🚨 Medicaid contributes as much to metro Detroit's economy as THE AUTO INDUSTRY 🚨

Hey that's @robertmanduca.bsky.social's research!

Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...

This is SO important and I wonder why more people aren't talking about it! Thankfully, @robertmanduca.bsky.social has made us a bunch of maps.

In Kentucky's 5th congressional district, recently profiled by Arlie Hochschild for @nytimes.com, Medicaid makes up a quarter of the entire economic base. The SNAP and Medicaid cuts would be like losing one-third of all traded private sector industries www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

It is *extremely important* to understand the consequences of the "Big Beautiful Bill" for local economies. @robertmanduca.bsky.social breaks it down in this thread

New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀 equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...

Get yourself a copy of @leahlitman.bsky.social's smart and funny new book LAWLESS. Actually, maybe get 2 so you don't have to share... bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

Thinking hard about augmented wealth also illuminates a major puzzle in wealth inequality research. As @mjantti.bsky.social @esiermin.bsky.social @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @norawaitkus.bsky.social (+ more) have shown, there's minimal correlation across countries between wealth and income inequality

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Thrilled my article with Kate Weisburd on "Legally Magic Words" led to this Data For Defenders motion, which shows public defenders how they can use social science research to help their clients

Happy belated pub day to my @umichlaw.bsky.social colleague Nico Cornell, whose book "Wrongs and Rights Come Apart" is now out!

New study with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and Josh Knobe!

Our incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent — with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and @rosesomm.bsky.social We find cases where people agree that both: (a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented (b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all osf.io/63d8s

Congratulations and happy pub day to Michelle Adams, my amazing colleague @umichlaw.bsky.social whose new book The Containment is out today! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

A while back my spouse and I each independently set up monthly donations to Bolts and when we realized our mistake we decided to just leave it bc Bolts is great and deserves double support. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and check them out if you haven't yet! boltsmag.org/donate-page/...

It's our view that the field of contracts has been captured by an ironic revanchism -- looking toward an imagined past where consent was real and people read. Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.

Following lots of recent research, we show that generally, being in lots of formal contracts online has made younger people more formal about contracting -- more up for thin notions of assent, and gamified understandings of obligation.

Beyond "local" vs "traded" industries: new research by @robertmanduca.bsky.social identifies a third category of "regional' industries" -- think wholesalers and business services -- that employ 36M Americans, pay well, and could be key to economic development! Here's how they work 🧵

Do laws give people hints about which social groups they should like or dislike? @rosesomm.bsky.social and I tackled this question in a 2022 paper: lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/...

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/

This looks like an incredibly important paper for anyone in the Criminal Procedure realm🔽

New and wonderful from one of my all time favorite go to law profs on consent.

uh no, I did not know that! Thank you, Prof. Corcos, editor of "Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays" (2010), for this fun fact!

Kate Weisburd and I have a new empirical paper out in the Northwestern University Law Review! We ask: what do ordinary Americans believe about how Miranda rights are invoked? t.co/fjpjlJ4vUY 1/4

Hurricane Helene was the latest in a generation of storms that are intensifying faster & dumping more rain as the climate warms. It's precisely the kind of event expected to drive more Americans to relocate as climate change gets worse—leaving behind those who are older, poorer and more vulnerable.

Jillian Jordan and I wrote an op-ed for the NYT! We share our new research on the psychology of victim-blaming and the role "adjacent consent" plays in undercutting support for survivors of sexual assault. cw: sexual violence Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/o...

🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...

I answered 5 Qs about the @spspnews.bsky.social SAGE Early-Career Trajectory Award and my research on consent: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/sage-aw...

I'll be posting throughout the day covering SPSP's Sustainability Preconference #SP3 Thanks to the organizing committee (names and photos attached)!

I know which posters I'll be checking out at SPSP! Every lab should do this, btw. Tell me what you're presenting and I'll try to come visit your posters too.

Many lab members are going to SPSP, including @dymoral.bsky.social & @cjmott.bsky.social (and lab manager Aaron Cohen, who isn't on here as far as I know). See the fabulous image below that Aaron made for more on where to find us. #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc

Teaching a social psyc course for the 1st time in awhile. With all of the tumult in our field, I think it’s easy to lose track of this: social psyc offers an incredibly powerful lens to understand our world. 1/x #socialpsyc

It's the week of the Big Game again (tOSU v. umich), so it's time to re-up the fun video University of Michigan Law School did last year on my path to The School Up North from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. 🤓 youtu.be/jWCFaJ0tMfE?...

Michigan is poised to become the first state with a law requiring automatic voter registration of people exiting prison. New story for @bolts.bsky.social on this historic step: boltsmag.org/michigan-aut...