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Call for papers! At the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Trieste(1-4 June), @darrenhalpin.bsky.social and I are organizing a workshop focused on rethinking lobbying strategies & resource exchange, to gain new insights on what policymakers need and what advocacy provides. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Call for Papers: EPSS Copenhagen 2027! 📢 Join us for a gathering of political science scholars! We have a wide array of sections—including a BRAND NEW section on Politics and AI 🤖—looking for your latest research. ⏳ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 🔗 Details & Submission: epssnet.org/2027-copenha...

1/ The Speech or Debate Clause probably doesn't apply to the Omar search. BUT, whenever I talk about Speech or Debate immunity and argue that it should be interpreted capaciously, the pushback I always get is that we don't want to turn members of Congress into "super-citizens".

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

Scorching piece. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whatever-i...

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...

We’re hiring in political theory! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/assista...

“Of the 919 candidates running as major-party nominees for the US House and Senate this November, only seven had a working-class job when they got into politics. That’s less than 1%, despite working-class jobs making up about half of the US labor force.” @carnes.bsky.social and I explain why.

4 anthropologies yet 0 political sciences

If you think this is not a problem, bc mail voting may not favor Democrats, or bc it's too late to affect voting, or any other argument related to the actual voting, you're missing the point. The point isn't to affect the results of the election, it's to create the conditions for contesting them.

🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍

"People are dissatisfied," he said. "People are frustrated. People don't have a language for how to talk about alternatives because they haven't really heard all that much about the alternatives, because we haven't had a national conversation about the alternatives yet."

New @nberpubs: "Time Travel on Professional Profiles" www.nber.org/papers/w3554... 👀

Admirable clarity @science.org

NEW BLOG: Time to make lobbying more transparent The EIC has published a report on how to reform how lobbying of government is regulated, reported and monitored. @peterr48.bsky.social welcomes many of the findings and recommendations, and calls for a broad standards bill to be passed.

Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards…... https://politicalsciencenow.com/congratulations-to-the-2026-apsa-award-winners/

I am re-posting what I thought about the prospects for the midterm six months ago because nothing has changed since then. See adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/midterms-887

Using RCTs, surveys, & focus groups, the authors demonstrate that registrar visits to high schools increase political interest & decrease anxiety about registering and voting. By @melissamichelson.bsky.social @sldemora.bsky.social & @cruzita.bsky.social! Check it out: shorturl.at/l1XqV #polisky

The second research showcase from the APSA Experimental Research Section Early Career Fellows is around the corner: June 10 11am Eastern time. Zoom link: Horiuchi.org/zoom Exciting new work on (1) housing, (2) depolarization and (3) gendered foreign policy. @experimentsapsa.bsky.social

Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵

"Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. But to change it, we first have to expose and prove how unaccountable FIFA really is. Add your name to our complaint to FIFA’s Ethics Committee, demand that Infantino be investigated immediately" (@fairsq.bsky.social)

In seven knockout UCL matches this season, the only goals Arsenal conceded were one from a corner and two penalties.

New preprint: Jack Lucas, @breunig.eurosky.social and I reanalyze 70,470 assessments made by 12,860 politicians about their constituents' public opinion and demographics, sourced from every available published study of elite perceptual accuracy, and our own original data. /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...

I can’t excerpt, every word is perfect

Politics by Formula: How Congressional Policymaking Creates Disparities is now out! I show how politics shapes and often distorts important federal programs, driving inequalities across states.

We need to do more to protect congressional staff rollcall.com/2026/04/28/r...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Fact (hard to call it fun): The last time the Rules Committee reported a rule allowing any floor amendments was 22 January.

Ever wonder if political elites’ beliefs about climate change are partisan? If so have I got a new article for you! Elites believe climate science more than voters, but there’s still a partisan divide. w/ @salilb.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

None of you are going to give a shit about this at the parade.

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Every paper begins as a promise and ends as a compromise.

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.