Eight years ago today I got to throw my old sofa off of the deck. The backstory is the new sofa wouldn't fit through the front door so it had to go up over the deck too.

Kiddo’s first homework. That’s my girl.

Congress held a hackathon this past week, so of course we wrote about it. Lots of clever tools and new initiatives from the legislative branch.

The Senate nuclear option in 2025: a backgrounder. open.substack.com/pub/stevesno...

I didn't expect to be reading up on the history of hummus this morning but here I am.

I’ll probably never write a book but if I did it would be a coffee table book of politicians looking ridiculous doing normal things.

I’m watching K-Pop Demon Hunters. Wish me luck.

I'm excited about our upcoming Rothbaum Lectures given by Maggie Blackhawk! Lectures are free and open to the public.

What would you do if you thought one of your manuscript reviews was written by AI? I'm not contesting the decision as I thought that was fair.

If you are thinking about teaching students about archival research, be sure to check out congressarchives.org. This @nehgov.bsky.social and NHPRC funded project combines digitized documents from six institutions.

When the pilot says Oak City…

Had a great time at APSA. Now it’s back to the grind.

I’m here in Vancouver and…4.9 stars!

Thread on Senate nuking of supermajority cloture for their nomination reform resolution:

Our edited volume has a cover! If you’re teaching American government, this could be of interest to you. We’ve got a lot of great contributions from some really great people. It’ll be available by January 2026.

Why serve a great pour over coffee on a glass cup that gets cold quickly? Double walled insulated cups exist. I’m looking at you Revolver coffee shop.

All I have to say is it feels weird preparing for this APSA conference.

If I asked folks to guess the % of OU students from out of state, I bet few of you would give me a number over 50%.

I would read a long form essay on state fair company operators and how they decide on territories. We are in Wade Fair country in Oklahoma.

Iowa vs. Iowa St. should not be a game played in September.

Grant submitted! Good luck to us.

I just saw google AI link to a bill on congress.gov. It was mostly accurate too.

Do parents in other states get weekly emails from the State Superintendent of Instruction or is that just an Oklahoma Ryan Walters thing?

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Go ahead and make yourself comfortable I guess.

I don't know about the rest of these things but I'm on team better gas cans that you can actually pour from without modifying.

🚨🚨🚨 The Cooperative Election Study's 2024 vote validation data is now available! Microdata: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... Or easy interactive analysis of the data on... vote choice: cooperativeelectionstudy.shinyapps.io/VoteTrends/ demographics of voters: cooperativeelectionstudy.shinyapps.io/votercomp/

A bit of a shot in the dark here but has anyone visited the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park in Vancouver? Is it worth the price?

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

Two of our Carl Albert Center Civic Engagement Fellows, Jhanvi Patel and Michael Stoyak, coauthored this article in Forbes about civic participation. Way to go Jhanvi and Michael! www.forbes.com/sites/civicn...

We made it three days before chaos in the drop off line. People getting their kids out early, cutting the door opener line. Someone needs to send a reminder email.

If folks are looking for political commercials to show in their classes this fall, don't forget about the Campaign Television Advertisement Project with 9,707 presidential ads from 1952-2012. campaigntvads.org Our paper, forthcoming in Nature: Scientific Data is here arxiv.org/abs/2503.22589

First day of school! Let the fighting over getting ready on time begin.

First grade social studies standards or potential political science dissertation topics.

I'm a little surprised this one started up after giving it the summer off. I finally decided to get a new one for this year. This was my first computer when I got to OU. I've had many more but none ran like this one.

This was from five years ago but always worth sharing. I think there were about 1000 users on the list.

1:42.2 800m for a high schooler going into his junior year. Insane. www.runnersworld.com/news/a655851...

I just saw a guy delivering a pizza in a unicycle so I guess that means classes are starting soon.

A big congratulations to former Carl Albert Center graduate Fellow Matthew Geras for earning tenure and promotion at the University of Illinois Springfield! Great job, Matt!

Not me mailing some contraband plastic bags to my sister in NY.

The Carl Albert Center is saddened to hear of the passing of George Nigh. Gov. Nigh was a giant of Oklahoma politics and can be found across many of our archival collections. Here he is with Speaker Albert, Fred and LaDonna Harris and many others.

I successfully retrieved an email from my work phone! Thankfully the message was to text someone so I didn't have to actually call them back.

This is supposed to be a personal finance article about 529s and one of the case studies is a person who drops out of college and withdraws the money (pays taxes and penalties) and goes on vacation with the remainder. She then buys life insurance policies for her kids as a savings vehicle.

Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhh! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Our visiting ornate box turtle, Turtlepac, made her dinner time rounds. We were out of blueberries so she got some cherries.

The Carl Albert Center is updating and changing some of our archival systems and some of our services may be offline temporarily. Please contact us via email if you have any pressing archival needs.

Paper accepted!

I know folks on here hate on AI but what if there was one that did our annual training for us?

I did 6 minutes at inclined level 10 on the treadmill so I should be good to go for my upcoming hike.

Not me turning on my out of office reply like I'm actually going to ignore my email for a week.