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Last day to apply for our summer research program (see below)

🚨GIG ALERT🚨: We are hiring! We're looking for a research associate to join our team. This is an ideal position for a new graduate interested in elections & wanting to gain research experience. Spread the word, or learn more and apply:

Applications are open for the third year of the Pathways summer research program at MIT! Please share with interested undergrads. (TL;DR is: paid opportunity to check out PhD life for students who might not think it's open to them) @nlnathan.bsky.social

this is a great program for undergrads to get a sense of what PhD research is really like! (while being paid and housed and learning some new skills at MIT) bsky.app/profile/arie...

Applications are open for the third year of the Pathways summer research program at MIT! Please share with interested undergrads. (TL;DR is: paid opportunity to check out PhD life for students who might not think it's open to them) @nlnathan.bsky.social

It's awards season! Please nominate great experimental work for our various section awards by April 15. All the committees are listed here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

ICYMI: MIT is very affordable news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tui...

Apply now! Applications for the 2025 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute due Jan. 24th! The #RBSI is an intensive five-week program designed to introduce undergraduate juniors to the world of doctoral study in political science! Learn more: politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...

I've been barred from the Harvard library for displaying this sign while silently reading.

Ready to start the second day of the Justice & Injustice Conference. So much great research and collaboration in this room. criminaljusticepolitics.wordpress.com @arielrwhite.bsky.social @hlw.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social @darazed.bsky.social

Biked past a bunch of people in hard hats/vests standing on the GL tracks today: was confused, then realized "of course, it's the federal investigation into the latest derailment on our brand new subway extension! totally normal MBTA stuff"🙃 www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/02/m...

Just wrapped up year 2 of the Pathways@GDL summer program! @nlnathan.bsky.social will be on a panel at @apsa.bsky.social to talk about our experience running it and to learn from other schools' similar programs focused on broadening access to academia polisci.mit.edu/news/2024/pa...

MPSA is honored to announce the creation of a new Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, the “Dianne Pinderhughes Diversity PhD Student Travel Scholarship”, to help defray the travel costs associated with attending the MPSA Annual Conference. Learn more: www.mpsanet.org/about/govern...

Today I am officially tenured! Deep thanks to all my colleagues in my department and beyond for your support getting here. Excited to pay it forward.

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill that'd be a national first: The bill mandates voting centers within local jails to allow people detained there to vote in-person. Key context: People in jails typically have the right to vote but face enormous hurdles to doing so. NEW: boltsmag.org/colorado-vot...

Reminder: deadline for submitting to this conference is next week!

It's conference time again! CFP for our Justice & Injustice conference is up, deadline May 10: t.co/oIDxhjC28G CC @hlw.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social @darazed.bsky.social #polisky

The Visions in Methodology Conference (VIM 2024) will take place on May 24, 2024, at Washington University in St Louis. Research proposals should be submitted no later than February 28 using this form: forms.gle/7f5kfrmfjy...

Hey polisci friends. We are hiring a new/recent undergrad as a research support associate at MIT. This job is great for a BA who is thinking about going to a social science graduate program and wants to get some experience. It's NOT a good job for someone with a PhD. bit.ly/4b5iHef

Call for proposals: Visions in Methodology Conference 2024! VIM is designed to support women who study political methodology! WUSTL will be hosting it on May 24! Send your proposals! Spread the voice! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.

A reminder that if you have any undergrads interested in PhDs in the social sciences, please let them know about our summer internship opportunity at MIT's Global Diversity Lab! Our application deadline for US-based students is January 16 and more details are below ⬇️

Please submit nominations for APSA's Experiments Section's best book award! We will consider books that either use or are about experimental research methods in the study of politics. (Reposting because there has been a change in the committee.) Polisky

Please share and apply to the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, an annual, intensive 5-wk program designed to introduce the world of doctoral study in political science to undergrad students from under-represented racial and ethnic groups. Deadline: Jan. 22 politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...

Experimental Research Section Award nominations are open! Deadline for nominations is April 15. I'm on the dissertation award committee with @robertblair.bsky.social and Love Christensen -- we want to read your dissertations whose main inferences are grounded in experimental design.

Excited to open the call for new applications for Pathways@GDL, a summer internship for undergraduates at US universities hosted by MIT Political Science and the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) aimed at expanding access to PhD programs. More info here: globaldiversitylab.mit.edu/summer-resea...