Erin S. Pumpkins
@erincikanek.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Rhymes with mechanic. Emotions, media, measurement, food, coffee, rowing, and dogs.
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being married for a long time is very beautiful because you can watch your mom deliberately troll your dad by off-handedly suggesting that no one will want all this leftover turkey so you might as well throw it away
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
being married for a long time is very beautiful because you can watch your mom deliberately troll your dad by off-handedly suggesting that no one will want all this leftover turkey so you might as well throw it away
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"The post, which Trump introduced as a 'Happy Thanksgiving salutation', was filled with anti-immigrant language."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump says US will pause migration from 'third-world countries'
The president did not name which countries would be affected, but vowed to remove anyone "not a net asset" to the US.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"The post, which Trump introduced as a 'Happy Thanksgiving salutation', was filled with anti-immigrant language."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
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Happy thanksgiving. Boat stuck.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy thanksgiving. Boat stuck.
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My dad told an apocryphal story about a PhD defense where someone on the committee went off the rails on questioning and the advisor butted in with “Now is neither the time nor the place to get answers to the questions that have been troubling you all your life.”
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My dad told an apocryphal story about a PhD defense where someone on the committee went off the rails on questioning and the advisor butted in with “Now is neither the time nor the place to get answers to the questions that have been troubling you all your life.”
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FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
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📣 PhDs & postdocs: Our Call for Papers is now open! If you work on (de)polarization including migration, media or radical right parties — come to Dresden in June 2026. We’re eager to see what ideas, cases and theories are out there!. Please share!
@tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social
@tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
📣 PhDs & postdocs: Our Call for Papers is now open! If you work on (de)polarization including migration, media or radical right parties — come to Dresden in June 2026. We’re eager to see what ideas, cases and theories are out there!. Please share!
@tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social
@tudresden.bsky.social @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social
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The NSF social sciences program has funded some of the best research I’ve seen, especially at the PhD level. There really isn’t another country in the world with the equivalent funding capacity to fill this gap, and the damage from this choice will be felt for a long time.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The NSF social sciences program has funded some of the best research I’ve seen, especially at the PhD level. There really isn’t another country in the world with the equivalent funding capacity to fill this gap, and the damage from this choice will be felt for a long time.
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1/3: Help us welcome Jelly to the world — a newly hatched endangered zebra shark pup in Indonesia! 🦈💙
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
1/3: Help us welcome Jelly to the world — a newly hatched endangered zebra shark pup in Indonesia! 🦈💙
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
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Thank you to @myra.bsky.social for her recent insightful presentation on how sycophantic AI can reduce people’s willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts! @robbwiller.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Thank you to @myra.bsky.social for her recent insightful presentation on how sycophantic AI can reduce people’s willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts! @robbwiller.bsky.social
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Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!
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some of these cats have an "no! wait! no photo!" look and others are "i'm ready for my close-up, i own the whole city" look
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
some of these cats have an "no! wait! no photo!" look and others are "i'm ready for my close-up, i own the whole city" look
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Fellowship opportunity for for three scholars from SWANA/MENA countries to attend the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research in summer 2026. Apply by December 14 (scroll down for info).
Direct link to PDF call here: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Direct link to PDF call here: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research
www.maxwell.syr.edu
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Fellowship opportunity for for three scholars from SWANA/MENA countries to attend the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research in summer 2026. Apply by December 14 (scroll down for info).
Direct link to PDF call here: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Direct link to PDF call here: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
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Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
Faculty Positions
Open tenure-track and teaching faculty positions in computer science and informatics at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
www.cics.umass.edu
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
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Does anyone on here have experiencing recruiting progressive sheriffs? This is one element of being a county chair that is a problem I don't know how to solve.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Does anyone on here have experiencing recruiting progressive sheriffs? This is one element of being a county chair that is a problem I don't know how to solve.
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The food discourse is just making me hungry tbh
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The food discourse is just making me hungry tbh
please. his EARS!
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Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/zero-79654091/ca/fairfield/solano-county-sheriffs-office-ca504/
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
please. his EARS!
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I’d join a monastery and take a vow of silence.
“You’re right, I’ll do some homework now….” from Chotiner is serious horror movie stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’d join a monastery and take a vow of silence.
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
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Oh wait you mean a *family* of astronauts?!
There are two of them, that look identical! And both have been to space!
There are two of them, that look identical! And both have been to space!
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Oh wait you mean a *family* of astronauts?!
There are two of them, that look identical! And both have been to space!
There are two of them, that look identical! And both have been to space!
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Hegseth’s Pentagon attacking astronauts and Boy Scouts. What’s next - banning apple pie?
“U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'” —
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hegseth’s Pentagon attacking astronauts and Boy Scouts. What’s next - banning apple pie?
I’m never picking a fight with a literal astronaut.
Could NEVER be me.
Could NEVER be me.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I’m never picking a fight with a literal astronaut.
Could NEVER be me.
Could NEVER be me.