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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In simple terms, this is antisemitism

Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am teaching an undergrad political science methods class in the fall on data visualization and advanced data analysis. I am going to use @kjhealy.co's & @hankjs.bsky.social's book. Do any of you have journal articles to recommend that visualize or explain polici methods well for undergrads?

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Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thank you to Jim Raymo, the Global Japan Lab, and @princetonpolitics.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday at @princeton.edu to present new research with @strauszm.bsky.social on population aging and democratic representation. Really appreciated the great conversation and thoughtful comments.

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every American needs to watch this:

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Journal of East Asian Studies @jeas-journal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#OpenAccess - Conservative Politics and the Dilemma of Immigration in Japan - cup.org/4phhcQx - Ko Maeda & @strauszm.bsky.social #FirstView

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Japanese Journal of Political Science @jjps.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Gendered views on immigration policy stances? The case of Japan - cup.org/4hxDATi "gender bias in voter evaluations may not be as severe as the literature expects..." - Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social & @ykshrt.bsky.social #jjps

JJPS abstract from a scholarly article about a study in political science, examining how voters' perceptions of candidates' gender influences their policy evaluations, specifically in the context of immigration policy in Japan.

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Japanese Journal of Political Science @jjps.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#OpenAccess - Gendered views on immigration policy stances? The case of Japan - cup.org/4lV2PiL - Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social & @ykshrt.bsky.social #FirstView

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Using the military against American citizens. We are in an incredibly dark place.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🚨TENURE TRACK POLI SCI JOBS🚨 Yes, "jobs" plural. TCU is hiring two assistant professors, to begin in Fall of 2026. 1) American Politics, with a preference for Gender and Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista... 2) Public Law and/or Judicial Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

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Matthew D. Montgomery @mdm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Come work with me! We’re hiring two Tenure Track positions this fall. One is in judicial politics and I’m on the committee! The other is in American Politics. Link below is for the judicial one but I’ll put the American line in the comments! 🎉 jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor of Judicial Politics - TCU Main Campus, Texas, United States

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled. Application review will begin October 1. Position Details: The Department of Political Science Texas Christian University invites applications for a full-time,...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The entire transcript is incredible: imgur.com/a/HznenTv

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs found nowhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs with zero thought or debate. They probably don't even know.

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I just completed version 3.0 of my R workbook, which you can find here: strauszm.github.io/AreYouReady/.... This version has new data, some new tools, and some new, clear explanations of key concepts (including of statistical significance and residuals). Take a look!

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Are you ready for R? A Workbook for R for Political Science and Beyond: Version 3.0

This is the preface of the workbook

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My article with Melanie Sonntag and @ykshrt.bsky.social about how supportive the Japanese public was of COVID-era entry bans on foreigners (short answer: very supportive) was just publised in Social Science Japan Journal: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Attitudes on the entry ban in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract. Japan had one of the most restrictive entry bans between 2020 and 2023 to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While there was

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am delighted to annouce the publication of my new edited volume _No Island is an Island: Perspectives on Immigration to Japan_. You can order it, or ask your library to order it, here: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/no-isl...

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No Island Is an Island: Perspectives on Immigration to Japan

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of g…

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

2024 was the year that Japanese politics went Online. But there's a risk that politics will focus on the symptom rather than the cause. My latest: observingjapan.substack.com/p/the-year-j...

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The year Japanese politics went Online

Japanese democracy grapples with social media

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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Gendered views may affect how voters evaluate candidates on education and national security, but they may be less salient on the issue of immigration, an experimental study in Japan shows. Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social @ykshrt.bsky.social shiraito.github.io/research/fil...

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

"How To Watch Election Night without Freaking Out." I made this video to help nervous election viewers know what to pay attention to on Election Night -- and, more importantly, what not to pay attention to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uamx...

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How To Watch Election Night without Freaking Out (2024)

YouTube video by Adam Schiffer

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Check out this book by one of my great colleagues!

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Academic friends: we are hiring the Herman Brown Chair of Political Science at TCU (in Fort Worth, Texas). Please consider applying and please feel free to ask me any questions about the job, our department, TCU, Fort Worth, etc. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/herman-...

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Herman Brown Chair of Political Science in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts - TCU Main Campus, Texas, United States

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled. Application review will start on November 1st. Position Details: Texas Christian University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for the Herman Brown E...

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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

How do you sleep at night when your job requires you to coerce children to get head trauma to win “points”? I guess the simplest answer is you don’t care if kids get head trauma

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Political scientists, and friends of political scientists: Texas Christian University is hiring an assistant professor of comparative politics, specializing in Latin America or Africa. The announcement is here: jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista... Please feel free to ask me any questions!

jobs.tcu.edu

Assistant Professor of Political Science - TCU Main Campus, Texas, United States

Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin September 16. Open until filled. Position Details: This full-time faculty position is on-campus and in-person. The Department of Political Scien...

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Here is version 2.0 of my R Workbook: strauszm.github.io/AreYouReady/.... R is tough to learn at first, but it is so rewarding and powerful. Feel free to use this workbook to teach yourself R or to teach students in a non profit educational setting. And please let me know if you are using it!

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Are you ready for R? A Workbook for R for Political Science and Beyond: Version 2.0

This is the preface of the workbook

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

I was in the gallery for Kishida's speech to Congress. Here's what I thought: observingjapan.substack.com/p/mr-kishida...

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Mr. Kishida goes to Washington

Or: how Kishida Fumio found his purpose

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Being this wrong this often isn't easy. Random chance would be right a lot more. You have to shun evidence and reason, force everything into a whiny, aggrieved conspiracy theory, and, whatever you do, never let being repeatedly, egregiously wrong in public lead you to try any reflection or revision.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 27/03/2024

For the first time, Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex partners count as surviving family. It’s ordered Nagoya courts to revise their decision that denied the plaintiff financial benefits given to heterosexual couples after his partner of 20 years was killed in 2014.

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

This is a really nice profile of one of my former students: www.tcu.edu/news/2024/he...

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Looking forward to my first acknowlegement in a medical journal because I just taught my sister how to use R for her study on pediatric migraines 💁🏻‍♀️

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

counterpoint: How does a Quaker, rancher, Californian and a Grocer, dosed for pneumonia in a Mostly closely knit family of brothers, with wanderlust Who was bussed to school, unrefined Grow up to be the president who resigned?

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

I have a great student who is taking a survey as a part of an independent study. If you have 5-10 minutes, please take the survey, which you can find here: tcu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

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Gabriele Vogt @gabrielevogt.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

The Groupe d'études sur le politique au Japon kindly invited me to talk about: "Reform Initiatives in Health-Care Migration to Japan: A Discussion of their Political Dimensions" Please join the discussion if you can: 11/30 Thu, 10.30 am (CET) / 6.30 pm (JST) Registration: seiji.hypotheses.org

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/10/2023

This is real. It is a terrible day for the Cornell community.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

This is horrific, horrific news. May Sam's memory be a blessing that reminds us that we are all in this together. May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences. May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.

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Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found fatally stabbed outside her home

Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022. Police have not announced a motive or suspect.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

I wrote this book in part to remind people that immigration isn’t a crisis, it’s a profoundly human thing that many of us have had/will have to do, and we could just do much better? We don’t have to do nativism all the time? Please buy criminally discounted a.co/d/4tIQ841

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Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Excited that my latest article now has an issue number at the Journal of European Public Policy! I trace the strategic divergence of religion policy in Catalonia & Alsace-Moselle to distinguish subsnational ID from 🇪🇸 & 🇫🇷. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Religion policy and subnational identity construction in Alsace-Moselle, France, and Catalonia, Spai...

Religious-secular clashes have contributed to the structure of political competition into the twenty-first century. Yet subnational regions did not experience the secular-clerical cleavage as state...

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Question from a student: does anyone know where to find inflation data for each Japanese prefecture? Japanese language is fine.

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John Sides @johnsides.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

New from me @goodauth.bsky.social: I show how a change in the Cooperative Election Study from select-all-that-apply to forced-choice produce a big "shift" in immigration attitudes. Maybe only 40 people will care about this, but here's the graph! goodauthority.org/news/the-pro...

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Michael Strausz @strauszm.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

@profmusgrave.bsky.social can you please add me to the polisky feed? Thanks!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

New correlation/causation teaching example just dropped

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