#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation
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#polisky this is a five alarm fire 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
They thought this about Black candidates too when the data didn’t support it. Then Obama changed the narrative. This is “strategic discrimination” and it’s a self-fulfilling mindset. doi.org/10.1017/S153...
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Recontextualizing #Whiteness: Understanding White Identity in the Era of #Black #Lives #Matter
By @genevavalerie.bsky.social
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As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents.
Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:
It's not often that the professional and personal stars align in this line of work, but this move also brings my partner and me much closer to family — something we're really excited about. Feeling very lucky on all fronts and looking forward to starting this next chapter.
At the same time, I'm thrilled to be joining the political science department at LMU. Joining such a deep bench of identity politics researchers, as well as contributing to the department's new minor in applied data analysis, is a dream come true.
I'm so grateful to my colleagues and students at Colorado State. CSU has been a wonderful place to begin my career, and the broader political science community in Colorado has also been incredible. Moving on will be bittersweet.
Some personal news: I'm moving! After two great years at Colorado State University, I'll be joining the political science department at Loyola Marymount University this fall.
Considering doing some version of this! I'm so curious: does the choice to sit in the back and surf seem like it's stigmatized for your students? Are people taking you up on this option?
Excited that "Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition" is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social. W/ survey of white, Hispanic, and Black American respondents, we show primary gap in nascent political ambition is not between men and women but between white men and the majority of the polity.
Just say women. This is taking forever.
i also work in a "bespoke concrete chamber" (office building)
New paper in PNAS: Your homicide risk follows you around the country. If you’re born in the historically violent Wild West, Appalachian Highlands, or Deep South, a higher risk of violent death trails you wherever you go. 🧵1/14
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Views of daylight saving time crosstabbed by "morning people" and "night people"
motion to use this as a crosstab more frequently
article: apnews.com/article/dayl...
data: apnorc.org/projects/few...
Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.
if all games were like this I would be better at games
(try it! it's a nice way of testing the reliability of your conceptions about the electorate)
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Just in time for federalism week. Ugh.
RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0. By Tom Bartlett
Someone please kill me right now.
The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
What is required for someone to be an American? 30% of Republicans say being White is very or somewhat important. www.pbump.net/o/what-makes...
historical comparison: in my 2004 survey, 10% of respondents said being white was very or somewhat important for being American vs. 18% in this YouGov survey. also, please keep putting these questions on your surveys!
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New paper. What happens when a presidential candidate steps way out of line, not only with the public, but even with his own voters? And on a highly salient issue? Candidates typically don’t do that—they’re too strategic. But Trump isn’t. He’s good for social science. 🧵
This error keeps popping up, this time in NYT
In reality (Fig. 1), the US has ~1.1 times the police officers per capita of the OECD median
The error stems from the fact that the US has uniquely decentralized federalism (you need to count multiple levels of govt) and much more private contracting
Love @goodauth.bsky.social generally and this fantastic writeup by @egojunk.bsky.social specifically! What a perfect resource on descriptive representation for my REP students — simultaneously an approachable introduction and a cornucopia of links for those who want to dive deeper 🤩