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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The last months of dissertation-finishing has just completely destroyed my relationship with caffeine. Apologies in advance to everyone I interact with while attempting to fix that next month!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Truly a perfect news alert

NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's called fiscal conservatism, folks.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 24/01/2026

General guide on how to help from outside Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... Places to donate: www.standwithminnesota.com

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line apply.interfolio.com/179415

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

ND's Klau Institute for Civil & Human Rights is searching for a postdoc; candidates from political science, econ, and sociology are encouraged to apply. I've been on the Klau board for a long time and this is a great group of folks, esp director Jennifer Mason McAward. apply.interfolio.com/177620

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today I am thankful for the SPPQ editorial team! I created a simulated social media environment in Qualtrics and found that individuals’ political attitudes can change based on state legislators’ social media posts. A dissertation chapter and the most fun I’ve had working in a project so far.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/11/2025

Gender-affirming care saves lives

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I feel like most of us understand that he will change his mind literally the next time he talks to any of his horrible goblins, because he just agrees with the last person who talked to him. but still it's so funny that he fully got rolled by Mamdani leagues more than we even could have hoped

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Eugene V Debs: the best presidential candidate, the best Terre Haute resident

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/11/2025

If our economic system is so brittle that it can be destroyed by free buses, maybe we should try for something more resilient.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Heartbreaking. 21 years old

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Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Miranda! No novelist could get away with this.

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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 06/10/2025

This Election Day may seem unimportant because there are no “big” offices on the ballot but many states hold their nonpartisan municipal elections in off years. Races for city council, school boards, county judgeships are VITALLY important to the day to day functions of your community! Participate!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

*looks directly at camera*

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨 Call for PostDoc or Visiting PhD Student 🚨 apply.interfolio.com/175219 We're seeking an American Politics scholar of leg. institutions or representation, under the direction of Jim Curry, Jeff Harden, and Rachel Porter (me!), affiliated with our Representation and Politics in Legislatures Lab

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Important new FREE study by Amy Brooke Grauley. Experiments show when Christian leaders warn Christians against Christian nationalism, they're less likely to identify with it, especially if they don't have strong views on it yet. Effects are weaker in the opposite direction. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/10/2025

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The only LLM I can get behind

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

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Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Now on FirstView ft. @challenbrook.bsky.social! Guess what, political scientists? Small assignments that engage students in politics boost their confidence in their ability to influence the political process! doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #politicalscience #academisky

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Converse (1964)

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Stop showing me pictures of donald trump’s hand

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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

People felt better after talking to strangers for 30 minutes! My conversations with random people at the dog park are now experimentally-backed. 😂🐶

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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This is devastating. This gives abusive guardians complete power over their children’s lives. Being a minor should not mean a lack of privacy or respect.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The most frustrating thing about Harris’s alleged gaffe on trans prisoners is that almost no one bothered to defend it on the merits. But the policy is fine: When the state provides healthcare it should also provide transition care!

She responded yes, adding that "it is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition."
She noted that as the California state attorney general, she backed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation decision to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates.
In 2015, while Harris was the attorney general, California and the Transgender Law Center reached a historic settlement to move a
transgender woman inmate to a women's correctional facility and provide her with transgender medical care that had been deemed medically necessary by several medical and mental health clinicians,
according to the settlement agreement.

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Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🚨 New R package and paper! 🚨 fuzzylink is a method for merging datasets with non-exact matches on key variables. The paper walks through several useful political science applications--linking voter files, campaign contribution data, and even multilingual records. The package is available on CRAN.

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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 28/08/2025

Word of the Day: SCIENTASTER (19th century) - someone who claims to have scientific knowledge but lacks real understanding.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The public library is the new Blockbuster Video but it’s FREE* pass it on *late fees may or may not apply depending on your library

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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Do other parts of the country not have tractor pulls? All of the rural communities I grew up near had their own annual event. Children compete against each other on pedal tractors!

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

With Jan 6th back in the news... We find that elites who engaged in anti-election action on/after the insurrection faced uneven accountability, with harsh penalties for those at the Capitol, and mild consequences for other undemocratic acts osf.io/preprints/os... Forthcoming @bjpols.bsky.social

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

bell hooks: "The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. 1/2

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Abigail Hemmen @ahemmen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Ever so casually dipping my toes back into social media posting. Hello, Bluesky 👋

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