Steven White

Initially assumed this was a new musical artist young people like that I hadn't heard of yet

Should be unconstitutional to make people choose between watching the Jets and the Giants just because they live in New York

I love filling out recommendation forms with questions like "based on your experience grading this student's bluebook exams, please look into their soul and rate it on a 1-5 scale"

The most surprising (small N) trend I've seen is multiple students wearing Deftones shirts. I also recently saw someone wearing a Mazzy Star shirt. But the most niche thing I've seen recently is a guy on campus wearing a Bathory shirt of all things, but I assume he's an extreme outlier.

Do you have in mind work on some specific topic here?

I don’t mean this sarcastically, but the combination of a weird economy and Biden speaking and looking like he was barely alive seems sufficient as an explanation to me

I think it's just objectively true that the FDR era Democratic Party was not a leader on civil rights, yet the civil rights movement still benefitted from the New Deal liberalism that the party put into place in ways that weren't fully anticipated from the perspective of, say, 1933.

Lots of differences between the current moment and the New Deal era obviously, but one I've been thinking about a lot is the decline of sectionalism/regionalism and its replacement by an urban vs. rural divide that exists basically everywhere. Creates both opportunities and challenges.

YouTube video by Dustin Smith Gordie Johnson performs Oh Canada 04/11/2015

Got back from Vancouver late last night and my Uber driver was a guy who grew up in northern NY near the Canadian border. We spent most of the ride talking about Canadian rock music and he introduced me to this awesome electric guitar version of "O Canada" www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-n...

Headed to Vancouver for #apsa2025? Check out these great panels with SU PoliSci scholars.
Sat 12pm
- @kirkojane.bsky.social presents "Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship w\in a Racialized Bureaucracy"
- Ananda Collins on "Talking from the Soul: The Influence of AAVE on Black Youth Political Behavior"
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Never have I seen a 1-star review that made me want to go somewhere so much before

Didn't expect the Jehovah's Witnesses to be making such contributions to the IR scholarship, but it is #APSA25 after all

I can only assume this cruise ship is here for APSA

The worst of times, but also the funniest of times

Amazingly petty book title by this guy who got forced out of the FDR administration

Late to getting my APSA plane tickets and hmm I dunno

I think the thing I've found a bit alienating about poli sci Bluesky is how the turn to thinking about US politics in comparative terms has led to a notion that we've figured it out now and are all on the same page analytically, when instead it should open up new debates with many possible answers.

Also in favor of bringing in more comparative frameworks like this. The Americanist openness to comparative politics is good, but that should be the start of a debate, not the end.

Without taking a stance, I do think there's a disconnect between academics generally and academics who post on Bluesky a lot (so definitely not a general consensus).

I remember feeling like I basically learned nothing in grad school about what it meant to be a good candidate at a liberal arts college. Fittingly, I also once got turned down for a job at a liberal arts college where they gave the job to someone with a PhD near the very bottom of this list.

Reflective of the broader narrow focus of many people at top R1s (and places that deeply aspire to be top R1s).

Pleased to report that the department where I work made it into the not-bottom tier due to the very important difference between 9 and 6

(Not what Jonathan is doing, to be clear)

My favorite thing about these articles is how they allow people to brag about where they went to grad school while seemingly bemoaning the inequities of the discipline

I know literally nothing about this, but it's definitely the most surprising/interesting APD job ad I've ever seen:

New conspiracy theory just dropped

A lot of political scientists are going after Shor et al for obsessing over survey experiments on weird samples, but surely political consultants learned this at least partly from the hundreds of political science articles defending this methodological approach from the past 15 years or so.

I love the fact that this theater put out this very generic sign to advertise a free showing of Malick’s Days of Heaven

Has anyone ever used an undergrad assignment where students are asked to read a research article and summarize main points (topic, hypotheses, methods, results, etc.)? In my pursuit of avoiding AI and tanking my evals, I'm thinking about having this be an in-class assignment (with a short article).