Drew Engelhardt
@amengel.bsky.social
Assistant prof. Stony Brook University Political Science.
Political psychology: race, ethnicity, and politics; ideology. Loves measurement.
Sometimes ⚽ posts. YNWA. 🌭🐕🍺🚲
https://www.amengelhardt.com/
Political psychology: race, ethnicity, and politics; ideology. Loves measurement.
Sometimes ⚽ posts. YNWA. 🌭🐕🍺🚲
https://www.amengelhardt.com/
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
Here's a suggestion for a New Year's resolution: If you see influential bad research, say something. One part of the whole replication crisis story is that a lot of psychological researchers privately knew that a lot of stuff was bad, but it wasn't discussed publicly.
A hope for 2026 is that this perspective piece with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & @deevybee.bsky.social will serve as a template for others who are similarly frustrated with with exaggerated claims and double speak around so much of research. It's ok to point out that the emperor has no clothes!
The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.
Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Here's a suggestion for a New Year's resolution: If you see influential bad research, say something. One part of the whole replication crisis story is that a lot of psychological researchers privately knew that a lot of stuff was bad, but it wasn't discussed publicly.
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Putting it all together: Children's partisan endorsement looks more like affiliative "cheerleading" than epistemic trust.
Public agreement with the group may be less about belief and more about belonging.
9/11
Public agreement with the group may be less about belief and more about belonging.
9/11
January 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Yay! Our paper on PoC solidarity & vote intentions is now published at Advances in Psychology. Proud to say this project was spearheaded by #Kasheena-Rogbeer, one of my psychology PhD students! This is now 2 first-author papers for her in 12 months : )
Brief 🧵
advances.in/psychology/1...
Brief 🧵
advances.in/psychology/1...
Solidarity as a bridge: Shared discrimination is indirectly associated with voting intentions among People of Color
Can shared discrimination appeals move votes? New experiments show PoC solidarity rises and can boost support for PoC-aligned candidates. See who moved—and why.
advances.in
January 5, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Yay! Our paper on PoC solidarity & vote intentions is now published at Advances in Psychology. Proud to say this project was spearheaded by #Kasheena-Rogbeer, one of my psychology PhD students! This is now 2 first-author papers for her in 12 months : )
Brief 🧵
advances.in/psychology/1...
Brief 🧵
advances.in/psychology/1...
Seems bad
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Seems bad
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On AI & water, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling datacenters alone.
So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.
So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
On AI & water, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling datacenters alone.
So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.
So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.
I find this question from YouGov interesting for the perhaps unexpectedly smaller differences by demographics in contrast to politics.
Survey from end of last month.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Survey from end of last month.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
January 5, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I find this question from YouGov interesting for the perhaps unexpectedly smaller differences by demographics in contrast to politics.
Survey from end of last month.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Survey from end of last month.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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I don’t know how many professional brewers migrated to Bluesky, but I have a request for you.
Is your brewery healthy (using any definition that makes sense to you) and even growing? If so, I would love to have a chat. I think we need to remind people you exist. DM/reply/email. Thanks!
Is your brewery healthy (using any definition that makes sense to you) and even growing? If so, I would love to have a chat. I think we need to remind people you exist. DM/reply/email. Thanks!
January 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I don’t know how many professional brewers migrated to Bluesky, but I have a request for you.
Is your brewery healthy (using any definition that makes sense to you) and even growing? If so, I would love to have a chat. I think we need to remind people you exist. DM/reply/email. Thanks!
Is your brewery healthy (using any definition that makes sense to you) and even growing? If so, I would love to have a chat. I think we need to remind people you exist. DM/reply/email. Thanks!
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
For context, I once helped @xkcd.com find all questions in iPoll with more than 90% agreement. After removing filters intended to ensure that follow-ups made sense, we were left with things like "don't talk loudly in movie theaters" and "high unemployment is bad" fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
For context, I once helped @xkcd.com find all questions in iPoll with more than 90% agreement. After removing filters intended to ensure that follow-ups made sense, we were left with things like "don't talk loudly in movie theaters" and "high unemployment is bad" fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...
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And third: stepping back from political analysis to try to understand how people think about their own political identity -- and why that's so far from a simple question
People sometimes like to talk about "young voters," "male voters" and so on as meaningful blocs, but those identities matter more to some Americans than others, and political identity is complicated.
Some newly released data from us here:
www.cnn.com/2026/01/02/p...
Some newly released data from us here:
www.cnn.com/2026/01/02/p...
About 6 in 10 Americans say they feel politically connected by generation | CNN Politics
Americans feel more politically connected by generation than they do by race or gender, CNN polling data finds.
www.cnn.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
And third: stepping back from political analysis to try to understand how people think about their own political identity -- and why that's so far from a simple question
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
Our forthcoming book on authoritarianism and partisan sorting will get into similar issues
January 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Our forthcoming book on authoritarianism and partisan sorting will get into similar issues
To +1 Chris here too, I think it's helpful to think about attitudes towards civil rights as not only about race specifically (e.g., prejudice), which the referenced book helps point to (I'm biased with coauthors toward ideas of "worldviews").
white Americans sorted into different partisan coalitions on the basis of attitudes toward civil rights before they sorted on the basis of other sociocultural issues -- and that had important path-dependent downstream effects on the nature of the so-called 'culture war' divide, i.e.,
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
To +1 Chris here too, I think it's helpful to think about attitudes towards civil rights as not only about race specifically (e.g., prejudice), which the referenced book helps point to (I'm biased with coauthors toward ideas of "worldviews").
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
white Americans sorted into different partisan coalitions on the basis of attitudes toward civil rights before they sorted on the basis of other sociocultural issues -- and that had important path-dependent downstream effects on the nature of the so-called 'culture war' divide, i.e.,
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
white Americans sorted into different partisan coalitions on the basis of attitudes toward civil rights before they sorted on the basis of other sociocultural issues -- and that had important path-dependent downstream effects on the nature of the so-called 'culture war' divide, i.e.,
The good in the world is meeting folks in South London who recognize your Snallygaster sweatshirt and who you then share some nice sour bottles with on NYE. Appreciate the different, not the familiar.
December 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The good in the world is meeting folks in South London who recognize your Snallygaster sweatshirt and who you then share some nice sour bottles with on NYE. Appreciate the different, not the familiar.
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2/ Overall, 40% of Americans say they didn't read any books in 2025. Most of the rest read just a handful. Then there's a small minority of really heavy readers (more on them shortly!):
December 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
2/ Overall, 40% of Americans say they didn't read any books in 2025. Most of the rest read just a handful. Then there's a small minority of really heavy readers (more on them shortly!):
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Again, this isn't new. The text of the rule change is public! It's clarifying the way things have been done for years! Your local postal workers have already been hand canceling your April 15 tax returns and election day ballots for years, you just didn't notice!
December 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Again, this isn't new. The text of the rule change is public! It's clarifying the way things have been done for years! Your local postal workers have already been hand canceling your April 15 tax returns and election day ballots for years, you just didn't notice!
Pre-match drinks in what seemed effectively someone's backyard at Kenilworth Road makes for a 10/10 sports experience.
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Pre-match drinks in what seemed effectively someone's backyard at Kenilworth Road makes for a 10/10 sports experience.
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
explaining thermostatic shift in the behavior of Ebenezer Scrooge using the Tiny Tim For A Change model
in this paper I will
in this paper I will
December 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
explaining thermostatic shift in the behavior of Ebenezer Scrooge using the Tiny Tim For A Change model
in this paper I will
in this paper I will
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Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. So, we asked them what messages they'd have for Trump and Democratic leaders if they did have the chance to speak their mind.
New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
What Americans would tell Donald Trump or Democratic leaders if they could | CNN Politics
Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. But if they had the chance to tell Washington something, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, they’d say ple...
www.cnn.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. So, we asked them what messages they'd have for Trump and Democratic leaders if they did have the chance to speak their mind.
New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.
Use of Force By NYPD Officers Surged 20% Last Year
The 11,746 incidents of use of force in 2024 by police officers marked the highest number since detailed record-keeping began in 2016.
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.
Good news for those seeing the child-rearing values measure of authoritarianism as pretty sticky: error-corrected stability over 8 years in the ANES panel is .87 compared to .76 for 7-point PID and .80 for ideological self-id.
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Good news for those seeing the child-rearing values measure of authoritarianism as pretty sticky: error-corrected stability over 8 years in the ANES panel is .87 compared to .76 for 7-point PID and .80 for ideological self-id.
So much for the "contentious holiday" claims.
NEW Economist/YouGov Dec 20-22
% who say there has ever been an argument about politics at a holiday celebration they've attended
U.S. adult citizens: 24%
Democrats: 28%
Independents: 22%
Republicans: 22%
18-29: 34%
30-44: 28%
45-64: 19%
65+: 16%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
% who say there has ever been an argument about politics at a holiday celebration they've attended
U.S. adult citizens: 24%
Democrats: 28%
Independents: 22%
Republicans: 22%
18-29: 34%
30-44: 28%
45-64: 19%
65+: 16%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
December 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So much for the "contentious holiday" claims.
Reposted by Drew Engelhardt
Save the dates for PolNet, 4-7 August 2026
2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Save the dates for PolNet, 4-7 August 2026
Makes sense. It's "these data"
New policy: "oh you believe this data?" just gets you blocked.
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Makes sense. It's "these data"
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Good methods question
What is the proper way to study an outcome where you believe the secret ingredient matters more/less at the top end of the range? Is this where we have to start using quantile regression? It just seems like it's going to be ridiculously underpowered if interest is in the tails
December 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Good methods question