Western is searching for Canada Impact+ Chairs in 8 themes including "democratic and community resilience." The program is meant for senior researchers not at Canadian unis. Moving to Canada is a thing that profs really can do. Spread the word & get in touch. www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

In November 2023 the unemployment rate was 3.7 and inflation was 3.1. That's good. But Consumer Sentiment was an awful 61 out of 200, in part due to bad reporting from CNN like this. Trump inherited a very healthy economy from Biden - don't lie for him.

Tuition and provincial grants need to go up in Ontario. They have been stuck at the same spot for about 12 years (not even adjusting for inflation). Is there anything you can buy for the same price in 2025 as it was in 2012 that hasn't degraded in quality? Nope. www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

In a different universe, SCOTUS allowed counting to continue and a guy who won a Nobel Prize for his work on climate change became president. In this one, we got an oil man and the Iraq War.

These big research chairs are getting rolled out fast. More of a brain trickle than a brain drain. But for big researchers who are serious about leaving the US, here’s a chance.

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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Worried about getting into or out of the US for APSA 2026? Or about what kind of paper you can present? Today is the deadline for Canadian PSA proposals for June 2-4 at U of Ottawa. Propose a paper or a whole panel. But do it today!

At 40%, T still has solid support in Congress and the party. He went below 40 in term 1 and it didn't harm him much or get him convicted in the Senate in Jan 2021. If there's a tipping point for loud R opposition, it's far below here. 32% means losing 1 in 5 current approvers. That's a lot.

Trump's approval among independents is not good but numbers like these can be deceiving. Like, many disapprovers may have called themselves Democrats in February but now say they're independents.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shows up to Game 7 in a Marie-Phillip Poulin jersey, the captain of the Canada women’s national ice hockey team

The responsibilities and opportunities for Canadian universities are perfectly aligned. But it's been 10 months of this and just drips of actions here so far. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...

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Yup, there’s research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The CPSA accepts proposals for full panels. Why not choose Ottawa in June instead of Boston, USA in September?

BLS report that was due this morning didn't come out. The ADP estimate is that private employment in the US went down 32,000 jobs in September. There were also big downward revisions for previous month. Preventing the official release of bad economic news is a big shutdown bonus for Trump.

Just *published* our paper with @westernupolisci.bsky.social PhD student, Hunter Driggers, on LLM bias from party cues in annotation tasks. We extend a previous study showing annotation bias from human coders in the presence of party cues… LLM show similar bias 🧵: rdcu.be/eIKCj

Will US universities now only interview Americans and PRs?

While the Republicans on talk shows are saying stop calling us fascists, on Fox they are upping their fascism.

The most ridiculously unlikely event in all the movies is the final poker hand in Casino Royale.

Freed of the pressures of re-election, now we’ll see that Ernst acts the same as ever because she’s ok with all the fascism.

When the time comes, can someone etch this quote onto John Roberts' gravestone?

Measuring Transgender and Nonbinary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies Measuring Transgender and Nonbinary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies By Quinn M. Albaugh, Queen’s University, Allison Harell, Université du Québec…

What Texas redistricting fight means as FBI joins hunt for absent Democrats @globalnews.ca included expert insight from Prof @matthewlebo.bsky.social in an explainer article about why Republican lawmakers in Texas are pushing to redraw the state’s congressional maps. globalnews.ca/news/1132228...

#polisky #psjminfo We're hiring for three faculty positions in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. All 3 positions are part of an internal departmental cluster hire in the thematic area of Problems of Democracy. A 🧵on the positions. 1/

Yesterday's BLS July jobs report was released 8.5 hours after July ended (or 5.5 hours Pacific). Also keep that in mind when wondering why updates/revisions are necessary.

This workshop is going to be great fun, and I really look forward to meeting everyone! It would mean a lot to me if you signed up!

You know, Donald Trump doesn't have to make all of my pessimism seem prophetic.

So much for objective economic data on the U.S. economy. It was hard enough convincing partisans that the economy was doing well under a president they hated or badly under a president they liked. Now we can't even tell who's right and who's just cheerleading.

U.S. job growth May-July is 106,000. Except for the Covid jobs crash (-20M in April 2020), that's the worst three month stretch since Summer 2010.

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Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Nice dangle.

Trump at 37% with Gallup is the start of interesting territory. It usually takes sustained bad news to keep him from bouncing back. Second Q GDP numbers will be out soon... news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...

Reminder that political scientists developed several objective measures of the fairness of districting plans but John Roberts called these measures “sociological gobbledygook” and ruled that there’s was no way to measure the fairness of districting plans so when it comes to gerrymandering, YOLO.

Moneyball is the closest thing there is to an instructional video for being a department chair at mid-sized public university.

This does capture a small set of single issue voters.

My op-ed @thestar.com : Trump's tariffs: U.S. president Trump is motivated by the spectacle of it all. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The academic pages of Reddit are full of stories of PhD students whose offers have been rescinded due to pulled NIH funding. Western is stepping up and offering expedited admissions and excellent funding to these deserving students: www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

I wrote an op-ed in December about Canada's opportunities as the U.S. government was about to attack science and universities. Six months later, not much has happened here. Me: "it wouldn't take deep thought to catch up." "It takes some big number (of dollars) and a plan."

Is T losing support in a meaningful way? Like, could it turn Congressional Rs or end mass deportations? Not at this rate. T hit 37% in '17 and 34% after Jan 6, '21. His floor is higher now. The half-life of his worst actions is a week or two, then reversion back to low-40s. He's safe structurally.

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Unless Trump doesn't like it and then it will be met with very heavy force.

Upcoming talk June 25th at 1pm Eastern/6pm BST/10am Pacific Siblings, Disability and Care: Cocreation during Times of Transition with Pamela Block Helen Ries and @dimakassem Hosted by the @siblingstudies www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

When Johnson says "This is what a record number of 77 million popular votes requested and demanded" how about an interviewer try "Biden got 81 million votes in 2020, so 77 million was not a record. You know that but you lie about it. Why can't you stop? Why should we believe you about the deficit?"

boy Ontario is just so thoroughly squandering this moment

The worst part of science reporting right now is chronicling the expertise that will be lost. My latest piece for @nature.com