Ian Anson

Speaking as someone who spent five years in Bloomington... I just cannot fully absorb how utterly impossible this timeline is.

My phone is blowing up... The most unlikely timeline! 1ndiana!

This morning, 4 year old, from somewhere in the house: "I'M SNEAKIN'!"

Tonight, the search for my e-reader begins...

"Lane Kiffin's departure is an unspeakable affront to theology and geometry," spluttered Ignatius

Move along, nothing to see here folks

The emails keep comin' and they don't stop comin'

A meme joking about how I get so many invitations... but the invitations are to review manuscripts for journals, not parties

Probably the oldest living 3 speed transmission in the United States in there

Adjusted For Inflation, Net Public College Tuition Has Fallen Recently A new College Board report reveals a welcome trend: after adjusting for inflation, the net cost of tuition at public institutions has decreased over the past decade.

Or, you could attend a public institution like UMBC, where you will get top-10 undergraduate teaching, a thriving research environment, and you will pay LESS than you did a decade ago when adjusted for inflation...

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

I really like the transparency in this system! Of course, I'm one of those "refresh-manuscriptcentral-four-million-times-per-day" people.

Want to shout out @paperpile.com for being one of the best tools out there for academics!

The endless inflow of GREAT academic research can feel so daunting to me in busy mid-career. But paperpile lets me tag, organize, and annotate new research straight from links. Sooo satisfying 🧘‍♂️

Epistemia: "the illusion of knowledge that emerges when surface plausibility replaces verification."

My most recent work is about "certitude," or language that delivers ideas confidently without furnishing evidence. I think these 2 ideas are vastly important for understanding our present & future!

Converse (1964) - saved you a click

Finally ready to shop my Hollywood script, a dramatic retelling of United States v. Approximately 64,695 lbs of Shark Fins (2008)

Quickly approaching the stage of Reflux Baby caretaking in which the only content my brain can reliably parse is the back catalogue of Guy's Grocery Games

Where did I read a paper that advocated for creating a representative sample of agent profiles and then simulating the survey results, to some controversy? Turns out that's just all our studies anyway ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Undergrads, get ready! your anachronistic college experience will soon include blue books AND lunch money for lab experiments

This is bad.

Turns out my infant is NOT affected by the Cloudflare outage; 100% of screaming and grunting still fully online

Cool article! Great work by Philipp Lutz and Marco Bitschnau.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Just as relevant if you replaced "technological innovation" with "social science research"

Prof. Woodrow Wilson (large negative impact)

Today in baby world: I learned it is a bad idea to go on TV after not sleeping for 9 and a half weeks in a row. You will immediately learn how rough you actually look!

The legendary Ted Carmines (RIP) used to complain that every election year he would get dozens of phone calls from pundits asking him Is This Election Is A Realignment?? and he'd be like read my book you fools!

Catch me on @wbaltv11.bsky.social tonight talking mid-decade redistricting and Gov. Moore's new efforts to flip a seat blue with David Collins!

Fun to think that next year the UMBC exit poll may be joined by statewide pro exit polling efforts, allowing us to compare results!

2026 MLB Spring Training Countdown Helping baseball fans survive the winter.

Baseball is over. The wind is rising, the clocks twisting towards darkness, icicles soon to hang from stadium seats. But amidst the gathering night, a southern light flickers....

www.springtrainingcountdown.com

It's NULL o'clock somewhere