Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

Do citizens care who makes policy? In Germany, some policies can be adopted either by federal or state governments. But do voters have preferences over which actor adopts a policy? Turns out, they mostly do not. New paper out @epsrjournal.bsky.social 🧵 1/8 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

idk what JD vance’s D&D ability scores are but i’m getting the sense he is not spec‘d to hit those persuasion checks

The President of the United States is unwell, incompetent, and a threat to everyone in the world.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 2.8k). Will the result of the Iran war be worth it? Worth it - Not worth it: -35 yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

The latest from YouGov: "Democrats are starting to like Congressional Democrats again" open.substack.com/pub/yougovam...

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share that my first PhD paper “Beyond Proximity: Representational Isolation and Emotional Response in Climate Politics”, co-authored with @wurthmann.bsky.social and @lukashetzer.eurosky.social is published in @repjournal.bsky.social. 🎉 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Hand counting US ballots for anything more than a few hundred voters is crazy pants.

The quantity of gambling bullshit during sports broadcasts now is ridiculous.

It’s all the fault of the Good Tsar’s Wicked Advisors, part 7,932

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

I thought this segment from Enten was bad use of polling www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-22...

There are many theoretical approaches to how questions of Latine racialization and "racialized" political attitudes. Looking at "white" v "black" vs "neither" racial categories for Latines has often resulted in somewhat tautological theories for Latine politics. BUT, this paper does an amazing job

YouTube and Reels know what I want, and it's videos of slowpitch softball and people reacting to Sultans of Swing and Une vie à t'aimer.

Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

NEW - How Violations of Electoral Integrity Undermine Partisan Attachments - https://cup.org/4rkKiPC - @aarslew.bsky.social #OpenAccess

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k) out of the field Monday late Monday afternoon. Approve/disapprove of attacking Iran is down to -11. Has gone -10 to -9 to -11 over the past three days. yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults): Approval of Iran strikes: -10 Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15 Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31 Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20 yougov.com/en-us/search...

My contribution to South Asian rice cooker discourse is that me everyone else in my family uses one (or an instapot) and I had no idea there was any controversy about that.

Nailed it, as always

The research and analytics team at @statesunited.org is searching for a researcher to support our survey research program. Come join our fully remote team! Great mission, great pay, and excellent benefits. recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social. Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other. This has potentially big issues for conclusions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

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Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Trump is facing political headwinds. n.pr/4s3mGQj

The wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water

This is right now.

white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

The Muppet Show special is good, but I dunno about this Kermit voice.

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1 cup.org/4kltoyE

Revel in my failures, both academic and now for the first time nonacademic, by viewing my newly updated shadow CV: drive.google.com/file/d/0B2eH...

He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.

From our August Issue: Interpersonal Relationships, Bipartisanship, and January 6th by JAMES M. CURRY and JASON M. ROBERTS. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hello, I'd like to report an evisceration. (Rep. Moore is a Wisconsin Democrat; Ron Truess is "Regional Director for Office of US Senator Ron Johnson")

It's the 30th anniversary of Voyager's "Threshold", but it's also the 30th anniversary of DS9's "Crossfire", the one where Odo crashes out over Kira being in a relationship and Quark comforts him in his footie pajamas

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

New YouGov poll: Abolish ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 46% support 41% oppose Independents are +12 on abolishing ICE 19% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE as well

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

to say that public opinion matters isn’t to say that everything will stop immediately. what it means is that the administration’s strategic options narrow considerably and their odds of meeting meaningful institutional resistance goes up.