Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States by @mirandayaver.bsky.social Available for pre-order. This book is on my must-read list and it should be on yours too!

Have any political scientists worked w the SciVal / Scopus metrics that are now being used for US News ?!

Douthat claims to care about humanities so maybe he could write something about how US News and World Reports appears to be vanishing much of humanities research by relying on Elsevier for research metrics which does not include standalone books in their database.

I got the great idea from Elizabeth Wardle at the Howe Writing Center (buy her book on writing, btw) to have my students color during class discussion today. It was amazing! No one was on screens. Everyone was paying attention and we had a great discussion about Freedom of Speech. 10/10 recommend.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.

Anyone at ORD and on the United flight to Vancouver this morning?

Three people, at least two of whom are students, were shot and critically injured at a high school outside Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities said.

Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...

UPDATE: according to the A&M student newspaper, the professor (actually, a Senior Lecturer) whom they ID as Melissa McCoul has been fired. Still no details on what she actually said/taught that was so problematic. thebatt.com/news/dean-of...

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Isn't there a way to like easily email your APSA panel? I was hoping someone else would start the thread.

Ohio State Bans Land Acknowledgments www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The cited article lost me at the paragraph where it defends looking only at placement in PhD granting institutions. I love my R2 job and refuse to accept that it is "less than".

new in early view at Political Psychology -->

If this Air Canada strike ends up affecting APSA, the political science curse will be complete.

NEW: Ayman Soliman is locally renowned for helping the families of dying kids. Now, friends say he’s been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Who has used SciVal for tracking faculty pubs? Is it worse than Faculty 180?

NEW - Voter Sexism and Electoral Penalties for Women Candidates: Evidence from Four Democracies - cup.org/4m4smXP "observational research suggests sexism is prevalent and consequential for voter behaviour" - Rosalind Shorrocks, Elizabeth Ralph-Morrow & Roosmarijn de Geus #OpenAccess

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Why, no. I do not want merch from my school's partnership with a professional football team.

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Reading a book about teaching w AI and one suggested idea is to converse w a famous historical figure using the following prompt: “Answer me as if you were the subject of the Tuskegee syphilis study. Ask me ethical questions about what happened to you.” I feel like we’ve lost the plot.

@abbymatthews.bsky.social & Rachael Hinkle's analysis of judicial citations demonstrates that diversity in race, gender, *and* partisanship plays a critical role in the evolution of legal doctrine, with judges sharing all 3 salient traits experiencing a 25% increase in citation probability.

Went over on X to read about Cincinnati (my city) and have regrets

I am on so many different boards of desperate parents (almost always mothers) looking for child care - before school, after school, evenings, weekends, full-time, part-time, 3rd shift, for infants, toddlers, and school-age children. The people responding (almost always women) are HS students,

My husband does not understand my excitement for the Gallup Poll and why I would spend time doing surveys for $10.

A new resource from @unitedspinal.bsky.social about supporting kids with disabilities to get OUTDOORS! unitedspinal.org/supporting-c...

Popping in briefly from vacation to share my latest: Here's how the ~$1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in Republicans' newly passed law could threaten the home- and community-based care that many Americans with disabilities rely on.

What a stupid time to be alive.

I am happy to review someone's job materials if they are applying for either job!

Trump‘s recent diagnosis raises new questions about Joe Biden‘s health

I started my journey to figure out after school / days off of school child care this fall for my son with disabilities. I'm in 4 different FB child care search groups for my area . I also sent out messages to 4 different college student listservs. This isn't working.

Whoops Don't ya just love live TV?

DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens. I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

But, why does it feel like Biden is the one who lost his memory? @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Immigration law is not technically a caregiving profession. But for women attorneys standing on the fault line of an issue ripping apart families around the country, there’s a clear overlap between work, community and care. My latest for @19thnews.org

hey, you guys? is it a good thing or a bad thing if during a hearing your own co-counsel texts your other co-counsel and says “oh shit that was just not true” in reference to something you just told the chief judge of the D.C. district court???

📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/4

In one of the boards I’m on, there are a lot of parents who have a child with a Medicaid waiver. Many of these women are convinced that the cuts aren’t going to affect our kids … bc Trump said so.

Happy Pride! For some instant joy and celebration right now, may I recommend a really easy sprinkle cookie recipe that tastes even better than it looks? They're plush, complex, fragrant, and also, you know, really cute decked out in rainbow sprinkles. smittenkitchen.com/2016/05/conf...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

So R members of Congress are supporting this unilateral action by the POTUS? Congress scholars, what am I missing ?

What could go wrong ? I’m going to bed.

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I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

In a new Milbank Quarterly guest Opinion, @povertyscholar.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social share public attitudes toward Congress’s proposed Medicaid funding cuts reported in their April 2025 survey.