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Ian M Hartshorn

@ianmhartshorn.com
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Associate Prof Political Science. Current project: labor solidarity after trade liberalization. Cases and texts, international and domestic institutions, qualitative data. Part-time rancher, with one head of (cat)tle. VP of NFA-UNR. Join your union!

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 1h
I would love to see universities get out of the game of setting up fake courts and fake punishments for real crimes. I don’t exactly know what to do instead but what I’ve seen my entire career doesn’t work.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 4h
Lol. Sounds like the use of 'synthetic' samples are fucked. That's a technical term, I'm a scientist.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 4h
Dear Hispanic Friends and Family- Can you all secretly not be hurt in falls? This guy is pioneering new types of racism.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 4h
Speaking of which I'm doing undergrad methods for the first time and did a whole unit on description and used and appreciated @carolyneholmes.bsky.social et. al. intervention in the topic. (I can't remember who else is on this website. I think @mkguliford.bsky.social is)
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I spot a person over here I remember being a sea lion or weird online shit stirrer from Twitter and I love hitting that nuclear block so fast.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 28/09/2026
Just all the gender politics aside (or maybe only some of them aside)….having a super-natural level of testosterone in your 40s and 50s sounds miserable.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 28/09/2026
I’ve been reading this same story for 20 years. It’s always wrong and always ignores black (and often Latino) dems.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026
Let's just trying to take something relatively measurable (unemployment) and see whether a BA is worth it. The most unemployed BA the Census tracks is 'fine arts.' In 2022, it had a 2.9% unemployment rate. Some college was 3.8%. High School only was 4.3%
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026
There's a local pastor yelling on social media about halal products in stores here saying it's idolatry. Of every claim you can level against Islam, the one I think with the least evidence is 'idolatry' ....Christian megachurches on the other hand....
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026
Emails I get: "I'd like to come do a Post Doc, are those funded?" Emails I send: "Do you think if we reduced the printing budget we would have enough Scantrons to at least cover the intro classes?"
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 26/09/2026
Happy Petrov Day. Human discernment: our greatest risk, our only hope.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 25/09/2026
Honestly shocked that I've seen a decent amount of 15 shows listed here. I don't like fancy TV.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 25/09/2026
Today I Learned: Basque has more than a dozen cases.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 25/09/2026
Don't get fixated on your pronouns- think about your cases. Forget he/him...what are you in genitive/dative?
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 25/09/2026
I do love when freshmen tell their professors they are neurodivergent or on the spectrum and then begin *to explain what that means* and I say this with love and solidarity: your tenured professor is familiar with neurodivergence and if they aren’t themself their best friend/coauthor/spouse is.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 24/09/2026
A picture of the VR troopers
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 22/09/2026
I lived in a fraternity house. I often ran the door. Occasionally high schoolers would show up. It was laughably obvious and we’d kick them out. These were 18 year old HS seniors. The idea anyone can’t spot a 13 year old at a party for GROWN ADULTS is silly. They knew.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 21/09/2026
Many people are saying so.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 21/09/2026
I know democrats hate the ads running against them but it’s a pretty easy pivot “my opponent keeps running ads about kids’ genitals. I don’t know why. If a kid has an issue with their genitals they should talk to a doctor or their parents. The last person I’d ask is a Republican politician”
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 20/09/2026
I will say the part I can’t speak to is that everyone pretty much looked like me even though I saw some bullying for not being Christian. Pretty rare tho. I have no idea what the best choices for kids are. Though I do think schools should be better. For everybody.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 20/09/2026
I grew up going to abysmal schools (my 5th grade teacher went on a drug binge and wound up knocking over the local beer store *while still employed*). All I can say is that I'm really happy I don't have kids because making those choices seems lose-lose.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026
Niche variant Chuck Tilly Norwood remains blandly pliant and charming but in conversation constantly brings up problems of the state, durable inequality, mass political mobilization, and social change in comparative historical settings.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 20/09/2026
I bought an electric car that has no motor oil 6 months ago and I am so thrilled with it.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 20/09/2026
Right now, this is radicalizing the next generation's Qutb.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 19/09/2026
Is the Republican running for governor in California foreign?
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 18/09/2026
Today my colleague and spouse Dr. Allison Evans's book won the Ed A Hewett Book Prize for outstanding work on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe. It's really excellent and you should read it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 18/09/2026
This is particularly funny because "Aslan a man? Certainly not!" is one of the more famous lines of one of the books.
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 18/09/2026
I'm going to sleep, fuck this shit.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 17/09/2026
Effective Altruism is a movement about improving charity like the Peoples Temple was an antisegregation church.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 17/09/2026
I’m profoundly colorblind. My PhD student is blind. We just got an email from a university bureaucrat that was so inaccessible that neither of us, even with assistive technology, could read or understand it. Do better folks.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 16/09/2026
2026 MadLibs: ED SHEERAN got CANCELED because MACKLEMORE said FREE PALESTINE at BOB KRAFT’S STADIUM.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 16/09/2026
The people of Palestine deserve better on so many dimensions. Including the awful white people music about to be written about them.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 15/09/2026
I guess another possibility here is a polling miss. But a polling miss over sampling potential IAP voters would suggest the D candidate is performing EVEN BETTER. I dunno. Maybe I’m on hopium.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 15/09/2026
There’s no circumstance in the world where “issues statement that says he is not complicit” is a good headline.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 15/09/2026
NV CD-2 could be cruising for an upset. I’m not neutral on this. I like the Dem candidate. My union PAC which I help coordinate endorsed her. And my academic research is not US voting. BUT. I can read a poll. Or a bunch of them. I can catch a vibe on the door when canvassing. There’s a real chance.
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Hakkı Taş @hakkitas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come and work with us at @giga-hamburg.de in Hamburg! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. It is a 3+3 year position, offering up to six years to develop an independent research profile at GIGA. www.giga-hamburg.de/en/career/po...
giga-hamburg.de
GIGA Hamburg
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13/09/2026
It's 200 AD. A sign of wealth is a physical library. It's 1600 AD. A sign of wealth is a physical library. It's 1900 AD. A sign of wealth is a physical library. It's 2010 AD. A sign of wealth is a robust digital subscription optimization plan. It's 2030 AD. A sign of wealth is a physical library.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13/09/2026
Just an update here. I know they are out in stock all over northern Nevada, Tahoe, and down to Sacramento and the Bay. Not sure about the rest of the country.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13/09/2026
I'm getting these too (don't have a lab, but just 'pursue a phd with you') I'm really glad I'd already decided to stop accepting new PhD advisees.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s alarming how much influence Hasan Piker may potentially one day have in the Democratic Party. by Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Thomas Rousseau, James Fishback, and Alex Jones
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13/09/2026
I got my Novavax (Nuvaxovid) updated Covid shot last night. These always knock me out MUCH less than Pfizer/Moderna. They are available and in stock at a lot of CVS's right now, FYI.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13/09/2026
On Pluto TV, I watch Star Trek from the 60s, travel shows, and the throwback BET channel from when I was a kid (don't judge me, we all have our own comfort TV). The only one that has Trump ads is throwback BET. 🤷‍♂️
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 12/09/2026
I like the incongruity of this. The top is entirely 'it's very technical very specific legal definition that people shouldn't throw around lightly....here's an analysis by Boy George and a guy who wrote for the Daily Show 20 years ago'
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 12/09/2026
It's wild that the fall of Kabul was treated as world historic but losing Hormuz and the Red Sea coast isn't.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 11/09/2026
Sometimes I remember that the economist and writer Soumaya Keynes is a Keynes, obviously, but also a Darwin, and a Hourani. I'm not entirely sure if family dinners were fascinating or terrifying.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 11/09/2026
They want to steal an election. They could steal an election. They aren’t popular enough to steal an election.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 07/09/2026
It is bad that this happening, but it's kind of amazing to see mainstream media even reporting on labor share.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 07/09/2026
Selena is a friend to labor, and a friend to faculty.
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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 07/09/2026
I keep proposing rowdier posters about how dumb management is.
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