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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t believe how depressing it is to watch Trump crush norms, and institutions and to wonder if people are noticing.

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 12d

Anytime I give a talk I always tell my audience “you are weird because you came to hear me talk about politics.” Most of the people, most of the time, don’t pay attention to politics.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like I occasionally need to remind people who post frequently about politics on here that the NYT focus group people probably have more individually idiosyncratic ideologies than you do, but in terms of political attention/engagement, it is very much you and not them who's the weird one.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks to @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social for bringing up this paper. Politicians gain power by reputation. Sometimes undeserved reputation

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28d

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky &
@gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism

gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23d

Charlie Kirk’s killing has proved that Bari Weiss was right all along.

by Bari Weiss

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 26d

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm extremely excited to participate in this (virtual) conversation about my book, with fellow Umich polisci alum Yanna Krupnikov!

Belief, Misinformation, and Democracy url:https://www.92ny.org/event/belief-misinformation-and-democracy

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 5

Low hanging fruit

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 4

I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 16

True. But we hit new lows every day.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 16

Trump‘s sluggish performance at today’s summit raises new questions about Joe Biden’s energy level

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 16

Astonishing? I’d say it’s completely predictable.

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 15

Apply for funding to work with me and Gord at Cornell!

Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla...

It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year

Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

Klarman Fellowships

The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...

as.cornell.edu

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 8

We've made a change to the @ajpseditor.bsky.social COI policy. Read more here:

Changes to AJPS Conflict of Interest Policy ajps.org/2025/08/08/c... via @ajps_editor

Changes to AJPS Conflict of Interest Policy

From: Dan Reiter and Adam Berinsky, editors-in-chief This post describes a policy change for Conflict of Interest (COI) policies pertaining to potential reviewers of manuscripts submitted to AJPS. …

ajps.org

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 6

Information about an exciting conference coming this December at MIT!

David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 5

Excited to announce the program of our December 5-6, 2025 workshop at MIT on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ Eugen Dimant @ylelkes.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social @katikish.bsky.social)!

Info: sites.google.com/view/polariz...

To attend: buy.stripe.com/dRmdRa7Du1fw...

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 5

Excited to announce the program of our December 5-6, 2025 workshop at MIT on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ Eugen Dimant @ylelkes.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social @katikish.bsky.social)!

Info: sites.google.com/view/polariz...

To attend: buy.stripe.com/dRmdRa7Du1fw...

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jul 22

On Capitol Hill, I joined Sen. Bill Nelson @gretchentg.bsky.social @adamconner.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social to sound the alarm about the systematic dismantling of the US research infrastructure. The question isn't whether we can afford to invest in research. It's whether we can afford not to.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jul 23

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Jul 21

Revising my survey and experiments grad course and looking for examples of papers that do a good job of (really) integrating observational and experimental data. Suggestions? Self-reference welcome.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Jul 15

We're hiring at MIT: details at the link below

Ariel R. White @arielrwhite.bsky.social · Jul 15

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

American Political Science Association > Sign In

members.apsanet.org

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Jul 7

Any Psychology Editors out there willing to have a discussion about COIs for coauthors on large multi-author studies? DM me.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Jun 30

Death Panels are dead. Long live Death Panels!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jun 30

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 27

it is no exaggeration at all to say that these are people who would rather destroy the state's flagship public university than education a diverse cross-section of the commonwealth's students

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Jun 27

I get to be the proud alum who explains to everybody in the group chat how the governor pushed people onto the board and those new members began working with DOJ to threaten the president so he would resign so they could do a coup and replace him with someone that would destroy the university

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