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Matt Martin
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PhD, UT Austin Government Dept. Postdoctoral researcher at the Comparative Constitutions Project. Mutual aid. Former immigration paralegal. Lofi producer. Website: https://mattjmartin.com
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · Jan 10
🚨 New research alert 🚨 The first article from my dissertation is here: "Elite Fractures, Public Capture: The Strategic Use of Public Consultation in Global Constitution-Making" has been published in the Journal of Law and Courts! Open access link: doi.org/10.1017/jlc....
Elite Fractures, Public Capture: The Strategic Use of Public Consultation in Global Constitution-Making | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
Elite Fractures, Public Capture: The Strategic Use of Public Consultation in Global Constitution-Making
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 2d
Today my doctoral diploma arrived, and tomorrow I have my first flyout. Yeehaw
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 4d
I always try to keep scale in mind with political action. This is about 3% of Italy's population. A U.S. equivalent would be ~10 million people.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 8d
The call for papers for the 11th Emerging Scholars Conference in Public Law at UT Austin is now open! This year’s theme is "Bastion of Democracy: The Role of Courts in Navigating Democratic Governance."

The deadline is Wednesday, October 15. Submit your abstract here: lnkd.in/gxyZ6SCRhttp...
The call for papers for the 11th Emerging Scholars Conference in Public Law at The University of Texas at Austin is now open!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 16d
Learn more about our broader Concept Integration in Comparative Law project: conceptintegration.github.io

We'd love to hear your thoughts and see how you might use this in your own research! Also, I'd be happy to help you configure these tools for your own research.
Concept Integration in Comparative Law – Concept Integration Lab
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 16d
The method helps researchers integrate new topics into social science vocabularies by bridging automated text analysis with domain expertise - exactly what we needed for our own research! You can download the tools on GitHub: github.com/conceptinteg...
GitHub - conceptintegration/Segments-as-Topics
Contribute to conceptintegration/Segments-as-Topics development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 16d
Big news from the Comparative Constitutions Project! We just released an open-source #NLP tool for researchers: the "Segments-as-Topics" (SAT) method.

Perfect for analyzing #constitutions #courtrulings and other text corpora. Video tutorial below! 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm_0...
Segments-as-Topics (SAT): A Framework for Topic Integration in Texts
YouTube video by Constitute Project
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20d
The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 22d
Today I learned that John Brown wrote a provisional constitution in May 1859, less than six months before leading the raid on Harpers Ferry digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24d
This crusade against free speech is a disgrace. You cannot stop ideas by firing the people who speak them. You can, however, temporarily hide them from yourself.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28d
Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28d
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.

People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29d
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · 28d
Protestors in Nepal are now demanding "Amendment or complete rewriting of the Constitution with active participation from citizens, experts, and youth." www.indiatoday.in/world/story/...
Rewrite Constitution, probe loot of 3 decades: Demand of Nepal Gen Z protesters
Even after toppling PM KP Sharma Oli-led government, Nepal remained tense as Gen Z protesters pushed for constitutional overhaul and demanded a probe into the looted assets of the country.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29d
A social media ban has triggered a crisis in Nepal and led to the resignation of the prime minister.

#AJStartHere with @sandragathmann.bsky.social explains what’s going on ⤵️
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 9
Nepal rolls back social media ban after deadly protests rock capital
Nepal rolls back social media ban after deadly protests rock capital
Thousands joined the ‘Gen Z’ demonstrations, which protesters said reflected their frustration with the ban and anger over alleged corrupt officials Nepal’s government has lifted its ban on 26 prominent social media apps and messaging services after at least 19 people were killed and more than 100 injured in clashes on Monday. The country’s communication and information minister announced the ban would be rolled back hours after demonstrators protesting against the block surged towards the parliament complex in the capital, Kathmandu. Continue reading...
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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 · Aug 29
May-August total job number comparison is fucking brutal:

May-August 2024: 310 total positions (212 open to assistant TT)

May-August 2025: 226 total positions (138 open to assistant TT)
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · Aug 28
Wrote a (very) short blog post about writing with OCD. Needed to get this off my chest.

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Writing with OCD | Matthew Martin
When every word, space, and letter becomes a battleground
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · Aug 28
Looks like I'm getting my COVID booster in Vancouver at APSA this year lol
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Aug 27
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 26
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Aug 25
The nightmare that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is experiencing is only possible because both Democrat and Republican politicians have built up the machinery of deportation across the course of decades.

Donald Trump is now using that machinery to consolidate autocratic power.

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No Wall They Can Build
No Wall They Can Build scrutinizes the borders that control movement around North America. Drawing on nearly a decade of solidarity work in the desert between Mexico and Arizona, the authors uncover t...
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Matt Martin @mattjmartin.com · Aug 21
I'm on the 2025-26 academic job market in political science!

I recently completed my PhD and am now a postdoctoral researcher at the Comparative Constitutions Project. My research examines constitutional design, public participation, and Latin American politics using mixed methods.

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