Ian Anson
@iganson.bsky.social
Political scientist. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning. Dad, husband, author, Tar Heel www.iananson.com
I fear that the thermostatic public might one day succumb to the allure of liberty bibertarianism
Yet another "American politics or college football?" moment
BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL@edsbs.bsky.social · last wk.VANDAAAAAAAALS
It is very humbling to write a book on political overconfidence (i.e., I now have some new form of imposter syndrome nobody has yet thought of). But I'm proud of the finished product and I hope it makes a valuable contribution! OVERCONFIDENT AMERICA (2027, Cambridge) is done & on its way to you ✨
Ian Anson@iganson.bsky.social · last wk.Full manuscript to publisher delivery day ✨
Gotta update my 2026 election forecast model, which is 4% partisan composition of the electorate, 5% polling aggregates, and 91% egg What, it did fine in 2024?
NPR@npr.org · last wk.Agriculture experts say high egg prices were the result of severe avian flu outbreaks, but the Trump administration's tariffs and the war with Iran have also put pressure on farmers. trib.al/HZr5QjQ
It's going to be fun when an LLM ingests the fake citations in this thread and gives them back to people trying to write AI generated "literature" "reviews"
William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · last wk.There are old articles in the APSR with titles like "Some Thoughts on the Elections of 1944" or "Voting in the United States"
I've been in meetings virtually all day with thesis/independent study researchers, RAs, and coauthors. No matter the level, no matter the subject, the following consensus emerged: RESEARCH IS HARD!!
All the gambling apps in the world could never replicate the electric, down-to-the-wire feeling of waiting for the check at a nice restaurant with a 1 year old & a 5 year old at your table
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
My students are working on survey questions for our upcoming Baltimore County exit poll. One of them wrote an age question in our shared doc with the following categories: 18-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45, 45+
Man's Rapid Aging Transformation
Alt: Man's Rapid Aging Transformation
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*raving maniacally* Tea!! Candles!!! Books!!!! Cardigans!!!!! get behind me dew point
Not for nothing, but there’s some pretty interesting research about this!
Learning to Like the Likes and the Hate: The Labor of Internet Fame in the New Attention Economy
ABSTRACT. How do people experience internet fame? Whereas public visibility and reputation were once tightly coupled, these can be decoupled in the new med
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 3w agoI think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences
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Happy Constitution Day to all who (are compelled by Section 111(b) of Division J of Public Law 108-447 to) observe!
While this is an instructive visualization, I am deeply unsettled by the Bubonic Sweden animation at the end
Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social · 4w agoGreat case of "land doesn't vote, people do" in Sweden
Ah, surely using the overconfidence machine for political information is not at all relevant to my new book (Cambridge, 2027), OVERCONFIDENT AMERICA
Drew Engelhardt@amengel.bsky.social · 4w ago"In the past month, 41% of voters reported getting political information from AI search summaries and 17% said they had used a chatbot to get information about politics or elections." Important datapoint. But notes chatbots also one piece in a mix of sources. caucusai.substack.com/p/new-survey...
I read this 3x like..... ok, but where is the sinkhole in Baltimore located this time? It would be nice to know what intersection
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4w agoBallmer caved, hot damn
officially vagueposting about mountains beginning today... 👀⛰️
My father-in-law tested coal power plant emissions for decades, climbing stacks in harsh weather and subjecting himself to extreme noise levels and severe air quality to inform EPA of emissions violators. From WV to Chicago to the Gulf. I can't imagine his feelings right now.
Joshua Basseches@joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is going to be a tough one to explain to our children: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
Rare overnight superfecta of 5-year-old nightmare, baby lost paci, cat yelling astonishingly loud for no reason, and smoke detector low battery chirp Happy weekend
This is a cold-sweat nightmare for any election administrator, to say nothing of the campaigns!! I'm imagining great herds of lawyers running towards Missouri from all directions.
Sara Chatfield@poliscisara.bsky.social · 4w agoMissouri will likely "use the map that it adopted in 2022 – a different map from the one that it used for the state’s primary election on Aug. 4 – for the November elections." What does this mean in practice? Which candidates go with which districts?? www.scotusblog.com/2026/09/supr...