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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD

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Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and polisci metascience. Run @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. Go 'Cats. Always a Midwest Princess 👑

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 10d

End of September #polisky eJobs count, which is looking similar to May-August (9/1-9/30):

September 2024: 167 total positions (105 open to assistant TT)

September 2025: 138 total positions (83 open to assistant TT)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 25d

We are back with the #polisky halfway through September eJobs count, which is looking better (9/1-9/15):

September 2024: 64 total positions (46 open to assistant TT)

September 2025: 54 total positions (39 open to assistant TT)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · Sep 2

Final #polisky eJobs count (including 8/30-8/31):

May-August 2024: 319 total positions (219 open to assistant TT)

May-August 2025: 228 total positions (140 open to assistant TT)

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1h

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2h

haven’t seen folks talking about how the frog costumes counter the now-infamous right wing Pepe the Frog meme

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3h

streisand effect the youths

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🤨🤨🤨 #politics #news #wtf #leftist

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 8h

help your #polisky colleagues out in this rough market year y'all

Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 11d

Just want to thank folks contributing to the #psjminfo job status update section of the site. It's a small thing, but I know people appreciate knowing the status of jobs.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 4h

putting together the quarterly Costco run list & canonically each widget is $15 in my head

Which is why you can grab 6 items and have spent $100 at Costco

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 7h

thank y'all so much for all the well wishes for Chelsea 🥲 (aka Chelly Bean)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

She made it to 14 🥳

A beagle basset mix sits in a sphinx pose on an unmade bed looking at you very expectantly to go on a walk

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 7h

Somewhat? 1121 in 2023-2024 compared to 1305 in 2022-2023.... which was way better than 2019-2022

apsanet.org/resources/da...

eJobs Postings by Month, January-June 2024 vs. January-June 2025

January-March had a similar number of jobs, but there were many fewer Jobs in April-June 2025.

Jobs Posted Per Academic Year on APSA eJobs from 2010-2011 through 2022-2023

Usually between 1200-1300, cratering to around 950 through the pandemic, then back up to 1305 in 2022-2023

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 8h

help your #polisky colleagues out in this rough market year y'all

Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 11d

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 8h

ok so I added several more fairly prominent opportunities / links to them and - crucially imo - the deadlines for those applications

what else would make this webpage more useful?

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 11d

input requested from #polisky: I did a mini-revamp of APSA's grants and fellowships webpage in the spring, but I wanted to do a more substantive overhaul this fall given *gestures broadly*

What is missing? What presentation of these opportunities would be most useful?

apsanet.org/resources/gr...

Other Grants, Fellowships and Awards in the Discipline - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Other Grants, Awards and Fellowships in the Discipline Disclaimer: This page contains information and links submitted by outside organizations. APSA

apsanet.org

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

your reminder to NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR STUFF (APSA edition):

APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 1d

Submit for the 2026 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award #bestpaper from the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting. $750 prize; presented at the APSA Annual Meeting. Submit by February 11th: buff.ly/iSqyfJ5 #APSAAwards

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 12h

yeah this is trying to dissuade families with kids, older folks, etc. from coming out because seeing a multi-generational movement is genuinely frightening to them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 22h

honestly more sad that sister Jean wont be here to see it

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/l...

Loyola Chicago icon Sister Jean dies at age 106, school announces

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, who was better known as “Sister Jean” and a long-time fixture at Loyola basketball games, has died at age 106. Sister Jean became a huge celebrity during the 2018 NCAA men...

www.nbcchicago.com

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 23h

once again

yes I did 2 shots of Malort tonight for good luck

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

Go cubs go

a man holds up a white flag with a blue w on it

Alt: Two men hold up a white flag with a blue w on it flown when the Cubs win a baseball game

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

Cheap tempeh would cure me tbh

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

respect tradition indeed

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

reupping for general use, not in reference to any specific discourse

Alf as Smokey the Bear with today’s discourse danger monitor from low to extreme, set to very high

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

your reminder to NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR STUFF (APSA edition):

APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 1d

APSA - Login

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

they 100% have a big rat problem, I have seen rats skittering out of the refrigerated section

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

finishing this thought: and that's why TS cosplaying as a writer of the latter genre feels forced, knowing that she can be an effective writer of the former (whose English teacher?)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

She is on palliative care now unfortunately but getting all the best dinners and treats now (especially on her birthday!)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

me realizing that this explanation may be at the root of the polarizing feelings toward the life of a showgirl: the millennial and above audience expecting nuance, subtext, allusion, etc. whereas the gen z / alpha audience expecting direct, literal communication