Christina Wolbrecht
@cwolbrecht.bsky.social
Political scientist @ Notre Dame. Gender, parties, suffrage, role models. New: See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People. https://bookshop.org/p/books/see-jane-run-how-women-politicians-matter-for-young-people-david-e-campbell/21729443
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I’m really proud of this piece. Self-placement measures of masculinity and femininity are now present in most major institutional surveys (GSS, ANES, etc), but there’s still a lot we don’t know about how they work.
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity", @dancassino.bsky.social analyzes the stability of two self-placement measures of gender, as well as how change in self-report could be structured by political views.
Available #OpenAccess
buff.ly/pxpkKvs
In "Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity", @dancassino.bsky.social analyzes the stability of two self-placement measures of gender, as well as how change in self-report could be structured by political views.
Available #OpenAccess
buff.ly/pxpkKvs
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m really proud of this piece. Self-placement measures of masculinity and femininity are now present in most major institutional surveys (GSS, ANES, etc), but there’s still a lot we don’t know about how they work.
Got 28 years of these in a file folder.
my totally unsolicited end-of-the-semester advice to junior scholars is to keep the nice notes that students write to you in a safe place so you can reference them when things get tough in the future.
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Got 28 years of these in a file folder.
In a multiparty system, Garamond would have some representation.
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In a multiparty system, Garamond would have some representation.
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Don’t give the political scientists any ideas.
Unedited 16mm footage of boxing matches set up in a ballroom at the Palmer House on Nov 30, 1977.
📽️ From the Frank Koza Collection.
📽️ From the Frank Koza Collection.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Don’t give the political scientists any ideas.
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Calling all #kidlit authors and illustrators! We’re awarding a $4,000 fellowship for you to come and spend time with incredible archives to inspire your next work. Richard Scarry, Esphyr Slobodkina, James Marshall… our holdings are outstanding. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Calling all #kidlit authors and illustrators! We’re awarding a $4,000 fellowship for you to come and spend time with incredible archives to inspire your next work. Richard Scarry, Esphyr Slobodkina, James Marshall… our holdings are outstanding. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I am BEGGING grade and high school teachers to stop telling your students to email college professors for an interview. I don't like saying no to clearly interested and engaged young people but we have our own students and full-time jobs.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am BEGGING grade and high school teachers to stop telling your students to email college professors for an interview. I don't like saying no to clearly interested and engaged young people but we have our own students and full-time jobs.
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The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Find the answers to CAWP’s key questions about these races here: cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-...
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Find the answers to CAWP’s key questions about these races here: cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-...
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Last month, state legislative elections were held in the New Jersey Assembly and Virginia House of Delegates (both the lower chambers of each state’s legislature). This off-year election gives us a chance to identify gender trends ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Last month, state legislative elections were held in the New Jersey Assembly and Virginia House of Delegates (both the lower chambers of each state’s legislature). This off-year election gives us a chance to identify gender trends ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
I'm in this picture, and I just have to accept it.
Me: why don’t people take me seriously?? I’m smart and capable! I know stuff!
Also me: (constant self-deprecating humor to be *likeable*)
Also me: (constant self-deprecating humor to be *likeable*)
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I'm in this picture, and I just have to accept it.
My social media is quite polarized between locals and not today.
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My social media is quite polarized between locals and not today.
This looks terrific and SO RELEVANT.
"The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were the target of repeated efforts at repeal in the 1900s and 1910s." 🗃️
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This looks terrific and SO RELEVANT.
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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The irony of Indiana’s magical football season while politicians and university leaders are destroying its academic greatness (see www.indystar.com/story/opinio...)
Indiana's attack on IU is gutting academic programs | Opinion
IU is being transformed into a sad shell of a once-proud global research university.
www.indystar.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The irony of Indiana’s magical football season while politicians and university leaders are destroying its academic greatness (see www.indystar.com/story/opinio...)
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some absolute bangers
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
some absolute bangers
My daughter knows me so well.
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My daughter knows me so well.
ND's Klau Institute for Civil & Human Rights is searching for a postdoc; candidates from political science, econ, and sociology are encouraged to apply. I've been on the Klau board for a long time and this is a great group of folks, esp director Jennifer Mason McAward. apply.interfolio.com/177620
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December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
ND's Klau Institute for Civil & Human Rights is searching for a postdoc; candidates from political science, econ, and sociology are encouraged to apply. I've been on the Klau board for a long time and this is a great group of folks, esp director Jennifer Mason McAward. apply.interfolio.com/177620
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🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
In the sense of being informative? Yes indeed.
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In the sense of being informative? Yes indeed.
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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
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BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits.
That makes 214.
We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
That makes 214.
We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits.
That makes 214.
We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
That makes 214.
We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
Some days people just come for me for no reason at all.
your Music yearly wrap up should be accepted diagnostically idc
oh, you listened to the same song for 68 days in a row and played it 783 times?
you’re autistic babe
oh, you listened to the same song for 68 days in a row and played it 783 times?
you’re autistic babe
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Some days people just come for me for no reason at all.