From our FirstView articles: The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals by @anthonytaboni.bsky.social
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With Dallas early vote now in, Crockett's path to victory looks gone. She needed 80%+ of the vote there to make up for Talarico running up margins in Austin, San Antonio, and the rural + western counties. Only got 60%.
2026 - 2020 swing hasn't changed all night

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See further: www.isaiahcjohnson.com/files/2026-0...

To motivate the Crockett case further, co-authors and I have a working paper right now that shows the difficulty faced by Black women running for office. TLDR: Black women are uniquely punished by racially resentful Whites AND Black men when displaying anger. Going to be difficult to overcome.

The problem with Texas (as a Texan), is Ds have to win a plurality of Latino, White, and Black votes. As it stands, Crockett is winning the Black vote up 45 and east, while Talarico is winning White plains and Latinos along the border. Still too early but Dallas (and the missing votes) will be key.

Doing well. The job market was rough, but I'm staying positive. I won't be at MPSA, but I will be at APSA. Hope you are doing well too.

Personally, I think there was some value to PoliSciRumors that got ruined by the lack of content moderation/racism/sexism/etc.. More live interaction for job market folks with moderation would be of value akin to GradCafe. Potentially could also have former committee members have live Q&As.

Too many lives cut short, families torn apart over the promise of education in America. It’s a tragedy. My heart goes out to Brown and their students, faculty, administrators, and parents.

I come from a family of educators, and my concern for my students, my partner’s students, and their families is chronic every school year. It does not have to be this way. It’s a choice.

Democracy lives to fight another day. 🇺🇸

Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.

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When they ask my 2 youngest sons what their race is…🇲🇽

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lucía López (@llopez.bsky.social) on being awarded the 2025–26 Early Career Fellowship from the APSA Experimental Research Section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social)! 🎉 Lucía is on the academic job market this year -- learn more about her research at lucia-lopez.com.

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In his job market paper, Christian examines how permanent oil revenue shortfalls reshape distributional conflicts in oil-dependent states and drive targeted institutional reforms to strengthen public goods provision, offering insight into how these states will respond to the clean energy transition.

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Why does climate finance routinely stall between promise and delivery? Fiona Bare's job market paper shows how dual features of climate finance - mixed public-private benefits and pervasive uncertainty - create strategic frictions between donors and recipients that delay dealmaking.

🚨I'm on the job market! 🚨

My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.

…and I’ve successfully defended my dissertation at @princetonpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to @nolanmc.bsky.social @jkastellec.bsky.social Gleason Judd and Frances Lee for all the tough questions and invaluable advice!

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well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law.
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I need your level of mental health protection 🙌🏽

It's been bugging me that we don't have a general REP listserv since the last one blew up, so I made a new google group. Just click the below link and click the "Join Group" button. Please share with other REP folks freely.

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I want to say that I CAN believe what is happening to my undocumented people, Mexican or not.

The political impulse to forcibly remove folks for wanting to work and live in the US has always been with us. Now the rest of you get to see it in real time. We haven’t been exaggerating.

Congrats Reilly! From 571 to faculty at Columbia - very deserved!

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Thank you!

I am honored to have received the 2025 George Kateb Preceptor Award! More importantly, thank you to my amazing students who motivated me to be a better TA. Without them, this wouldn’t have been possible.