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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Polarization 👏 is not 👏 the problem 👏 Incredible essay by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social (excellently threaded by @bakerdphd.bsky.social) out this month.

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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Careful reasoning about what we can and cannot learn from conjoint experiments and actionable suggestions for how we can learn even more! We love to see it!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lotta people this weekend are gonna have a karaoke mic in their hand when they find out that Dolly was a SINGER singer and even the songs she made sound easy are very hard. Keep your head on a swivel.

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 26/08/2026

(1) there's a generic "social science" call for the NSF GRFP (2) the SBE Directorate is NOT listed as one of the sponsoring organizations (3) POLITICAL SCIENCE IS NOT AN ELIGIBLE SOCIAL SCIENCE FIELD. (4) only 1st year grad students again www.nsf.gov/funding/init...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*whispers* BLM was popular

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Under aggressive gerrymandering, however, Callais is likely to benefit Republicans while reducing minority representation, particularly in Southern states with large, geographically concentrated Black populations." imai.fas.harvard.edu/research/fil...

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eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 09/06/2026

wait somebody remind me which party didn't moderate on abortion and is out of step with public opinion again? i can't remember which one it is if only there were data

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 07/05/2026

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We found some evidence that SCOTUS legitimacy had bottomed out among democrats after Dobbs but I’d guess it’ll take an even further dip now. If you’re collecting data about specific support, we recommend three items that I’ll post below.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

The ruling also rests on a methodological error that would earn a failing grade in a graduate statistics course. The court treats race and party as competing explanations, as if controlling for one neutralizes the other. But for millions of American voters, race explains party affiliation.
The vast majority of Black Americans did not randomly sort into the Democratic Party.
Already trending blue since the New Deal, they were pushed fully into the Democratic Party by Barry Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act and Republicans' Southern Strategy over the decades since. To "control for partisanship" when assessing racial gerrymandering is to erase the very mechanism through which racism travels. Consider the analogy of a court ruling that a company didn't discriminate by gender in pay because, once you control for being a manager or executive-positions from which women were systematically excluded — the gap disappears. Or that if you exclude people with high blood pressure, then a high sodium diet appears to have no effect on your risk of stroke.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One thing that sucks about AI is how it has degraded trust between students and professors.

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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Strategic Discrimination | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Strategic Discrimination - Volume 18 Issue 4

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Recontextualizing #Whiteness: Understanding White Identity in the Era of #Black #Lives #Matter By @genevavalerie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/03/2026

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:

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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.

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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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.

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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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.

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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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.

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Anna Mikkelborg @annamikk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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?

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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 16/12/2025

Just say women. This is taking forever.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12/12/2025

i also work in a "bespoke concrete chamber" (office building)

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Gabe Lenz @gabelenz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

motion to use this as a crosstab more frequently article: apnews.com/article/dayl... data: apnorc.org/projects/few...

Views of daylight saving time crosstabbed by "morning people" and "night people"

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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...

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The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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.

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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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)

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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.

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Just in time for federalism week. Ugh.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Someone please kill me right now.

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes
MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0.

By Tom Bartlett

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/08/2025

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.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/08/2025

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...

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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Gabe Lenz @gabelenz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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. 🧵

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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

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