Congress is appropriating more $ for scientific research, against admin's wishes. DK how this interacts with many admin cancelations last year. It could mean there's even more new $ to go out, given prior central staff cuts & multi-year cancelled grants.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

I had no idea Skocpol was an MSU alum, that's sick

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

These results from our SPSA project are super cool: using 40 million CVRs we show that (eg) Biden voters became *more* likely to cross-over and support a Republican House candidate as the D candidate became more extreme. They became *less* likely to do so as the R became more extreme

An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, and Jessica A. Schoenherr is now available in Early View. @jonathanmking.bsky.social @elizabethlane.bsky.social @jessicaann87.bsky.social t.co/lE9STMjDNk

New article out in JEPOP with @bjarneck.bsky.social and @eliemichel.bsky.social

We study how individual voters’ policy congruence with parties shapes their sympathy to other voters (horizontal AP), using matched data of a Voting Advice Application in Belgium

Paper: tinyurl.com/4skwumdr

Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots

NEW -

Decisive or Distracted: The Effects of US Constraint on Security Networks - https://cup.org/3LVMVIS

- @haeunchoi.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Max Gallop & Shahryar Minhas

#OpenAccess

I'm not even upset about this but I think I managed to get a proposal for MPSA rejected, which is something I had been lead to believe was impossible. It's listed under the wrong section though (politics and history?) which makes me wonder if it was down to me making a mistake when submitting it.

NEW -

Acting Out and Speaking Up: The Parliamentary Behavior of Ex-Rebel Women - https://cup.org/4oUHGqY

- Elizabeth L. Brannon & Nikolaos Frantzeskakis

#OpenAccess