CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Practice job talks are critical but often impossible for students who are remote from their programs. I'm offering up to FOUR free pol sci practice job talks in Oct (mutually agreeable dates/times) for remote students. It can either be student and me alone, or we can invite others. #polisky #psjobs

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Today's #openScience mini kerfuffle is @urisohn.bsky.social 's Data Colada post responding to the JASA paper by @richarddmorey.bsky.social & @clintin.bsky.social critiquing the p-curve. datacolada.org/129 The whole thing is a bit sad w open-science related debates degenerating into team sports. 1/n

Deadline Extended to 10/3! politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app... Apply to work with @apsrjournal.bsky.social editors and authors to write public-facing summaries of cutting-edge political science research published in the APSA’s leading peer-reviewed research journal. #APSR #APSApublicscholars

BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

My most Gen X complaint is that this post, as always, ignores Gen X

Against defeatism.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

I went looking for why they'd go for MMR+V over MMRV & it seems dumb w very limited consequences (most kids get MMR+V anyway), so I'm not sure this is worth the online rage. The overall incompetence seems like a bigger issue (as does the looming vote against Hep B) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

Public appreciation post for @juliabottesini.com! The community doesn't know the great lengths Julia has gone to restabilize operations at PsyArXiv. We're all incredibly lucky to have her. Many, many hours and a great deal of thought/care have gone into the task. Thank you, Julia!

I am happy that we can repay the Germans with amusing compound nouns of our own now.

So excited to hold my book! You can do so too in November! Leila Khoury's cover art captures the story of a contentious movement becoming something like a civil society in the depths of Syria's war. @cornellupress.bsky.social designed it beautifully. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I don’t really get this. We need to resist and we can’t resist without organizations. People with different levels of vulnerability will need to calibrate their risks accordingly—this has always been true but is more urgent, with vulnerability much greater, now. But obviously people need to connect

A newer quant-and-qual demography book that I also love (it is partly about fertility but also many other things)

Much qualitative demography. One of my heroes is Susan Greenhalgh www.jstor.org/stable/2137382

Sending love to everyone who needs it tonight. Love and Tom Holland.

Fantastic paper both methods & question/results: Goodhardt's law is alive & well in the age of satellite surveillance based enforcement. Uses alternate satellite images & ML model to show farmers burned at different time to evade satellite detection #apsa25 (couldn't find a preprint, alas)

My first #APSA2025 observation is that the superiority of the Canadian croissant is not limited to Montreal.

Check out our new article @ plos.org one on our 1st dataset published at @maxwellsu.bsky.social's @qdr.bsky.social: "... A new dataset of 1st-person accounts of the #COVID-19 pandemic" - @sarahwillen.bsky.social Katherine A. Mason Heather Wurtz @adam42smith.bsky.social tinyurl.com/PJP-PLOS-ONE

“Polyarchy? What’s that? Some kind of perverted sex thing?”

By Dennis Rasmussen, one of my colleagues here @supolisci.bsky.social -- also got a very enjoyable audiobook version, highly recommended.

In sports households, the year is split into football & basketball season. In music households, there's marching band season & musical season. Marching band is so uniquely American, absolutely bonkers, and super fun. The SU #prideOfTheOrange band has 220 kids this year...

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

I'm not unsympathetic to this, but I'd also warn about too much optimism about what HS stats can do. How many people w HS calculus have a good intuition about what a 1st derivative is 10 years later? Why would we expect that to be different w Bayes' theorem, let alone p values

Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with 📚 dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

In my NORC 2024 panel, respondents who didn't match to the voter file were *18.5 percentage points* more pro-Trump than the sample overall. My guess: Trump voters were less willing to give the information needed to match to voter records.

It's curious that the UK is the only one of the large European countries that's terrible at basketball. I wonder why. #euroBaskets

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The priorities are exactly what you'd expect. Here's question 3 (followed by 3 more that make absolutely sure you have the right views on trans kids) and by Q8 we've made it to the constitution... (The whole thing is of course also terribly buggy)

I finally made it over to BlueSky. Looking forward to chatting about data management, ISO 8601, and other random stuff with you all here.

Some good citations in the thread

@mfenner.bsky.social and Geoff Bilder gave a memorable talk about the bollockschain and data infrastructure 7 years ago. The slides don't fully do it justice, but doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Are you like me and struggle to choose colors for your charts? I recently found the colorspace package, and it's a total game-changer. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Load the package, run 'pal<-choose_palette()' and a GUI shows you color combos! Check out my example with #TidyTuesday data:

What's been the most influential piece of research in your area in the past decade?

More info about changes to moderation at PsyArXiv - improvingpsych.org/2025/08/20/c...

One of our members is conducting a study about instructors using government data. You can read more about her work on today's post: www.datarescueproject.org/teaching-wit...

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

We are currently preparing a large scale up of moderators to deal with the big backlog, which has built up to a truly unacceptable size. Again, please accept our apologies, and perhaps also take this as an invitation to join the moderation team? We need all hands on deck. bsky.app/profile/impr...

A group of sociologists from Mainz held a workshop in 2023 where they exchanged and collected how they teach phil of sciences. maybe thats worth a try sozialstruktur.soziologie.uni-mainz.de/files/2023/0...

The merits of the argument aside, what's with the big boxes? Why are they relevant? How do we know GN has them? And are we talking percussion instruments, big box stores, or something else?

New Publication Tracks at the American Political Science Review The current team of the American Political Science Review (APSR) intends to broaden the range of work published at the Journal. To facilitate this, we now have 5 tracks available:  Each track will be designed for a distinctive type of…

Did everyone else know that you can turn on ‘library links’ in Google scholar!?

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

We have a new #metaarxiv #metascience preprint out, looking at data availability statements (DAS) for qualitative research published in PLOS. PLOS has been requiring DAS for all empirical pieces for more than a decade. Data sharing is both challenging & contentious among qualitative researchers 1/n

I’d trade all my “marketable skills” for a union tbh

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637