Grateful to everyone at UConn Today for their interest in my recent article at Social Forces. Excellent write-up! today.uconn.edu/2025/09/study-…

Whenever I get a suggestive, theoretically expected, but null result using governors or US House members as the unit of analysis, I think of this paper. 🥲

"While this trend is serious and dangerous, it is one of individual radicalization, not a coherent mass movement. It is a whisper aimed at the unstable man in his basement — validating his terror of a murderous opposition." Sean Westwood in POLITICO: politico.com/news/magazine/…

I have an excellent set of colleagues

Was grateful to work with The Conversation U.S. to share my research in Social Forces with a broader audience. Some, fairly large part of protest today seems driven by partisan animosity, even on protest issues that are not explicitly partisan. theconversation.com/why-are-there-…

I disagree w/ the social sorting theory of rising polarization, but Seth’s great paper has a new finding: Sorting stabilizes party ID for ppl in areas more polarized against their party So while social sorting hasn’t caused aff pol’s rise, it may bolster party IDs as we polarize

This echoes my feelings exactly. Thinking of my LDS friends and colleagues today. ❤️

I love when methods research is reassuring. 😅 Really thorough, excellent study from a great team!!