Erika Franklin Fowler

Initial public opinion data ⬇️ #wesgov214 #wesgov380

Relevant for #wesgov214 discussions on media ownership

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.

Did these investments shift public opinion?

We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.

Thread 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Academic friends: do you have grad students working on survey methods questions (ones we can help answer with Survey 160 data)? Please share with them this fellowship opportunity. Applications for first round are closing soon. www.survey160.com/survey-160-r...

Acquiescence Bias and Criterion Validity: Problems and Potential Solutions for Agree-Disagree Scales - Political Behavior Political Behavior - Scholars frequently measure dispositions like populism, conspiracism, racism, and sexism by asking survey respondents whether they agree or disagree with statements...

New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social.

Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other.

This has potentially big issues for conclusions.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Survey Associate, Methodology Pew Research Center Organization Overview Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts publi...

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

Students that have a red or a blue color wash over them mingle around a campus plaza.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus

A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

With the Olympics done, my time at The Post is also done. It’s been an amazing five-plus years. The people I worked with weren’t just supremely talented, they were also great humans. This was truly a dream job and I’m eternally grateful I got this opportunity. And I’ll be keeping my WaPo subscription because while what happened was horrific and nonsensical, there are still great journalists in that building doing essential work. This country needs them, especially in these times.

The last sports editor at the Washington Post signs off.

Important context for #wesgov214 discussions

Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔

Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍

The distribution of questionnaire results

New preprint! 🎉

Led by @heeminkang.bsky.social, we found that a brief teaching intervention (20 min lecture + student activity) improved some aspects open science knowledge and attitudes in students taking an undergrad health psych course osf.io/preprints/ps...

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Trust in the CDC and Views of Federal Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes | KFF Weeks after the Trump administration reduced the number of childhood vaccine recommended for routine use, public trust in the CDC is at its lowest since the COVID-19 pandemic, and less than half are c...

Latest KFF poll on US confidence in vaccines, fed agencies, new vax sched., & RFK Jr.

Lots of info. E.g.:
-large majorities confident in MMR, Polio, Hep B, & flu vax safety; parents less so for these & COVID vax but not Hep B.
-<1/2 confident in feds making child vax rec's (but how abt states?)
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb on measles outbreak — CBS News Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who sits on the boards of Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare, told

Former @fda.gov Commissioner Dr. @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social, who sits on the boards of Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare, told @facethenation.bsky.social that the current measles outbreak could be a "long cycle, especially now that this has gotten embedded in political psyche in this country."

Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉

📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

Relevant for #wesgov214

Upcoming webinar titled 'Disappearing Data' on federal SOGI data issues, scheduled for Feb 10, 2026, 10-11 a.m. ET, with registration details.

💖 Just added to the schedule! 💖 Join us for the webinar "Disappearing Data: Monitoring Federal SOGI Data Losses and Advancing Accountability."

🗓️ Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
🕛 Time: 10–11 a.m. ET
🔗 Register: myumi.ch/g3dmq

#SOGIdata #LoveData26 #ICPSRDataFair

Great thread 🧵 with important evidence ⬇️ #wesgov214

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Relevant for #wesgov214 discussions

ACA Sign-Ups Are Down by Over a Million People, But It’s Still an Incomplete Picture Data currently being released represent Open Enrollment Marketplace plan selections, or how many people have signed up for or been automatically renewed into 2026 coverage. These data do not necessari...

ACA sign-ups dropped by about 1.2 million consumers compared to the 24.2 million who signed up around this time last year, according to CMS’s latest Open Enrollment snapshot.

See our updated #QuickTake, which reflects the latest data from CMS on ACA sign-ups: https://on.kff.org/4qQlwXS

Introducing the Futures Forum: A Place to Envision Equitable and Just Futures - Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures In a time of deep inequality and uncertainty, imagining equitable and just futures is both urgent and unfinished work. This post introduces the Futures Forum, a new space created by the Center for Rac...

Our first post (today!) is from me & @neillewisjr.bsky.social ! equitablefutures.cornell.edu/introducing-...

"How do class gaps compare to race and gender gaps? Strikingly, we find that the class gaps in tenure-track academia are as large as or larger than analogous race or gender gaps."

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.

That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.

A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.

A short 🧵

🚨(Software) Update:

In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.

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New paper! Attacks on transgender rights are part of a global attack on what conservatives call gender ideology. In this paper, grad student Fiona Rodger and I investigate the links between anti-democratic attitudes and opposition to trans rights policies after the 2024 election...

New paper w/ Kulesza & @cmwitko.bsky.social

A worry about campaign contribution limits is that they don't stop money, they just shift it to Citizens United/SpeechNow "independent expenditures"

We find that this didn't happen. Keep calm & regulate on

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nk11m...

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One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social

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