I just ran a survey (with @stecula.bsky.social and Alex Rivard) and we found that people have no idea what housing prices are like in their community. People simultaneously underestimate what homes cost in their metros and think that where they live is much more expensive than the rest of the US.

Call me old fashioned, but I think freedom of speech is good, ackschually, and we shouldn't be jailing people for posting memes. Glad that to see the GOP commitment to free speech was full fledged and unwavering and not at all cynical political theater. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Our universities are truly a US superpower. Most states have at least one world class research university that is an engine of the local economy and a magnet for top talent from all over the world. Policies like this are not like stepping on a rake, its like blowing your own head off with a cannon.

in case you missed it when I posted the preprint on acceptance, here's the more aesthetically pleasing, actually formatted (and unfortunately timely) article for your reading pleasure! (cc: Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, @matthewhitt.bsky.social): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Just lost a paper after an R&R. One reviewer said accept. The other said “At the risk of frustrating the authors, however, I’m afraid the paper is still pretty badly written.” The latter comment, a constructive, intellectual feast of a comment, prevailed. Editor rejected it. Peer review is a joke.

Throwback Thursday! Let’s take a moment to look back at the 2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference! The many smiling faces in the selection of pictures show just how amazing the preconference was. You can find more pictures at this link: shorturl.at/EJj3v

New (very timely!) paper with Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, @matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

APSA in Vancouver was a blast, so great to see old friends. See you all next year in Boston.

Today's ACIP meeting may use VAERS data to make false claims about vaccine injury. To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...

What are we doing here, @nytimes.com? You were obviously not built for covering authoritarianism.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

Consider the stark contrast between how Trump and Vance treated Zelensky and Putin. American soldiers, on their knees, rolling the red carpet before war criminal Putin. A shameful day.

Few Americans actively support the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed. But, our data show that many seem to have no problem with it. @stecula.bsky.social ‬and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...

🚨🚨 Only a few days left to submit a paper for the Political Communication Preconference at APSA! 🚨🚨 @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions! DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

3 more days! Get your applications in and share widely!

new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5

Reminder that there are 13 more days to apply to the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference. Join us in Vancouver! Please share widely.

Trump University 2.0

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Trump wants the mathematical inverse of this picture of Yeltsin

You really don't need legal scholars to weigh in on it just like you don't need to call an otolaryngologist to check if it is okay to shove a fork in your ear

Tour de force from @aselrod.bsky.social: "Is our civic virtue so spent that we cannot rescue the republic from the sewer it has fallen into? [...] At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity."

It’s been a crazy marathon of a year. But first year at Ohio State is now completed. To celebrate, here is what Chat GPT thinks I would look like if my head was a buckeye.

Check out @stecula.bsky.social’s analysis of the Canadian election and how Carney represents a rebuke to Trumpism www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

I never thought I would feel the need to write that Canada is, in fact, a real country—but here we are. Trump's “51st state” talk isn't funny. Americans need to wake up and stand up for Canada and our special relationship. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

🌐 Preconference updates will be posted here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/ 📩 Questions? Contact the organizers: @stecula.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social and @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social through the email: [email protected] #APSA2025 #PolComm

I wrote about small-r republican virtue and whether America has enough left to get out of this mess. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

Me sending my manuscript to PNAS before it promptly gets desk rejected

Dzisiaj w @wyborcza.pl piszę o kryzysie konstytucyjnym w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Jest gorzej niż myślicie. wyborcza.pl/7,75968,3188...

Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador is a form of embodied protest and helped put Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Gracia on the front page of the NYT two days in a row. As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”

Elite cues + negative polarization = turning progressives into neoliberals

Thank god. lets gtfo here

I think a great general rule of thumb is: the more names of judges that an average member of the public can recite from memory, the worse the shape of that country's democracy

The cfp for this year's @polcomm.bsky.social preconference at APSA is now open, and we are also organizing a mentoring scheme for early career scholars not willing/able to travel to Canada this year. Information below!

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

Third person effect: manufacturing edition

Thursday at #MPSA2025! We quantify the effects of Biden's drop out decision, in a pre-registered nat. experiment in a nat. representative panel study. @stecula.bsky.social @klunztrujillo.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social @ophiryotam.bsky.social @drorwalter.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

Chilling

I’ll just say that out of 10 responses to this so far, three are, verbatim: “Trump 2028”, “deport”, and “Let’s MAGA” in case you’re wondering why we are where we are. Given this was posted on FB Political Scientists group and on here, this is not very encouraging.

In light of the immigration crackdown on graduate students and professors with documented legal status in the United States, here is an open letter to APSA which you can sign to show support to our colleagues facing tremendous uncertainties. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My book is now officially out! How Politicians Polarize introduces and documents the concept of "negative representation" – when representatives focus on the other side rather than their own. Some key findings: 🧵 www.amazon.com/How-Politici...