I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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A committee consisting of Ashley Nickels (chair), Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and myself was very happy to recognize Luis Schiumerini (University of Notre Dame) for his book _Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America_ (Cambridge University Press, 2025) 2/3

Since the last time I attended the APSA awards ceremony as a committee member, it's changed: the committee members don't read the award citation anymore. So: The Robert A. Dahl Award honors an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy. 1/3

You know how Marx remarked that antisemitism was the socialism of fools? Well, a fixation on named generations is the demography of clowns.

The truth will set you free But first it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem rest in power and thank you

This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit

Accurate.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 23h ago

This is the crux of it. We can't have nice things because too many Americans would rather make life harder for themselves than let go of the belief that they're inherently superior to anyone lower on the ladder than they are (especially if the person lower on the ladder has darker skin).

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Warden Norton & Morgan Freeman Discover a Hole

ALT: Warden Norton & Morgan Freeman Discover a Hole

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

I'm not sure. I will try a reform here. I encourage anyone who follows me, anytime they read an article or listen to a podcast from a NYT columnist, to then read content from one of these four: @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social, @devawo.bsky.social, @adambonica.bsky.social, @ahjohnson.bsky.social.

I've been told this is fake -- apologies, I should have checked first. (I'd still like the research funding though!)

Christina Wolbrecht@cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fund all of my suffrage research NOW!

Fund all of my suffrage research NOW!

Also, what the moderator is saying is, I don't care about what Black people think it means. The only meaning that matters is what white people think. (And also, the moderator is saying that understanding contemporary America does not require an historical context).

Cleg@clegggg.bsky.social · 5d ago

this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position

Job alert! My department is hiring in comparative, specifically Latin American politics with a Mexico focus. I’m on the committee & will be at APSA next week if anyone interested in the position would like to chat there! Ad: utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #psjobs #psjminfo #poliscijobs

You're invited: God willing, I'll be at @notredame.bsky.social for a conference for a few days and will be having two public events: one a lecture this Friday, the other a book talk next Wednesday. See you then!

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

Tomorrow's handout for my Immigration 101 lecture is really throwing the students in the deep end.

Because NSF has eliminated its directorate for the social, behavioral and economic sciences, it’s unlikely there will be any training funding for economists, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · last wk.

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

A prophet.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · last wk.

Barber says a church that doesn’t stand with immigrants “being terrorized” should “take church off the sign and put ‘club’ up instead.”

APSA is excited to share a new #grant opportunity! The Rapoport Family Foundation supports dissertation research in American political behavior for US-based PhD candidates. Up to 15 dissertations will be awarded up to $15,000 for survey research. Applications due October 21st: buff.ly/aCDyBaH

It’s so second wave feminist and raises policy ideas that either weren’t taken seriously until years later or have never been really engaged in this country.

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · last wk.

People don’t remember quite how feminist and totally out of pocket (in a good way) the movie 9-to-5 is.

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

This is my #momentofgender for my first Gender, Politics, and Power class tomorrow.

Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · last wk.

The New York Times wrote a whole piece about my pink. 🩷 Here's the thing — it was never a strategy. It's just me. Bright, unapologetic, impossible to ignore. Kinda like the fight for working families. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/s...

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · last wk.

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."

Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]

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One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

Dollyland employees, both part time and full time, receive 100% of tuition covered. Healthcare, medical, vision, retirement benefits, childcare. A saint that walked among us. Every other wealthy person should be ashamed of themselves if they don't live up to Dolly standards.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · last wk.

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

Very happy to meet with anyone interested in our Quantitative Political Science line at APSA! If you're on the fence about applying, this is primarily a *substantive* line. If your research uses LLMs, networks, large datasets, causal inference, etc., you’re who we’re looking for!

Rachel Porter@rachelporter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477

Dolly Parton understood something that too many of my public health colleagues have not grasped: a good idea isn't sufficient — you have to sell it. So she got vaccinated in front of cameras, and literally begged her fans to not hesitate, to vaccinate — to a reworking of Jolene

Dolly Parton, Public Health Hero, Dies at 80 | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Dolly Parton donated $1M USD to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2020 to fund the research that resulted in the Moderna mRNA vaccine

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