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Ashley Muddiman

@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Political Communication / Works in Lawrence, KS, lives in Kansas City, MO

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Early Career Rescue Fellowship
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American National Election Studies @electionstudies.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The full release of the ANES 2024 Time Series #Data is now available. More details here: electionstudies.org/anes-announc...
Full release of the ANES 2024 is now available.
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Re-upping this for the 🧪 crowd - our new investigation into the psychological mechanisms associated with attack politics (negativity, incivility, intolerance)
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John Gastil @jgastil.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Quick note that I'm the proud co-author of a new article. TLDR = listening is powerful. The Evidentiary Basis for Political Listening: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Feeling Heard (lead author: Elisa Vogel) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 18/07/2025
ICYMI: Annenberg alum @dannagal.bsky.social's powerful essay in @nytopinion.nytimes.com: “Looking to magic and intuition for agency in a moment when science and medicine are frustrating is normal and human. But I worry that these normal human impulses are being exploited by powerful people."
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Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have, Either.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The scope of these funding cuts is unimaginable. This is a massive, massive blow to the foundations of research. It will hugely impact US society and economy. This should be a top story. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Glad to go to the #NoKings protest in Denver - didn't take any pictures, but I can see the Capitol from my hotel room window. It was heartening to spend time with the many, many others who recognize the gravity of our current political situation, especially given the unsettling news out of MN.
Picture of the Denver Capitol taken from a highrise window, with some flags, buildings, and marchers in the distance
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Hey #ica25 The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social has an awesome Fellowship program Open for applications NOW for 2026 Very flexible and good conditions. Great group Reach out with ❓ www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
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Digital Democracy Fellowship x TrygFonden Fellowship Program
Digital Democracy Fellowship x TrygFonden Fellowship Program
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Isabella Gonçalves @igoncalves.com · 13/06/2025
#ICA25 is officially starting, and I will be sharing with you every single session of the program! Follow @polcomm.bsky.social to keep posted of everything that is happening in our division! #Polcomm
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The hellscape that is Southern California right now (as photographed by my dad). Clearly the national guard needs to save us from this chaos.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
::screams in strategic game frame:: If the press cannot break their addiction to framing all of politics as a strategy to win, can they at least talking about the strategy of authoritarianism?!
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 07/06/2025
Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.
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Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year
Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 01/06/2025
The @mujschool.bsky.social an opening for an endowed chair in journalism strategy and business operations to lead, practice, and teach at the intersection of news, technology and sustainability among our six community-facing newsrooms serving Columbia and Missouri: bit.ly/ReynoldsMizzou
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Alexandrea J. Ravenelle @ajravenelle.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I’m one of 20 assistant professors in A&S at UNC who has had their tenure decision deferred. I was planning to spend my summer editing my third book. Now? 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.wral.com/video/unc-fa...
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UNC faculty concerned over lack of tenure for professors
WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🗞️ Our special issue on "Connective Democracy and Political Divisiveness" is out in Social Media + Society Edited by Dr. Gina Masullo (@ginammasullo.bsky.social) and myself, a project of the Center for Media Engagement (@engagingnews.bsky.social) TOC: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... Thread 🔽
The illustration shows a bridge that has broken in the middle, and illustrates fracturing societies.
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Patricia Rossini @patyrossini.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨🚨 Only a few days left to submit a paper for the Political Communication Preconference at APSA! 🚨🚨 @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions! DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
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2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ICYMI: The deadline for the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference is coming up on May 25. We're excited to review your submissions and hope to see you in Vancouver!
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom. It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
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Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📰 Solidarity vs. Monitorial Reporting: What’s More Credible? Our research tested how different reporting styles impact news credibility. mediaengagement.org/research/can...
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Can Solidarity Reporting Boost News Story Credibility? - Center for Media Engagement
Examining whether covering social justice issues using a solidarity reporting approach increases perceptions of news story credibility.
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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
One day to go! Are you conducting #research on racial justice, inequality, or accessibility politics? Apply now for the 2025 APSA Diversity & Inclusion Advancing Research Grant. Open to early-career scholars in political science. buff.ly/YqTIxZo #EarlyCareer #polisky
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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025 -
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award…
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Amplifying very helpful AAUP guidance "Understanding the Law & Policies for Grant Terminations for the NSF" equally useful for NEH grantees. See esp pgs6-7 re: limits of the "no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities” phrasing used to terminate grants. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🌐 Preconference updates will be posted here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/ 📩 Questions? Contact the organizers: @stecula.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social and @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social through the email: PoliticalCommunication2025@gmail.com #APSA2025 #PolComm
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2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Important summary from @erinrsocha.bsky.social at the University Daily Kansan
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Erin Socha @erinrsocha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New from the UDK - New database compiled by @scott-delaney.bsky.social and @noamross.net tracks cancelled NSF grants
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New database tracks canceled N.S.F. research grants
Noam Ross and Scott Delaney's new database can track canceled N.F.S. research grants at universities amid D.E.I. backlash.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 23/04/2025
If you’re in Kansas City today I’m giving a talk about McMansions 5:30pm at the KC Central Library. More info and tickets (which must be purchase in advance) here www.kcdesignweek.org/events/why-a...
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Why Are There McMansions? | Kansas City Design Week
The McMansion is one of the most universally recognized symbols of American excess. However, far from being a solely American phenomenon, the McMansion has since been replicated all over the world, fr...
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Excited that the APSA Political Communication Preconference call for submissions is out! We'd love to see you in Vancouver, but, given serious travel concerns at the moment, there is a virtual mentorship option to consider too. Either way, send us your abstracts!
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Eoin Brodie @elbrodie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
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US Applicant Week
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Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
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UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research
The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Very happy KC showed up today!
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Michael “Concentration camps are bad, actually” Gier @mgier.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Kansas City, Missouri. 45 degrees F and windy. #Handsoff #Indivisible #KansasCity ##Handsoff2025
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/04/2025
New: The White House was hours away from announcing a proposal to "save TikTok." Then Trump's China tariff blew it up. Vance team signed ByteDance deal on Weds., same day Trump unveiled huge tariff on Chinese imports, per three sources www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @cqzakrz.bsky.social
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The White House had a TikTok deal. Trump’s China tariff wrecked it.
The president said he would sign an executive order that lets the Chinese-owned video app stay online while talks continue on a sale, drawing out a years-long battle over its fate.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is *incredible*
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack."
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Start the contempt cases
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Stuart Soroka @snsoroka.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Check out the most recent Element in Politics and Communication!: Political Representation as Communicative Practice, by Fabio Wolkenstein and @chriswratil.bsky.social Free to download for the next two weeks (see Christopher's post below). #polcomm
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The European Federation of Academies of Sciences has issued a statement in response to developments in 🇺🇸 "Censorship and political suppression of language, research topics, and methodologies— fundamentally compromise the integrity of scientific and scholarly endeavours" allea.org/wp-content/u...
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If you haven't seen Casablanca in a while or at all, I encourage a (re)watch, orchestra optional. It hits hard right now, and not because it's almost Valentine's Day.
Casablanca title card on movie screen over orchestra
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Ashley Muddiman @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thanks to @joelmathis.bsky.social for bringing attention to this. I'm also very glad to know that "University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod, Kansas State University President Douglas Linton and Kansas Board of Regents CEO Blake Flanders all showed up Tuesday to oppose Lovett’s proposal."
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Kansas universities face brain drain threat as tenure protections could be gutted | Opinion
An Emporia State VP has proposed a bill to eliminate job protections for 2,800 Kansas public university faculty members. | Opinion
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