Tyler T Reny

My coauthor on this project, Marcel, has a much more comprehensive thread on our new paper if you want to read through!

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Late adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers | PNAS One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to work in law enforcement a...

New article out (w Marcel R, Ben N, and David S) in @pnas.org. We show that young folks who signal interest in becoming cops hold more conservative views on race, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality, etc.than their peers intending careers in other fields www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The impossible has become possible: we've passed a clean CEQA infill exemption. This is probably the most important thing California has done on housing in the present YIMBY moment.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

i'm not at all qualified to evaluate this study but i am absolutely going to share it with my students, scared straight style

Thanks Kristen!

Thanks Fabian!

Thanks Michael!

Thanks Melissa!

Thanks Crystal!

Thanks Hannah!

Excited and honored to be chosen for an emerging scholar award from @apsa.bsky.social Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) section this year!

If you haven't gotten around to it, please call your state Senator today and urge them to vote yes on SB 79. This could be transformative for California if it passes and should've been passed back in 2018 when it was first brought up. Don't let the segregationists keep you poor any longer.

I see a lot of confusion about what it means for Republicans to "own" immigration.

Does this mean increasing immigration salience helps Rs on average? Yes.

But does that mean anything Rs do on immigration is popular? Absolutely not.

Folks should remember: issue ownership can be lost.

Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”

Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

every day I wake up and check the news and am madder about the Trump administration than I have ever been and then I have to meet the obligations of my daily life and them the next morning I wake up and check the news and am madder about the Trump administration than I have ever been and then I have

Title: The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2021 By TYLER T. RENY and BENJAMIN J. NEWMAN Abstract Does social protest following the police killing of unarmed Black civilians have a widespread “opinion-mobilizing” effect against the police? Or, does the racialized nature of these events polarize mass opinion based on standing racial and political orientations? To answer these questions, we use a large dataset comprised of weekly cross sections of the American public and employ a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) approach leveraging the random timing of the police killing of George Floyd and ensuing nationwide protests. We find that the Floyd protests swiftly decreased favorability toward the police and increased perceived anti-Black discrimination among low-prejudice and politically liberal Americans. However, attitudes among high-prejudice and politically conservative Americans either remained unchanged or evinced only small and ephemeral shifts. Our evidence suggests that the Floyd protests served to further racialize and politicize attitudes within the domain of race and law enforcement in the U.S.

FIGURE 1. George Floyd Media Coverage, Social Media Posts, and Search Behavior. Shows trend lines in Newspaper mentions, Twitter mentions and Google Trends that spike around George Floyd protests and decline after about June 1

FIGURE 3. Coefficient and Predicted Value Plots for Prejudice and Partisanship In Figure 3, we plot both the coefficient and 95% confidence intervals for indicators of prejudice (rows 1 and 2) and partisanship (row 3), which allows us to assess both whether attitudes are becoming more racialized and partisan as well as esti- mate whether this polarization in attitudes is driven by movement solely among those lower in prejudice (or strong Democrats), those higher in prejudice (or strong Republicans), or both. We use two indicators of prejudice included in the NS survey: (1) a Black– White favorability differential, which subtracts Black from white favorability Likert scales, and (2) the “generations” item from the well-known racial resent- ment scale. For partisanship, we use the standard seven-point scale ranging from strong Democrat to strong Republican. See Appendix A for more informa- tion on these items. Beginning with the coefficient plots in column A, we find strong evidence of increased racialization and par- tisan polarization of attitudes. Pretreatment waves indi- cate that these attitudes were already polarized by racial and partisan orientations, though in all cases the coeffi- cients significantly increase following the eruption of the Floyd protests. In column B, we plot the probability of reporting a “very unfavorable” view of the police as a function of respondents’ prejudice and partisanship; these figures reveal that almost all of the movement in attitudes is among those lower in prejudice and among strong Democrats. These analyses suggest that the Floyd pro- tests facilitated attitude change primarily among those who were already sympathetic to the BLM movement and failed to exert a meaningful effect on attitudes among those higher in prejudice and political conserva- tives.

@tylerreny.bsky.social & B. Newman find “Floyd protests swiftly decreased favorability toward police and increased perceived anti-Black discrimination among low-prejudice & politically liberal Americans” but barely among “high-prejudice & politically conservative…” www.benjnewman.com/uploads/1/2/...

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.

How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule Bari Weiss's University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime

NEW: Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I guess I'm an unwitting member of the "abundance agenda" coalition, and tying Trump's tariffs to the unpopularity of housing costs/inflation could really make hay for these arguments in the near future. (story via GlobeNH: view.email.bostonglobe.com?qs=ec3226b93...)

How Trump's Alien Enemies Act Deportations Violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment Most public debate over the Trump Administration's efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act as a tool for deportation have focused on whether

In addition to other legal flaws, Trump Admin. use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans to imprisonment in El Salvador (without any due process whatsoever) violates the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪

GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.

"Columbia will remain the college of no king."

Sensible, sober, and wise counsel on how universities should respond to the Trump administration. By Carnegie, @pagefortna.bsky.social, Isiksel, Murillo, and @profsaunders.bsky.social, and courtesy of @dandrezner.bsky.social

Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.

Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.

Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

Chuck Schumer has a book tour starting this week.

It would be a damn shame if people showed up to let him know how they feel about his capitulation on the short-term spending bill passed by the Senate Friday afternoon.

@schumer.senate.gov

Real shame