Associate Professor @penn_state | Senior Political Scientist @RANDCorporation. Truth decay, racial, ethnic, and gender group politics. Opinions mine.
Joined June 2011
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3 Apr 2023
Update: While I settle in at @RANDCorporation, I think this is a good time to re-introduce myself.
Tl;dr: Follow me for research on racial and ethnic group politics, voting behavior, and Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life.
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11 Jul 2023
American University’s Department of Government is hiring!
AP/Methods x 2
apply.interfolio.com/128065
Comparative
apply.interfolio.com/128076
If you’re at PolMeth, I’m happy to answer questions about the department/life in DC. Feel free to ambush me!
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5 Jul 2023
Truth Decay is a threat to national security.
In a recently published paper, my colleagues @HeatherJWill and Caitlin McCulloch explained why. 🧵
rand.org/blog/rand-review/20…
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5 Jul 2023
What can we do about this problem? A few ideas:
🔹Stamp out misinformation and disinformation before they take hold.
🔹Strengthen media literacy and civics education.
🔹Political moderates could raise their voices more and present facts & analysis as nonpartisan.
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Now available in iPoll: 12,000 respondent American COVID-19 Vaccine poll sheds light on vaccine hesitancy among rural & POC populations @AfAmResearch Explore the data here: bit.ly/3lUeIg7
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29 May 2023
🚨Pls share. Are you interested in doing a PhD in #PoliSci on political trust and mistrust? Do you have some training/experience w quantitative data? Then apply for this 3yr $32k/yr PhD scholarship to come to sunny Brisbane 🌴🐨🌞. Deadline: 31 July 2023. griffith.edu.au/research-stu…
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28 May 2023
“…not possible to independently assess & analyze whether policymakers, spaceflight participants, industry, or the public have sufficient information to make reasonably informed decisions about the safety of commercial spaceflight.”
rand.org/blog/2023/05/enter-… via @RANDCorporation
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25 May 2023
Unexpectedly, due to a budget windfall, I'm looking for a Master's student, likely someone from Latin America, who might be interested in coming to ISU starting in August for a two-year graduate assistantship.
Sorry this is last minute!
amyericasmith.org/call-for-a…
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26 May 2023
An illustrated introduction to the autocorrelation function, with monster generations 👾💙🩵
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ALT A line of related fuzzy monsters that ranges from more distant relatives (toward the left) to the current generation on the right. Several more recent generations are labeled, from “ME” on the far right, then “MY PARENT”, “MY GRANDPARENT”, “MY GREAT-GRANDPARENT” and “MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENT” moving toward the left. The current generation monster on the left is saying “Hello! Meet some of my ancestors.” Stylized text at the top reads “intro to the autocorrelation function (ACF).”
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24 May 2023
The Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Government at Cornell University are accepting applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Government & Public Policy (focus on the intersection of race/racism and public policy)👇
higheredjobs.com/details.cfm…
#PAJobMarket
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24 May 2023
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25 May 2023
Want to use @Stata to send a large number of emails for a survey or audit study?
Check out this new package: *Sendemails*, which does just that.
Working paper here: iza.org/publications/dp/1616…
@smgaddis
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25 May 2023
RT @DrEYR3rd: New volume edited by @SharonA82707528 hits the shelf next month. Happy to have contributed to this important collection of ch…
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19 May 2023
Thrilled to share that next fall I'll be joining the esteemed faculty at Sewanee: @univofthesouth as an Associate Professor of Politics with tenure and Director of African and African American Studies!
I'll be relocating to Chattanooga, TN, and I'll be a little closer to home.
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11 May 2023
Today marks the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency—a good time to reflect on the many lessons of the last three years.
For my part, I'm thinking about the ways that #TruthDecay—the declining role of facts in U.S. public life—often took center stage during the pandemic.
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11 May 2023
My colleagues and I offer some key takeaways about the pandemic, including the spread of false information, in this new Q&A. rand.org/blog/2023/05/the-en…
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