📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Here, @mattmotta.bsky.social @klunztrujillo.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social @ophiryotam.bsky.social @drorwalter.bsky.social find little concern re: H5N1 health risks. Those w/ inaccurate or unconcerned views don't support mitigation. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

Politics & Religion (P & R) Call for Proposals for New Editor(s)- connect.apsanet.org/s11/politics...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

Tomorrow at MPSA! The room for the APLS panel (1:30) and roundtable + reception (3:20) is in fact Monroe. The program lists two different rooms depending on which entry you’re looking at, just a heads up!

Influencers & hate: Create grievance, play to identity, and normalize rage and violence. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Influencer posts "construct group identities, establish epistemic authority and leadership legitimacy, and legitimise violence."

🚨Job opportunity🚨 UNC Poli Sci is hiring a postdoc (one year renewable) to advance research on political behavior, with a special focus on free expression in higher education. Competitive salary and benefits. No teaching. Please encourage people to apply. Ad: timryan.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

The author of this article is an Ivy League professor. I’m just a public university professor. Standing in front of Ivy League faculty. Asking you to stop generalizing from the problems at your schools to the rest of higher ed, where those problems are largely absent.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background." cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

Americans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. — James N. Druckman. (@umisrcps.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260420-top...

The countdown is on! One week until COVERAGE DENIED is out in the world - I can’t wait for you all to read it! @mirandayaver.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

For folks headed to MPSA next week, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences is hosting an open conference within a conference! Friday afternoon in Monroe, free food & drinks, & the events are a typical research panel (1:15) & a roundtable (3:20) on doing research during -these times-.

MPSA folks! **Free food and drinks** at our APLS roundtable (3:20 CDT) & panel. Both in Monroe. Come by and bring guests!! Hear from @mirandayaver.bsky.social @robertbrehm.bsky.social @klunztrujillo.bsky.social @melissabaker.bsky.social, Ingrid Haas, Kathryn Haglin, Ashley Fox, and more!

An absolutely incredible breakthrough!

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Perplexed by the increased visibility of anti-vaccine beliefs in the US? New research on the asymmetry of vaccine activism - conspiratorial worldviews, not partisan identity, drive the gap. Come find us at the @asnpls.bsky.social Research Talks, #MPSA2026, Fri April 24, 1:30 PM! #VaccinePolicy #APLS

What predicts pro-MLM attitudes in a nationally representative US sample? TikTok use, not demographics, not politics. Presenting "Platformed Persuasion" w/ Margaret Tait at #MPSA2026, Health Comms panel, Fri April 24 5:10 PM. Stop by if this sounds interesting to you - would love to connect!

NEW at POST: In a naturally-occurring experiment, we document an electoral "vibe shift" surrounding Biden's decision to drop out of the '24 election, which translated into increased donations up/down ballot and increased faith in democratic institutions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41... What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.

"The gas stations better obey our price controls" says the Treasury Secretary of the Free Markets Party

Job ad: I'm hiring for a Research scientist to join my team at @joinprolific.bsky.social If you've ever wondered who's working on the hard questions in online research — data quality, sampling methodology, the effect of AI on how research gets done — this is that job. [1/4]

I've got a new paper out today with @timlapira.bsky.social and @salilb.bsky.social in ERC showing that party ID strongly structures political elites' beliefs about climate change. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

rural Wisconsin counties that went for Trump by roughly 20% voted for the liberal candidate today.

It's happened: Wisconsin Republicans' mighty suburban WOW wall is now breached. Chris Taylor, the liberal candidate for supreme court, actually carried Ozaukee County today. (Flashback to last decade: Romney won here by 30%.)

making AI and energy slides again

I first tried to build a collection of congressional press releases starting in 2013. I think I might have finally done it. Introducing Congress Press:

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

POV: You are the Beast of Revelation and are confronting Christ

Someone sent me this.

Democrats push to mobilize rural Black voters in North Carolina

Just as a heads up: it is a felony under federal law to send any armed government employee to the polls. The statute of limitations is five years and each instance carries a potential prison term of five years apiece, and is disqualifying for any future office.

I remember when back in the 90s the spring breakers they interviewed were never ignorant. They would debate interpretations of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Einstein’s refusal to recognize quantum mechanics.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

Pfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial. Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks. Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.

Lee was a horrible man and a traitor to the republic. The army he led into an invasion of Pennsylvania with kidnapped free black people and sent them into slavery. Whatever tactical genius he possessed led him in his most famous battle to just march his army straight into the enemy’s front.

Help I read too much news today

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Brilliant. US invaded Iran to replace an old, dying Khameini with a younger, more radical Khameini and to BUY oil from the Islamic Republic and give them MORE money. GENIUS STUFF! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

Amazing lineup discussing an important and often underappreciated topic in our profession: Caregiving. Caregiving in the Academy: An APSA Status Committee Virtual Workshop. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up

Yes, @awmercer.bsky.social & colleagues at @pewresearch.org have done great work explaining biases of opt-in panels. Here's one place to start www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Check out CHIP50's most recent report, looking at immigration attitudes! Key takeaways: People lean towards strong disapproval, 49% to 37%, with enormous partisan divides. Independents disapprove about 2:1. www.chip50.org/reports/amer...