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Ian Anson

@iganson.bsky.social

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Political scientist at UMBC. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning. Dad, husband, author, podcaster, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast www.iananson.com

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hey new followers! I'm an associate prof of political science at UMBC (Baltimore, Maryland, USA).

I study how partisans perceive the real world (especially the economy), how they perceive each other (esp. negative partisanship), and how they perceive themselves (esp. via overconfidence). And more!

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 2d

In 2011 I got season tickets and a free T-shirt for $20

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 2d

In 2011, while in my PhD program, I bought season tickets to #Indiana University Football. I paid $20. They gave me a free T-shirt. I never saw them win.

All this to say: What's happening in Bloomington right now is downright unfathomable!

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 5d

Unfortunately for "Chapel Bill," the football scoreboard does not afford teams the kind of ludicrous spin that keeps political actors from experiencing the full bore of the public's ire.

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 5d

The Belichick debacle at #UNC as the ultimate parable of our political moment. It's a story about strongarm tactics, hubris, assaults on legacy institutions, "moving fast and breaking things," nepotism, gerontocracy, motivated reasoning, trampled norms, and ultimately, a shockingly poor outcome.

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 9d

woof woof

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 22d

Some of them are even ranked one spot above above Yale in USNWR's "Best Undergraduate Teaching" ratings for 2025

(It's us, it's UMBC)

John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 22d

A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22d

"Elite colleges have convinced us that scarcity equals quality, that a lower acceptance rate means a better education. But their own behavior shows that many of their decisions are more about manipulating the market than academic or any other kind of excellence." 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 26d

As a person who loves drinking tea from Yunnan Province... yea

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 27d

Fed’s Powell on tariff: “It's very clear that there's some pass through” and companies involved in trade will “tell you that they have every intention of passing [tariffs] through in time but they're not doing that now.”

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ugh

Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · Sep 12

Our region is chock-full of spotted lanternflies. National Weather Service radar is detecting them yet again today. Stomp them!

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · Sep 5

I wrote 4,500+ words about a gibberish college fight song and I am starting to think I’ve gone completely insane www.ncrabbithole.com/p/sex-drugs-...

Sex, Drugs, and Ay Ziggy Zoomba

UNC and Bowling Green are polar opposites, yet they both share a weird fight song. Why? Blame a man who the CIA drugged with LSD, wrote lots of erotic novels, and sang a song that makes no sense.

www.ncrabbithole.com

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Everyone in Baltimore is on a random side quest ❤️

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Sep 6

oh no

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Sep 6

6 of my publications, cool cool

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Aug 5

oops! all jokers

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Aug 5

See also the repugnant municipal race to the bottom brought on by Amazon HQ2

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Aug 1

Orioles also seeking to claim various cephalopods off waivers

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Aug 1

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your Minnesota Twins!

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Aug 1

This summer... Klaus Kinski *is*... Noïd

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Jul 19

The Parchment Papers

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Steven W. Webster @stevenwwebster.bsky.social · Jul 12

A sad update: our colleague, Ted Carmines, has passed. He will be sorely missed.

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sad to hear of the passing of the legendary Ted Carmines. Taking his PhD seminar in American politics was a career changing experience. If there were more Teds in the world (to say nothing of discipline) it would be a better place.

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yesterday while writing on campus, we were buzzed by an incredibly low (and loud) four-engine turboprop. We're really close to BWI, but this was a very unusual flight pattern.

Turns out it's a NASA project to collect air quality data!

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

N426NA Flight Tracking and History 24-Jun-2025 (KWAL-KWAL) - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for N426NA 24-Jun-2025 (KWAL-KWAL) including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Jun 24

A shameful disservice to all Hoosiers

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 24

This is very, very bad.

A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.

wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...

Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing

By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…

wfiunews.wordpress.com

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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · Jun 18

A look at partisanship in the U.S. right now--what partisans will tolerate, what they won't, and where the parties differ.

(From an ongoing project with @iganson.bsky.social; n = ~1,100; graph made in @statacorp.bsky.social 😊)

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Jun 5

VO "dunking on his contemporaries from the top of the" Key

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Jun 5

VO Key, Jr is one of the greats of classic political science, but how many still read him? We're totally missing out. Not just on the ideas, but this guy can write, & knows how to shiv those he considers fools.

On C. Wright Mills: "...if we may caricature Mr. Mills—and he invites caricature..."

Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm over here trying to finish a book, prepare for a new addition to our family, and make progress on a bunch of papers...

And they have the audacity to announce a new Final Fantasy Tactics? My all-time #1 favorite game!?