Really proud of my friend Peter from college. He was always the smartest, kindest person in the room. And now everyone knows he's wicked funny, he was on the Daily Show talking about AI! youtu.be/RcPthlvzMY8?...

I live in Tennessee's 7th district with the Aftyn Behn special election. Just got the neighborhood social pressure treatment and some new "compared to others in the state" one. Neat

Someone asked me what my "last meal" would be and I immediately answered, "One of the pardoned Thanksgiving Turkeys." I have never felt so clever, funny, and quick witted.

DoorDash orders after the age of 30 need to come with complementary Tums.

Humans evolved strong mechanisms for evaluating credibility. Yet these depend on an information ecosystem rich in trustworthy institutions and credible choices. The question is whether we can rebuild this epistemic infrastructure before norms of authenticity decay beyond repair, writes John Wihbey.

On 9/10 votes, these individuals would vote the same way. But intra-party perceptions of what moderate/progressive sides stand for are probably way more polarized. Probably a publication here. Attribute progressive policies to moderates and measure percieved authenticity and favorability. Neat.

Mamdani won. Gonna treat myself to an $8 chocolate croissant tomorrow morning while we still have a free market 😂.

Lots of great signs today at No Kings in Nashville. If I had to boil it down to two, it would be these...

No Kings in Nashville had great turnout!

Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, a major threat to (what remains of) the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But this isn't the first time the VRA has faced dire threats; in 2013 and 2021, SCOTUS weakened other provisions. We can learn from those why Callais could be so dangerous 🧵

In 2024, the media played defense for Trump's denials of revolving door politics/connectedness to Project 2025. Turns my stomach on the regular.

In Office Hours. Made a meme explaining how I feel about some research I'm working on.

oh yeah i also have a blog post up today. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

"I'm so glad I work for a network where we can have a conversation about demons." 😂😂😂

1. We do not know the motive of the shooter. The man who shot at Trump was after attention. 2. The man who murdered MN legislators WAS motivated by politics, and I didn’t hear any Dems calling for reprisals against all Repubs. 3. It’s easy to start a cycle of violence. Not easy to end one.

Amazing. Am I reading this right. Democrats' satisfaction with "how things are going" is basically just measurement error.

Trump's ham-handed voting restrictions are a poor solution to a manufactured and racialized issue of voter/election fraud. Receipts here, in paper form: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Academia is great. I read a paper, edited a lecture, and ate my dog's leftover birthday cake for breakfast. Off to teach.

Trump's city-crime narrative leans on encoded stereotypes of largely Black cities. OUT TODAY @polbehavior.bsky.social, @kevintmorris.bsky.social and I show Black cities were also the epicenter of the 2020 election fraud narrative. Republicans and Racially resentful Whites were most susceptible.

Time line cleanser. Rory turned 3 yesterday. Baked cake and barista knew her fav is watermelon. People signed a card. Some things are still good.

Anyone else using GroupMe for your classes? I'm a week in and it's already paying dividends by keeping my inbox cleaner and letting students chime in with helpful links and answering syllabus/reading questions. Also, my students voted on my office hours candy selection.

Swamped with first week of class things, but overwhelmingly glad Kevin and the Rush el al scholars have their eye on the ball regarding the on-going attacks on voting rights in America. Read, cite, and maybe even assign these papers in your seminars. Rigorous and important work!

I was thrown an additional prep this week (yay!?). Need newish book about organized interest in the U.S.? Could be on labor, business, think tanks, etc. Could have ramifications for elections, representation, inequality,etc. If it's been on any of the poli sci book podcasts all the better. Thanks!

This semester, my students will WANT to do the reading!!!

ChatGPT is having a full blown identity crisis. It's trying to manage. Please be kind during this adjustment period.

new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Whelp. Needed an undergrad friendly reading on information search and exposure for political psychology. Blue Sky provides. Sure to also conjure discussion about what my students see go viral in their own feeds.

Assigning The Communist Manifesto is a sure fire way to make sure your students DON'T read it.

So it's the attitudinal model all the way down. Other considerations seem to be the exception. The Court stacking the deck according to preference instead of law. Dangerous stuff.

An academic accomplishment that deserves its own CV line.

New at @thejop.bsky.social w/ @kevintmorris.bsky.social, Mike Miller, and Coryn Grange. We find administrative burdens in Texas (mail ballot/application rejections) --- (1) decreased turnout, (2) fell hardest on minorities, (3) persisted for at least two years, (4) even hit the highly engaged.

Does the Big Beautiful Bill at least outlaw Doorbells and Dog Barks from TV and Movies? Asking for this over reactive guard dog.

As someone who kinda liked the swings season 3 took, The Bear season 4 knows what made 1/2 excellent and knocked it out of the park again. TV is good folks.

Happy Anniversary to my cycling heatmap, where you can visually see me getting angier and faster (orange) when I was alerted that Roe was overturned.

"set mem 500" "br"

Happy Friday to everyone. Except Rory, who doesn't know she's getting a bath today.

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

This, my friends, is textbook rationalization. The REASON Senator Padilla was assaulted, removed, and handcuffed was his public dissent. My 2 cents.

Super PACs are out here just making free experiment treatment images. Gross.

Since it's relevant for literally just tonight, here's a throwback to me as Thénardier in Les Miserables back in College. So fun.

Really proud of this (NOW) forthcoming piece with @kevintmorris.bsky.social. With a multi-method approach, we hone in on how themes of racial threat and perceived black criminality drove 2020 election denial for white Americans.

I don't know anything about soccer...but here's my idea. Each time a team scores, their goal post gets bigger and the losing team's post gets smaller. Like a fun handicap.

What's real fam? No cap, we need to increase state capacity. Because this slow drip economy is giving so much ick. Like, favorite, sub, PEACE!

Stacking a fun Book on top of a political science book is now my new favorite meme.

Glowing student evaluations (even for methods!) and reunited with my love! Good Monday. Summer cycling time!

If the Pope were to run for president, would their human name or their Pope name be on the ballot?

First TT year in the books. I lived in 4 different places, taught a million new preps, accidentally went to a Green Day concert (fav band), got a paper accepted (led by the exceptional @kevintmorris.bsky.social), made new MPSA friends, flagged a lot of Chat GPT, and missed my dog. Off to get her.