#QOTD. ”In God we trust. All others must bring data.” -- W. Edwards Deming.

Great piece by @DavidZipper in @CityLab on my work with @cailin_slattery & @WNober on state capacity challenges building infrastructure -- and how good government workers pay for themselves many times over.

Great postdoc opportunity!

Good science invites others to assess the work and to reproduce and replicate the results. See how and why we do it at Yale. https://t.co/TZZHaf3gB3 @yalelibrary

Would you like to participate in the 4th Annual Conference on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior to be hosted at WashU May 21-22? Please check out the website for more information here: https://t.co/Th8og8iDyX and submit a proposal here: https://t.co/UWAhn23A1g.

My students kept using AI. I couldn’t make them stop. It’s terrible for learning. Students engage with the content less, and the end result is that the purpose of education is circumvented. Expertise is never built. I wrote about it for @TheArgumentMag. https://t.co/inDLnSECIp

Connecticut is going to spend $1 billion on a moveable bridge to serve *one* boat that goes up and down the river. The Army Corps of Engineers was inflexible on this issue despite the cost bloat. Should be a go to example for “marble cake federalism.” By @ZLiscow interviewed by

Good public data on why support/oppose policy questions are far from sufficient to tell you what people think: NYT on "should we do it here" and Yale on the tradeoffs for free buses in NYC. Polling on issues is actually hard! Most people have nuanced views, if they've even given

Good coverage from @Gothamist ( https://t.co/SYOJUIh11k). Link to NYC's "DRAFT SCOPE OF WORK FOR A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE CITYWIDE CONTAINERIZATION PROGRAM" ( https://t.co/qqSquKiDVH)

NYC won't get garbage bins until 2032 because replacing a handful of parking spots with garbage bins triggers State Environmental Quality Review Act and City Environmental Quality Review reviews. Really important to determine if garbage bins displace vulnerable populations

DEI for intellectual diversity is a genuinely good idea.

@SNFAgora @AEI Link to learn more:

Steven Teles (@SNFAgora) and Jenna Storey (@AEI) have launched the Graduate Student Intellectual Diversity Initiative to help broaden intellectual diversity on campus through mentoring potential PhD students with diverse ideological backgrounds. More details in thread

To my knowledge, this is the first publicly available precinct-level estimate of Presidential support by demographic on a national scale. Here’s a quick demo of how it works:

Welcoming a nationwide ​“build build build” movement to town, Mayor Justin Elicker called on New Haven to adopt the ​“YIMBY posture” of ​“pro-homes, pro-growth, and pro-inclusive growth.”

Using actually comparable questions over time from @PRL_Tweets there has been no change in support for political violence. Even if that weren't true, @ProfessorPape has no evidence (or research design) to connect any changes in opinion to the horrendous acts of violence (in

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ @cailin_slattery & @WNober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

Job links: (1) AP: https://t.co/uTC9sHOeDa (2) Quant:

Yale Political Science has two open-rank searches this fall in (1) American Politics, and (2) Quantitative Political Science, open to subfield. Review of applications will begin on October 3. Links to jobs in next tweet

Fascinating study showing rising educational polarization in Congress. The percentage of senators who graduated from Yale now shows a huge split along party lines:

Great (concerning) article on the state of grade inflation at Harvard. @YaleCollege is in the same situation. Glad to see that Harvard has formed a new committee to address grade inflation. Yale needs to follow suit