if you are in need of an emergency potato recipe

“The Politics of Herding Cats: When Congressional Leaders Fail” is available from @uofmpress.bsky.social! press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-... Also apparently their Holiday sale is on, so save 50% by using code HOLIDAY25 at checkout. Best gift of the Holiday Season!

Why are you (as a man) not bumping some MARINA

I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x

I’m the parent of an autistic kid. What CDC is doing here is offensive. It’s offensive to me. It says his autism is the result of my ignoring evidence. It’s offensive to my kid. It says there’s something wrong with him (there’s not) and it would be better to risk literal death than be autistic.

Girls5eva song

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

I am Deciding to Win (eating breakfast at a diner)

The Appalachian Trail is ever winding

Dispatch is a compelling story about the power of forgiveness and mentorship.

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Folks, you can't date Invisigal; she's your direct report!

This is some goofy shit, what the fuck

Best reason to go off the record.

Not exactly a complaint, but I just realized that I didn't get the normal 25 emails about the MPSA submission deadline this year!

Local politics! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Why campaign on filibuster reform? @kevinkbanda.bsky.social and I found that voters used these appeals to make inferences about a candidate's support for the party agenda onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

My assessment after dropping my son off at school is that it's a bad day to be a KPop Demon

Fondly remembering the time that a reviewer wrote to me and @jsievert.bsky.social that filibuster reform was only a Democratic issue.

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this

Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.” www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

R&Rs are cool and we like to get them.

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

Nano-targeting is not a persuasive weapon: it is a dissuasion and polarization weapon. New paper out osf.io/preprints/so... with the brilliant Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social and @fresejoris.bsky.social – the first to quantify the perverse incentives/inherent democratic dangers of this tech.

NEW - Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://cup.org/3JaiZYj "priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent party" - Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg #OpenAccess

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

Medical scholars say efforts to find a singular cause for autism has historically led to scrutinizing parents and fueling stigma.

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3k): Welp. today.yougov.com/topics/socie...

🤔 Do surveys exaggerate democratic support due to social desirability bias (SDB)? ➡️ Using survey-mode variation & list experiments in 24 countries, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @aarslew.bsky.social find no evidence that SDB inflates democratic attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

I can’t fucking believe I lived to see pro- and anti-regime Man Show hosts

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

It's unclear to me how one can teach any social science in Texas under these conditions.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

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Good LORD what is happening in your administration Aurora borealis

Trump's city-crime narrative leans on encoded stereotypes of largely Black cities. OUT TODAY @polbehavior.bsky.social, @kevintmorris.bsky.social and I show Black cities were also the epicenter of the 2020 election fraud narrative. Republicans and Racially resentful Whites were most susceptible.

A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political…

I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!

📢 NEW: Political Communication special issue on "Communicating Democratic Decline & Resilience" Manuscript Proposal Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 Full details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.