Political Rumors on sale for 50% off. Get your copy! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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...

Don't forget to sign up for our final Seminar Series of the year, with Professor @adamberinsky.bsky.social 💡 Rethinking Misinformation Interventions: Beyond the Search for a Magic Bullet 🗓️ Friday 8 May ⏰️ 4.30pm - 5.30pm Join here👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

YOU: There are no large effect sizes in behavioral science ME:

Next week, join us for a virtual event to learn about the current challenge of public health mis- and disinformation + what researchers can do to help counter these trends. @lizhamel.bsky.social (@kff.org) & @adamberinsky.bsky.social (@mit.edu). 🔗 scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...

Intro next monday/tuesday

I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word! Free one hour seminar. April 13 tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85 Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro: April 20-21 tinyurl.com/2mas96tf -Advanced: April 27-28 tinyurl.com/5467prx6

I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word! Free one hour seminar. April 13 tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85 Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro: April 20-21 tinyurl.com/2mas96tf -Advanced: April 27-28 tinyurl.com/5467prx6

Updated AJPS AI Disclosure Policy for Authors Last year, we introduced a set of policies concerning the use of AI at AJPS for both authors and reviewers. We have recently updated these guidelines. The current guidelines are presented in this Editor's Blog: ajps.org/2026/04/10/u...

Is there actually a way to stop misinformation? At our latest Food for Thought session, @adamberinsky.bsky.social explored this question and the answer isn’t as simple as we might hope.

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...

Come work with @devincaughey.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social Charles Stewart and me. Details below!

📰 Do the effects of partisan media fade quickly or accumulate over time? ➡️ Using multiwave experiments, M Baum et al. show a single exposure can have effects lasting up to a week, while cumulative effects are hard to detect www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Political scientist @adamberinsky.bsky.social found that while Americans’ support for wars was affected by major attacks on the U.S., it mostly followed the domestic “ebb and flow of partisan and group-based political conflict.” (@chashomans.bsky.social, NYT-unlocked) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...

Come work with @devincaughey.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social Charles Stewart and me. Details below!

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion - https://cup.org/47EZO23 - Matthew Baum, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, @jdbk.bsky.social#OpenAccess Joohye Jeong, Zachary Markovich & Teppei Yamamoto #FirstView

New paper with Gabriela Czarnek, @dgrand.bsky.social and @adamberinsky.bsky.social out in Political Behavior! Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Kash Patel, you're the next contestant on Kiss! That! Ass!"

St. Patrick's Day reminded me of this story that the Boston Globe ran in 2018 about a Photo that my Dad took of RFK in the 1968 South Boston St. Patrick's day parade

An insipid NYT trend piece based on a few anecdotes *and* a Trump sanewashing story, the crossover they said couldn't be done.

The joke’s on us because he *is* a former president.

My Canadian girlfriend

The AJPS announces new policies on correspondence and corrections. Read the Editor's Blog here: ajps.org/2026/03/05/n...

The recording of the free seminar should be up soon. And still time to sign up for the Intro and Advanced seminars, this week and next.

Great opportunity to learn from one of the best, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, in an online seminar (including a free intro!) instats.org/seminar/surv...

My dissertation has a second life…don‘t knows are coming back

I'm teaching a few survey research courses live and online. First, a free one hour seminar. Feb 20 instats.org/seminar/surv... Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro Surveys (Feb 26-27): instats.org/seminar/intr... -Advanced Surveys (March 5-6): instats.org/seminar/adva...

I'm teaching a few survey research courses live and online. First, a free one hour seminar. Feb 20 instats.org/seminar/surv... Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro Surveys (Feb 26-27): instats.org/seminar/intr... -Advanced Surveys (March 5-6): instats.org/seminar/adva...

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

JD Vance is the most loathsome character in American politics, and it's mostly because he's immediately recognizable to anyone with an interest in politics as The Worst Guy From Your PoliSci Class

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

Best thing I’ve read in a long time. The headline that is. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Truth

I’ve been a proud wesleyan alum for years but especially proud given how @msroth.bsky.social has been a leading voice of reason and justice this past year.

This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men

"I'm not letting you go to my 12-year-old birthday party, the one you said you weren't going to because your mean mom said to avoid me. SO THERE!!! Jokes on you, loser!!! Uninvited!!!!"

Best one yet. 🤣

DO YOU HAVE ANY TROPHIES OR AWARDS I CAN HAVE?

Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.

The internet is full of unqualified health advice. Dr. Therese Markow started Critically Speaking to bring you the actual experts - the researchers, doctors, and scientists doing the work. New episodes every week. Follow @criticallyspeakingpodcast and tune in.

So true. 100% a feature not a bug.

looking back at now once again trump loyalists statements on jan 6 is crazy because it really illustrates how they’ve managed to sanitize what everyone knew was going on. the jan 6ers were ultimately successful it seems

What Rs said at the time Pence: "a dark day" Rubio: "3rd world style anti-American anarchy" Cruz: "violence...is ALWAYS wrong" Graham: Trump's "actions were the problem" Stefanik: "a truly tragic day" McCarthy: "undemocratic, un-American and criminal" McConnell: "a disgrace" And now we are lied to

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Time for everyone to dig up their best take on Bari Weiss. Here’s mine:

so true.

Not in the least bit surprising