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Jon Green

@jongreen.bsky.social

Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University jgreen4919.github.io

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Alyssa Smith@cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

simply as a matter of policy design I remain confused as to why the proposal is always a new, invasive, and creepy physical test and not the same birth certificate you use to meet age eligibility requirements

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools. Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power.
Steven White@notstevenwhite.bsky.social · 6d ago

I find this genuinely confusing and would be open to hearing from people about why they think it's a good idea. Just empirically speaking, I can't imagine it helps El-Sayed and I don't understand how it's supposed to help professors either.

AAUP@aaup.org · 6d ago

The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.

ENDORSEMENT: DR. ABDUL EL-SAYED 2026 MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · last wk.

in theory the policy motivation is to put downward pressure on prices in the private stores, but the way it seems like the discount is designed (taking a big percentage off of the average prices at private stores) sets up a moving target that the private stores by definition can't hit

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.

Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · last wk.

this is the criticism she is *most* entitled to make, where she is most squarely in her lane as the classicist who Nolan name-checked as having written the translation he was working off of

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People don't seem to want to admit that "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this" is shockingly harsh language for the average film review. She's within her rights to say it, and she knew exactly the response she would get for it, but it's definitely an eyebrow-raiser

Joshua Tucker@jatucker.bsky.social · 2w ago

We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

I get why it feels like this, but also, you and 3-5 neighbors could join your local (city/county) Democratic Party tomorrow and chances are they'd ASK you to run your precinct

Feild@feild.work · 2w ago

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing

Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

late to this good post. it's a weird industry! the points about lack of accountability and lack of risk taking are related -- unless something's radically changed in the last ten years, the market rewards binary win/loss and not vote share relative to expectations www.jstor.org/stable/43862...

Martin and Peskowitz (2015): Parties and Electoral Performance in the Market for Political Consultants Abstract: We investigate whether the hiring relationships of candidates and political con- sulting firms better resembles the predictions of the "adversarial" or "allied" models of consultant-party interaction. We find that the highest-quality consultants are not allocated to the most competitive races, consultant-candidate relationships persist even as candidates' electoral prospects change, and firms who work for challengers face a higher risk of market exit than firms working for incumbents. The market focuses entirely on win-loss records and ignores the information on consultant performance available in candidates' vote shares. These findings depict a market driven by individual candidate, rather than aggregate party,
Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nearly everyone hates political consultants (in abstract, at least.) So why do they still exist and have so much power? Let me explain… open.substack.com/pub/amandali...