Sometimes footnotes are like spleens. (Maybe) helpful but not absolutely necessary.
Hans Hassell
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PoliSci @ BYU I'm trying to be kinder I miss Maine
Returning to the scene of the crime 18 years later. Still cold on October 11, but lots of warm feelings.
World Conker Championships 2026. Southwick, Northamptonshire. Round brown tree seeds on a string are smacked off each other till one breaks. Suitably bonkers.
“Much was possible to a man in solitude…But some things were possible only to a man in companionship, & of these the most important was balance. No mind was so good that it did not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit & blindness & bigotry & folly.” Charles Williams
Yes. Spread a random assortment of 3-5 mismatched USB cables of each type in every drawer in various couch cushions/under furniture. buy some small USB C adaptors and throw them around the room like confetti. this system has worked* perfectly for my family for years *not worked
Self promotion: Shrinking local media reduces party elite primary coordination. Party is less likely to decide where media congruence with the district discourages local coverage. Greater congruence encourages coordination around a single candidate. journals.sagepub.com/share/KYJRI9... #polisky
My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.
Wonderful weather and colors yesterday morning at Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. Unfortunately, the weather is taking a turn for the worse today with blue skies and wind. #photography #maine #autumn #fall
Selection on the DV and all that, but this is a really interesting take on what makes a successful reading group. Fascinating detail on Tolkien and CS Lewis's reading group the Inklings
Come work with me and my brilliant colleagues! jobs.chronicle.com/job/38048348...
Associate or Full Professor in Comparative Politics - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN job with Vanderbilt University | 38048348
Associate or Full Professor in Comparative Politics appointment Vanderbilt Department of Political Science
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flipping ratings so quickly, they must be a short-order Cook
«No creo que nadie deba ser torturado con avena, independientemente de la temperatura» —Élder Dale G. Renlund 😁 #LDSConf #GeneralConference
View from Gorham Mountain summit at Acadia. I had asked a worker at the gift shop what her favorite trail was and she didn’t steer me wrong. This was probably my favorite hike of the trip. Fun rock scrambles and a beautiful payoff at the top. ⛰️ #acadia #maine #hiking #nationalparks
Colorado State University is hiring two TT assistant professors in American politics this year. Links below. CSU is a great university, our department is wonderful, and Fort Collins is a beautiful place to live. I'm not on the committee, but I am happy to answer questions. Please reach out!
Hey, your grad student just reached out to me — they are wondering:
As a Williams College alum I’m… less than thrilled that I need to push back on this Williams professor.
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2w agoIn which I take issue with the notion that colleges place too high a value on writing. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-a-colle...
I enjoy watching people bring exceptional analytic rigour to a lost cause. Like, yes your mediation analysis will be immaculate and no that mediator has not been measured properly and never will
I preordered it in the summer and look what came today! Very excited for this one. Congratulations to @jlray.bsky.social, @angelaxocampo.bsky.social, and the off-BlueSky authors!
I am always here for data sonification posts:
Announcing soundeR, an R package that turns data into music(?) – Matt Waite
Announcing the soundeR package, that turns data into sounds. It’s made for people with basic tidyverse skills and a rudimentary understanding of music. You can make sounds with very little, and there’...
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"Four shalle ryde, and Four shall alfo ryde, and Three sharl ryde the Skye as twixt, and Wonne shal ryde in flames; and thyr sahll be no stopping themme: not fish..." At least they weren't headed towards Lower Tadfield Air Base
Don Haider-Markel@dhmarkel.bsky.social · 2w agoThe British counterterrorism police say the men were arrested after three suspicious vehicles appeared to be traveling toward R.A.F. Fairford early on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...
6/ The next day, an email popped in my inbox: 'Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase.' I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded. Reading the fine print, I was floored: The more I spent on long-odds wagers, the faster I’d advance through the ranks.
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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