It’s real hard to convince voters that you deserve another term if they think that you’re not doing your job now. The lack of town halls, interviews with local press and constituent interactions doesn’t help.

This is the most stressful team. Fly Eagles fly. 🦅

Tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, Boise State University College of Education and Public Service.  www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

Exciting Associate Professor opportunity in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, with access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging and stimulation at OHBA/OxCIN: MEG, OPM, 3T/7T MRI, TUS, TMS & more. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ831/a...

Associate Professorship of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford

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The Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment at Vermont Law and Graduate School invites applications for an open rank tenure-track appointment in Public Policy with a focus on environmental policy. www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

Not only will 80% of students would reconsider their decision to stay" but fewer students will come to begin with--a great loss to US unlversities and US society as well as to the students themselves.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yesterday the Trump admin proposed a fee of up to $100,000 that universities would have to pay for any foreign student doing post-grad Optional Practical Training, a program that lets some grads work for up to three years. For @immcouncil.org's blog I wrote about what this means.

Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2d ago

::low whistle:: apple.news/AbOgHERrCRnG...

@noamross.net on NPR this morning. www.npr.org/2026/10/09/n... "I am always enthusiastic about more investment into science, but you could think of this as someone planting a tree somewhere where THEY just burned down a forest. We've lost so much scientific investment under this administration."

After his university cutbacks, Trump announces $100 million for STEM researchers

The Trump administration is funneling $100 million into educating STEM researchers who are U.S. citizens. The move comes after other changes under Trump have forced cutbacks in university research.

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There are over 900 major-party candidates for Congress this election cycle and less than 1% of them had a working-class job when they got into politics. My new book with Nick dispels some myths and explains why working-class people are underrepresented in every democracy in the world.

Nick Carnes@carnes.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

Youngest kid’s soccer team is playing up this year and really wish there was a mercy rule for these games. The other team is an average of 6 inches taller and just stronger. It’s all good practice but it would be nice to for them to be competitive at some point.

This is a neat little tool to look at average earnings of graduates by college and major. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t

College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.

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Pretty upsetting story A Haverford religion professor named Guangtian Ha posed as a MAGA anon on X to harass a Jewish colleague with dozens of virulent antisemitic posts and personal threats

Religion Professor Accused of Harassing Colleague With Antisemitic Posts

The professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania was charged with cyberstalking in connection with what federal prosecutors say was a series of threatening messages to a co-worker.

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Come work with me! The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota is hiring an associate or full professor in the urban and regional planning program with expertise in housing policy or neighborhood affordability. More info: hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job Job Opening Number: 376233

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 5d ago

In response to our questions, an NSF spokesperson said that SBE has not been shut down. But with zero SBE-specific funding opportunities, no review panels, and dwindling numbers of staff, it's hard to see the directorate continuing for much longer.

Why you don't want to get measles, besides the death and permanent disability: it tanks 70%+ of your prior immunities. Like, it's as.if your body never had them before. www.jpeds.com/article/S002...

Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 6d ago

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

you need to look to 2014 as an example of the bottom falling out for the president's party. the topline House loss looks small, but Dems that year lose: -9 senate seats and Mark Warner barely wins -3 governorships (including some blue state losses) -30! state leg chambers

Lots of talk since 2024 among certain consultants about how the Electoral College gets hopeless for Dems after 2030 when the "blue wall" Midwest states no longer have enough votes to deliver an EC majority. But all EC bias predictions depend on Texas being a close but dependable Republican state.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Thanks again to @stevenwwebster.bsky.social for hosting a research conference so I could see the absolutely beautiful campus of Indiana University.

If you’re going to spend millions endowing faculty lines at public universities is a far better investment than spending colossal amounts of money every election cycle on candidates who will not win.

This is actually what our rabbi's Rosh Hashanah sermon was about. A round rejection that AI has a soul and is conscious (and therefore would count in a minyan).

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insane.

Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

Great day of research in American politics hosted by IU Center on American Politics. Thanks to @stevenwwebster.bsky.social for hosting!

Steven W. Webster@stevenwwebster.bsky.social · last wk.

2nd IU Center on American Politics conference is today! Speakers: @egojunk.bsky.social, @tylerreny.bsky.social, @elizabethcconnors.bsky.social, Mary Adams Plooster, @gjmartin.bsky.social, Chris DeSante, @sgadarian.bsky.social, and Taylor Carlson.

🚨Job Posting!🚨 We are hiring @ncstate.bsky.social Political Science TT assistant professor in Latin American Politics. The Triangle is a great place to live and work. I’m not on the committee but I’m happy to answer any questions. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/235...

🚨 Job alert: Open call in my Department for an Assistant Professor position under the Serra Húnter Programme. The position is in Economic History and Institutions. HPE profiles are very welcome! Info: web.ub.edu/en/web/depar... Deadline: 13 October 2026.

CRIS/Sciences Po (Paris) and IAB (Grenoble) are recruiting two postdoctoral *or* doctoral researchers to join a project on how pollution and other environmental exposures affect children’s development. Deadline Nov 13. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...