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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy to have a perfect political science use for this gif.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I've only done one thing with AI that I ever liked. It's this unfortunately evergreen image.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I live in Tennessee's 7th district with the Aftyn Behn special election. Just got the neighborhood social pressure treatment and some new "compared to others in the state" one. Neat

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Lots of great signs today at No Kings in Nashville. If I had to boil it down to two, it would be these...

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings in Nashville had great turnout!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

In Office Hours. Made a meme explaining how I feel about some research I'm working on.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"I'm so glad I work for a network where we can have a conversation about demons." 😂😂😂

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Academia is great. I read a paper, edited a lecture, and ate my dog's leftover birthday cake for breakfast. Off to teach.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Time line cleanser. Rory turned 3 yesterday. Baked cake and barista knew her fav is watermelon. People signed a card. Some things are still good.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Anyone else using GroupMe for your classes? I'm a week in and it's already paying dividends by keeping my inbox cleaner and letting students chime in with helpful links and answering syllabus/reading questions. Also, my students voted on my office hours candy selection.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This semester, my students will WANT to do the reading!!!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

ChatGPT is having a full blown identity crisis. It's trying to manage. Please be kind during this adjustment period.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Voter Study group data from 2018. Abortion attitudes positively correlated with sexism. Regardless of party. Its about control over women.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Does the Big Beautiful Bill at least outlaw Doorbells and Dog Barks from TV and Movies? Asking for this over reactive guard dog.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Happy Anniversary to my cycling heatmap, where you can visually see me getting angier and faster (orange) when I was alerted that Roe was overturned.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Happy Friday to everyone. Except Rory, who doesn't know she's getting a bath today.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Since it's relevant for literally just tonight, here's a throwback to me as Thénardier in Les Miserables back in College. So fun.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I don't know anything about soccer...but here's my idea. Each time a team scores, their goal post gets bigger and the losing team's post gets smaller. Like a fun handicap.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Stacking a fun Book on top of a political science book is now my new favorite meme.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Glowing student evaluations (even for methods!) and reunited with my love! Good Monday. Summer cycling time!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

First TT year in the books. I lived in 4 different places, taught a million new preps, accidentally went to a Green Day concert (fav band), got a paper accepted (led by the exceptional @kevintmorris.bsky.social), made new MPSA friends, flagged a lot of Chat GPT, and missed my dog. Off to get her.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hahahah. Please stand by while history is being written on wikipedia.com.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

After all the AI papers I had to deal with this year, I'm breaking my own taboo. But just this once.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The Trump administration is specifically targeting professional researchers who study inequalities caused by threatened groups and poor institutional design. People who study how misinformation skews our views of one another and reality. The administration is attacking truth and justice.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Took a break from the end of the republic to see Beach Bunny. V fun show.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Someone told me Trump isn't fascist because we don't have death camps yet. I responded that you can still be fascist without meeting the maximal definition of the term. Then I punctuated with, "you know someone is an Animorph even if they haven't completely turn into a giant squid yet."

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Anyone else watching Daredevil: Born Again and also seeing Kingpin as an eerily close stand in for Trump II? Like, this was written and made waaaay before we got here. And it's basically prediction machine. Wild.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My dog is cooler than yours. Rory at the eclipse last year.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Booker ceding time to Bennet, who then asked if he would prefer a "5 minute or 5 hour question" was super cute and wholesome. Teachers who speak for over an hour at a time know...

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A mystery student 3D printed me a doorstop for my office. Surprised by how moved I was. Thanks mystery student, you made my day!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The only good thing to come out of Trump's second term is that I get to refer to Pence as "Trump's first Vice President" and it always reads like a funny joke.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Dune Two has a run time of 2:46. But the 3 hour director's cut has a solid 15 minutes of people shaking the sand out of their shoes. So excited!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If it helps your growing affection for animals, Rory does a happy dance in the kitchen when I chop veggies and play the Lover album.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@kevintmorris.bsky.social and I making equally important and thoughtful takes on politics and the judiciary this afternoon. 😅

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Legal scholars might disagree, but in a 5-4 decision, The Supreme Court just ruled that turning into a Red Hulk counts as an official act.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Timeline cleanse. Rory's first day with me --> Playing with my dad this afternoon.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Students were split on whether attitudes were more fixed or flexible. So we did a good ol'fashion loss aversion activity. Gave original (1981) language. cc: @nathankalmoe.bsky.social Converse is next class.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Well NOW that I have permission, it's open season. But I do have mugs that suggest the link.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Made coffee cake for Intro US students today to illustrate "marble cake" or cooperative federalism (the cinnamon swirls are the overlapping of state/national functions in policy domains). What's the difference between dual and cooperative? Cooperative tastes like coffee cake!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Anyway, I barely paid attention to Dune I, but really liked this one. I'll be stealing examples from it this semester for Methods and Political Behavior. Best part of the movie was Zandaya constantly making judgmental faces at people. Cheers!

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

And all this prophecy BS is a great example of being able to disconfirm, but never prove theories. Paul has to learn to "sandwalk good" and "ride worms" because the prophecy says Dune Jesus will do these. Failure of any of these would mean death, and thus show he's not Dune Jesus.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Paul wants his desert nickname to be "Stupid Mouse," and everyone laughs. Not this guy. He's already decided Paul is the best. He confirmation biases his way into convincing all his followers to think "Stupid Mouse" is cool, actually.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Watched Dune II last night and it honestly has a lot of great examples of political psych/social science concepts. For instance, this dude (Stilgar) is a paragon of motivated reasoning. In his eyes, Timothée Chalamet (Paul) can do no know.

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Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Abbott Elementary tonight really elicited an LOL moment. I'm dead. They nailed it.

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