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mellissameisels.bsky.social @mellissameisels.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Know an exceptional, PhD-curious undergrad from an underrepresented background? Encourage them to apply to University of Michigan's 16th annual Eldersveld Emerging Scholars Conference! I'm on the committee -- detailed CfA attached. Apply here: lsa.umich.edu/polisci/grad...

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Last Friday, I became Dr. Johnson! This would not have been possible without my committee and cohort members, who kept me going through all the struggles (personal and professional) over the last few years. Thank you to everyone who came in person and those who joined over Zoom! #phdone

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Very fitting for me to turn in my dissertation on identity, representation, and elite behavior 30 minutes before America’s 250th

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My son and I are happy to announce that I will be joining @ricepolisci.bsky.social this coming academic year as a Postdoctoral Associate! I will be working with @lowande.bsky.social in the Executive Policy Research Group (EPRG) to examine the effects of unilateral policymaking. 🍚🦉

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I often ask myself how one grant reviewer views a project as a 4, while the other sees it as a 1. Maybe we should do a better job at coordinating on reviewers instead of having such drastic differences in the review process. But, what do I know 🤷‍♂️

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ah, the resurgence of game theory.

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

From our FirstView articles: The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals by @anthonytaboni.bsky.social . doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

From our FirstView article: The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022 by REILLY S. STEEL doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/03/2026

With Dallas early vote now in, Crockett's path to victory looks gone. She needed 80%+ of the vote there to make up for Talarico running up margins in Austin, San Antonio, and the rural + western counties. Only got 60%. 2026 - 2020 swing hasn't changed all night docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The problem with Texas (as a Texan), is Ds have to win a plurality of Latino, White, and Black votes. As it stands, Crockett is winning the Black vote up 45 and east, while Talarico is winning White plains and Latinos along the border. Still too early but Dallas (and the missing votes) will be key.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I come from a family of educators, and my concern for my students, my partner’s students, and their families is chronic every school year. It does not have to be this way. It’s a choice.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Democracy lives to fight another day. 🇺🇸

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Houston Political Science @houstonpolsci.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 30/09/2025

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - cup.org/42XsrF0 - @anthonytaboni.bsky.social #FirstView

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When they ask my 2 youngest sons what their race is…🇲🇽

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/10/2025

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

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APSA Law & Courts Section @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

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Houston Political Science @houstonpolsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lucía López (@llopez.bsky.social) on being awarded the 2025–26 Early Career Fellowship from the APSA Experimental Research Section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social)! 🎉 Lucía is on the academic job market this year -- learn more about her research at lucia-lopez.com.

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Princeton University Department of Politics @princetonpolitics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In his job market paper, Christian examines how permanent oil revenue shortfalls reshape distributional conflicts in oil-dependent states and drive targeted institutional reforms to strengthen public goods provision, offering insight into how these states will respond to the clean energy transition.

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Princeton University Department of Politics @princetonpolitics.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Why does climate finance routinely stall between promise and delivery? Fiona Bare's job market paper shows how dual features of climate finance - mixed public-private benefits and pervasive uncertainty - create strategic frictions between donors and recipients that delay dealmaking.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🚨I'm on the job market! 🚨 My job market paper employs a formal model to examine the role of racial competency in shaping the behavior of Multiracial politicians. My broader dissertation examines how Multiracial Americans are a threat to racial solidarity. For more, visit www.isaiahcjohnson.com.

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Reilly Steel @reillysteel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

…and I’ve successfully defended my dissertation at @princetonpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to @nolanmc.bsky.social @jkastellec.bsky.social Gleason Judd and Frances Lee for all the tough questions and invaluable advice!

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Princeton University Department of Politics @princetonpolitics.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's been bugging me that we don't have a general REP listserv since the last one blew up, so I made a new google group. Just click the below link and click the "Join Group" button. Please share with other REP folks freely. groups.google.com/g/race-and-e...

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Race and Ethnic Politics - Google Groups

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I want to say that I CAN believe what is happening to my undocumented people, Mexican or not. The political impulse to forcibly remove folks for wanting to work and live in the US has always been with us. Now the rest of you get to see it in real time. We haven’t been exaggerating.

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I am honored to have received the 2025 George Kateb Preceptor Award! More importantly, thank you to my amazing students who motivated me to be a better TA. Without them, this wouldn’t have been possible.

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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

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Human capital is finite. You lose graduate student and faculty talent and that capital moves with them. It creates a dearth across numerous fields that impacts knowledge production and cascades beyond our generation - utterly ridiculous

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Reilly Steel @reillysteel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Stark evidence that DOGE’s layoffs are based on ideological goals, not efficiency. For a sense of the magnitude, the distance between liberal and conservative agencies is ~3 pts, so liberal agencies are >60 pct pts more likely to have layoffs. Huge! Meanwhile, size and budget effects are small.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Texas is lucky to have you! Congrats 🤘

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This goes without saying, but in times when people like the Proud Boys get pardoned, I think of the countless innocent Black lives and autonomy lost.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Interesting information as a recent resident of NJ (4 years now) from Texas (where state police are abundant). State Troopers almost nonexistent since my arrival. Almost shocking no police activity on the highway.

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ICYMI: The largely unorganized social rejection of liberal politics has led us to this moment when the reactionary forces of Trumpism have recaptured the state. To change course, we can begin with a leap of faith, a fidelity in the primacy of class action. convergencemag.com/articles/the...

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The Working Class Leaves the Party

“The largely unorganized social rejection of liberal politics has led us to this moment when the reactionary forces of Trumpism have recaptured the state.” To change course, we can “begin with a leap…

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/11/2024

On her first day canvassing for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, “I began to sense a dissonance between the celebrity-inflected exuberance of the Harris campaign and the bleak mood and raw divisions I encountered in the streets,” Julia Preston writes.

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A Kamala Harris Canvasser’s Education

Even on my first day, I sensed dissonance between the campaign’s celebrity-inflected exuberance and the raw divisions I saw in the streets.

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

And even people (like me) who are not that worried might find it reasonable to invest in some government-independent platforms as insurance. In any case, the argument for staying on X would be at least somewhat more compelling if it were not literally under a government official's control.

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

On the proposal that people should stay on X for political cohesion's sake. There's a small but nonzero chance that the Trump administration might aim to punish or surveil political opponents. People who are worried about that are right to seek platforms not controlled by the administration.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Somewhere there is a whole dissertation with clear causal implications of Trump, Musk, and the academic retreat to Blue Sky. I’m a contributing observation.

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Isaiah Johnson @icjohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Hello. I’m a political science PhD student at Princeton. Could you please add me to the Polisky list?

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