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Mirya R. Holman

@mirya.bsky.social

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Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine the esoteric Arrested Development team costume you could build off of this. The banana (+ stand), the expensive suit, the gold metal (chocolate)

Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 4h

I regret to inform you that this is a thing.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 4h

I regret to inform you that this is a thing.

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 4h

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 7h

.591 batting average!

(.312 if you count all the papers that I have stopped working on after many many rejections)

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 8h

I started tracking many years into this and it was pretty easy to go back and look at the folders for each paper and see all the rejections 🫠

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 10h

epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...
EPL published a leading article based on my research ahead of Estonia's local elections.
Disheartening that parties still disadvantage women candidates with nominations & list placement, but after 10+ years researching this, nice to see it break into mainstream media.

Politoloog: naisi on poliitikas nii vähe, sest neid pelgavad teised poliitikud, mitte Eesti valijad

Kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole, valida ei saa. Asjaolu, et Eestis ikka veel märksa vähem naisi poliitikas ilma teeb ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade poolt ette antud valikutest.

epl.delfi.ee

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

We met at antifa summer camp! We write letters to each other every day!!

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

I haven't figured out how to track slack posts yet. YET.

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

I also have graphs of my exercise minutes, my airline status progress, and my minutes spent on email in a year in case you think that this is as wild as I get

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

Lol not sure it is a flex to say my articles have been rejected 133 times 🙃

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

November is absolutely going to be the month where I meet all my goals AND catch up on all the stuff I was supposed to do in Jan-Oct but somehow did not.

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

And next week, I'll totally have a handle on what an appropriate level of work in a day is, right?

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

I'm afraid that I have -- once again -- dramatically overestimated my productivity and have fallen far behind on my goals.

But tomorrow, I'll totally be able to do all the things I didn't do today plus all of tomorrow's tasks, right?

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

Always happy to share the fruits of my procrastinating!

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 21h

David, this is super super cool!!

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 23h

I don't know if my computer can handle the power needed to generate that graph

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 23h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 23h

What, Annie, you DON'T keep an extensive spreadsheet of all your rejections that you can go back and review to keep you humble???

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 23h

My theme song is "every day I'm hustling" but it is really just hustling to get rejected

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 23h

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congrats Hahrie and richly richly deserved!

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Nic, my update this time was... sad

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Also doesn't account for the very long life of projects that are never published (♾️?)

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Time w out books doesn't change all that much:

Average: 3.46
Median: 2.76

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed. Code is from @nicduquette.bsky.social! (there are three books on there, FYI)

Average time from project start to publication: 3.69 years
Median time: 2.84
Minimum: 3 months
Max: 11 years

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

Tell ya what: sometimes I read an article* and think, whelp, they should definitely take away my PhD bc I have NO IDEA what they are talking about

* also applies to my old rough drafts

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

17 on one computer, 9 on another, 31 on my phone (and I went through the phone ones recently 🫠)

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 1d

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 1d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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