🎉Today is finally the release date for our book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (@stanfordpress; w/ Paul Collins & @Lring86)! While I love the book’s cover, I’m also very excited for you to see what is inside. Here’s a preview 🧵: 1/

RT @mjnelson7: For folks looking for some stats about the Court, Epstein, @WashUChancellor, and I have a preliminary report on the term: ht….

Guess I can't submit a paper to CELS this year. "Error: maximum paper size is 2 megabytes, your paper is 2.0009765625 megabytes.".

Very similar to the path of my jokes in class. 😬 😂 Some swish, some hit the rim but the students eventually get them and laugh, and some bounce far away (or air ball?).

The research provides important insights into criminal adjudications in the U.S. and includes "expanding, testing, and disseminating novel plea-simulation software designed for both research and educational purposes.". 2/2.

File this under "cool research" . In 2019, the NSF funded Wilford's CAREER grant "A system of pleas: Using a role-playing simulation to test plea decision models." .1/.

Current SCDB flat data files (along with lots more info on the SCDB) are here: Online queryable data--one of my personal favorite features of the modern SCBD--are available through 2023 here: 4/.

The SCDB contains 247 pieces of info across 6 categories of variables: identifiers, background, chronological, substantive, outcome, and voting/opinion. 3/.

The database "is a comprehensive, public, multi-user data resource containing information about every case decided by the United States Supreme Court from its first decision in 1791 to today." . 2/.

After a little STL tornado delay. let's get back to highlighting some great NSF-sponsored projects. Today's highlight has significant STL connections and has made multiple generations of scholarship (and journalism and teaching) better: The U.S. Supreme Court Database (SCDB).1/.

RT @NWSStLouis: Initial survey of the May 16 St Louis tornado. The tornado likely continued much further into IL and survey teams will cont….

STL tornado damage and initial cleanup

Today's NSF Funding Highlight: The many dissertation improvement grants (and equivalents) funded by the NSF. These grants are small in size but help launch research agendas & careers. These awards=a better dissertation in scope and design. #LowCostHighImpact.

The really great news? Avraham continues to update the database today! See and links within. #LowCostHighImpact 4/4.

The data have been frequently used and cited, with an impact that extends far beyond scholars. 3/.

The data record things like details on the reform, whether juries are allowed to be informed of it, how state courts responded to the reform, and whether it was amended by the state legislature. 2/.

Today's NSF Funding Highlight: In 2006, state tort reform was hugely salient, and that continues to endure. Avraham's "Database of State Tort Law Reforms" yielded a state-by-state database tracking state and DC laws. 1/.

Users of the manual include judges (federal and state) but also attorneys, legal scholars, and law students (and likely many more). 4/4 #LowCostHighImpact.

Coverage includes important but highly technical topics like DNA identification and genetic testing, expert testimony, statistical models, survey research, economic damages calculation, toxicology, and more. 3/.

This project brings together a "committee of 10-12 members representing. legal and scientific/ engineering/ medical communities" to partner with the Federal Judicial Center to develop an updated "science for judges" manual. 2/.

Today's NSF Funded Research Highlight: 2021's "Science for Judges-Development of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 4th Ed." by Mazza. Scientific evidence is everywhere in courts today. NSF funding of scientific evidence evaluation improves court processes & outcomes.1/.