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John Cluverius

@johncluverius.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science @ UMass Lowell. “If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.” They call me “Bow tie Karen” in these skeets All statements are personal opinions, not reflective of university positions.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 52m
Support for the death penalty continues to wane, but even in 2001, a supermajority of Americans opposed televising the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber. (24 yes, 73 no)
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1h
same energy
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Bear Jew
ALT: Bear Jew
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 4h
quick argument in favor of trusting the polls, at least in the sense that theyre telling you we're in an anti-incumbent environment that is almost unprecedentedly fierce and intense, especially without boots on the ground or the economy in recession. tl;dr it's unprecedented but real b/c trump
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 7h
This op-ed really nails it. Universities going all in on generative AI are pulling us backwards on student mental health. Is that the university mission? Is that what a public good looks like? ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Commentary: Would your campus host credit card companies or Big Tobacco? Then why Big Tech? • NC Newsline
Like many other universities, NC State is introducing generative AI products into workspaces, classrooms, and learning management systems, but, to my knowledge, they are not informing students and par...
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 7h
Update: we have the Covid jabs
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h
lmao this is awesomely vicious: “If social media has made us more stupid, the movie treats us accordingly.”
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The Social Reckoning film review — Facebook sequel is Jaws if the shark ate everyone and kept swimming
Follow-up to ‘The Social Network’ covers how the company was exposed for profiting from misinformation and doing users harm — but falls frustratingly flat
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 11h
That’ll get your median 18 year old Californian to enroll!
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 11h
Exit polls from 2024 have Trump winning Latinos in Texas - decent spread on the source so I’m not sure which are weighted to final results, but CNN has him winning TX Latinos by 10
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h
Same poll in Texas for Governor Also btw field is 9/18-28 Abbott 48% Hinojosa 44 Others/ will not vote 3 Undecided 6 Because adjusted margin of error is +/- 4.5, we characterize this race as tight, close, or about even. uml.edu/polls
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h
This is the only condition under which we use “tie” or “dead heat” - when two candidate totals are exactly the same regardless of MoE.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h
We are LIVE with a new @umlcpo.bsky.social / @today.yougov.com poll in TEXAS: Talarico 45 Paxton 45 Undecided 7 Others/Will not vote 3 MoE 4.5% N=850 LVs uml.edu/polls
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h
i made a deal for a novelty plus additional kitkat subunits.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h
oh my younger one is gonna be ripshit pissed they were promised ice cream in volume commensurate with the number of jabs
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12h
this dude makes me feel a lot better about telling a reporter "hold on, you got me in the middle of tummy time" for a quote about a primary election luckily he was a print guy so me reading campaign finance reports out loud in a goofy voice did not translate onto the article.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13h
Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
oh i was assured the new cdc director was a chill normie who could have imagined this
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this guy should be screaming on some tiny market public access cable, not being wined and dined by billionaires, feted at harvard, and leading the intellectual circle of the vice president of the united states
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
people: cotton is not your friend.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my family doesn't have rumors, they have receipts. several branches have receipts.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
there is a social media trend of gen Z campaign workers showing off canvassing fits and i am *here* for it.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is the kind of perspective taking necessary in a conversation between someone who lives in my state and someone who lives in your state :)
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
to be fair, Hollings' 1998 win makes South Carolina the state with the 4th longest dry spell for Democrats winning a Senate or governor's race.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i mean, those ships that brought chili peppers to india were packed to the gills with enslaved people from Africa; like imagine you were so into chattel slavery you had a license from the pope to do it.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
kids, don't do steroids.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is that Michael Dell’s wife?
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel like this should have been an airbnb/america 250 ad.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it's more that you have to go into the app, make sure you're collecting data, and then contact the subject and work through any issues via Zoom if there's something wrong
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
sometimes grants just make you smile, like imagining the poor postdoc who has to troubleshoot 250 oura rings
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
as a cishet white dude academic having a wife who outearns me rules so hard, except when I ask my department chair about when I get my bonus or when the employee stock purchase plan window opens
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is my whole thing. Their message is “bad things will happen” with no public upside. And this from a guy who got a whole ass Ronan Farrow written profile on him with the theme of “I cannot call this person a pathological liar but he sure seems to me like one”
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t understand the audience for this. Who is he trying to convince?
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
there is obviously a partisan shine over a lot of this, but the reason why so many Democrats said Biden was too old to be president in 2024 was that to them he appeared frail.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
age is not about age. it's about frailty. because voters have been lied to over and over about the health of prominent elected officials, they use visual and auditory cues to judge it. that's why Collins' benign tremor is a bigger deal now than it was six years ago.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Term limits are great; kids love ‘em”
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Schrödinger’s whiteness
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
live from the Maine Senate debates. Very well reported piece on Collins' essential tremor and the political impact from it here:
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Is Susan Collins' "benign" tremor really harmless?
The 73-year-old said she’s had the neurological condition her entire time in the Senate, but the disclosure also highlights Collins’ age at a time when being older is becoming a liability for some est...
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hassan won by nine!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I haven't seen it up close yet but I'm not sure I want to.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
yeah no don't pay too much to any one poll. unless it's a UMass Lowell poll.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
hey i'm just naturally very fair-skinned, ok?
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you can't collect marlboro miles from content, i guess
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Med faculty have it pretty rough he should definitely be making the sandwiches
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Denizens of the past?
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
honestly this sandwich story is pretty relatable. kids need their sandwiches, and you already woke your poor wife up early because some swedes were blowing through your do not disturb ass-early in the morning.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And just, be there until Election Day. t. Everyone has to start somewhere, and success in professional politics is largely about being obviously competent in the right place at the right time. Go back home, and stay in touch with people. Group chats are key.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Be unfailingly polite, make sure you have clothes for the weather, have extra chargers and power packs, and just ask nonstop "how can i help?" You will meet people who are essentially recruiters for presidential campaigns who are on leave to volunteer. Be their best friend.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Get 90 day supplies of your meds if you can, and get to wherever they tell you to go however you can. Bus? Train? Bum a ride? If you have a car it's better, but no one is perfect. All you have to do is impress people.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lock & maybe scrub your socials immediately. You are not the story. You don't want a basement dweller finding you and stitching your shit into opposition ads.
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