@rayblock1

Associate Professor @penn_state | Senior Political Scientist @RANDCorporation. Truth decay, racial, ethnic, and gender group politics. Opinions mine.

Joined June 2011
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American University’s Department of Government is hiring! AP/Methods x 2 apply.interfolio.com/128065 Comparative apply.interfolio.com/128076 If you’re at PolMeth, I’m happy to answer questions about the department/life in DC. Feel free to ambush me!
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Now available in iPoll: 12,000+ respondent American COVID-19 Vaccine poll sheds light on vaccine hesitancy among rural & POC populations @AfAmResearch Explore the data here: bit.ly/3lUeIg7
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🚨Pls share. Are you interested in doing a PhD in #PoliSci on political trust and mistrust? Do you have some training/experience w quantitative data? Then apply for this 3yr $32k/yr PhD scholarship to come to sunny Brisbane 🌴🐨🌞. Deadline: 31 July 2023. griffith.edu.au/research-stu…
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Michael Rich@michaeldrich28 May 2023
“…not possible to independently assess & analyze whether policymakers, spaceflight participants, industry, or the public have sufficient information to make reasonably informed decisions about the safety of commercial spaceflight.” rand.org/blog/2023/05/enter-… via @RANDCorporation

Enter Outer Space at Your Own Risk?

Since 2004, federal law has barred most participant safety regulations and leaves nearly all issues of safety up to the discretion of the company providing the service. It's time to allow the...

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Unexpectedly, due to a budget windfall, I'm looking for a Master's student, likely someone from Latin America, who might be interested in coming to ISU starting in August for a two-year graduate assistantship. Sorry this is last minute! amyericasmith.org/call-for-a…
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An illustrated introduction to the autocorrelation function, with monster generations 👾💙🩵 🧵1/9
A line of related fuzzy monsters that ranges from more distant relatives (toward the left) to the current generation on the right. Several more recent generations are labeled, from “ME” on the far right, then “MY PARENT”, “MY GRANDPARENT”, “MY GREAT-GRANDPARENT” and “MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENT” moving toward the left. The current generation monster on the left is saying “Hello! Meet some of my ancestors.” Stylized text at the top reads “intro to the autocorrelation function (ACF).”

ALT A line of related fuzzy monsters that ranges from more distant relatives (toward the left) to the current generation on the right. Several more recent generations are labeled, from “ME” on the far right, then “MY PARENT”, “MY GRANDPARENT”, “MY GREAT-GRANDPARENT” and “MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENT” moving toward the left. The current generation monster on the left is saying “Hello! Meet some of my ancestors.” Stylized text at the top reads “intro to the autocorrelation function (ACF).”

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The Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Government at Cornell University are accepting applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Government & Public Policy (focus on the intersection of race/racism and public policy)👇 higheredjobs.com/details.cfm… #PAJobMarket
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Michael Rich@michaeldrich24 May 2023
.@RANDCorporation turns 75 rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs… via @RANDCorporation

RAND Review

The cover story commemorates RAND's 75th anniversary. One feature article explores what it would take to eliminate racial wealth disparities in the United States; another highlights a promising...

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Want to use @Stata to send a large number of emails for a survey or audit study? Check out this new package: *Sendemails*, which does just that. Working paper here: iza.org/publications/dp/1616… @smgaddis
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Y. Riley@DrEYR3rd23 May 2023
New volume edited by @SharonA82707528 hits the shelf next month. Happy to have contributed to this important collection of chapters.
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Y. Riley@DrEYR3rd19 May 2023
Thrilled to share that next fall I'll be joining the esteemed faculty at Sewanee: @univofthesouth as an Associate Professor of Politics with tenure and Director of African and African American Studies! I'll be relocating to Chattanooga, TN, and I'll be a little closer to home.
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Eileen Braman@EileenBraman2 May 2023
My book with Virginia will be out in October. Findings include a surprising degree of public support for fundamental change to democratic institutions. Constitutional entrepreneurs may capitalize if they can justify the risk by emphasizing improved prospects for citizens.
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Congratulations Vincent Hutchings of @UMich, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS160 #politicalscience
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Congratulations to Taran Samarth, a member of our student advisory board, on being named the @PSULiberalArts spring 2023 commencement marshal! psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/st…

Liberal Arts college marshal seeks to leave democratic impact on Penn State | Penn State University

Taran Samarth has been selected to represent the College of the Liberal Arts as its spring 2023 college marshal at the commencement ceremony on May 6. A Paterno Fellow and Schreyer Scholar, they are...

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After a long and unsuccessful search for a statistical inference and regression textbook at the right level for our PhD students, I finally decided to write up my lecture notes as a book. The book is publicly available if you are interested: mattblackwell.github.io/gov2…
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Dr. Wright@_thaWRIGHTway24 Mar 2023
My first solo-authored pub dropped! I’ve spoken about this piece extensively both at conferences and on the market. It’s the first chapter/article of my dissertation where I build up this framework of experiential rhetoric. So happy to see it in print. Check it out below!
Cambridge University Press - Politics@CUP_PoliSci24 Mar 2023
#OpenAccess from @PoliticsGenderJ - Telling the Tale: Black Women Politicians and Their Use of Experiential Rhetoric - ow.ly/bJvN50Nr4uU - @_thaWRIGHTway #FirstView
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Our 2022-23 Outstanding Professional Achievement Award recipient is Dr. Nadia Brown. (nadiaebrownphd.com/) Dr. Brown is a professor of government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and an affiliate in the African American Studies Program at @Georgetown.
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Join @cbeem1 for a presentation on democracy under attack on March 15 at 1:00 p.m. in 114 Katz Building. The lecture is part of the @PennStateSIA spring colloquium series.
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Finally...a chance to peruse the Handbook of Feminist Governance that arrived late last week! So many thanks to co-editors @johanna_kantola @MarianSawer & @JacquiTrue and the great authors who contributed.
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New @REPS_Lab paper by @EfrenPoliPsy , @bvicunat , & @ramos_alisso examines viability of PoC solidarity as driver of interminority coalitions. The 5th published study examining how PoC are politically galvanized despite real differences between them. link.springer.com/article/10…

Shared Status, Shared Politics? Evaluating a New Pathway to Black Solidarity with Other People of...

Political Behavior - Research suggests that solidarity between people of color (PoC) is triggered when a marginalized ingroup believes they are discriminated similarly to another outgroup. This...

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