Personally I think this might be a bit much

They're gonna do betting odds during the Alex Honnold climbing the skyscraper thing aren't they

I think it's worth considering that being a "young Republican" is, in some ways, weird behavior. By contrast, it's normal to be a somewhat apolitical, vaguely conservative young person who ages into voting Republican after they get married and have kids. As this cohort ages, you'll get more of that.

I generally think power metal is too corny, but I have to say that discovering Unleash the Archers' cover of "Northwest Passage" has vastly improved my enjoyment of shoveling my driveway so far this winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRD3...

This is (somewhat ironically) interesting descriptive work. But can't help but be struck that the "credibility revolution" is basically driven by the rise of survey experiments using what I assume are disproportionately online samples.

A tension I think about a lot—and I don't know what to do with it—is that publicly funded universities are generally normatively better idea than private schools, but it's just not realistic in an empirical sense to expect conservative states to keep funding them while protecting academic freedom.

Genuinely and non-ironically think this site is better for academics when academics are actually fighting with each other on here occasionally instead of just constantly agreeing.

The poker thing gives me an excuse to share Zohran Mamdani's US Chess Federation profile page: ratings.uschess.org/player/12794...

I like when you're watching the most macho American sport and they go to commercial with a real sexy Depeche Mode song

Really unfair this happened today instead of last semester when I was teaching my New Deal class

Well, at least we didn't make online survey experiments the dominant methodological approach in major areas of the discipline

This is true historically, but there's plenty of reason to think sectionalism is much less important now than it was in the past, whereas the sorts of rural vs urban divides that exist in every state have become way more important.

Incredible contribution to the process tracing literature

I love how accidentally terrifying this photo is

Can't believe this is a real county name

It's good that polling bias declined in 2024 from 2016/2020, but very notable that the bias was still in the same direction. It "should" be the case that the bias "could have" been against Harris (some people on here speculated that), but, no, polls still systematically under-sample Trump types.

People are using a little pocket computer to bicker about a thing someone said about a thing someone else said about a thing another person did in a state that has like 7 people. The human brain wasn’t designed for this sort of thing.

It's remarkable how many of our current political problems, from the really big ones to the relatively small ones, exist in the shadow of George W. Bush's foreign policy decisions.

Should be unconstitutional to make people choose between watching the Jets and the Giants just because they live in New York

I love filling out recommendation forms with questions like "based on your experience grading this student's bluebook exams, please look into their soul and rate it on a 1-5 scale"

The most surprising (small N) trend I've seen is multiple students wearing Deftones shirts. I also recently saw someone wearing a Mazzy Star shirt. But the most niche thing I've seen recently is a guy on campus wearing a Bathory shirt of all things, but I assume he's an extreme outlier.

I think it's just objectively true that the FDR era Democratic Party was not a leader on civil rights, yet the civil rights movement still benefitted from the New Deal liberalism that the party put into place in ways that weren't fully anticipated from the perspective of, say, 1933.

Lots of differences between the current moment and the New Deal era obviously, but one I've been thinking about a lot is the decline of sectionalism/regionalism and its replacement by an urban vs. rural divide that exists basically everywhere. Creates both opportunities and challenges.

Got back from Vancouver late last night and my Uber driver was a guy who grew up in northern NY near the Canadian border. We spent most of the ride talking about Canadian rock music and he introduced me to this awesome electric guitar version of "O Canada" www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-n...

Headed to Vancouver for #apsa2025? Check out these great panels with SU PoliSci scholars. Sat 12pm - @kirkojane.bsky.social presents "Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship w\in a Racialized Bureaucracy" - Ananda Collins on "Talking from the Soul: The Influence of AAVE on Black Youth Political Behavior" 17/x

Never have I seen a 1-star review that made me want to go somewhere so much before

Didn't expect the Jehovah's Witnesses to be making such contributions to the IR scholarship, but it is #APSA25 after all

I can only assume this cruise ship is here for APSA

The worst of times, but also the funniest of times

Amazingly petty book title by this guy who got forced out of the FDR administration

Late to getting my APSA plane tickets and hmm I dunno

I think the thing I've found a bit alienating about poli sci Bluesky is how the turn to thinking about US politics in comparative terms has led to a notion that we've figured it out now and are all on the same page analytically, when instead it should open up new debates with many possible answers.

Reflective of the broader narrow focus of many people at top R1s (and places that deeply aspire to be top R1s).

My favorite thing about these articles is how they allow people to brag about where they went to grad school while seemingly bemoaning the inequities of the discipline

I know literally nothing about this, but it's definitely the most surprising/interesting APD job ad I've ever seen:

New conspiracy theory just dropped

A lot of political scientists are going after Shor et al for obsessing over survey experiments on weird samples, but surely political consultants learned this at least partly from the hundreds of political science articles defending this methodological approach from the past 15 years or so.

I love the fact that this theater put out this very generic sign to advertise a free showing of Malick’s Days of Heaven

Has anyone ever used an undergrad assignment where students are asked to read a research article and summarize main points (topic, hypotheses, methods, results, etc.)? In my pursuit of avoiding AI and tanking my evals, I'm thinking about having this be an in-class assignment (with a short article).

Just sent an email where I managed to write out "ecnoruage" when I meant to type "encourage"

Struck by the fact that my upcoming class on race, ethnicity, and politics is 84% female. It's always been a class with relatively few male students, but I think this might be a record.

One of our first experiences after moving to central NY from NYC was trying to hire a guy to move a couch for us and having him be like "aw, I'd have to charge you too much to be worth it, don't you have a friend with a truck?" (we ended up renting a U-Haul in shame).

I'm in my office working on the hottest take imaginable to make everyone on Bluesky mad & I think I've come up with it: moderates really are more electable on average (I don't care if any particular metric is "wrong"). But also it's possible Bernie would have won (because outsider-ness matters too).

I feel like people not in the know are going to object to the UFC fight at the White House because they think it's tacky, when the real problem is it's corrupt. Trump and the UFC president go way back. During the election, the UFC helped Trump appeal to young male voters. Now he's paying them back.

Anonymous mode on Lichess is the real Wild West of chess. You get everything from people who are obviously using engines to people who haven't yet heard of the Opera Game (white to move and get a big advantage) #chess #chesspunks

Sometimes I forget that Curtis Sliwa has 15 cats in his studio apartment, so it's always nice to be reminded

This actually just happened to me in a chess game (unfortunately I was on the losing side of it). I had just played Kg6, with the tricky idea that if my opponent absentmindedly makes a queen I have Rh1+ and it should end in a draw. In fact, white only has a single move that wins #chess #chesspunks

I decided to look on Reddit to see what jazz records people recommend if you like A Love Supreme but want to dig deeper and now my Apple Music is full of album covers that look like this

An older white guy who works as an assistant manager at a propane company in a small suburb in Texas would obviously vote for Donald Trump even if he's a nice guy who can be sympathetic to people he meets who aren't like him.

I see dozens of people defending Roy Cooper’s religious rhetoric and zero people criticizing it. We must free social media discourse from the tyranny of having to respond to weird randos in the replies as though they matter.