Scholar who has worked extensively with the White House visitor logs here 🙋‍♂️ In light of "the discourse" in which these logs appeared at yesterday's press briefing, I have some thoughts to share about what these logs are and what we can and cannot learn from them.

Benjamin Noble (UC San Diego, WashU PoliSci PhD '23) and Taylor Carlson have published "CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them" in the journal Political Behavior. Read the article: buff.ly/3y562tq (1/5) Benjamin Noble

My book is out! How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It) a.co/d/iMwUx9d Thank you so much poli sci and gov twitter for the support! After 5+ years of work today will be spent by celebrating with my daughter doing back to school shopping ⭐️🍾🗽

With APSA and the job market upon us, it's a great time to create (or update) your website. It's not just "nice to have." It's key for making connections and promoting your work. I break down why you need an academic website and how to put one together. benjaminnoble.org/blog/website

Wow, what an amazing resource! A great, thorough next read for those who want to make an academic website. Thanks for sharing Mimansa! I'll add a link to this on my post.

Looking for last-minute additions for your syllabus--43 short essays on congressional politics. stevesnotes.substack.com

Professional development panel that might be of interest to early career scholars in our community 👀

If you're hiring in methods or AP, my friend and coauthor Gechun Lin is on the market! You can check out our work on text similarity and congressional message discipline here: lingechun.github.io/files/In%20Con…

Thanks to PIPE Collaborative and Jeff Jenkins for inviting me to share my paper with Gechun Lin on party control and messaging in Congress. And thanks to Pam McCann and everyone who attended for the great feedback!

Thanks for sharing our project (with Gechun Lin), Matt Grossmann!

"Easily the most important study to date about how Congress does (and doesn’t) inform itself when setting national policy." Hearings on the Hill by Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon (Julia) Park & Hye Young You Pre-order now! 📚 cup.org/3Yh19X1

Why do contemporary states fortify their borders? Afiq bin Oslan unpacks this question by focusing on economic motivations and using a game-theoretic model in which states compete to extract wealth from a shared population around a border.

Thanks to UCLA for hosting our quarterly SoCal political institutions conference (and to Julia Payson for organizing and Carlos Algara for discussant comments). So fun to present my work on presidential negative partisanship and get such great feedback!