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Debut tweet: happy to share that I'll be joining @Yale this fall to pursue a PhD in political science as an NSF and @YaleRITM fellow! And I'm also grateful to be recognized as the philosophy and college marshal for @psuliberalarts this year.

real ones remember the friday night convenience of the downtown state college sheetz (the last fuel-free one in the country)

Yale postdocs are now union postdocs with 96.5% voting union YES last week!

When I wrote for @nytopinion in 2022 about how campuses like Yale's wall universities off from their communities, Yale professors and deans heaped scorn on me, sent the NYT derisive letters, etc. Now Yale's Committee on Trust in Higher Ed cites the piece in its bibliography.

PSU alumni: vote today to return Ali Krieger and send Karen Keller to the Board of Trustees and help steer our university towards serving working Pennsylvanians instead of the McKinsey class

My kinda guy

not super convinced that this is going to “help address rising public skepticism of higher education”

remarkable that it took me this long to learn that robert dahl was a committed socialist

How do we understand the global rise of authoritarianism thru centering racial politics? 🌍🗳️ Join the JHU Dept. of Political Science for our Racial Politics Summer Institute! Learn from leading scholars, and help remake the discipline. 🗓️ June 1–5 📍 shorturl.at/R3RMc 🎓

Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors is now forthcoming in the APSR! We use a game theoretic treatment and continuous DiD(iD) to show when redistricting reforms work w/ @CoryMcCartan, @tylersimko, Emma Ebowe, Michael Zhao, & Kosuke Imai

After grad workers voted with 90% in favor to form @cge_psu last fall, Penn State is trying to overturn the results and axe researchers from the bargaining unit. Tell PSU’s trustees: respect democracy and your workers, drop the appeal, and bargain now! comment.taransamarth.com/campaign/respe…

no dynamic is identical to the current moment, but the brief, passing efforts to align black electoralism with black power then seem much more instructive for us now than milwaukee in the 1920s

would do DSA well to study these contradictions at the turn of the '70s in Cleveland, Atlanta, Newark, Gary, Detroit—between entrenched party machines, established bureaucrats, complex race-class fractures, newfound mass organizations, etc.

the maxims remain the same, gang. everyone is not like us. we are not even like ourselves. fight for my liberation, because i fight for that of the stranger. people think

It IS crucial for Zohran to deliver his agenda, but delivering policy on its own rarely does as much as we'd hope in boosting support for a politician or party Social science suggests that party-building and on-the-ground organization is just as crucial

"Wherever we want to contest power, we must not send that person into that chamber alone. We must make sure that they remember they are a member of [@DemSocialists] and that this organization stands with them." — @ZohranKMamdani at the 2023 DSA national convention.

Academic workers at UC are in solidarity with grad workers at Penn State! Thanks for all your support @uaw_4811, we’re excited to join the movement!

Call for Applications: APSA Diversity Fellowship Program- Fall Cycle buff.ly/XhF0uk1

@psupolisci is searching for a junior colleague in American political behavior, broadly defined, who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology or social data analytics.

Some words I shared to SPEP in April largeblack.substack.com/p/hydrocarbon