I don't know what causes migraines, but living under an increasingly authoritarian regime certainly doesn't help.

Do students get lost less on campuses where the buildings look different? I'm beginning to think acres of identical brick buildings is a bad idea.

Unpacking Americans’ Opinions on ‘Pro-Life’ Policies: Abortion, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide. (@annewhitesell.bsky.social @prri.org) prri.org/spotlight/un...

Trying to get @reuning.bsky.social to moderate his expectations on how quickly the town and university will be back up and running after 12”+ of snow. This isn’t Minnesota, or even central PA. We’re basically in the South.

Along with everything else happening in the world, today is the National March for Life and because I've become obsessed with the consistent life ethic, I decided to write about American public opinion across several "pro-life" policies: prri.org/spotlight/un...

I assumed this was his move to ethnographic research.

"Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. [...] Vance knows that lying and killing are sins. Vance knows. He doesn't care." www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

He, in fact, did not make it out healthy.

It was less than a decade ago when we held our failed vote. How the times have changed.

Vance's argument has a long history. He statements could have come out of the country's mid-century fascists, who also argued for anti-immigrant housing policy. I trace that history here: theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...

Hey, I wrote this! Many thanks to Pope Leo for promoting my research agenda.

The most tense moments in my marriage to @reuning.bsky.social came when we were making pasta, so I'm going to need this to get resolved. Or my marriage is doomed.

When Pope Leo spoke about immigration as a pro-life issue, I knew I had to write about it. Today my piece in @theconversation.com is out about what it means to be "pro-life." theconversation.com/what-does-pr...

In case anyone is wondering what it’s like to work at a polling station on a college campus for an off off year election, we’ve already googled “space-time continuum” and have nearly finished a 1,000 piece puzzle.

So much wrong with this, but I have to point out that SO MANY SNAP RECIPIENTS ARE WORKING AND STILL CAN’T MAKE ENDS MEET.

Updating my LEGO White House

I know my brain is broken because I read 6 or 7 and went:

The joy my students are experiencing from Canvas being down is pretty incredible. But the despair they feel from GrubHub being down is also incredible.

Universities when Canvas is down:

Gotta love that even his relationship with God is transactional.

Today @garlicksauce.bsky.social zoomed into my health, advocacy, and policy class, and after I figured out how to work the audio, we enjoyed a great presentation and Q&A on the influence of lobbying in healthcare! I expect book sales will soar.

Posting about this before @reuning.bsky.social scoops me. I emailed someone at my university about restrictions for spending grant money on April 21, 2024. She emailed me back one week ago.

Also plaguing college classrooms.

Case closed, I guess.

Me, reassuring my parents 15 years ago that getting a PhD in political science wasn’t a horrible idea: There will always be professor jobs!

Very excited to share the results from the survey @michalraucher.bsky.social & I conducted during our first year as @prri.org public fellows. prri.org/spotlight/am... We presented respondents with several vignettes and asked them, "Is this an abortion or a miscarriage?"

@mirandayaver.bsky.social - are you talking about this in your health policy class? Asking for me, due to teach health policy at 2:50 today.

Thrilled to be back for another year as a PRRI Public Fellow!

I can use AI to message my advisees. Do we think they can use AI to message me back? What are we even doing here?

Here’s a secret: I’ve been on the market a lot. I won’t apply for jobs at departments with PhD programs. Teaching in a PhD program doesn’t have to be the goal.

Political science professors should receive hazard pay for working during Interesting Times ™.

Played this and Minnesotan @reuning.bsky.social had VERY STRONG FEELINGS about it.

Definitely not me tearing up reading an email from a former student telling me about her first week at law school. Nope. Definitely just something in my eye.

Here's the problem with going on a family vacation to Germany in summer 2025: all the Nuremberg and Dachau content feels wayyyy too familiar.

- Undesirables from seedy underground locations making lots of noise at night (cicadas) - How much an ice cream vendor on the Mall tries to charge you for one chocolate ice cream before you explain you aren’t a tourist - Preferring Rehoboth over Bethany

I'm so glad we're putting money into an "arena district" while the academic buildings flood. 😑

It is absolutely wild to me that the president of the United States has nothing better to do with his time than call into a cable news show and fight about his poll numbers.

Sending this to my mother the next time she asks me when I'm moving back to the east coast.

But you know what we’ll never run out of? Coal! 😑😑😑

Republicans would never cover up Trump’s mental decline the way Dems covered up Biden’s, would they?

“I can remember talking to my priest when I was a kid in grade school, but nobody would do anything about it then because my parents were very generous contributors to the church and people didn’t want to upset anybody. We have to be willing to tell the truth. We have to be willing to intervene."

It's a huge problem. Just because someone works for a bad institution (or a decent institution in a bad state) doesn't mean they like it. People who can leave do. And lots of people who remain want to leave but can't quit their jobs with nothing to replace it. Ask me how I know.

Some exciting news coming out of the religious challenges to abortion bans! religiondispatches.org/religious-ch... @prri.org

Far more common is the uncool professor who just WANTS YOU TO DO THE READING, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard from a hotdog vendor or Donald Trump asking for a happy ending from an underage sex slave masseuse, both presidents made some provocative requests.

I can’t.

This is the kind of amusing Canva graphic design I will soon be bringing to the LWV-Oxford’s social media accounts.