 2023 having the smallest number of lethal force incidents involving police since 2015. news.illinois.edu/research-pol...

Tomorrow marks the 19 year anniversary of Mike‘s death. It never gets easier, but the messages I’ve received in response to this essay tell me that his life and his story continue to matter, and that helps me so much. Love you always, Mike Young.

We are pleased to announce that Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen's AVOIDING THE NEW is the Winner of the 2025 Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award from the International Journal of Press/Politics. buff.ly/KzI2QdM @polcomm.bsky.social #IJPP

Are you: ✅ A young scholar in econ, poli sci, or law ✅ Working on institutions, broadly defined ✅ Interested in spending a week in Italy with amazing faculty If so, please apply to this year’s Coase Institute Workshop! It’s a transformative experience for many, and always fun. I’ll be there.

This Memorial Day, 81 years after the death and disappearance of my relative 2Lt. Thomas V. Kelly, I'll be gathering with family and friends to bury his remains. Grateful for all those who remembered the fallen in ways that brought us to this place of closure. news.illinois.edu/because-amer...

We also just launched Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a rapid response crisis support system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment due to their work. We’ll have an official roll out starting next week. But feel free to share with anyone who might be in need.

Policing is one of the most difficult jobs imaginable. It is taking a toll. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

I’m speaking from very local, very recent experience, but I can attest that bringing in a skilled & visionary leader doesn’t *immediately* solve deep, painful, largely self-inflicted crises But holy shit can things get a lot, lot better super quickly

Congrats to the new poli sci members of the American Academy! www.amacad.org/new-members-...

Interesting new paper in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. The authors conclude that variation in fatal police shooting rates across agencies is "far from random" and "primarily associated with...differences in crime rates, 911 call rates, officers per capita and the prevalence of guns."

Alternate frame: how the U.S. created the Internet, advanced digital technologies, and developed medical innovations that have increased the quality of life and health of the entire world.

Federal funding for university research has continued expanding for decades (despite some pullbacks), becoming a much larger share of research funding www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

Hot take: calls for media literacy are a libertarian fallacy. Media literacy is not gonna do it, folks. What we need is media regulation- not of content but of ownership (size and structure), a digital right to privacy and transparency of algorithms and recommendation systems.