Kelly Hunter @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social @hilaryizatt.bsky.social Eve Bryner & @alisterfmartin.bsky.social draw on a novel dataset of 6,205 physicians to show that women's health providers were 3.3 percentage points more likely to vote than other physicians. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Thrilled to be quoted in this piece from @cnn.com. Discusses my forthcoming book Rural Pain, Republican Gain (out in August from @uchicagopress.bsky.social)! edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/p...

"Rural areas suffering through damaging health trends–a hospital shutdown, or a spike in opioid or firearm deaths–tend to shift further toward Republicans...even though those problems...are routinely exacerbated by GOP health care cuts ...and might be ameliorated by Democratic proposals..."

Thrilled to be quoted in this piece from @cnn.com. Discusses my forthcoming book Rural Pain, Republican Gain (out in August from @uchicagopress.bsky.social)! edition.cnn.com/2026/06/28/p...

Thrilled to be included in the special issue of @milbankfund.bsky.social on “What Can State Policymakers Do to Meet the Challenges” of Disease Burden and Life Expectancy in the states. My thoughts on rural health policy are here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Rural health care is ill-suited for an increasingly profit-driven health care system, & we must design policies accordingly if we are to keep providers in rural places.The more our health care system has privatized, the more rural communities have been left behind.” @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social

Rural Health at a Crossroads: How Policymakers Have Failed Rural America and What Can Be Done for a Healthier Tomorrow onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the latest JHPPL author interview, @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social discuss with Edward Alan Miller and Pamela Nadash their forthcoming article on the effect of OBBBA on long-term care services. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl... on.soundcloud.com/4UhtMlggxn1S...

Check this out! It features several leading scholars, including my former colleague, @klunztrujillo.bsky.social

@mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social interviewed @mattmotta.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social & @klunztrujillo.bsky.social on their article "Public Risk Perceptions & Policy Attitudes Toward Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza." Check it out! on.soundcloud.com/JysieKBuo450...

There is still time to submit a proposal to this special issue of @jhppl. If you are a researcher who studies organizing or if you are an organizer who has something to say—this is a space for you. Submit!

Due Friday! @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds and I are looking forward to reviewing your submissions!

⏰ CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS UPCOMING DEADLINE ⏰. Submissions for the JHPPL, "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics, special issue edited by @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds, and @sarahgollust.bsky.social are due May 15!! Submission link here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/pages/...

The deadline for our special issue on community organizing is coming up in 10 days! Please submit an abstract!

When we think about how political beliefs are formed, we typically point to parents as the primary teachers. But in Latino immigrant households, it's often the children who teach the parents. @robertocarlos.bsky.social presents critical research in 'Information Brokers'⬇️ cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3651

Golden Tempo has won the Kentucky Derby at odds of 23-1 to make Cherie DeVaux the first woman to train the winner of the opening leg of the Triple Crown. n.pr/4cVTfv3

My first article on politics & mental health w/ @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XP2QSA...

New JHPPL issue alert! Really thrilled to share this excellent new research spanning cross-cutting issues of health policy and politics. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

So exciting to see the galleys of my good friend and collaborator @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social’s superb forthcoming book, which you can and should pre-order here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Follow Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social on the intersection of politics and rural health. A plotline on "The Pitt" put a spotlight on rural hospital closures; Shepherd describes the causes and effects of this trend: sph.umich.edu/news/2025pos...

Had a blast joining the Science of Politics podcast to discuss my forthcoming book: Rural Pain, Republican Gain. Thank you @mattgrossmann.bsky.social for the invite!

Why rural areas vote Republican despite worse health outcomes Rural America has moved toward Republicans even as Republican governance helps explain worse health outcomes New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Michael Shepard www.niskanencenter.org/why-rural-ar...

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

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@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social et al find adults who grew up in rural areas had worse childhood health access, worse health outcomes, lower trust in medicine, and less support for health policies backed by scientific consensus. With Alee Lockman and @klunztrujillo.bsky.social #MPSA2026

Timely interview with Andrea Campbell on the OBBBA and how its design obscures a democratic response. Her commentary is also available now, ungated: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

New JHPPL author interview! Andrea Louise Campbell of MIT sits down with @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social to discuss her new article "Policy Design and Democratic Accountability." Link here: soundcloud.com/user-1083235... @dukepress.bsky.social @sarahgollust.bsky.social

Scholars & organizers: consider submitting a proposal for this special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social. Community organizing has transformative possibilities. It should be studied, understood, discussed, and highlighted as a core democratic practice. This special issue does part of that work. Submit!

States’ decisions to rename Medicaid programs obscures Medicaid benefits. @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social present on a survey experiment assessing the OBBBA reforms’ perceived effect on political mobilization to safeguard Medicaid. #MPSA2026

🚨 Public health scholars! 🚨 JHPPL is seeking proposals for an upcoming special issue on "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics," edited by @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds, and @sarahgollust.bsky.social! Proposals due May 15! Submission guidelines: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/pages/...

Exciting news - we are seeking proposal submissions (due May 15) for a special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social on "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics", that I am editing alongside @povertyscholar.bsky.social and Megan Reynolds. Please see the full CFP below! Invited papers will be due Sept 1.

WHO meeting on US measles elimination status is delayed until November 2026. This is happening as we have already hit 1153 cases, half of 2025’s total. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

Your friends at the ANES would appreciate your proposals for new content that we will pilot immediately after the 2026 midterm elections. Please see the announcement at the following link and submit your ideas! electionstudies.org/anes-announc...

“The transformation fund is not designed and not intended to offset these Medicaid cuts, and it won’t,” says NRHA CEO @amorganrural.bsky.social. “The transformation fund is about what it says: transforming health care delivery in a rural context.” dailyyonder.com/advocates-ec... #ruralhealth

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Great scholarship here. I'm working on a book that provides the 20th Century context for what we are seeing now. This extreme form has very long roots.

Public health is under attack on many fronts! The latest issue of JHPPL, "Public Health Under Siege," brings together leading scholars to discuss the many current threats facing public health. Check out the latest issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue

Public Health Under Siege. So pleased to have our piece on @who.int in this powerful new special issue, coordinated by the brilliant @sarahgollust.bsky.social @oberlanderunc.bsky.social. We draw on IR research on "IO Death" to suggest WHO faces a major threat that its not taking seriously enough...

New paper @jhppl.bsky.social (w/ Michael Shepherd & Alee Lockman) where we find Americans who grew up (socialized) in rural areas are more likely to own guns, support the NRA, & hold more conservative firearm policy attitudes over the lifespan, even after moving away. 1/ doi.org/10.1215/0361...

This new @jhppl.bsky.social special edition on "Public Health Under Siege" is awfully timely as I work to finalize my regulatory politics syllabus

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

New article with Jim Gimpel in @politicalgeography.bsky.social on convergence in voting behavior in Vermont & New Hampshire border towns 1970-2020. This one goes out to all the tiny towns in the Northeast Kingdom. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attention fellow health insurance scholars! TODAY is the last day to submit to @jhppl.bsky.social's special issue on The Politics of Private Health Insurance, which @adrianna.bsky.social and I are co-editing. Whether you have a research article or commentary, be sure to get your submission in today!

* Please repost and share * Call for Papers (due March 1st) Workshop on "Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy," August 14, Vanderbilt University more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... submit papers: forms.gle/k7BH4so2QJxQ...

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

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Applications are open for the 2026 American Political Economy Summer Academy for ABDs, postdocs, and junior faculty from May 31 to June 4. Travel, meals, and lodging all provided! www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/events/summe...

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