Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

This stephen miller tweet aged like stephen miller.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

Early career researchers - Join me and some other fabulous researchers in Granada this September to talk misinformation research

We should never forget this was a war of choice, over military objections, with a clear outcome (closing of Strait) forecast decades in advance and warned of in the moment, at great human cost, initiated by one man (pushed by another), who wanted to play the tough guy with a military now depleted.

It's @professormusgrave.bsky.social o'clock again, alas

This is what happens when a person is never punished

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

EMERGENCY RELEASE from Gen. Eaton.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Under international law, "genocide" is such a fraught term because it requires showing 'dolus specialis,' or proof that perpetrators specifically aimed to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Trump or someone on Trump's team intentionally crafted this to meet that standard.

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Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

True story: the idea for my dissertation, which became Uncivil Agreement (my first book), came to me as I was staring at my first dissertation proposal (on a different topic) that I hated. To distract myself, I opened a folder on my computer where I had stored articles I wanted to read later....

Also true of research in general, where serendipity is often the source of discovery

This entire administration is uninformed people laughing at experts, rejecting their advice, and then discovering why the experts said what they said.

It's worth asking every once in a while what would be different if an adversary of America were running the country right now

NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?

Are conservative views uncensored yet?

“It's not the job of a good message to say what's popular. It's the job of a good message to make popular what we need said, because we have an agenda we need to enact, and because that's how we win.” @anatosaurus.bsky.social with @andreapitzer.bsky.social

if think tanks acknowledge what trumpism is (incoherent and vibes-based), they have to face their own crisis of relevance as institutions that pump out policy papers and provide advice to movers and shakers. pretending there's some policy process that makes sense is a way to avoid grappling w this

Just a reminder to folks, you must submit a claim for the Anthropic class action suit by March 30. The site allows you to look up whether/which of your books have been used by Anthropic. It's pretty easy to do. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*sz2s08....

"What do you think of U.S. foreign policy?" "I think it would be a good idea."

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

What really drives someone to support violent extremism? I am thrilled to share our new article published today in PNAS. Together with an incredible team of collaborators, we conducted a preregistered study across 58 countries with over 18,000 participants. This is what we found.

The information environment matters and a big part of Reconstruction After Trump will be working to improve media and strengthen journalism

if we lived in a society that wanted to function we'd make being an air traffic controller the job with the best support in the world with plenty of rest time and deep coverage for every role instead we have underpaid people working 60+ hour weeks

“Just because he acts goofy, does not mean his presidency wouldn’t be dangerous.” - Barack Obama (October 2024)

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.

CBP doesn’t deport the worst of the worst. They hire them. Very long thread below.

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

This is true and I think down to 3 things: 1. The media people who are supposed to discuss it are the ones who have been taken over. 2. The research people have a really hard time measuring it. 3. Professional norms of political neutrality forbid both from pointing fingers at the right.

... of that last half-century, upstream of virtually any other problem that you can identify, and yet in mainsteam political discourse we *never talk about it*. It's the biggest, most salient political fact of all, just sitting there, looming, and no one fucking speaks it aloud.

Bucknell U's political science department is searching for two VAPs for next year ('26-'27) in IR & CP, respectively. Deadline is quite soon: 30 March. Please feel free to DM me with questions! bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

"400 years ago no one did introspection" is an all time stupid guy thing to say. like, the kind dumbass bullshit that should embarrass any barely sentient person

In a large global study (N = 49,968, 68 countries) we found that the open-mindedness aspect of intellectual humility was the strongest predictor for rejecting conspiracy beliefs out of 17 potential individual difference measures. osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Polarization often happens asymmetrically. One political actor radicalizes, and the results reverberate through the political system… This affects everyone else’s obligations. … When one political actor contravenes the norms of democratic politics, their opposition is NOT bound by those norms." 💯

All these men who claim to not feel shame seem to have extremely detailed totally historically inaccurate reasons to explain why they don't need to feel shame. But their faces still show that little bit of shame in there.

Where to begin with this

Telling the world you ran out of bombs after sucker-punching world superpowers <checks notes> Venezuela and Iran is not a flex. In fact, it makes us look like the blowhard paper tiger we are. You killed public education to fund the military for decades and ran out of bombs in two weeks

The moment of clarity for liberals and republicans is that their foundational principles are wholly aligned. There is no need for compromise, only certainty of purpose. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-republic...

The “everyone is 12” hypothesis still going strong

Rewatching the X Files with my 14-yo, and it's refreshing to go back to 1993, when we treated AI as creepy and weird instead of brilliant and inevitable. www.imdb.com/title/tt0751...