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Gendered views on immigration policy stances? The case of Japan - cup.org/4lV2PiL

- Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, @strauszm.bsky.social & @ykshrt.bsky.social

#FirstView

Using the military against American citizens.

We are in an incredibly dark place.

🚨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...

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...

The entire transcript is incredible:

imgur.com/a/HznenTv

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.

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!

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:/...

I had a student generate a fake interview transcript in chatGPT.

I was at the game on Saturday (my son is a a Bucks fan) and 60-70% of people wearing jerseys in the stadium were wearing Luka jeresys.

TCU is hiring in Judicial Politics.

The title "Instructor" undersells it a bit. As far as non-TT jobs go, this one is pretty great.

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...

Don't leave.

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...

Did you have to pay for the crisp? Or was it like a kind of reward for your fame?

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...

"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...

Was that a swing dancing theme? I have an annual weekend get together with some of my friends from those years, and at some point I surprise everyone by appearing in a different one of their bar mitzvah shirts.

Come work with me and other cool people! Instructor job for Public Law/Courts: jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/instruc...

Check out this book by one of my great colleagues!

I never took you as a yacht guy, Dave. By the way, at the post JPSG happy hour on Friday your dramatic reading from your time at Wisconsin of the Chalmers Johnson/Mark Ramsayer debate came up. We missed you at APSA!