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Hello #polisky please help us spread far & wide: Given the incredibly high demand on APSA's research grant programs, we changed eligibility requirements to prioritize individuals who (1) are less likely to have access to research funds & (2) have not recently received funds from APSA

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump has committed at least 16 of those same offenses. #NoKings

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1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich 2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor 3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history. The anti-Robin Hood.

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Rubio's claim that cutting foreign aid didn't cost lives? Flat-out false. People are dying every day because of Rubio, Musk and Trump's dismantling of USAID — while China furthers its influence around the world. Shameful.

submitted 22 days ago • 55 comments

There's still time to apply to move to Canada!

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Come work with me! McMaster is the best Canadian research university w/a medical school that you've never heard of™! Though there are areas listed, the field is actually wide open! These Research Chairs come with research funding. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

📢 The APSR is opening a new Research Notes track! Authors may now submit directly as Notes—or, with editor agreement, have papers reclassified during review. Notes should be ≤7,000 words (excl. refs/appendices).

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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

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👉🏽👉🏽NEW ISSUE Volume 58 - Issue 1 @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique - cup.org/4jnA11m

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Female economists are less likely to receive letters of recommendation that emphasize their ability. Female economists are more likely to receive letters of recommendation that can be called grindstone letters--that is, they emphasize their hardworking tendencies.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Virtual and IRL in Ann Arbor seats still available for my @icpsrsummer.bsky.social workshop on Multilevel Modelling in the Social Sciences from July 7-11. It's 40 hours or a semester of content in just 5 days. Bring your project data! myumi.ch/JwM8e #SumProg25 #ICPSR

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We're hiring! Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations. Sharing = 🙏❤️ www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

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Provincial governments are spending, just not on higher education.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Are you searching for a postdoc in Saskatchewan? I have a 1-year opportunity (with possible extension), effective immediately! This opportunity is a Mitacs Elevate with the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange! Reach out if you're interested! 🐦🔥

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These positions are designed for people not currently working in Canada!

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Yes! We have to move the needle on public perception of science. Scientists can share their story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

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Under court order, the government has released a nearly unredacted copy of the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and Homeland Security revealing how taxpayer data was shared for immigration enforcement.

submitted 37 days ago • 150 comments

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

McMaster is great! If you're a later-career scholar thinking that Canada would be good place to move, put in for one of these!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

These positions are designed for people not currently working in Canada!

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Political scientist Peter Graefe weighs in on what went wrong for the NDP in the federal election and where they can go from here.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Come work with me! McMaster is the best Canadian research university w/a medical school that you've never heard of™! Though there are areas listed, the field is actually wide open! These Research Chairs come with research funding. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

This regime is gutting vital services relied upon by millions...all to extend even more tax cuts (and subsidies) to the super-rich. (Art work by @doodlebymeg)

submitted 41 days ago • 110 comments

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

submitted 42 days ago • 55 comments

APSA Committee on the Status of LGBT Individuals Travel Grants | Deadline: June 29th The APSA Committee on the Status of LGBT Individuals in the Profession is sponsoring travel grants to support attendance at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 11–14, 2025, held in Vancouver,…

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Want a tangible way to resist? Here's your homework. Follow the instructions in this super guide from our amazing friends at @fedworkersunited.bsky.social to comment by May 23 on the proposed Schedule F rule, which would remove civil service protections for a huge swath of the federal workforce.

submitted 47 days ago • 20 comments

$92 million for the President’s military parade. At the same time, Donald Trump is taking away health care & cutting VA benefits for veterans. How about we actually take care of our servicemembers instead of politicizing them?

submitted 46 days ago • 37 comments

If you were born before 1989 when the protocol shifted to two doses of MMR, you can get your immunity checked with a simple blood test and if necessary, get a booster. I got mine checked a few weeks ago; glad that my good little antibodies are still hard at work. abcnews.go.com/Health/measl...

submitted 47 days ago • 21 comments

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

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NEW: Starting May 5, NSF will implement an across-the-board 15% indirect cost rate (mirroring policies at DOE, NIH) Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.

submitted 49 days ago • 13 comments

“They targeted the wrong profession. If anyone thought that we were quiet and we were going to stand back, they didn’t know us.” — ALA President Cindy Hohl www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

submitted 50 days ago • 36 comments

NEW: Texas Senators just voted for the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 31, “The Life of the Mother Act.” www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 51 days ago • 18 comments

With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

submitted 52 days ago • 123 comments

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We’re hiring! 🥳 The Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice team is hiring an Economic Policy & Innovation Fellow. This 2-year position will focus on applying insights about incentives and market forces, to identify innovative strategies that address public safety. Please share with your networks!

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 55 days ago • 383 comments

So many friends & colleagues having so much valuable research & programs like this - training the next generation of scholars & improving the field by making it more inclusive - defunded for no good reason at all. Tragic on so many levels.

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