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Maybe THIS is the year that I actually organize and keep track of my journal usernames and passwords?

I'm at the stage of syllabus writing where I am questioning the entire semester and course plan.

Proud to be involved in co-organizing this w the Status Committee on Grad Students!

Teaching Public Opinion for the first time since 2012. Using the Clawson & Oxley book. Send all your ideas for the book, extra readings, assignments, etc. Self promotion welcome.

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "The Effects of Parental Leave on Attitudes Toward the State," Elin Naurin and co-authors (including @poliscimonica.bsky.social) investigate the different gendered effects of parental leave on policy attitudes in 🇸🇪. #OpenAccess gendersky buff.ly/5IVNVDl

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My summary of ‘25: In January, I had an article get accepted that I was going to promote, but things were so wild w Trump that I didn’t want it to get lost in the chaos. Never actually found a less chaotic time to “tweet” about it. Cheers to the stuff we didn’t finish ! 🥂

New collection of essays, edited by Jonneke Koomen, @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social , and @erindyke.bsky.social, at #CritEdPol on Eli's book "Beyond Education" asking: "How can we study to make a new world in and against the limits on studying in this world?" works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Please note: Sensory overload can make autistic anxiety worse by overwhelming one's ability to filter out stimuli, & also anxiety can also come directly from autistics being more reactive to sensory inputs—leading to physical discomfort and increased emotionality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Last year, I made my Dad’s birthday cake, traveled with it to Florida, and frosted it down there. But I have no recollection of how I made this happen. Did I freeze it first ? Did I freeze it on arrival ? Can bake on 12/23, Traveling on 12/24, b-day celebration on 12/27.

Cedar-Riverside is right near the U (where I did my PhD).

Don’t give the political scientists any ideas.

Ready for 2026. Given the milestone birthday, retro felt right.

Putting together a zoom panel called "Anxiety and Depression: Graduate School and Beyond" with @apsa.bsky.social Status Committees on Disability and Graduate Students. Looking for panelist volunteers! Brave profs willing to talk about their experiences. Hoping for a diverse group!

Putting together a proposal for a @pspolisci.bsky.social symposium on disability and pedagogy. If you are interested in submitting a piece, please contact me for details!

I am now too ill to eat leftover pie.

Monday baking: does this look like dark brown sugar to you ?!

I want to bake like it’s November 2020.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Very curious to read this but don’t want to pay 🤔

Do we have to do this ? The use of IQ testing on ppl w ID is bad enough. Trump’s language about “low IQ” is worse. We don’t have to perpetuate this.

I have … no words…

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

These are the gems in the acknowledgments that I’m here for .

If you work at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and have been RIF'd, I'd love to speak to you. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I will need to verify your identity, but will conceal and protect your identity.

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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...