Hey y'all! Deadline for this post-doc is FRIDAY!!! Don't miss it!

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We would LOVE to see that!!! Apply!!

Re-upping this for the AM crowd!! CFP for Justice & Injustice 2026 now open, tell your friends!!

Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation ---- Hiring Department: Department of Government ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled...

Well I'm full of opportunities to circulate today! We're hiring a post-doc at UT in political behavior/democratic representation.

Deadline is April 10 (quick turn around!)

Tell your friends, job posting here:
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Justice & Injustice Conference

Check out our website for past schedules and to get a sense of what we're all about!

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Who should apply? We have 3 formats:
1) Posters (perfect for advanced graduate students)
2) Papers (perfect for ppl w/ a well-developed project
3) Research designs (perfect for ppl w/ good ideas who need feedback)

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Who: @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #AndrewMcCall
What: Small conference on the politics of crime and punishment
When: October 29 - 30, 2026
Where: Columbia
Application deadline: May 1, 2026

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The application for the 9th installment of Justice & Injustice is now open!!!!

Briefly, deadline is May 1, application is here, further details below:
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My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

Looks extremely cool #PRIEC

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The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.

Crime is decreasing across the country despite a police-staffing crisis, Henry Grabar reports. He explores what might be responsible for the trend:

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!

Looking for a postdoc in American politics? Come work with us in Ann Arbor! No obligations other than research. Preference for institutions-focused work, but we’re open to a wide range of substantive interests (including local politics!). Happy to answer any questions: apply.interfolio.com/178829

This sounds less like a grievance and more like a practical how-to for junior scholars!

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.

"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective?

In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported.

Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 1 Do judges’ professional backgrounds affect their rulings? We investigate this question by looking at the impact of judges’ public defender experience on sentencing. Leveraging thousands of sentences, ...

Officially out with @mayasen.bsky.social! We find defendants assigned to former public defenders are less likely to be incarcerated, providing insight into the relationship between criminal legal disparities and judicial characteristics.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Amazing thank you 🙏

Just linked it up on my voting rights syllabus for the spring!!

This morning at @thejop.bsky.social blog, Mike and I discuss our new paper on the effects of getting the Voting Rights Act on the turnout gap — and what it might mean for the case before the Court right now.

A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall!
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Check out this outstanding opportunity to be mentorwd by the one and only @allipatter.bsky.social!! (w/ guest appearances from myself & @arielrwhite.bsky.social!)

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The effect of mass shootings on voter turnout in the United States Following mass shootings, localized voter turnout increases, as does support for a gun reform ballot initiative.

New research finds mass shootings may increase voter turnout and support for gun reform initiatives in the United States, but the effect is hyperlocalized near the incidents.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4qYXFWP

The audience loved this project when it was presented at #Justice&Injustice!! Congrats to Nirvikar!

Texas universities deploy AI for course audits Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Minority Power

"Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages."

#SocialPsyc

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e