Darrell Carter

Semesterly reminder to everyone - Canvas in many cases defaults to showing students the course's grade distribution and student's place on it.

If you *don't* want your students to be aware of where they "rank" at all times, take a second to double check it's turned off.

#TeachLearnSky #EduSky

War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why - Kindle edition by O'Brien, Phillips Payson. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why.

IR Book of the Week!

"War and Power" by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Book argues that the focus on what makes nations "Great Powers" has led to a skewed our understanding of the true sources of power, particularly in the context of war.

🚨TENURE TRACK POLI SCI JOBS🚨

Yes, "jobs" plural. TCU is hiring two assistant professors, to begin in Fall of 2026.

1) American Politics, with a preference for Gender and Politics.
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

2) Public Law and/or Judicial Politics.
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

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🚨🚨Hey #polisky job market folks! My former colleagues at Lafayette are hiring two positions:

American/public law (provost.lafayette.edu/2025-26-gov-...)

IR/CP (provost.lafayette.edu/2026-27-gl-a...).

Great students, great colleagues, great department chairs for both! You should apply!

It's that time of the year to discuss our fabulous candidates on the academic job market from the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa! /1

Yes, being a faculty member is a hard job. I always tell my PhD students when they get jobs that teaching two (or more) classes a semester will be very tiring. Performance is a good analogy. It’s also one of the most rewarding jobs one could ever have.

YouTube video by APSA Civic Community Partnership Opportunities and Goals

Watch our Community Partnership panel with
@mattlamb.bsky.social and Jennifer Jackman. We discuss how you can seize opportunities in the community, align your goals, and encourage student involvement.

youtu.be/viz5HeWp5gc?...

Join the APSA section to get updates about panels & more.

Do people’s beliefs in the legitimacy of the WHO, IMF, or UN change based on what others think? Our survey experiments from 🇧🇷+🇩🇪+🇺🇸 say: Yes!
Thanks to the brilliant @meckerehrhardt.bsky.social & @jonastallberg.bsky.social for a great collaboration! #polisky #internationalrelations #publicopinion

Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India Minimal understandings of populism focus on measuring explicit stances of antielitism and people centrism. What remains poorly understood is the way less overt forms of populist rhetoric enable leade...

🇮🇳Check out this recent article, “Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India,” published in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Jean-Thomas Martelli and Christophe Jaffrelot 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#polisky

#polisky #psjminfo We're hiring for three faculty positions in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. All 3 positions are part of an internal departmental cluster hire in the thematic area of Problems of Democracy. A 🧵on the positions. 1/

80 Years After Hiroshima, the Nuclear Taboo Can’t Be Taken for Granted Although the atomic bomb hasn’t been used in war since it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of its future use can never be ruled out.

Atomic bombs were used against Japan 80 years ago. In my latest for @wpr.bsky.social, I explore the events leading up to their use, as well as consider "what might have been" if they had not been dropped.

From the Playground to the Polls: Why Early Civic Education Matters ft. Diana Owen Civic Café · Episode

Here's our next Civic Cafe podcast, Episode 9
"From the Playground to the Polls: Why Early Civic Education Matters" featuring Dr. Diana Owen talking about collaboration between K-12 and Higher education.

You can listen over on Spotify!
open.spotify.com/episode/41XY...

#poliysky #civicengagement

Building Civic Muscle ft. Jae Yeon Kim Civic Café · Episode

Check out our new Civic Cafe podcasts for Summer!
Episode 8 is "Building Civic Muscle with Jae Yeon Kim" (@jaeyeonkim.bsky.social) talking about civic infrastructure, empowerment, and problem solving.

You can listen over on Spotify!
open.spotify.com/episode/5865...

#poliysky #civicengagement

Just one study, but supports the value of learning to think/write on your own first.

Might also help convince students that the best performers wrote on their own first, then later with AI, while those who started off doing both did poorly & limited future capacity.

What a day to be recording lectures on civil liberties!

We have real issues, the people involved are real. We need to look for real solutions. There's something to be said for the "right tool for the job."

Marine Infantry Battalions are trained to destroy our enemies, and are very effective at it.
They are less effective as police.

love seeing vet polls, we don't do them enough. Interesting glimpse here, but also a small web poll, a lot of weighting, & the parade question doesn't mention the 250th, so this could be a bit high? with +/-4 margin of error? I think could easily be 60 or even 55 oppose

Interesting results from GWOT era veterans on the new administration. Not certain just how representative the sample is, but IAVA IS non-partisan

www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

Details:
iava.org/media/as-tru...

#Polisky #Civmil

Credit:
@leoshane.bsky.social @danlamothe.bsky.social

Purdue Political Science is pleased to announce @mjcohen.bsky.social promotion to Associate Professor with tenure effective in August! If you see her at #MPSA2025, please congratulate her!  #PoliticalScience

Purdue Political Science is pleased to announce @jmcrosson.bsky.social promotion to Associate Professor with tenure effective in August! If you see him at #MPSA2025, please join us in congratulating him!  #PoliticalScience

Purdue Political Science is pleased to announce @melissawill.bsky.social promotion to Associate Professor of Practice effective August 2025. Please join us in congratulating her! #PoliticalScience

The deadline for our 2025 Awards is coming up on April 1. Nominate a scholar, project, or paper that has made an impact on the field of Civic Engagement. Self nominations encouraged!

Submit: forms.gle/jRzPAYznmprv...

Read about our awards on our website
sites.google.com/view/apsaciv...

We want to remind everyone about our Civic Engagement Awards. Nominations (self nominations encouraged!) are due by April 1st. Submit using this form: forms.gle/jRzPAYznmprv...

We have four different awards, read about them on our website!
sites.google.com/view/apsaciv...

Goodbye Chicago, another ISA in the books for me, all to soon. Wish I could have stayed longer!

Great getting excellent feedback and seeing everyone again.

#ISA2025

Great discussion! Enjoyed engaging with Muhib & also Theo Mendez (glad we were able to have you jump in!). Interesting papers and thank you for fresh perspectives on my own research.

Thank you so much to @proflupton.bsky.social for detailed & quality feedback. Incredibly helpful!

#ISA2025

I'm heading to Chicago this weekend for ISA 2025. Grateful to be presenting my work on IO succession, developing a dataset of predecessor & successor IO pairs.

If you're going to be there let me know!
#ISA2025 #Polsky

Political Science Educator: Volume 28, Issue 2 A Newsletter from APSA's Political Science Education Organized Section Volume 28, Issue 2 - Winter/Spring 2025 Editors: Matt Evans (Northwest Arkansas Community College) & Colin M. Brown (Northeastern...

New issue of the Political Science Educator is available!
educate.apsanet.org/political-sc...

Great contributions by @edorssom.bsky.social, @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social, @thornburg.bsky.social, and @debraleiter.bsky.social among others

#TeachLearnSky #Polisky #EduSky

Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza would put Americans at risk of prosecution Trump’s plan for Gaza would violate a long list of international treaties—and put Americans at risk of sanctions and prosecutions abroad.

For @brookings.edu, I analyze possible legal consequences of President Trump’s recent proposal to “take over” the Gaza Strip, including for the U.S. servicemembers who could be required to carry it out. www.brookings.edu/articles/tru...