Proposing a new ballot measure to make the glue on the envelopes taste better, because YUCK

I was going to say "why have I never heard of this before" but yknow what maybe this is in fact the perfect time for me to read Alexander Pope's The Dunciad

anonymous reviewers recommending their own work

shoutout always to UC Berkeley Library live chat librarians, and especially to this real one lol

forgot that i made this meme after a conversation with Igor Kolesnikov polisci jargon is so cute

when you're doing research in early modern dictionaries but you're till trying to get in the Christmas spirit

holy tier cover design for this political theory / political philosophy textbook tbh

Excited for this conversation !

reviewer 2 demanding to be cited in every article they review

preparing for MPSA by crying tears of joy at the amount of history of political thought in the conference program #MPSA2025

Hosted the second annual Poli Sci Prom at UC Berkeley for which I got to pick the theme: Y2K! Thank you so much to Antonia and the department staff who made this a reality 🫶🏻

Department floor is having a halloween door decor contest, I think our office wins for scariest

Recent Rousseau Association virtual lecture series presenter, Antonia Alksnis | @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social on the Second Discourse in Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7Nd… Please circulate widely!

Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!

New in Political Theory, by me: Does this guy's chain look like a necklace? ↓ Scholars have treated it as one. By reading it as a chain instead, I recover Rousseau's paradoxical insight: pride can help us escape corrupt, unequal social conditions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…