"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Thank you for sharing, Will! I wish I had thought of this sooner, but it didn’t occur to me until I worked the info desk yesterday and noticed a pattern! Hopefully we can film something like this in advance next year, especially now that we’ve learned that there’s a need and it’s helpful!

Happy Day 4 of #APSA2025! Here’s a longer tutorial on navigating the convention center! Hope this helps! I’ll be at registration and at some panels and events! I’m happy to help if you have any questions! s/o to Lilly for editing this video youtu.be/59zD-bpTUSg?...

EVERY WORD 💯

car washes as a form of entertainment are a recession indicator. I will not be elaborating on this.

#APSA2025 Tried to film a lil tutorial on navigating EAST VCC but was interrupted because someone needed directions lol. A fuller length version of this video is hopefully coming soon! In the meantime here’s a mini guide on the signs! Signs are hard to make for big spaces! Hope this helps!

If you've won a Centennial Center Grant in the past, won one this year, or hope to win one in the future.... stop by the Centennial Center Reception TONIGHT (Friday, September 12) at 7:30 - 9:30 PM PT at the Pan Pacific Vancouver, Ocean View 5! I can promise food, drinks, and a good hang! #APSA2025

#APSA2025 I'll be working the information desk at the Pan Pacific Hotel (lobby level by the crystal pavilion) stop by if you have any questions or want to say hello! I'm here to help and armed with a good sense of direction, chargers, and an HDMI adapter if you need me!

#APSA2025 Lots of folks have been getting lost on their way to the exhibition hall. If you're looking at the water, VCC West is on your left east is on your right. In VCC East, you're going to stay on the GROUND floor and walk to the back of the building toward the water. Hall is on the right!

The reporters involved would know that if they had bothered to contact me. They could have asked if there were distinctions & authentically given their readership the info it needs in a context of extreme violence, threat, fear, & mis/disinformation in the US. Instead, they said close enough 3/4

I'm now "quoted" in a piece a/b Charlie Kirk's death. It notes I previously spoke to the outlet; they didn't bother to reach out. Kirk isn't being dehumanized; he is being individually lionized & memorialized. His dehumanization & hatred of others is being whitewashed. V. different dynamics 2/4

Just learned that a reporter reused a quote from correspondence we had 2 years ago (Oct. 9, 2023, to be exact) today. The context I was initially asked a/b involved info & images spreading online of mass violence against Palestinians and Israelis. I spoke about dehumanization & desensitization. 1/4

Realizing conferences are just open mics for academics. It’s just throwing paint at the wall and saying, “is this anything?”

This app feels a little too serious for a silly guy like me… but hopping on to send a friendly reminder that I still work at APSA and will be posted up at the Pan Pacific Info Desk allllllllllllllll day if you need help while at #APSA2025

I can't get over how weak so many capitalists are when the backbone to a lot of their profits -- federal investment and safety nets -- are being gutted. Probably aligns with the death of long term value plays as everything descends into rents and looking for exit liquidity.

“President Trump regards people who take their constitutional oath seriously as, by definition, his political enemies. His attack on public service is not about reform; it’s a first strike against a key obstacle to authoritarianism” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Maybe the norms are the friends we made along the way

Why are we still listening to David Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel why have they not been excommunicated from the Democratic Party?

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order

I keep trying to leave twitter for good, but when I go to do it, it keeps making me laugh, and I can't.

After deleting the clock app, I replaced my TikTok scrolling addiction with a PokémonGo addiction. I’m almost a full decade late but I love it here.

Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over. open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...

“The dream has come true; we are home again. I will rebuild my house, and step by step, we’ll return to the life the [Israeli] occupation stole from us.”

I don’t understand this damn app. Why am I suddenly being followed by accounts with self-described “blue dot in a rural red area 🌊🌊🌊” are these lib bots or real people? What do they want from me?????

From navigating anti-trans laws to protecting your joy. ⤵️

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

everything is up in the air and scary rn but I’m still celebrating my first NSF proposal submission 🥳 much love to the ICER community for being the reason for the application season

This is how you do it...

I just finished preparing my first NSF proposal due today... it seems like the timing couldn't be worse but I'm , perhaps naively, still holding out hope. 🤞

I'm working on an NSF proposal, which requires me to actually update my ORCID records. I looked up my name on google scholar to double check stuff and I found my name mentioned in friends' dissertation acknowledgements 😭 I hated grad school but nothing but love for the friends I made along the way!

Extremely late to the party (as per usual) but I am finally biting the bullet and deleting my twitter account. Expect to see me on here more (when I remember that this exists)!

Come for the free food and open bar, stay for the company and the awesome programming #APSA2024

my only real thought about nate silver is i straight up don't think you should trust anyone who appears to have a serious gambling addiction

As an academic turned comedian, watching scholars fight for their lives while using a microphone is excruciating.

What if we kissed* at the #APSA2024 influencer wall? 👉👈 *this is a meme reference

I’ll be at the Marriott info desk all day until the ICER panel at 4:00 pm! Come say hello! Pick up a pamphlet! Ask for directions! Ask all your questions! You can find me on the 4th floor right outside Franklin Hall. #APSA2024

I haven’t been active on Twitter in ages and folks are still coming up to me saying they recognize me from Twitter. I’m deeply embarassed by my grad school self but also pls come and say hello! You can find me at the mariott info desk and registration most days! #APSA2024 #polisky

I’m so excited and grateful to spend the day supporting the Women of Color in Political Science Conference! #IamWCPS24 #APSA2024

Welcome to #IamWCPS24! Excited to host women of color in political science with @profbenjamin.bsky.social @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @rosalierubio.bsky.social

All power to the students, they are the future. May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes.

Statement by faculty at DMV universities in support of right of students to protest Gaza and urging GW administration to not shut it down. dmvfaculty4academicfreedom.wordpress.com