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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · 7d

Of what year? I'm still trying to finalize some 2023 items myself.

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · 12d

Just lost a paper after an R&R. One reviewer said accept. The other said “At the risk of frustrating the authors, however, I’m afraid the paper is still pretty badly written.” The latter comment, a constructive, intellectual feast of a comment, prevailed. Editor rejected it. Peer review is a joke.

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 13d

Throwback Thursday!

Let’s take a moment to look back at the 2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference!

The many smiling faces in the selection of pictures show just how amazing the preconference was. You can find more pictures at this link: shorturl.at/EJj3v

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 12d

New (very timely!) paper with Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social,
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 19d

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure

www.nytimes.com

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · 19d

APSA in Vancouver was a blast, so great to see old friends. See you all next year in Boston.

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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 20d

Today's ACIP meeting may use VAERS data to make false claims about vaccine injury.

To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com.

theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...

Vaccine death and side effects database relies on unverified reports – and Trump officials and right-wing media are applying it out of context

Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. But the database could also be used as a gauge for public concerns.

theconversation.com

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Sep 6

Unfair comparison to most 13-year-old children

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Aug 22

What are we doing here, @nytimes.com? You were obviously not built for covering authoritarianism.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Aug 15

Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately

Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social · Aug 14

Fascinating work from William Gee (on the job market!) looking at different social strategies (making lots of weak-tie friends v a few very strong friends) and their implications for polarizing. William is a student of @drchip97.bsky.social in communication at OSU #pacss2025 #polnet2025

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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...

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Aug 15

Consider the stark contrast between how Trump and Vance treated Zelensky and Putin. American soldiers, on their knees, rolling the red carpet before war criminal Putin. A shameful day.

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Aug 12

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

media.tenor.com

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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · Jul 10

Few Americans actively support the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed. But, our data show that many seem to have no problem with it.

@stecula.bsky.social ‬and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change

If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science a...

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks, Neil. Honestly, I had no idea this was happening, and I follow Polish public discourse quite closely. Definitely flying under the radar

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Patricia Rossini @patyrossini.bsky.social · May 23

🚨🚨 Only a few days left to submit a paper for the Political Communication Preconference at APSA! 🚨🚨

@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions!

DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference

u.osu.edu

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · May 22

3 more days! Get your applications in and share widely!

Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Apr 14

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!

Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.

📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)

More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference

u.osu.edu

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · May 19

new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5

Title: Asymmetric Concentration in the Marketplace of Ideas

Abstract: Past research argues that competing political coalitions in the United States differ in structure as well as substance: liberals seek to use the government to advance a variety of groups’ policy goals, while conservatives are more homogeneous and sensitive to a smaller set of
abstract ideas that motivate blocking or undoing liberal policy. This asymmetry should be reflected in the ideological marketplace: relative to liberal commentary, conservative commentary should be more distinct from the political mainstream and more ideologically homogeneous.
I test this expectation by examining the landscape of politics and politics-adjacent podcasts, identifying ideological communities based on the network of which guests appear on which shows. I find that the right-leaning podcast community is more clearly distinct from the
political mainstream, clustered in fewer sub-communities, more ideologically homogeneous, and draws from a narrower set of guests than the left-leaning podcast community. These results provide a first-of-its-kind descriptive overview of the structure of political and politics-adjacent commentary in an increasingly important site of political information consumption.

Hierarchical stochastic block model results. Each line connects a guest to a show. Colors reflect terminal (lowest-level) block pairs.

Distributions of normalized left/right rank within each high-level podcast block, among shows with at least ten episodes classified as likely to feature political discussion. Panel (a) shows distributions and block-level medians. Panel (b) shows Wasserstein distance from uniform distribution
with bootstrapped 95% intervals.

Edge density and tie distribution between high-level blocks

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · May 12

Reminder that there are 13 more days to apply to the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference. Join us in Vancouver!

Please share widely.

Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · Apr 14

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!

Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.

📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)

More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference

u.osu.edu

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · May 7

Trump University 2.0

Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · May 7

If it goes along with anything along these lines, Columbia should really go all in and stop calling itself a "university"

Exclusive | Trump Administration Proposes Terms for Federal Oversight of Columbia University

The government has presented the Ivy League school with a proposal for a consent decree.

www.wsj.com

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · May 6

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊

🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Bar chart showing 651 NSF-funded research projects, with total terminated days in dark grey or red, completed days in light grey or red. Red highlights projects listed by Ted Cruz as "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda".

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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · May 5

Trump wants the mathematical inverse of this picture of Yeltsin

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