A breath of fresh air today at the New School ☀️

ICYMI my solo article on MENA identity.

When MENA Americans aren’t given a “MENA” option on forms, they answer identity-related questions on politics more strongly (eg higher end of the scale) than if“MENA” had been added.

Having the group label or not changes the average response!

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Agreed!!

great stuff by @davekarpf.bsky.social

"Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."

The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research | Brookings A new era of agentic AI agents has begun. What does it mean for social scientists? Solomon Messing and Joshua Tucker discuss.

Are you a social scientist who has been hearing about Claude Code but hasn't checked it out yet? Or are you a social scientist who has been playing with Claude Code and has been wondering what it means for the future of social science research?

www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

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🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...

🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?

We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

I will continue to shout it from the rooftops that part of his success with young men in 2024 came from connecting with them via masculinity, and what’s more masculine than hating on women?

The way those men HOLLERED when he said it too in the video, so gross. #everyonewatcheswomenssports

Joe Rogan helped Trump with one thing he always wants more of: male voters. @melinamuch.bsky.social expands in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction

#JoeRogan #Trump #TrumpElection #USpolitics #AmericanFriction

Should Harris have gone on Rogan? Check out my response here on American Friction. Thanks for having me @jacobjarvis.bsky.social @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/16Uy...

Why is it so hard to keep track of Joe Rogan's politics? @melinamuch.bsky.social explains how he bounces around and then social media clips confuse things more ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction

You’re the coolest 😎

Abstract Once an exclusively white enterprise, the last forty-five years have witnessed the emergence of a disproportionately Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce. This article addresses the question of why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong. Where existing scholarship has often implied Latinxs may self-select into immigration law enforcement due to a lack of identification with the immigrant-experience, a dissociation with ethnic identity, and generally restrictionist immigration attitudes, this article finds little empirical evidence to support such an assumption. Analysis of interviews with sixty-one Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas reveals, instead, Latinxs elect to work in immigration law enforcement in service of economic self-interest and survival, with “money,” “a good job,” and “benefits” cited as the primary motivation(s) behind applying for and accepting a job in immigration. This pattern holds irrespective of individual agents’ levels of identification with the immigrant-experience and particular attitudes toward immigration, and suggests a diversity in the demographics of immigration law enforcement agencies that extends beyond mere race and ethnicity, to include a diversity of perspective and potential for empathy.

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:

“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

All of the different iterations tell the same story, Gen Z is stalled out on gender in a meaningful way, with best case scenario being more willing to tolerate at least *some* sexism compared to racism which they are more likely to denounce/outright reject.

FWIW, I have iterations of analyses to support this, there were tradeoffs in using standardized measures versus straight likert averages, ANES supplements, and on and on. I will follow up with an academic facing version of this argument soon for the skeptical minds, but this was so fun to write.

I do really like some of the points made by others on this front especially re: racial progressiveness, the gains made by Gen Z on this are real and important. BUT, so much of this moment is about gender, and specifically masculinity. We should be able to focus on that as well in our assessments.

Gen Z Is More Progressive Than Millennials, Except in One Crucial Way The most open-minded generation ever? It’s complicated.

I wrote a piece for @slate.com on Gen Z, sexism, and why the “most progressive generation ever” narrative misses something important.

Short version: Gen Z is uniquely progressive on race. On gender, not so much.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

goodauthority.org/news/podcast...

Preach

Logo of the journal "Politics & Gender" featuring the text "#OpenAccess" on a yellow and teal background.

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Women or Fetuses First? An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of the Pro-Life Movement’s Use of the “Pro-Woman” Frame - https://cup.org/48qJXVm

- @profamandaroberti.bsky.social, Kyle J. Morgan & @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social

#FirstView

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#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social -

Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data - https://cup.org/3KWgqtg

- Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Jonathan Nagler, @ericka.bric.digital & Magdalena Wojcieszak

#FirstView

We fed an LLM 30,000 podcast episodes to see where politics sneaks in to influence young folks… @csmapnyu.org

Come hang at our #APSA2025 panel Podcasts and Partisanship in American Politics

Sat, Sept 13, 8:00–9:30am PDT (11:00–12:30pm EDT)

My awesome co-author with our poster about the GenZ gender gap and podcast consumption at PolNet/PACSS! If you didn’t see us here catch us at APSA at the PolCom preconference and Saturday first thing in the morning 💃🏻 @csmapnyu.org

Thank you so much Sarah! 🙌🏼

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.

On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.

zohranfornyc.com/gotv