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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD

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Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and polisci metascience. Run @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. Go 'Cats. Always a Midwest Princess 👑

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 12d

End of September #polisky eJobs count, which is looking similar to May-August (9/1-9/30):

September 2024: 167 total positions (105 open to assistant TT)

September 2025: 138 total positions (83 open to assistant TT)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 26d

We are back with the #polisky halfway through September eJobs count, which is looking better (9/1-9/15):

September 2024: 64 total positions (46 open to assistant TT)

September 2025: 54 total positions (39 open to assistant TT)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · Sep 2

Final #polisky eJobs count (including 8/30-8/31):

May-August 2024: 319 total positions (219 open to assistant TT)

May-August 2025: 228 total positions (140 open to assistant TT)

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1h

Congrats to my brother on finishing the Chicago marathon in 4 hours on 2 (!) ACL-repaired knees

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

help your #polisky colleagues out in this rough market year y'all

Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 12d

Just want to thank folks contributing to the #psjminfo job status update section of the site. It's a small thing, but I know people appreciate knowing the status of jobs.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 7h

Made a bootleg almond latte this morning using equal parts instant coffee + almond extract/simple syrup combo + evaporated milk for the richness = absolute perfection transition to fall beverage

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 21h

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 23h

beware of these folks at no kings next weekend & read up / get trained on how to interact with these undercover agenta

Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 23h

Elgin, Illinois. ICE is placing undercover agents with folks exercising their first amendment rights.

Expect them to incite violence next.

Beware the agent provocateur.

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 23h

ready for some GAINS

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 23h

Next stage lifter unlocked: I bought the Costco creatine

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

As @rosalierubio.bsky.social says: the cost of community is inconvenience!

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

The cure for loneliness is making plans with friends, saying yes to new things, and dealing with stuff like long commutes. For example: on Wednesday, I went to a Blue Jays-Yankees playoff game with a friend despite the long subway ride to the Bronx and a desire to hide in my apartment. It was fun!

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

Best musical Halloween shot / chaser

This Hell / Frankenstein, Rina Sawayama

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

haven’t seen folks talking about how the frog costumes counter the now-infamous right wing Pepe the Frog meme

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

streisand effect the youths

youtube.com/shorts/fWy16...

🤨🤨🤨 #politics #news #wtf #leftist

YouTube video by allie_202_

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 1d

thank y'all so much for all the well wishes for Chelsea 🥲 (aka Chelly Bean)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

She made it to 14 🥳

A beagle basset mix sits in a sphinx pose on an unmade bed looking at you very expectantly to go on a walk

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

Somewhat? 1121 in 2023-2024 compared to 1305 in 2022-2023.... which was way better than 2019-2022

apsanet.org/resources/da...

eJobs Postings by Month, January-June 2024 vs. January-June 2025

January-March had a similar number of jobs, but there were many fewer Jobs in April-June 2025.

Jobs Posted Per Academic Year on APSA eJobs from 2010-2011 through 2022-2023

Usually between 1200-1300, cratering to around 950 through the pandemic, then back up to 1305 in 2022-2023

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

help your #polisky colleagues out in this rough market year y'all

Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 12d

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

ok so I added several more fairly prominent opportunities / links to them and - crucially imo - the deadlines for those applications

what else would make this webpage more useful?

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 13d

input requested from #polisky: I did a mini-revamp of APSA's grants and fellowships webpage in the spring, but I wanted to do a more substantive overhaul this fall given *gestures broadly*

What is missing? What presentation of these opportunities would be most useful?

apsanet.org/resources/gr...

Other Grants, Fellowships and Awards in the Discipline - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Other Grants, Awards and Fellowships in the Discipline Disclaimer: This page contains information and links submitted by outside organizations. APSA

apsanet.org

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

yeah this is trying to dissuade families with kids, older folks, etc. from coming out because seeing a multi-generational movement is genuinely frightening to them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 2d

reupping for general use, not in reference to any specific discourse

Alf as Smokey the Bear with today’s discourse danger monitor from low to extreme, set to very high

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

your reminder to NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR STUFF (APSA edition):

APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 3d

Submit for the 2026 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award #bestpaper from the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting. $750 prize; presented at the APSA Annual Meeting. Submit by February 11th: buff.ly/iSqyfJ5 #APSAAwards

APSA - Login

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

they 100% have a big rat problem, I have seen rats skittering out of the refrigerated section

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

finishing this thought: and that's why TS cosplaying as a writer of the latter genre feels forced, knowing that she can be an effective writer of the former (whose English teacher?)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

She is on palliative care now unfortunately but getting all the best dinners and treats now (especially on her birthday!)

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

me realizing that this explanation may be at the root of the polarizing feelings toward the life of a showgirl: the millennial and above audience expecting nuance, subtext, allusion, etc. whereas the gen z / alpha audience expecting direct, literal communication

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

Oops, here’s the link: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

open.substack.com

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

She made it to 14 🥳

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 4d

who is going to be holding the bag & how are their creditors / lessors not absolutely shitting themselves

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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