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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 5d

well see you interpret the coefficient on B_1 by simultaneously holding fixed the lagged outcome and lagged treatment, but also some lagged covar--*head exploads*

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 5d

if this is what your DAG is looking like i'm not sure you should be using panel data lol

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 6d

chatGPT rewrites:

Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 6d

it is actually wild how analogous this op-ed is to one a police officer in a major city could write

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 6d

police 🤝academics

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 6d

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 7d

Update on this ad: this position will not be the managing editor of PRQ. You will have no formal editorial responsibilities. You just have to go to a couple meetings every year. Trying to get the ad changed.

Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 12d

The University of Utah Department of Political Science is hiring a department chair at the rank of Full Professor! This job is open to any subfield.

Let me know if you have questions about the search, including (as you likely are wondering) why we are hiring an external chair.

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 8d

Ok it's not managing editor at all. Like chair of the editorial board but no editing responsibility. Will work on getting the ad changed

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 8d

sorry, why is this bad? seems pretty helpful

Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 8d

huge if true

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 8d

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 8d

trying to get an answer to this, we don't currently have this editorship so idk

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 8d

Deadline extended! Still time to get your submissions into legislative politics section!

Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 20d

The @wpsa.bsky.social 2026 annual meeting submission deadline is soon. Reminder: it's in San Diego! In April!

I'm the section chair for legislative politics, please submit your papers. Also, this is a great conference for graduate students!

www.wpsanet.org/meeting/

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 12d

The University of Utah Department of Political Science is hiring a department chair at the rank of Full Professor! This job is open to any subfield.

Let me know if you have questions about the search, including (as you likely are wondering) why we are hiring an external chair.

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 11d

i wish AJPS would stop boycotting my papers

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11d

I don't know why but something feels off with calling this a boycott.

NYT headline: Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott

The company is one of two that has been pre-empting Mr. Kimmel’s show since he returned this week.

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 11d

sociologists have discovered the people prefer romantic relationships with people who agree with them (this paper is doing numbers on reddit)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 11d

you do not in fact gotta hand it to Sinclair

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11d

Just posted an updated/revised version of this “Statistical Methods in Public Policy Research” chapter, now under review post-R&R 🤞

I'm kinda partial and unbiased here, but I really really like this piece!

HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/
SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...