this is hands down the most confusing graphic I have ever seen, I’ve been staring at it for like five full minutes

Check out our new CNN poll deep dive into who political independents are, how they engage with politics and what they think about the current political moment. The classic swing voter appears to be a thing of the past. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

A disappointing decision, made in a (reputedly) disappointing way. www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...

Can embarrassment of one's party dampen partisanship and polarization? One would think. In a forthcoming paper at @poqjournal.bsky.social, Taylor Carlson, @stevenwwebster.bsky.social, and I examine what we call "partisan embarrassment," including looking at the ramifications of these feelings...

Also Mia is on the job market and you should hire her, she’s an amazing scholar!

Hi all, I'm still collecting data for my dissertation. If anyone has any thoughts on the Vine app in the year 2025, I would be deeply happy to hear you talk for a bit!

Nebraska, Rutgers, Indiana, and Michigan State faculty senates have now voted in favor of creating a mutual defense compact amongst Big 10 schools. www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

We'll be hosting an REP mini conference on September 19 at Boulder. We're hoping to provide an alternative option for REP folks who can't attend APSA in person. CFP and further details TBA.

Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to. Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not. The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.

In light of the immigration crackdown on graduate students and professors with documented legal status in the United States, here is an open letter to APSA which you can sign to show support to our colleagues facing tremendous uncertainties. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The more people who sign the less risky it is for all of us. We're over 900 in just about 13 hours since we first posted it. Share with your colleagues, your friends, your list servs, your professional associations, your department and campus email lists - bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

in case you missed it, here or on the other place, here's the Sad Dad Bands thread, from the top

For faculty who are wondering about the steps of putting together a teach-in on what is currently happening, I threw together a quick guide based on some of what we did at Michigan - Feel free to pass it around and open to any suggestions - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

deviation from pre-registration: i cried too much with the more complicated model bc it wasn’t working and idk why

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

It's a "post pictures of my cat on social media" kind of day

New timeline, same problems, same solution

From Patrick Fealey, very much worth your time. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Impressive - and fast - analysis of the US elections: (social) media, voters and the campaign. 88 crisp analyses. Great lineup. Open access. Democracy commsky polisky @polcomm.bsky.social www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

This is one of the few outlets I autopay each month. Just do it and forget about it. This is some of the most important work being done on elections in the U.S.

I can get on board with this

Vanderbilt Political Science is hiring! Assistant Professor in American Political Behavior. The group is fabulous and they're open to considering psychologists with relevant research. The psych & polisci buildings are neighbors and we chat often. #PsychSciSky #polisky apply.interfolio.com/152973

The American Political Science Association has some explaining to do. #APSA2024 open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Oh hey so it turns out that #APSA2024 quietly decided to invite the Claremont Institute back to the conference. Cool. Coolcoolcool. Yeah the discipline of Political Science should absolutely be supporting these Project2025 motherfuckers. That's nice. admin.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...

Just got my Covid booster and flu shot too! Was able to schedule same day at CVS. Consider this your nudge to do so as well.

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)

Excited today because a chapter from my dissertation is now published in Political Communication as my first solo article. In it, I argue that that coverage of polarized elites contaminates perceptions of the US mass public. See replies for 4 posts summing up key findings. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

📣Early career #PolComm scholars:  🇮🇹 Don't forget to apply to the 8th Milan Summer School of Political Communication! This is your "passport" to network with international peers & top experts in our field! ⏳ Deadline: 29 Feb! 📄 Call & more info here: polcomm.unimi.it/application/...

Nothing has radicalized me on immigration more than graduate advising. We are bringing many of the most brilliant people on the planet here, paying to train them as cutting edge scholars, and then making it pointlessly difficult for them to stay here and use those skills to benefit society.

Thanks for everyone who shared my earlier thread encouraging you to write a comment (before Nov 17) on Schedule F. I put the entire thing in one place to make it a little easier to follow: Please continue to share. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...

"This machine quotes facists"

New paper from @dbroockman.bsky.social, @jkalla.bsky.social, and colleagues: "Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public" osf.io/8un6a/

oh no

Does someone carving "Biden" into the toilet seat in a PA turnpike service station restroom count as political expression?

We should all give Elon a chance - he's trying to set a new pb in the "destroy a platform" speedrun category.

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

Logged onto X to see what was up and the first thread I saw was someone calling the workwear dude "one of the most evil people to ever exist." That kind of gold just doesn't exist on here.

Bluesky is still in closed beta so the only people here are cool, well-connected academics and a few dorks who slipped past the filter. Upside: some cool people followed me mistakenly thinking I'm one of them. Downside: they'll unfollow me as soon as they see me post cringe.

OLS

No one told me that bluesky was giving x a run for its money in the competition to make an icon so bad i think twice about clicking on it

Trying to follow everyone on here that I had followed on Twitter required more willpower and focused attention than writing my dissertation.