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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If anyone want to use this simulation, let me know. I'm doing it in the Congress unit of an intro to US politics course; it could also work well in courses on interest groups/lobbying, sports politics, labor/race/gender issues, etc.

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Duck tour bus held up by ducks 🦆🪿🦢 #APSA2026

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Presenting this piece of my project on WWII-era women lobbyists at 4 PM today at #APSA2026

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And canceled thanks to a BOS ground stop. We'll try again stupid early tomorrow 🤷‍♀️ #APSA2026

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Woke up and realized my PhD is probably older than my freshmen. Happy first day back to teaching to me 🤷‍♀️

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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 2026-27 Academic Year Schedule for the new APD Workshop Series is almost full. We have one slot left in March of 2027. I'm so grateful to all of the presenters, discussants, and co-organizers who have helped make this idea a reality. 🧵 with the schedule below. sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...

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APD Workshop Series - Schedule

2026-2027 Academic Year Schedule All meetings run from 3:00PM - 4:00PM Eastern. A Zoom link and copies of works to be presented will be sent via email to everyone on the mailing list. Presenters and d...

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Political science jobs, sortable by subfield. poli-sci-jobs.org

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Job Market Status (2026-2027) – Political Science Jobs

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Classes start on Wednesday. Getting back in the mood 🔔

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basically the same class. As it turns out, it doesn’t take a lot of classes to “learn” ai.

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Presented this, a preview of the #APSA2026 paper I need to finish writing this week 😬

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's gonna be a good day (except maybe the part where I'm standing between everyone and the cocktail break)

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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The fall schedule of the newly-launched APD Workshop Series is taking shape. We are really excited to be launching this initiative. Please sign up for the mailing list and consider joining us! sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...

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APD Workshop Series - Schedule

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some people really don't like the being a scholar part of being a scholar.

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don't often get to the Upper West Side, but when I do I go see the Lajos Kossuth monument, the 1928 unveiling of which was apparently my great-grandfather's toehold into the United States. Long story short, not all of our ancestors "did it the right way" 🤷‍♀️

Photo of the Kossuth monument, the text of which reads:

KOSSUTH
Erected by a liberty loving race of Americans of Magyar origin to Louis Kossuth the great champion of liberty

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Polanyi calls knowledge that isn't written down in texts or drawings but that exist within people and groups of people as "implicit/tacit knowledge". The loss of this unwritten, often unspoken, knowledge is often considered to be one of the reasons why institutions lose the capacity of doing stuff.

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So I'm just going to assume "one night stands" meant something else back then 👀 #ladylobbyists

Snippet from WJCC 3/3/1924 meeting minutes: "Unfortunately, the application of the American Nurses' Association was not before it. The Chairman had been doing one night stands in the Mississippi Valley and, having reached Washington only in time to go straight from the train to the meeting, had not been overtaken by her forwarded mail ... "

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Q for academics, especially sociology and related fields: has anyone written up a guide for advising PhD students on applying to non-US job markets (either a specific non-US market or more general strategy)?

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Also, someone (maybe but probably not me) should do this comparative case study 👀 #ladylobbyists

"During the summer I had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the English Women's Consultative Committee where I had the pleasure of a long talk with the secretary, Miss Wauchope, about the likeness in subject matter and the unlikeness in method of work between the Consultative Committee [of Women's Organisations] and the [Women's] Joint Congressional Committee. MAUD WOOD PARK"

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Friends, does anyone here happen to have a favorite book about the craft of editing? I've been making a list, but would love to hear from others about the books that completely engaged you.

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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨Attention American Political Development Scholars🚨 We are excited to announce a new APD Workshop Series where scholars--especially grad students, post-docs, junior faculty, and folks at institutions with limited research budgets--can present works-in progress. sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...

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APD Workshop Series

Mission: The APD Workshop Series provides opportunities for scholars of American Political Development--especially advanced graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, and faculty at institutions wi...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“For now, the new collection spans a narrow 12-year window from 1947-59, comprising only 10% of the 23,000 physical negatives the DC Archives has from official govt photographers. The rest stretch through the 1970s & are still being scanned, but the Archives is working to make them available, too.”

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Dad has reached "see if you can find some of my old chess books" levels of post-stroke rehab facility boredom 🤷‍♀️

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I saw "Mrs. Warwick Hobart" in some Women's Joint Congressional Committee correspondence and assumed Warwick was her husband's name -- glad this old column is still around to clear that up 🤷‍♀️ #ladylobbyists

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think I have found today's rabbit hole 👀 #ladylobbyists "Club Women to Survey Use of Milk," Washington Herald, April 15, 1934.

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've seen this too in my study of the civil rights lobby; e.g., the same 89th Congress that passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 was working to undermine enforcement of the Civil Rights Act a year later

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My 15th year at Wabash College starts (and I guess my sabbatical ends 😔) today 🔔

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Over a century later it still has not yet been determined 🤷‍♀️ (from the National Council for Reduction of Armaments, 9/30/1922)

"Most of the organizations affiliated with the Council have approved the principle of the outlawry of war by international agreement. How to make this practical has not yet been determined."

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Bike, red boots, and a pair of potatoes. I guess some sort of wicked witch of the west situation went down on this block 🤷‍♀️ #brooklyn

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My timing was impeccable 😎 (unfortunately an #eldercareroadtrip, not a #polisciroadtrip this time 😔)

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And now we have a new historical marker in Crawfordsville, unveiled this past weekend 👀 More about Lincoln School here: press.palni.org/omeka-s/s/Li...

historical marker text: Lincoln School
In 1869, Indiana passed a law that provided for the public education of Black children, but relegated them to separate, inferior schools. Private organizations, such as Bethel AME Church, spearheaded education for Crawfordsville's Black students until Lincoln School opened in the 1880s. Lincoln pupils gained literacy skills, focused on the arts, and excelled at sports. (continued on other side)

(continued from other side) In the 1890s, Black residents petitioned the school board to improve the facility and quality of education at Lincoln School. Despite continued inequity, many students achieved success, such as acclaimed musician Wilbur de Paris. The school moved here in 1922. After its 1947 closure, it became a recreation center, providing Black residents a safe place to socialize.

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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

About to present this at the APD Conference 👀

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