Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share about my ongoing project and connecting with the fantastic crew at PolNet-PaCSS 2025.

Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!

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🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨

What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?

We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.

Two main contributions...

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How does Gen Z really feel about democracy? - Protect Democracy A new survey offers three profiles of how young Americans perceive democracy, engage with civic life, and see their role in shaping the future.

Dig into a brand new study from CIRCLE and Protect Democracy on Gen Z’s views of democracy—both as an ideal and how it is in reality. See what underlies these attitudes so we can understand what it takes to bring all youth into the urgent fight for democracy.

protectdemocracy.org/work/how-doe...

Sorry to interupt our current horrors, but I am delighted to see Dave's and my latest paper out in POQ today! doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

tl;dr: When (Republican) adolescents are exposed to women candidates, they become more positive about women as political leaders. Adults, otoh, don't budge.

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Join us for the 2025 Political Networks & Computational Social Science Conference (sites.google.com/view/confpol...), Aug 11-14 at Harvard & Northeastern, with Duncan Watts delivering the keynote. Workshops: Aug 11-12; panels: Aug 13-14. Submit by March 28: