You want my letter of recommendation to be answers to six questions that you came up with, and that are specific to your organization. I want to write one general purpose letter that covers all the same substance and that I can upload to *any* organization. We are not the same.

UNC Political Science is hiring in methods! UNC has an amazing department and the triangle is a great place to live. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24) link to the posting👇 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

UNC is hiring in Political Methodology. Please spread the word and encourage people to apply. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Happening at UNC.

I'll credit Thomas as a committed originalist when he points to the clause in the Constitution that grants the president near-blanket immunity from criminal prosecution.

Of all the times in history that someone was handed $50,000 cash in a takeout bag, what percentage of them do you suppose were completely legitimate and above-the-board?

Political violence is bad. That’s it. That’s the tweet. (Skeet.)

The surprising thing? It turns out that couples that last always select on the dependent variable.

Declaration of Independence: 1,320 words. University-required statements on UNC course syllabi: 2,402 words. curricula.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

Neither here nor there, but I'm reading a bunch of open-ended survey responses about nuclear power and boy do a lot of people think that nuclear power produces air pollution. The stuff coming out of the big cooling towers is just steam!

Any suggested undergraduate readings providing an overview of Supreme Court processes--cert, criteria to hear a case, role of oral args, conferences, and written opinions--and maybe the shadow docket? I used to assign Gideon's Trumpet and it's just too dated. My intro class doesn't use a textbook.

What percentage do you tip, for a pure takeout order from a restaurant?

Neat image from Gemini, when I asked it to generate an image for my Intro American course landing page--one that was sober, reflective, analytical, and philosophical. And having some Americana--but without being heavy-handed (with soaring eagles and so forth). (GPT did not deliver as well.)

Worth re-upping today. You can always count on the so-called "deficit hawks" to cave like a spelunker who has fresh lamp batteries and something to prove.

A lot of times, I can squint as a SCOTUS opinion I don't like, and see it through the other side's eyes. I've read and thought a lot about jurisprudence. It's hard, and a reasonable mind can walk itself to some pretty surprising places. Nevertheless, I feel the following quite strongly: If the

🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 My latest article is now available at @polbehavior.bsky.social! "Cueing Without Parties: Experimental Evidence from Peru" explores how citizens navigate politics in contexts without stable parties and deeply-rooted partisan predispositions. 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Would anybody like to be president of the University of Florida? The face-eating Board of Governors will definitely not eat *your* face! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Spend ten minutes on Harriet Tubman’s Wikipedia page and you will learn that she had enough “warrior ethos” to hang with Marines who eat nails for breakfast and steel wool for lunch.

I have a theory that, in 2003, Harvard rejected Stephen Miller's college application.

UNC’s BOT didn’t approve any tenure cases outside of health & sciences. options for new faculty? join w/o tenure or delay joining a year. For current faculty? remain in current position, so no tenure. BOT has not said a single thing to explain their nonaction www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

On Friday, UNC faculty learned--via an email from the chair of the faculty, not from the admin--that the Board of Trustees declined to do their pro forma approval of this year's tenure conferrals (the entire slate, health sciences excepted). We are still waiting for an explanation.

I want one, and I don’t want the US government undermining the development, distribution, and accessibility of COVID boosters.

If you count on the “deficit hawks” to disappoint you, you will never be disappointed.

If you count on the Freedom Caucus to disappoint you, you will never be disappointed.

I think this article, plus one from a few days ago about students catching professors using AI, hammer home that incorporation, not enforcement, is the right long-run approach teaching in the world of AI. (For most cases.) Hastily-written thread to follow.

Thrilled to share my article “The Right Kind of (Gay) Man?” was accepted @thejop.bsky.social I started it as a 1st-year grad student, it became my MA, then a dissertation & job market paper. It’s the piece I’m most proud of (and relieved to finally share) 🏳️‍🌈 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Trump v. CASA: Focusing on nat'l injunctions was the best possible grounds for the Admin to advance its birthright citizenship agenda. And, focusing on birthright citizenship was the worst possible ground for it to advance its nat'l injunction agenda. Understandable, but very risky legal strategy.

30 out of 31 students attended my last day of class, which had 15 minutes where all you were supposed to do was fill out your course evaluation. Only 25 students completed the evaluation, for a response rate of 80.6%. What I'm saying is I don't envy the good people of AAPOR! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An update that makes "include page numbers" the default setting on MS Word. (Yes, it's paper grading season.)

Wanted to flag this conversation I'm moderating next Wednesday, which interested folks can tune into live on Youtube — we'll be talking about how Gov. Cooper managed to see Medicaid expansion passed through a Republican legislature and look ahead to some of the cuts under consideration in Congress.

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

Not a lawyer, but this actually seems like a pretty strong argument. (And insulated from Trumpian influence, by being a state rather than federal crime.)

This is about as firm a smackdown as an appeals court can do. Order released just hours after the motion and, if I followed right, even before Garcia's team's deadline to file their response. Full of flowery language… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Experts on Rule 42 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure are about to be in high demand.

We're all Harvard now… or something.

Very well done

Sometimes you go and read the Wikipedia article about something you only sorta kinda learned about in middle school and you're like, "Wow. Harriet Tubman was tough as fucking nails."

It's bad, but things can always be worse. One very plausible way things could quite quickly be *much* worse is if central bank independence were obliterated. (What politics is Powell, a Trump appointee, playing exactly?)

with apologies to @xkcd.com

I would like to live in a country with representative body of elected officials that sets tax policy of major national importance.

To punish my household's egregious trade deficit with Harris Teeter---and to revitalize my wife's and daughter's efforts in agriculture and animal husbandry---I am hereby instituting a 25% tax on all groceries entering the premises.

It is *bananas* that the president can unilaterally set tax policy in this scale. It’s a quintessentially legislative power. And that Congress would not resist on purely process-based grounds speaks to an utter collapse in institutional pride.

I hate when people just post an affirming “this.” But… this:

I'm just realizing why this tariff rollout ceremony is happening at 4pm. US markets close at 4pm and they wanted to avoid a split screen with the markets tanking!

What hubris. We're talking about a Supreme Court that went on a totally unnecessary detour to invent a presidential immunity doctrine, whole cloth. Not to mention ignoring the plain language of the 14th A's insurrection clause. But sure, maybe next time.

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Day's off to a great start.

📖 New open access publication 📖 Do citizens of different countries differ in political attitude constraint? Are Slovenes just as predictable as the Swiss? How stable is political attitude coherence across time? Find out here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #polbehavior #Polisky #socialpsyc

The most successful person-to-person politically persuasive messages are those that bridge identity divides, use perspective taking, and incorporate personal narratives, finds @naunovmartin.bsky.social Ruedo-Cañòn @tjryan02.bsky.social in @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...