Josh McCrain

have you read the research on this?

it's exactly the style parenting book i'd write if it didn't exist

disagree, better than anything else out there

yeah this is not the case here

yeah her parenting advice is great

they're exceptionally good

have you read her parenting books

like, the abstract specifically states journals are adopting pre-reg requirements without "any scientific basis" and then the article proceeds to lay out the scientific basis for pre-reg

of course multiple experiment papers occur more frequently in top journals -- they're more likely to be a bigger impact because they tend to cover a more wholistic picture of the phenomenon at study

so where is the bias against convenience samples? is the bias in the room with us right now?

i'm also confused on how you can look at publication trends in top journals, see something is *not* there, and infer bias. we don't see the denominator!

this again! the argument about pre-registration once again has nothing to do with pre-registration *per se* -- but about how it is used and now reviewers see it. not sure how that is theoretically bankrupt

Public universities in deep red states trying to vie for their existence meeting what the market wants seems good maybe

i'm not really understanding the blowback to this. this would be like once the internet became super useful being opposed to teaching people how to take advantage of it for their careers

marginal tax rates

previously mentioned baby:

i had a baby in the midst of these R&Rs so yeah huge thanks to my friends, who are also my coauthors

last one, conditionally accepted at JOP:

Gendered Barriers to Entry: Responses to Requests for State
Legislative Internships

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bte5e...

w/ Hans Hassell and Matt Miles

also in LSQ:

Human Capital Exiting Capitol Hill? Differences in Congressional Staff Turnover by Race and Gender

w/ @hjghassell.bsky.social and Alex Bolton

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9km94...

Got a few new papers coming out with some excellent coauthors.

Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists

w/ @hjghassell.bsky.social @davidryanmiller.com and @bcegerod.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

chat GPT maybe?

Recently there's been interest in whether it matters, given pending program changes, that some states call their Medicaid programs something other than "Medicaid" — Med-QUEST in Hawaii, for example (my favorite).

A quick thread on the ways our paper helps inform that question (and its limitations).

Yikes

Some states rebrand Medicaid to reduce stigma. That's confusing recipients Many states rebranded their Medicaid programs years ago to reduce stigma — MassHealth in Massachusetts, for instance — but some research shows that the name changes have confused recipients.

Looks like @adrianna.bsky.social is interviewed here! www.wgbh.org/news/2025-07...

Medicaid's many different names may cause confusion about who's losing coverage Medicaid programs go by so many different names across the country that advocates and experts warn people may not know they're losing their coverage until it's too late.

NPR doing some stories on how it's confusing that Medicaid programs are called different things in different states

www.npr.org/2025/07/04/n...

@adrianna.bsky.social, Danielle Pavliv and I have a paper on this:

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

these are typically included in official police datasets, however. of course, not public sector necessarily

yeah agreed, but i am sure the "private security" industry (if that is what you mean by private officers) is pretty big in some other countries. but i think that stretches the concept of police

that's what i'm curious about -- not sure we should be counting those as police

what do you mean "private officers"? who are these people?

Ian T. Adams on X: "New publication in Police Quarterly: "Forced Science: A Critical Appraisal of the Scientific Rigor of ‘Force Science’ Policing Research." It’s no mistake that evidence-based policing begins with *evidence*. High-quality science improves outcomes for officers, agencies, and https://t.co/NDgKABApl0" / X New publication in Police Quarterly

Full thread and paper is worth reading. For instance, a bunch of folks at the annual evidence based policing conference wanted to shut down this presentation

x.com/ian_t_adams/...