when I successfully report a phishing scam to IT, and they send the congratulatory email

Photo by Andrew Chadwick of Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga's new book Observed Correction, published July 2025 in the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series from OUP USA.

Now published!

@leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media.

Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Dissertation defended, with distinction, no revisions!

Could not have done it without this amazing committee!

Bonica, Rhee and Studen (2025) is an ambitious effort to assess the role of ideology on general election results. I’m excited to see such a serious large-scale project get attention in Edsall’s NYT column.

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This whole thing is stupid, but I don't think there is enough focus on the absurdity of highlighting line items that represent fractions of a percent of a $40B budget.

Exciting News! I will start as an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in Fall 2025. I am excited to join the political science department and work with the excellent students at CSU. To everyone who helped me along the way, this wouldn't be possible without you!

have never smashed a repost any harder

my favorite thing about Bluesky is when I click the app and it shows the image of the Bluesky. nice little moment of zen.

We're hiring a (2 year) postdoc in American Politics.

Come work with me and other great scholars @ UVA!

We do have a very quick turnaround; review of apps starts Oct 31.

Apply and share!

jobs.virginia.edu/jobs/R005391...

my long-running theory about the Musk twitter takeover was that he paid to buy the user base with the goal of turning the app into whatever he wanted/the everything app. the assumption of course is that the users wouldn't leave... but here we are.