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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re hiring in political theory! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.jmu.edu
Assistant Professor- Political Science (Political Theory) - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Working Title: Assistant Professor- Political Science (Political Theory) State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligi...
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Noam Lupu @noamlupu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Of the 919 candidates running as major-party nominees for the US House and Senate this November, only seven had a working-class job when they got into politics. That’s less than 1%, despite working-class jobs making up about half of the US labor force.” @carnes.bsky.social and I explain why.
bloomberg.com
Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
4 anthropologies yet 0 political sciences
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you think this is not a problem, bc mail voting may not favor Democrats, or bc it's too late to affect voting, or any other argument related to the actual voting, you're missing the point. The point isn't to affect the results of the election, it's to create the conditions for contesting them.
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dear fellow scientists If you agree to review a paper but then you're unable to, no problem. Please just let the editors know, we understand, we'll find someone else, no problem. *Please* don't just ghost us: if you do then don't complain about how long your next paper takes in review. Thanks! 🧪
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"People are dissatisfied," he said. "People are frustrated. People don't have a language for how to talk about alternatives because they haven't really heard all that much about the alternatives, because we haven't had a national conversation about the alternatives yet."
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New @nberpubs: "Time Travel on Professional Profiles" www.nber.org/papers/w3554... 👀
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NEW BLOG: Time to make lobbying more transparent The EIC has published a report on how to reform how lobbying of government is regulated, reported and monitored. @peterr48.bsky.social welcomes many of the findings and recommendations, and calls for a broad standards bill to be passed.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
Time to make lobbying more transparent
The Ethics and Integrity Commission has published a report on how to reform how lobbying of government is regulated, reported and monitored. Peter Riddell welcomes many of the findings and recommendations, and urges Andy Burnham to legislate to implement as many of the report's recommendations as possible, preferably in a broader bill that seeks to make large scale reforms to the wider standards regime. 
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards…... politicalsciencenow.com/congratulat…
politicalsciencenow.com
Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts. DISSERTATION AWARDS…
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Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I am re-posting what I thought about the prospects for the midterm six months ago because nothing has changed since then. See adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/midterms-887
adamprzeworski.substack.com
Midterms
July 14, 2026
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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Using RCTs, surveys, & focus groups, the authors demonstrate that registrar visits to high schools increase political interest & decrease anxiety about registering and voting. By @melissamichelson.bsky.social @sldemora.bsky.social & @cruzita.bsky.social! Check it out: shorturl.at/l1XqV #polisky
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 26/06/2026
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The second research showcase from the APSA Experimental Research Section Early Career Fellows is around the corner: June 10 11am Eastern time. Zoom link: Horiuchi.org/zoom Exciting new work on (1) housing, (2) depolarization and (3) gendered foreign policy. @experimentsapsa.bsky.social
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot
Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player biting an apple. The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 08/06/2026
𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 position, this! At Copenhagen Business School, we are hiring an associate professor (tenured position) in economic sociology/political economy. Great environment, great colleagues. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested.
cbs.dk
Associate Professorship in Economic Sociology and Market Governance
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 04/06/2026
Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵
science.org
White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. But to change it, we first have to expose and prove how unaccountable FIFA really is. Add your name to our complaint to FIFA’s Ethics Committee, demand that Infantino be investigated immediately" (@fairsq.bsky.social)
rebootfifa.com
Act now to stop abuse of power at FIFA | Reboot FIFA campaign
Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to our mass complaint now >>
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/06/2026
As the World Cup approaches, people are using more and more football gifs. This is your reminder that Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of at least five rapes and sexual assaults and admitted one of them in legal documents.
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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
In seven knockout UCL matches this season, the only goals Arsenal conceded were one from a corner and two penalties.
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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New preprint: Jack Lucas, @breunig.eurosky.social and I reanalyze 70,470 assessments made by 12,860 politicians about their constituents' public opinion and demographics, sourced from every available published study of elite perceptual accuracy, and our own original data. /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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goonlighting @goonlighting.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
😂😂😂
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I can’t excerpt, every word is perfect
mcsweeneys.net
We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Leah Rosenstiel @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Politics by Formula: How Congressional Policymaking Creates Disparities is now out! I show how politics shapes and often distorts important federal programs, driving inequalities across states.
Cover of Politics by Formula
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Joshua Kertzer @jkertzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🚨 Now out in @bjpols.bsky.social w @busbyj2.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @ckafura.bsky.social: Do American foreign policy elites know what the public wants? Partnering with @global-affairs.bsky.social, we show that elites systematically misread the room 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We need to do more to protect congressional staff rollcall.com/2026/04/28/r...
rollcall.com
Report sexual misconduct? It’s not that simple, staffers say
Almost a decade after a workplace harassment overhaul on Capitol Hill, staffers aren’t fully comfortable reporting misconduct — that is, if they even know where to turn, a range of lawmakers and aides...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Our new study on political elites’ partisan climate attitudes is covered today in @axios.com Future of Energy newsletter www.axios.com/newsletters/...
axios.com
Axios Future of Energy
Make sense of the energy upheavals reshaping our world. By Ben Geman and Amy Harder.
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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fact (hard to call it fun): The last time the Rules Committee reported a rule allowing any floor amendments was 22 January.
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 10/04/2026
I've got a new paper out today with @timlapira.bsky.social and @salilb.bsky.social in ERC showing that party ID strongly structures political elites' beliefs about climate change. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Environmental Research Communications
LETTER

Political elites' partisan beliefs about climate change
OPEN ACCESS
Alexander C Furnas'*®, Timothy M LaPira? O and Salil D Benegal' ©


Addressing climate change requires political elites to share a basic set of facts about climate science, yet political elites in the United States are divided in their views about climate change. We document

this using the first large-scale survey of over 3,500 U.S. political elites-including elected officials, staffers, regulators, lobbyists, and policy professionals—to assess the partisan divide in beliefs about climate change held by political elites. We show near-unanimous agreement among the Democratic elite on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring, primarily caused by humans, and widely recognized by scientists. In contrast, substantial minorities of Republican elites reject these scientific facts, with fewer than half affirming anthropogenic climate change and nearly one-third endorsing a climate-related conspiracy theory. Comparing elites to the general public, we find that political elites are more aligned with climate science, but partisan gaps among elites are as wide as those observed in mass opinion. Regression analyses show partisan identity explains far more variation in elite climate beliefs than ideology, trust in science, or broader conspiratorial predispositions. These findings suggest that partisan polarization among elites reflects not only strategic electoral behavior but also privately held attitudes.
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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ever wonder if political elites’ beliefs about climate change are partisan? If so have I got a new article for you! Elites believe climate science more than voters, but there’s still a partisan divide. w/ @salilb.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org
Political elites’ partisan beliefs about climate change
Political elites’ partisan beliefs about climate change, Furnas, Alexander C, LaPira, Timothy M, Benegal, Salil D
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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...
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@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com · 04/04/2026
None of you are going to give a shit about this at the parade.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
nature.com
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
nature.com
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Politicians should be paid anywhere from 2x to 20x as much as they currently are, and their office budgets and support staff budgets should be increased by the same
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Every paper begins as a promise and ends as a compromise.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.
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Chris Piper @chrispiper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
1/ The federal government now has the largest political workforce in 40 years and the smallest career senior leadership in 25 years — simultaneously. In a new report I authored at @ourpublicservice.bsky.social: ourpublicservice.org/publications...
ourpublicservice.org
The Politicization of Federal Leadership: Record Non-Senate Confirmed Presidential Appointments and the Hollowing Out of Career Leadership
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.
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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Rivera trial will be remembered for Rubio’s testimony. It should be remembered for evidence that under the LDA and FARA you can sell a foreign government your congressional rolodex for $20M and call it “consulting.” The loophole is the feature, not the bug. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
reuters.com
Former US congressman secretly lobbied for Venezuela, prosecutor says at trial
A former U.S. congressman illegally lobbied U.S. officials to ease pressure ​on ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday at the opening of a trial that...
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tim lapira @timlapira.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Lobbying ≠ campaign contributions. Treating them as the same isn’t just wrong—it distorts how we understand influence in American politics. New piece w @clarebrock.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com: why the overlap is smaller than most think and why that matters. www.promarket.org/2026/03/20/t...
promarket.org
The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same - ProMarket
In new research, Alexander Furnas, Timothy LaPira, and Clare Brock find that most politically active organizations engage in either campaign contributions or lobbying, but rarely both.The findings hav...
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I will do anything, use any VPN, crawl through any shady pirate site, to not have to watch Alexi Lalas call the World Cup.
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.
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Interest Groups & Advocacy @igajournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"Doctors vs. doctors: intra-associational conflict and federalism" new Interest Groups & Advocacy link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Doctors vs. doctors: intra-associational conflict and federalism - Interest Groups & Advocacy
Interest Groups & Advocacy - If associations include multiple constituencies with conflicting preferences, whose preferences will they represent? We argue that the higher the territorial level...
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Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It’s not just that the number of filed discharge petitions is up this year (though it is; see below).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/11/2025
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
nytimes.com
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
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