Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I believe Rochester is in western New York. 121
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/192333apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 01515
Reposted by Scott Abramson Michael Donnelly @mjdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Reupping this. We’re hiring in American Politics. I’m on the committee and happy to chat by email, zoom, or at APSA. It’s a great department in a great city. Plus you get to sit with the cool kids (the comparativists) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...jobs.utoronto.caAssistant Professor - American PoliticsAssistant Professor - American Politics 0129
Reposted by Scott Abramson Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477 14554
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I don't understand the critique. Because he is on the center left and supports a moderately more robust welfare state, he shouldn't be profit motivated? 110
Reposted by Scott Abramson Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Again, the platform must be institutional reform, & it needs to be immediately ready to go in Jan 2029. Popularism is a category error in the face of far right authoritarianism. The policies follow from restoring democracy & the rule of law & fixing the broken institutions, not the other way around. 510716
Reposted by Scott Abramson Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Something we were never able to figure out just throwing causal forests at the problem was how to go from “here’s some effect heterogeneity” to actually valid statistical inference on some QOI and it turns out the answer is just do the logit. 091
Reposted by Scott Abramson Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The DML stuff makes the “magic” of flexible regression work but the real trick here is getting researchers to acknowledge they’re targeting some sort of structural model parameter 161
Reposted by Scott Abramson Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy. 8469332228
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026You should have just given Crypto indirectly to the DNC, obviously. 000
Reposted by Scott Abramson FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 31/03/2026New reporting reveals Karoline Leavitt begged AFP and Getty to delete this picture of her from all photo libraries. 1211068
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Looking forward to the part where he ignores the fact that the Pope hates him. 010
Reposted by Scott Abramson Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it. 1273299789833
Reposted by Scott Abramson Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime. The media should report that. 372283539
Reposted by Scott Abramson Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Like all the other things they bring up, shoveling snow in NYC is not covered in the 24th amendment, the right to vote without cost is. 11643104
Reposted by Scott Abramson John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Dems should pledge to sign and ratify the ICC treaty that Clinton signed but W (smartly for his ppl) refused to push thru. Make it clear we will arrest these ppl… and ship them someplace no future vice-signaling GOP Pres’s pardon power can reach. 11516163
Reposted by Scott Abramson Ryan Gilbert @ryangilbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Team USA needing other countries to bail them out because of an inexperienced manager who’s in over his head is a little bit too on the nose. 1954760
Reposted by Scott Abramson World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Got Theory? @scottfabramson.bsky.social, @emielawad.bsky.social, and @brentonkenkel.bsky.social developed a formal model of #anarchic #competition. Read their full article, “Designing Political Order,” and how their model changed the game in studies of political order: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... 032
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026There is no data in this paper....it's a theoretical model. 010
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The inaugural Research in Behavior and Institutions (RBI) conference was my kind of academic utopia: political science by day, fantasy baseball draft by night. 040
Reposted by Scott Abramson Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The CNN domino falls, and the media landscape is getting very competitive authoritarian-y… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...nytimes.comNetflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover 0195
Reposted by Scott Abramson 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 25/02/2026Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison. 452548648
Reposted by Scott Abramson Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"Democrats Versus Democracy: The Southern Response to the Voting Rights Act" by Mayya Komisarchik. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 073
Reposted by Scott Abramson Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up. 158117975045
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026D. A huge stinker youtu.be/boKihmOqypc?...youtu.beWhat Makes This Song Stink Ep. 1 - "Kryptonite"YouTube video by Pat Finnerty 020
Reposted by Scott Abramson Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Again, I'll bang the lonely 🥁 that, whatever faults you have with Joe Biden as a person or his policy positions on ____, Actual Joe Biden was FAR & AWAY the most progressive president of your & my lifetime, with the slimmest Congressional majorities ever, & it wasn't close: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 1422157
Reposted by Scott Abramson Gwyneth McClendon @gmcclendon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...wp.nyu.eduAnnual NYU CESS Experimental Political Science Conference 11819
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I never thought I'd be a single issue voter but I am now. 091
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026If I ran MI6 or the BND, I think I would be concentrating a lot of my effort to influencing the US midterm elections. 010
Reposted by Scott Abramson Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026This is who voted against establishing DHS 622966585
Reposted by Scott Abramson Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official 8401108
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025If such a mapping exists, sure. In practice, (probably) you’ll find that the assumptions required ex post are much stronger than if you had explicitly designed a survey or experiment to generate the identifying variation for the theoretical object you care about. 100
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025We’re supposed to be in the business of confronting and falsifying theory yet we often lack the tools because we never defined the theoretical objects in the first place. Anyway, Dan McFadden also won a Nobel prize but (basically) no discrete choice is taught in mainstream poli-sci anymore. 130
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Start by writing down a mode and then specify the identifying variation needed to recover its parameters. Design your survey, experiment, or empirical strategy to target the substantively meaningful theoretical object. The world is not filled with ATE Pokémon to collect. 131
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025That is, too many people cannot grasp that the mapping from E[Y(1)−Y(0)] to their theoretical quantity requires real assumptions. These assumptions should be made up front, not retrofitted post-hoc. 331
Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Here’s my moderately hot take: the Neyman–Rubin framework has sent a generation of political behavior scholars down the wrong path. The LATE they recover is rarely the structural parameter they "theorize" about. 150
Reposted by Scott Abramson Ignacio Jurado @jurado.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Postdoc call‼️ I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT. Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community. Application deadline: December 10th. Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9mtinyurl.comDropbox 03227
Reposted by Scott Abramson Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A new postdoc position is now available at the Center for European Studies at Harvard for 2026 2027, The Guido Goldman postdoctoral fellowship, named after our center's founder A great opportunity to work at Harvard for the year. Here is more information: ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunitie...ces.fas.harvard.eduGuido Goldman FellowshipGuido Goldman, co-founding director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) is… 33322
Reposted by Scott Abramson Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19/10/2025I saw a comedian say: after 10 months, he hasn't figured out what "tariffs" are. Bottom line: US tariffs are essentially sales taxes on lower-income and retired Americans. The explicit goal+mechanism of tariffs is to force those people to pay more for the same products. doi.org/10.1111/iere... 24511
