One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

The Department of Political Science just got a whole lot better! We are so thrilled to have these wonderful people on board for the coming academic year. 👏 #uofsc #polisci

Thrilled to share that next year I'll be @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social as the Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow, before starting @sc.edu as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in Fall 2027! Very excited to join such a dynamic department and to contribute to public ed back home in the Carolinas.

We are hiring for several positions this cycle: Assistant Prof in Sci Comm, Assistant Prof in Health Comm, Open-Rank in AI. I think this is a great place to work. More info here: sc.edu/study/colleg...

The Trump administration's attacks on civil service are profoundly personal. Today at @jhppl.bsky.social, I outline the "science of standing up for science;" how we can use social science research to restore health agencies' regulatory authority. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

NYT wants to hear from researchers who had their funding cut, form here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

My friend & mentor, Martin Johnson is 5 years gone today - i regularly quote him to my students (my fav is to do finger guns & say I’m not a normal professor I’m a cool professor), but mostly every day I try to do well while doing good, just like he always said. www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Happy (official) publication day to one of my favorite projects ever! tldr: Congressional votes on early federal infrastructure policy was influenced by partisan, distributive, and racial considerations

From May 2025 - Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests? - cup.org/3YTHTQJ - Nichole M. Bauer, @annagunderson.bsky.social, @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, Belinda Davis & @kesearles.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Can we train individuals on survey methods to boost their critical processing of public opinion evidence? "Survey Methods 101" is now accepted to Public Opinion Quarterly.

does anyone have any perceptions of democracy survey qs they've used that they like (I will cite you!)? can't find any that i love, particularly for elite sample

Highly recommend this by Adam Sitze for all academics thinking abt what this current moment demands of us, & interested in the history of tenure/academic freedom - he argues for situating academic freedom in the context of religious liberty (rather than freedom of speech) medium.com/the-politica...

When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments. Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

🚨 New Publication! "Being Affected: The Epistemic Value of Vulnerability in Fieldwork" 📝 We argue that fieldwork's unsettling moments are more than challenges—they're opportunities to generate crucial insights about the social worlds we study. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... ✨

New in PolCom, Maki, Mann & I propose + offer evidence for a new category of election coverage we call *voting process coverage* (VPC); importantly, we find this type of coverage is not just prevalent, but drowns out game frame coverage in lead-up to Election Day www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFBIF...

👋🏽 blue sky, finally made the jump! looking forward to this transition fixing all my problems