The only research center in the United States focused on disabled parents may close soon due to loss of federal funding. New from me at @motherjones.com. “It is a profound setback for disability rights and family equity.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The only research center for disabled parents is losing federal funding

Staff call it a "profound setback for disability rights and family equity."

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As Hitchens said “the greatly overpraised Oliver Wendell Holmes…”

Paul A. Lombardo@plombardo2024.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tomorrow marks 99 years since Buck v. Bell, the infamous and much criticized U.S. Supreme Court opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. finding Virginia’s eugenical sterilization law constitutionally valid.

"If people with disabilities are not in public life, then they are out of the public’s mind and not seen as a group of people whose needs must be addressed but a problem that must be hidden." @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on Newsom's & Trump's dyslexia fumbles: www.ms.now/opinion/gavi... #neurodiversity

Opinion | Trump is wrong to call learning disabilities disqualifying. Newsom is wrong to call them 'strengths.'

Eric Garcia: Neither Trump nor Newsom talks about dyslexia with the care and nuance the topic deserves

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www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Felt compelled to post this great review on IPV - a devastating and important topic that gets surprisingly little attention given how prevalent it is, even in advanced democracies. A lot of low-hanging fruit for empirical researchers.

Understanding Intimate Partner Violence

Violence against women occurs at high rates in societies across the world. The most common form is intimate partner violence, abuse perpetrated against a spouse or intimate relationship partner. We pr...

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These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified. So they ran an experiment.

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

Love this. Why do people identify strongly with stigmatized social groups/categories? Identification is more about making sense of the self (meaning) than it is about feeling "good" about the self (esteem)

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"While ingroup evaluation may not always be positive, this does not preclude strong ingroup identification." Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/1529...

RIP D'Angelo. Will be spinning this today in memory of one of the all time greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLP...

D'Angelo - Africa (Demo)

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Apropos of nothing, family control studies of more than 2 million Swedish children find no effect of prenatal acetaminophen exposure on subsequent autism diagnosis. Authors conclude prior observational findings likely due to confounding. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

This simply cannot be said enough. Americans overwhelmingly reject political violence. The impact of these events - no matter the target - is terrible, but the shooter is not *representative* of anyone.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Careful polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject political violence - see e.g. brightlinewatch.org/tempered-exp..., brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-..., and www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... Unfortunately, it only takes one person with a gun to create a tragedy like what've seen today.

Moved to Arkansas so I figured I’d better get a hard copy of this banger.

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you: (all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

🚨Recent paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social on how people (fail to) respond to the vulnerability of marginalized groups during public health crises, now open access at JEPS.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

Every article in the latest issue of @jepsjournal.bsky.social is #OpenAccess - Volume 12 - Issue 2 - cup.org/40cOrua w/ papers by @fqinya.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social, @melissabaker.bsky.social, @jaclarner.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, @joshuathorp.bsky.social & more

For the first time all devolved national elections in the UK will use different electoral systems Cool site below by @eoghanly.bsky.social allows you to see how they all work turning votes into seats 👇

Scottish Election Study@scotvoting.bsky.social · last yr.

Our postdoc @eoghanly.bsky.social has co-developed @devolvedelections.bsky.social, a seat projection tool for devolved elections 🤓🧮 You can select from some preset scenarios or plug in your own vote share numbers to generate precise estimates. More info ⬇️ scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/05/22/a...

If you make open science a precondition for publication you get open science. Love to see it.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow. Look at how rapidly preregistration has become the norm in experimental economics.

This paper is an absolute masterclass in measurement. Love seeing this kind of work in the APSR.

I was sent a paper to review that cites a book I did not write. As in, it cites a made up book with my name on it. Quick look in the references, and I quickly found several more non-existent papers. People. People. This is supposed to be science. What are we doing? This made my soul feel tired.

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Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m biased, but I still remember reading Lauren Davenport’s APSR and ASR pieces as a graduate student and being blown away by the care and precision of the descriptive work in those pages. My own work leans descriptive too, so I’ve always had a real appreciation for that kind of careful scholarship.

clear evidence in the CES that ideology is beginning to overcome Dem party loyalty among black and hispanic voters: 2016 to 2024 swing in Dem support: conservative black voters: 80% -> 51% moderate hispanic voters: 79% -> 60% conservative hispanic voters: 30% -> 9%

Brian Schaffner@bfschaffner.bsky.social · last yr.

the CES vote trends app has been updated with 2024 data! explore how a wide variety of different groups voted in 2024 and compare to previous elections. something you'd like to see in the app? we take requests, so let us know! cooperativeelectionstudy.shinyapps.io/VoteTrends/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2Z... What a fool believes might be the funkiest song ever written by a white guy.

The Doobie Brothers "What a Fool Believes" '81 Live

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Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @uarkansas.bsky.social as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues in political science and the Blair Center in beautiful Fayetteville!

Great paper. Seems strange to me that we do not seem to see much use of GP measures in political science given that the measures are readily available in the ANES, or any other study with relevant feeling thermometers.

Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ Our lab's new paper #SPPS, w/ PhD student Hanna Puffer Using nationally representative data 2004-2020, asked: generalized prejudice (GP) remained invariant or evolved in US? Answer: Evolved. Answer: And it has become more politically affiliated. #PrejudiceResearch #AcademicSky

Glad to hop on this bandwagon. How often in 2024 did I actually improve an empty page?

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Does disability affect support for political parties?" Just published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with Melanie Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 👇

The social sciences as we know them largely emerged out of the attempt to understand how populations supported fascism in the 1930s. But although we are much better at observing the same forces this time, we never had nor built the infrastructure to really change the underlying factors.

Delighted to learn that my paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social is out today at JEPS! Throughout the COVID19 pandemic, governments sought to increase compliance by emphasizing the vulnerability of minority groups to severe illness/death...1/n🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In preparing for the job market I recently wrote a draft syllabus for a proposed course on the Politics of Disability. Sharing it here in case its of interest to others - would love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hope it helps! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/srq5e...

Love this. Reading death penalty abolitionists was my #1 gateway drug into the broader study of politics. I took a course at Cornell law school taught by the great capital defense lawyer, John Blume, who radicalized me. Beccaria is still my fav: oll.libertyfund.org/titles/volta...

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments | Online Library of Liberty

An extremely influential Enlightenment treatise on legal reform in which Beccaria advocates the ending of torture and the death penalty. The book also contains a lengthy commentary by Voltaire which i...

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Jack Santucci@jacksantucci.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve been anti-death penalty since I read this at age 15 in a public school library during study hall. In retrospect we were lucky to have a book like that in our library. No idea how I heard of it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflect...