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🚨🚨 Only a few days left to submit a paper for the Political Communication Preconference at APSA! 🚨🚨 @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions! DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

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3 more days! Get your applications in and share widely!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Reminder that there are 13 more days to apply to the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference. Join us in Vancouver! Please share widely.

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Trump University 2.0

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For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Trump wants the mathematical inverse of this picture of Yeltsin

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You really don't need legal scholars to weigh in on it just like you don't need to call an otolaryngologist to check if it is okay to shove a fork in your ear

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Tour de force from @aselrod.bsky.social: "Is our civic virtue so spent that we cannot rescue the republic from the sewer it has fallen into? [...] At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity."

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It’s been a crazy marathon of a year. But first year at Ohio State is now completed. To celebrate, here is what Chat GPT thinks I would look like if my head was a buckeye.

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Check out @stecula.bsky.social’s analysis of the Canadian election and how Carney represents a rebuke to Trumpism www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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I never thought I would feel the need to write that Canada is, in fact, a real country—but here we are. Trump's “51st state” talk isn't funny. Americans need to wake up and stand up for Canada and our special relationship. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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I wrote about small-r republican virtue and whether America has enough left to get out of this mess. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

submitted 57 days ago • 18 comments

Me sending my manuscript to PNAS before it promptly gets desk rejected

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Dzisiaj w @wyborcza.pl piszę o kryzysie konstytucyjnym w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Jest gorzej niż myślicie. wyborcza.pl/7,75968,3188...

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Elite cues + negative polarization = turning progressives into neoliberals

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Thank god. lets gtfo here

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

I think a great general rule of thumb is: the more names of judges that an average member of the public can recite from memory, the worse the shape of that country's democracy

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

The cfp for this year's @polcomm.bsky.social preconference at APSA is now open, and we are also organizing a mentoring scheme for early career scholars not willing/able to travel to Canada this year. Information below!

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The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Third person effect: manufacturing edition

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Thursday at #MPSA2025! We quantify the effects of Biden's drop out decision, in a pre-registered nat. experiment in a nat. representative panel study. @stecula.bsky.social @klunztrujillo.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social @ophiryotam.bsky.social @drorwalter.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

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NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

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Chilling

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll just say that out of 10 responses to this so far, three are, verbatim: “Trump 2028”, “deport”, and “Let’s MAGA” in case you’re wondering why we are where we are. Given this was posted on FB Political Scientists group and on here, this is not very encouraging.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

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...

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My book is now officially out! How Politicians Polarize introduces and documents the concept of "negative representation" – when representatives focus on the other side rather than their own. Some key findings: 🧵 www.amazon.com/How-Politici...

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By this reasoning, the instant someone is accused of murder, we can do what we want to them because the murder victim didn't have due process. Or if someone is accused of theft, because the victim didn't get due process. This is beyond just wrong. It's evil.

submitted 91 days ago • 57 comments

Absolutely awful. Also, a great way to incentivize folks to not file their tax returns.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

who's on what platform, 2025 edition

submitted 93 days ago • 106 comments

I wrote about the Tampa Bay Young Republicans inviting Andrew Tate to speak and the relationship between rape and the authoritarian right. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...

submitted 95 days ago • 19 comments

I am worried about APSA this year. International travel in the context of this administration is a major risk for many of our colleagues. I wrote a short letter to APSA to address this. I haven't done this before, but would folks want to sign something like that? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

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