My most unusual tweet ever: I wrote a novel in which the protagonist is a Bayesian statistician (this is not a joke) + lots of dirt about what academia is really like.. 😄 + (what else) Russian hackers = THE BAYESIAN HITMAN is now available on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0D6M4WNRZ

As I’ve studied tenant unions for the last 4 years, I’ve gotten my fair share of blank stares from other scholars who wonder about the value of the work. This Tressie McMillan Cottom piece captures some of my reasons for devoting energy to building knowledge about & for tenant organizing👇🏾

A great paper showing downward nominal wage rigidity in *posted wages* for new hires in specific jobs Congrats on the acceptance!

The political economy group at the Stanford GSB is hiring this year: gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty-r… We recruit on both the poli sci and econ markets, and encourage folks with training in either discipline to apply.

(wokely) Happy Labor Day

Now online at the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization: Partisanship, expertise, or connections? A conjoint survey experiment on lobbyist hiring decisions w/ David Ryan Miller Hans Noel Benjamin Egerod

Are you on the job market this year in political science and/or related areas? Then I have good news for you. Because WashU Political Science has 🎉 ‼️ 😮 FIVE SEARCHES 🎉 ‼️ 😮 this fall. That's right, we've got JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS! Let's go through them.

yeah somehow mostly everyone else saw that one coming

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Get over the Passover is my fav

finally, a university without all the politics!

👀 Did someone cancel the great racial realignment? Black and Latino voters have been moving very strongly back to 2020 numbers.

A few years ago one of my undergrad state politics students made this meme (also applies to big dollar donations)

Wow!

There’s no small irony in this coming out within a week of UVA suspending campus tours because they discussed the fact that Jefferson was an enslaver.

Many studies focus on how ICT like social media can help protesters organize against the government, or how it can help the gov stymie organization. How can groups with opposite goals both find the same tech useful? New paper with Tak-Huen Chau and Mai Hassan addresses this Q.