Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryNora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Done without Congressional approval and with no one in charge who is congressionally confirmed 22210
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryAndrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They’re making the same mistake journalists have. It’s not partisan to speak out and defend your institutions against threats, even if those threats are partisan in nature. If you’re in university leadership, doing so should be considered part of your job, not something to avoid. 072
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure. 39929
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27777298
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752441429
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it." 224869
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/09/2026the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them 430084
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I’m so glad this rule was halted, and so angry at the huge waste of time and stress dealing with has been for so many on campus www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...nytimes.comJudge Blocks Trump Rule Aimed at International Students and JournalistsJudge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote that the administration’s reasons for a rule limiting the length of stay for academics and journalists were “exceptionally weak.” 031
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026I pretend to teach; you pretend to learn; everyone gets an A. 1451992
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026People who keep saying science is broken sure do seem to use a lot of the outputs of science all day every day. 050
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind. 19876134
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryPolitical Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🤖 Can transformer-based language models deliver accurate text classification at a low cost? ➡️ Cecilia Y. Sui shows how pretrain-finetune models can classify political text with modest labeled data and computing resources, using toxicity in US Senators' X conversation threads doi.org/10.1017/psrm... 054
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Interesting new research on the effects and content of Instagram Reels and podcasts ceciliaysui.com/files/Influe... preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-g... link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... 14411
Reposted by Jacob MontgomerySharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026making the Turing police real 1537
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I really feel like the entire set of norms surrounding APSA have eroded to the point where it is almost not a useful conference. Papers cancelled, late, or not shared with discussants. Panel chairs ghosting. Papers thrown together or even never written. What are we even doing? 9220
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Forthcoming paper with @umariqbal.bsky.social and @haofeixu.bsky.social on Google AI Overviews (AIO) is cited in this new piece from NPR. www.npr.org/2026/08/30/n...npr.orgWe tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly wellIn a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared wo... 131
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/08/2026It is under-appreciated just how catastrophically bad this number is. Biden bottomed out at 32 among registered voters in 2022 when inflation was 9%. Gallup had Bush at 28% in Sept 2008 wavepolling.com/results/2026... 551596417
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Not to worry. Trump's legacy -- the person who has done more damage to the United States, its people, and our national interests in a century -- is totally locked in. 0100
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Now Tim Curry?! Have mercy, gods 0191
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I need you to know that Dolly wrote a song about the 19th Amendment .... because of course she did. open.spotify.com/track/0hRmD9...open.spotify.com19th AmendmentDolly Parton · 27: The Most Perfect Album · Song · 2018 031
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/202623% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 271256475
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Whatever you think about Data Centers on policy grounds, opposing them seems like a clear winner this cycle and every Dem candidates should probably do so right away. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...washingtonpost.comSome Texas conservatives are breaking ranks and pledging to vote DemocraticRepublicans who are angry at Gov. Greg Abbott’s refusal to block data centers are giving his Democratic challenger hope for an upset. 120
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryAnodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"If a student reaches the end of their visa's limits before they finish their degree, a university can still say that the student is making appropriate progress and needs more time – but ... the U.S. government will also have to agree that the student can remain enrolled and stay in the country." 11919
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Very obviously the outcome of people mobbing those who publicly admit they use AI is everyone continuing to use it but hiding it 521817
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u... 571839674
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It is shocking how so many tech startups these days seem to be, "Hey, remember that dystopian sci-fi book/movie? Let's do that!" 2112
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026So we know that data centers are increasingly unpopular with voters. But what is the best research out there on *why* they are unpopular? (Looking for actual survey data/experiments here rather than hot takes.) 100
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/08/2026When the state goes after the antifascists rather than the fascists... Solidarity with @heidibeirich.bsky.social ✊edition.cnn.comExclusive: Former employee at Southern Poverty Law Center arrested on fraud charges | CNN PoliticsA former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist groups, one of whom she was a... 1257
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history. 411534617
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ok but this could be a good thing right? Students use AI to complete assignments. Universities use AI to generate and grade assignments. We finally achieve the goal of higher education administrators and convert money directly into degrees without all of the overhead of paying professors! 230
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This left wing crackdown on free speech is getting out of control www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...nytimes.comU.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration CrackdownThe government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes. 401115308
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they" 12671156
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryMicah @rincewind.run · 04/08/2026the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation 5347021043
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryDrew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026+1 for adaptive inventories to increase precision and save survey time. An introduction from @erinrossiter.bsky.social and @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social for anyone interested: www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgAdaptive InventoriesCambridge Core - Research Methods in Politics - Adaptive Inventories 163
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryMeredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The "Year of the Woman" keeps happening — just not for Republicans🧵 meredithconroy.substack.com/p/the-year-o...meredithconroy.substack.comThe "Year of the Woman" keeps happening — just not for Republicans44% of Democrats' nominees in primaries so far are women; just 18% of Republicans' are. What gives? 27036
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I "almost finished" a book this year. Can I get credit for that? 272
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026In a similar way, I am "semi-done" with my summer writing goals. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...cbsnews.comLive Updates: Trump says U.S. only "semi-negotiating" with Iran after Tehran sets demands to reopen Strait of HormuzPresident Trump signaled he would be piling economic pressure on Tehran as the stalemate continued and Iran laid out new conditions to re-open the Strait of Hormuz. 150
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This is going to be one of the worst foreign policy failures in all of American history. 711547293
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryDan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This dude gets it @devonderaad.bsky.social #AOS26 714022
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Republican Party is starting to look like Odysseus if he had tied himself to the mast and then just sailed directly onto the rocks. www.economist.com/interactive/... 031
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Hive mind: I am thinking about writing a lab manual for my research group. This is not something I have seen much in Political Science, but I think might be useful. If you have one you can share --- whether for politial science or another social science --- I would love to see it. 120
Reposted by Jacob MontgomeryTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Senior State Department official Mislabels Several African Countries on Map at AIDS Conference Nigeria Mozambique Ivory Coast Uganda Malawi Cameroon www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...nytimes.comU.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS ConferenceNigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.” 167
Reposted by Jacob MontgomerySanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 30/07/2026Please spread the word far and wide that MANOVA is terrible 3181
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Publishers: Would you like to write a textbook? Me: Maybe. Will I get paid a lot? P: Not at all. M: Oh so it will be affordable for students? P: Also no. M: But at least I can easily make edits after release? P: Definitely not. …. 0205
Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is my sleeper issue for 2028. This industry is totally out of control 0112