Ian Anson

Hey comparativists am I interpreting this correctly

i wish i was a little bit taller/i wish i was zaller i wish i achieved fame as a mass opinion scholar

What a complicated night to have a sister-in-law App State grad and a brother-in-law ECU grad, amirite @sickoscommittee.org ?

Me attending my first MPSA in 2013, about to present to approximately 4 other people

One of the roughly 3 things I know about Iowa (from my dear friend from Iowa) is the ragbrai bicycle tour that thousands of people do each year

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This is such a nice touch! Feeling a great sense of disciplinary collegiality thanks to @profkarpo.bsky.social and @jrpjrpjrp.bsky.social ✨

Great North Carolina early voting website assembled by @peark.es ncearly.peark.es

Most Dem counties in NC based on imputed PID score (cumulative CES -> voter file), w/ early vote gains (%): 1. Durham (+41) 2. Hertford (+83)! 3. Orange (+37) 4. Northampton (+62) 5. Bertie (+30) Most Republican: 1. Mitchell (+8) 2. Avery (-2) 3. Yadkin (+6) 4. Cherokee (+16) 5. Wilkes (+4)

I agree that since ~2020 incumbents now face the wrath of an incredibly powerful Bad Vibes Machine, and reprogramming or disarming it is an enormous political challenge

Looks like mtcars has been... Displaced

As of the most recent voter file release in NC, active registered Democrats once again very marginally outnumber active registered Republicans in the state (Of course the growing plurality is independents though) #ncpol

Please post more of your research On Here. Bring me more working papers

I am passionate about my hobbies, ok Amazon?

I fear that the thermostatic public might one day succumb to the allure of liberty bibertarianism

I'm on the teevee #maryland #mdpolitics www.wbaltv.com/article/poli...

Yet another "American politics or college football?" moment

Don't. Print. Slurpable. In the Newspaper.

It is very humbling to write a book on political overconfidence (i.e., I now have some new form of imposter syndrome nobody has yet thought of). But I'm proud of the finished product and I hope it makes a valuable contribution! OVERCONFIDENT AMERICA (2027, Cambridge) is done & on its way to you ✨

Full manuscript to publisher delivery day ✨

Gotta update my 2026 election forecast model, which is 4% partisan composition of the electorate, 5% polling aggregates, and 91% egg What, it did fine in 2024?

It's going to be fun when an LLM ingests the fake citations in this thread and gives them back to people trying to write AI generated "literature" "reviews"

*cries in cardigan*

I've been in meetings virtually all day with thesis/independent study researchers, RAs, and coauthors. No matter the level, no matter the subject, the following consensus emerged: RESEARCH IS HARD!!

All the gambling apps in the world could never replicate the electric, down-to-the-wire feeling of waiting for the check at a nice restaurant with a 1 year old & a 5 year old at your table

Didn't know I needed a chili roaster until now

My students are working on survey questions for our upcoming Baltimore County exit poll. One of them wrote an age question in our shared doc with the following categories: 18-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45, 45+

Putting off my pile of grading

*raving maniacally* Tea!! Candles!!! Books!!!! Cardigans!!!!! get behind me dew point

Now Open! Submit papers for the 18th APSA Teaching & Learning Conference, to explore the theme "Building Bridges: Dialogue and Discovery in Political Science." 📍Portland, Oregon | February 5-7 Submit by October 7th! buff.ly/AOMVnAq #APSATLC

Happy Constitution Day to all who (are compelled by Section 111(b) of Division J of Public Law 108-447 to) observe!

While this is an instructive visualization, I am deeply unsettled by the Bubonic Sweden animation at the end

Ah, surely using the overconfidence machine for political information is not at all relevant to my new book (Cambridge, 2027), OVERCONFIDENT AMERICA

I read this 3x like..... ok, but where is the sinkhole in Baltimore located this time? It would be nice to know what intersection

officially vagueposting about mountains beginning today... 👀⛰️

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Baltimore red line since the 2010s

My father-in-law tested coal power plant emissions for decades, climbing stacks in harsh weather and subjecting himself to extreme noise levels and severe air quality to inform EPA of emissions violators. From WV to Chicago to the Gulf. I can't imagine his feelings right now.

Rare overnight superfecta of 5-year-old nightmare, baby lost paci, cat yelling astonishingly loud for no reason, and smoke detector low battery chirp Happy weekend

This is a cold-sweat nightmare for any election administrator, to say nothing of the campaigns!! I'm imagining great herds of lawyers running towards Missouri from all directions.

I'm excited to share this article about a project I've been working on with fantastic collaborators. Check out the dashboard for yourself here: llmelectionobservatory.org www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...

Next up: USL (U.S. Lakh)

IDK what it is about today in particular, but my inbox is getting absolutely flooded by the Misguided Robots Who Send Me Baffling Emails About Products and Services That Have Nothing Even Remotely to Do With the Job of a College Professor

Todayborday is Labor Day Sorry, it's all hardwired, I wish I could turn it off