The corona evaded us with the clouds but not the darkness or the waning sun! we got this fun shot from the telescope and our phone! The sky is amazing! LBJ State Park.

Wildflowers in the hill country of Texas.

Our paper at SSQ on ranked choice voting is trending! Very cool. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ss…

Trending in #Communication :
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1) Safeguarding the Peaceful Transfer of Power: Election Deniers During 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections

2) Advertising as governance & the digital commodity audience

3) Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices

Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. bit.ly/4cy0arM

RFK Jr. picks Nicole Shanahan as his running mate…why? because she’s rich according to this video. ⁦⁦Peter Turchin⁩ looks like elite overproduction all around! apnews.com/article/rfk-bo…

Really excited to share that this amazing new Element about regression discontinuity designs is now available in our Cambridge University Press - Politics QCMSS series. It's free for downloading and viewing online for a limited period, take advantage of the opportunity to add this to your collection!

Welcome Ryan Owens !

Moon over Tallahassee

The Election Performance Index came out and my home state of #nm is at the top!! Congrats to ⁦Maggie T. Oliver⁩ ⁦New Mexico Secretary of State⁩ Mandy Vigil, the 33 county clerks, and nm voters! Well-done! You are impressive!

Kyle Herman🇺🇸🗽 Lonna Atkeson Jack Santucci Rob Richie I'm a political scientist and I often retweet scholarship that I find interesting and meaningful. I have no agenda toward RCV.

Here's important new research on RCV by Lonna Atkeson and colleagues. The impact of voter confusion in ranked choice voting - Atkeson - Social Science Quarterly - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ss…

RCV IS harder for voters. It requires knowing more. It requires more mental ordering. It requires more marking.

It's not used in every election in places that adopt it, education efforts are low...this is *confusing*

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Jack Santucci

Below- interesting experimental study about RCV that came out the same day as ours at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ss… raising similar ?s about #RCV . Science is the accumulation of evidence! We are accumulating evidence! Looking forward to more!

I caught this beautiful circle oflighted clouds around the moon tonight. My photo overemphasizes the moon and nearby star. But what a beautiful cosmo. Look up my friends!

This is an interesting and provocative paper for folks interested in election reform and election administration. Must read.

There's a growing literature on ranked choice voting. Our (Eli McKown-Dawson Jack Santucci Kyle Saunders) contribution came out today. We raise some important questions with some excellent data from #SantaFe , #nmpol . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ss…

PolNet is back, hosted at FSU, June 5-8! We already have some amazing workshops lined up.

One more week to submit a proposal (by 3/25): fla.st/5ILM4C1A

We define 'networks' broadly and we'd love to see your proposal even if you're not sure it's a fit!

I saw these great people as I headed back to Florida - out for the Lobos! #golobos love it when the matrix delivers good things!

Been working on intro lectures and came across this potential slide. What would James Madison think?