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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.

Political science 52%

Sociology 16%

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5h

Another guy is eating pickle popcorn. This is the snack corner. I can only contribute a protein bar (sad)

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5h

I didn't even get any video bc I was so enthralled

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5h

Now he's eating hichew!!! Wtf. That's my candy, man.

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5h

The guy next to me at the airport is on his fourth bag of gummy candy and I don't know if I've ever felt this level of envy

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5h

Limerence w adulthood!

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6h

Y'all are CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6h

A friend is *obsessed* w this timeline and is so mad that the subreddit went private!

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6h

I think maybe YOU own rent w that look!

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6h

I'm going to take 0.01% of the credit for this!

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

Hahaha whoops 💀

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

I'm here to tell you that it is!

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

Dara, next you are going to tell me that you make all your doctors appointments regularly and with zero delay!!

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

"don't mind me, I'm just over here vibing to my nocrastination!"

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

Right? Adulthood, what a thrill

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

Anyway, we now have a hardwired level 2 electric car charger at our house for our (new to us) electric car and that required a BUNCH of steps but we did them all!

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

Yes! Like, pride in our executive management?

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

Like, I'm not smug or proud bc this is just being an adult and living life. But also, being an adult is hard AF and adding new tasks makes it even harder. But I am delighted that we didn't put this off forever!

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

You know that feeling after you accomplish a series of household tasks that you COULD have put off forever but you did them right away? What's that feeling called?

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Efrén O. Pérez, Mirya R. Holman , and 2 more Mark J. Brandt, Efrén O. Pérez, Mirya R. Holman, Peter K. Enns, Frank C. Thames

Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 8h

Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.

Deadline Oct. 22.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant

Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants

Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 13h

I regret to inform you that this is a thing.

Halloween costume: Sexy banana

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 13h

I regret to inform you that this is a thing.

Halloween costume: Sexy banana

Reposted by Jon Green, Justin H. Kirkland, Efrén O. Pérez , and 2 more Jon Green, Justin H. Kirkland, Efrén O. Pérez, Mirya R. Holman, David R. Miller

Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 16h

.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 · 17h

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 · 19h

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.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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