Ian Shapiro

ChatGPT is having a full blown identity crisis. It's trying to manage. Please be kind during this adjustment period.

Heck yeah!!!

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common

new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

This just shows how bad Roberts is at causal inference.

Voter Study group data from 2018. Abortion attitudes positively correlated with sexism. Regardless of party. Its about control over women.

Will do!

Whelp. Needed an undergrad friendly reading on information search and exposure for political psychology. Blue Sky provides. Sure to also conjure discussion about what my students see go viral in their own feeds.

Assigning The Communist Manifesto is a sure fire way to make sure your students DON'T read it.

It's wild they can just BUY the effort and institutional credibility of decades worth of work, then just to attach/drag it down with their own systematic biases and bad brands.

In social science speak: This is not the world you would expect to observe if the Court were unbiased or close to it.

So it's the attitudinal model all the way down. Other considerations seem to be the exception. The Court stacking the deck according to preference instead of law. Dangerous stuff.

An academic accomplishment that deserves its own CV line.

New at @thejop.bsky.social w/ @kevintmorris.bsky.social, Mike Miller, and Coryn Grange.

We find administrative burdens in Texas (mail ballot/application rejections) --- (1) decreased turnout, (2) fell hardest on minorities, (3) persisted for at least two years, (4) even hit the highly engaged.

visceral* ugh. I should have written the comment with AI.

Been waiting for someone to note the human centipede analogy. Gross, but the visicial image people need to start to focus on the downward spiral.

Does the Big Beautiful Bill at least outlaw Doorbells and Dog Barks from TV and Movies? Asking for this over reactive guard dog.

As someone who kinda liked the swings season 3 took, The Bear season 4 knows what made 1/2 excellent and knocked it out of the park again. TV is good folks.

Do love hitting refresh over and over again to learn what my rights are

Sadly a bigger demo then we would like.

Happy Anniversary to my cycling heatmap, where you can visually see me getting angier and faster (orange) when I was alerted that Roe was overturned.

Cute! The Science Vs. podcast has an episode clarifying the public myth of "pitbull= danger."

"set mem 500" "br"

Happy Friday to everyone. Except Rory, who doesn't know she's getting a bath today.

The "small text + white font + make text hidden" strategy in word works for assignments you write yourself. I tell it to begin every other sentence with, "The," and end the last sentence of each paragraph with double periods. Helps me detect without false positives.

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

This post was floating around a couple days ago. Good write up on its own, and good links to papers. On asymmetry of violent rhetoric and violence. spsp.org/news/charact...

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This, my friends, is textbook rationalization. The REASON Senator Padilla was assaulted, removed, and handcuffed was his public dissent. My 2 cents.

Super PACs are out here just making free experiment treatment images. Gross.

Since it's relevant for literally just tonight, here's a throwback to me as Thénardier in Les Miserables back in College. So fun.