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I find political scientists' lack of attention to effect sizes/substantive significance deeply troubling.

Do you agree or disagree with this statement? “Students accused of plagiarism are punished more harshly than professors accused of plagiarism.”

If I submit a good and timely referee report to a journal, then they have to publish my research. That's how it works, right?

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Trump's tariffs have reduced tourism to the U.S. a lot. They've led to $1 Billion in lost revenue per month.

Psychologists often hide their sample sizes in abstracts. Political scientists often hide their identification strategies in abstracts. Economists often hide their study's context in abstracts.

Noncompete clauses reduce workers' earnings. Noncompete clauses also provide no measurable protection against trade-secrets being leaked beyond standard NDAs.

Broadband internet access decreased rural teen birth rates.

Shutting down USAID literally made Africa darker.

Social media has decided every movie is terrible months before it’s released.

Hard to win a World Cup when you’re not trying to score

The websites that Americans most frequently visit.

It amazes me that, in the year of our Lord 2026, academic journals still haven’t figured out how to let authors include interactive visualizations.

I just handled a manuscript where we had to invite 17 referees to get 2 reviews. I used to wonder why peer review takes so long. Multiple factors are at play. But editors face a Herculean task of getting reviewers to accept and then deliver in the current moment.

I just submitted my Promotion to Full Professor packet. Fingers crossed!

Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant

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Another one from the same literature! What a mess.

The event study results from a widely cited PS article... (They only report static diff-in-diffs)

Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.) Why? ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.

More and more, I'm convinced that many self-described free speech advocates are really advocates of free speech for themselves.