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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14h

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 17h

i'm in this picture and i love it

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

made this at 5am idk

the fall i turned into a withered old crone

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Mona Lena Krook @mlkrook.bsky.social · 17h

The website for my forthcoming book, Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics, is now live!

www.paritypolitics.org

Reach out if you might be interested in having me come give a talk! The book will be published by Polity in February 2026.

Gendersky Polisky

Elect Women for a Change | Gender Parity in Politics

Women have made significant inroads into political life over the last 30 years. Yet many nations still lag behind. In the face of these developments, a new global movement is taking shape. Building on...

www.paritypolitics.org

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 20h

Here is some findings from a survey experiment I did. We tested support for candidates based on support liberal democracy vs strengthening anti-corruption.

Anti-corruption was much higher than traditional liberal democracy AND its resilient to partisanship!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

Look I know that STEM is important and you want to admit all kinds of students but we’re here FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 1d

The liberal arts college tour actually talking about the liberal arts and not just STEM challenge.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 2d

Happy for my Seattle fam.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

The preferences, they have been revealed

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 3d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 3d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Sid!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

the church is being torn from their loved ones by masked thugs, driven off in unmarked vans and never heard from again. pope leo could not be more focused on the church.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 5d

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 5d

In which Harvard’s Enos & Levitsky call on Harvard to lead the way, coordinating with other universities in fight for academic freedom. Our civil institutions will need to learn that power is harnessed through coordination. Protecting oneself will never be enough.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 5d

I met a ton of smart & interesting people. I gained professional opportunities ranging from big (for me) press interviews to invites for talks and conference. I have been amused & informed.

Not sure any of that was worth the extremely negative impacts on our political system, but here we are.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Alexandra Guisinger @alexandraguisinger.bsky.social · 5d

Are you a scholar of International Security? Be my colleague at Temple Univ. Tenure-track Assistant Prof. position in IR: interstate war; territorial disputes; conflict res./peace-building; technology; institutions and alliances; terrorism; and related topics. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37899301...

Assistant Professor of International Relations - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with Temple University | 37899301

The Department of Political Science at Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor ...

jobs.chronicle.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 6d

The 2024 @electionstudies.bsky.social has the share of "pure independents" in the US at its lowest level since 1952 (7%)

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Charles Franklin @pollsandvotes.bsky.social · 5d

Informative map of where Obamacare/ACA enrollment grew the most from 2020-2025. From Wall Street Journal. Story, no paywall. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 5d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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