Illinois Political Science PhD Candidate | Quantitative Methods | Political Psychology | Emotions | Coffee | Taking a Hiatus from Twitter starting 10/2023

Joined July 2017
Reflecting on the time that someone, unsolicited, told me: “Nobody will choose you over [X] higher rated program no matter how good you are.” Beyond being callous, that just isn’t true. It reflects a frame of thinking that’s elitist and exclusionary.
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Breaking my X/Twitter hiatus to say: I don’t trust you if you haven’t had pizza for breakfast.
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Our new paper (with @VanDitmars) is out in Politics and the Life Sciences. We examine how gender moderates the effect of genes on interest in politics in German adolescents and young adults. The paper is open access, so no pay walls!
#OpenAccess from @PLSjournal - The gender gap in political interest: Heritability, gendered political socialization, and the enriched environment hypothesis - cup.org/3F9IcMP - @VanDitmars & @genopolitics #FirstView
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Nearly 6/10 Americans disagree or strongly disagree that they would gladly dedicate their day off to disrupting an opposing party’s rally. Thank you to @aleenakhxn, Jair Moreira, and @JamesSteur from @IllinoisPolSci for submitting this question at @APSAtweets.
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James Steur retweeted
Applying to psych PhD programs this fall? Submit a draft of your application statement Oct. 23-26 & we will send you double-blind, constructive feedback from 2 editors on Nov 3. Complete this interest form & we'll email you when submission portal opens: forms.gle/ra1QnWdj7iYonPV89
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Well, it’s time to get more involved in APSA for the next few years.
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"If it's not good enough for @UNITEHERE11, then it's not good enough for me." - Professor Nick Toloudis and @APSAtweets member on the failure of the political science organization to meet the call for solidarity. Full podcast on Labor Day. w/ @smallrevelation
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Essentially, someone told me I would never be hired over a candidate from a [insert highly ranked institution]. This was jarring.
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