Congrats to my amazing @GVPTUMD BSOS @ UMD graduate colleague on *another* solo-authored publication!

Congrats to my friend and scholar @stsumej on being the first in our cohort to get an (R1!) placement! You deserve it, and all of us in @GVPTUMD and BSOS @ UMD are so proud!

Now that the ink is dry, I am excited to say that I've accepted an offer to join the faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Bryant University next fall after I finish my PhD at @GVPTUMD! I owe more people my gratitude in getting to this point than I could possibly list here.

#OpenAccess from @PSRMjournal - The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–1985 - cup.org/3SsIHJC - Tristan M. Hightower #FirstView

🍼Growth in abortion-rights organizations encourages anti-abortion group formation. Anti-abortion actors follow a counter-mobilization logic--they are not first movers. ▶️Tristan M. Hightower and the Energy-Stability-Area (ESA) model in 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess

Excited to represent @GVPTUMD and BSOS @ UMD at MPSA. Many thanks for the kind words Andy Teas and to the panelists, discussants, chairs, and attendees for indulging my cranberry fascination!

Congratulations to @GVPTUMD Professor @SarahCroco, who was recently inducted into @PhiKappaPhi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines! Learn more at hglo.umd.edu/aboutus/news

BSOS Terps, we’re celebrating you today! We are so proud of our newest #UMD alumni! Photo by Associate Dean Katherine Russell.

“Coalitional lobbying may be even more effective when addressing entrenched policy issues requiring more technical expertise or when directed at agencies experiencing stopgap budgeting.” Read FULL article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps… #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

I wonder what part of the argument you agree or disagree with? Our arguments about calibration are directly applicable to your "bet" standard. Regardless of who won that bet we still wouldn't know who was a better forecaster, which is our point!

FOR THE WONKS: Like her predecessors, VP Kamala Harris will need to run up the score in the popular vote to defeat Donald Trump in the Electoral College? But by how much? Read my piece for National Journal (and it's free!) nationaljournal.com/s/726162/how-m…

Excited to share new work w/ Colin Case We produce issue-specific estimates for the left-right policy positions of congressional candidates Parts of this project are now under contract w/ CUP's Elements in Quant Methods 🥳 --- feedback welcome!! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Excited that my paper, "Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization," is forthcoming at the Journal of Politics! This project started as a very rough draft in my first semester of grad school, and after many rewrites, it's finally out! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

#OpenAccess from American Political Science Review - Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement - cup.org/4gKHIyb - Alex Hertel-Fernandez #FirstView

Do you want to see how much the margin in a pre-election poll can vary based on "reasonable" decisions by a pollster? Check this out: disq.us/t/4rd8rfy

My paper exploring the relationship between group prototypicality and how it impacts how boundaries are defined, is officially online American Political Science Review! 🧵👇

A forthcoming paper in Journal of Politics @[email protected] by Charles Hunt of Boise State University and Kristina Miler of Gov't & Politics UMD examines how lawmakers advertise their legislative effectiveness to constituents: thelawmakers.org/legislative-re…

For those interested, David Mayhew has compiled the next update to his significant laws dataset, covering the 118th Congress of 2023-2024. works.bepress.com/david-mayhew/4…

Voters reward politicians who sponsor bills they agree with that have no chance of passage: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-gat…

Well, this is exciting forthcoming news from Tony Madonna and Michael Lynch! Sept 2025. Hopefully Tony will give us the big cover reveal soon! press.umich.edu/Books/B/Broken…