Ian Anson
@iganson.bsky.social
Political scientist at UMBC. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning.
Dad, husband, author, podcaster, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast
www.iananson.com
Dad, husband, author, podcaster, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast
www.iananson.com
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Ian Anson
@iganson.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hey new followers! I'm an associate prof of political science at UMBC (Baltimore, Maryland, USA).
I study how partisans perceive the real world (especially the economy), how they perceive each other (esp. negative partisanship), and how they perceive themselves (esp. via overconfidence). And more!
I study how partisans perceive the real world (especially the economy), how they perceive each other (esp. negative partisanship), and how they perceive themselves (esp. via overconfidence). And more!
The skyclub always wins
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The skyclub always wins
Just as relevant if you replaced "technological innovation" with "social science research"
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just as relevant if you replaced "technological innovation" with "social science research"
Today in baby world: I learned it is a bad idea to go on TV after not sleeping for 9 and a half weeks in a row. You will immediately learn how rough you actually look!
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Today in baby world: I learned it is a bad idea to go on TV after not sleeping for 9 and a half weeks in a row. You will immediately learn how rough you actually look!
The legendary Ted Carmines (RIP) used to complain that every election year he would get dozens of phone calls from pundits asking him Is This Election Is A Realignment?? and he'd be like read my book you fools!
It strikes me that the past 20 years in American politics have been defined by the quest for a realignment election on the scale of 1932/1936 or 1980/1984 and that simply has not happened.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The legendary Ted Carmines (RIP) used to complain that every election year he would get dozens of phone calls from pundits asking him Is This Election Is A Realignment?? and he'd be like read my book you fools!
Catch me on @wbaltv11.bsky.social tonight talking mid-decade redistricting and Gov. Moore's new efforts to flip a seat blue with David Collins!
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Catch me on @wbaltv11.bsky.social tonight talking mid-decade redistricting and Gov. Moore's new efforts to flip a seat blue with David Collins!
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What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
Fun to think that next year the UMBC exit poll may be joined by statewide pro exit polling efforts, allowing us to compare results!
Details here on how exit polling/poll of election voters! For the in-the-weeds details on methodology, see: ssrs.com/wp-content/u...
This year, for the first time since 2016, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC and the Associated Press are working together to produce exit polls, in collaboration with SSRS, a nonpartisan research company that also conducts CNN’s polling. https://cnn.it/48TVi0W
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Fun to think that next year the UMBC exit poll may be joined by statewide pro exit polling efforts, allowing us to compare results!
Baseball is over. The wind is rising, the clocks twisting towards darkness, icicles soon to hang from stadium seats. But amidst the gathering night, a southern light flickers....
www.springtrainingcountdown.com
www.springtrainingcountdown.com
2026 MLB Spring Training Countdown
Helping baseball fans survive the winter.
www.springtrainingcountdown.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Baseball is over. The wind is rising, the clocks twisting towards darkness, icicles soon to hang from stadium seats. But amidst the gathering night, a southern light flickers....
www.springtrainingcountdown.com
www.springtrainingcountdown.com
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Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
Extremely baseball voice: "baseball"
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Extremely baseball voice: "baseball"
Regrettably I enjoyed this very much
November 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Regrettably I enjoyed this very much
Baltimore trick-or-treating is the best. A gleeful anachronism. The 90s are aliiiiive!!
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Baltimore trick-or-treating is the best. A gleeful anachronism. The 90s are aliiiiive!!
Hat tip to John V. Kane, whose paper on null effects in political science survey experiments was instrumental to making our case in this new @poqjournal.bsky.social paper!
At last!! Delighted to share my recent paper with @umbc.bsky.social colleague Carolyn Forestiere! We tried to stimulate non-religious Americans' group consciousness & political engagement in response to salient cues. Result? Theoretically meaningful 🚨NULL EFFECTS!🚨
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Sleeping Giant or Herd of Cats? An Experimental Investigation of Nonreligious Americans’ Responsiveness to Issue- and Group-Based Political Cues
Abstract. The rise of the “religious nones” has garnered significant interest among journalists and scholars. Whereas very few people reported that they we
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hat tip to John V. Kane, whose paper on null effects in political science survey experiments was instrumental to making our case in this new @poqjournal.bsky.social paper!
At last!! Delighted to share my recent paper with @umbc.bsky.social colleague Carolyn Forestiere! We tried to stimulate non-religious Americans' group consciousness & political engagement in response to salient cues. Result? Theoretically meaningful 🚨NULL EFFECTS!🚨
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Sleeping Giant or Herd of Cats? An Experimental Investigation of Nonreligious Americans’ Responsiveness to Issue- and Group-Based Political Cues
Abstract. The rise of the “religious nones” has garnered significant interest among journalists and scholars. Whereas very few people reported that they we
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
At last!! Delighted to share my recent paper with @umbc.bsky.social colleague Carolyn Forestiere! We tried to stimulate non-religious Americans' group consciousness & political engagement in response to salient cues. Result? Theoretically meaningful 🚨NULL EFFECTS!🚨
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
A few years ago I painstakingly created a similar classroom activity using CES data. Lots of "fun" for students to learn about the preferences of real voters!
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A few years ago I painstakingly created a similar classroom activity using CES data. Lots of "fun" for students to learn about the preferences of real voters!
I suspect I will be citing this great new @mattgraham.bsky.social piece often!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Expressive Responding and the Economy: The Case of Trump’s Return to Office | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
Expressive Responding and the Economy: The Case of Trump’s Return to Office
www.cambridge.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I suspect I will be citing this great new @mattgraham.bsky.social piece often!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Your email finds me holding a screaming 8 week old, so yeah, sorry
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Your email finds me holding a screaming 8 week old, so yeah, sorry
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Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
Gone are the days of Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice
ESPN described a UNC running back as "Amtrak"ing his way through the Cal defence. So i checked and that would actually take 4 days and its mostly by bus. Damn you guys should trally build more rail.
October 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Gone are the days of Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice
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If you're teaching in a classroom and you use the chalkboard/whiteboard, you erase that board after class before you leave
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If you're teaching in a classroom and you use the chalkboard/whiteboard, you erase that board after class before you leave
Coming to realize I love Baltimore in part because it somehow feels like a pre-Internet city
October 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Coming to realize I love Baltimore in part because it somehow feels like a pre-Internet city
The only thing keeping me going during these late night newborn feeding sessions is the Hong Kong 90s action movies collection on Criterion Channel. Chow Yun-Fat is the man!
October 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The only thing keeping me going during these late night newborn feeding sessions is the Hong Kong 90s action movies collection on Criterion Channel. Chow Yun-Fat is the man!
In 2011, while in my PhD program, I bought season tickets to #Indiana University Football. I paid $20. They gave me a free T-shirt. I never saw them win.
All this to say: What's happening in Bloomington right now is downright unfathomable!
All this to say: What's happening in Bloomington right now is downright unfathomable!
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In 2011, while in my PhD program, I bought season tickets to #Indiana University Football. I paid $20. They gave me a free T-shirt. I never saw them win.
All this to say: What's happening in Bloomington right now is downright unfathomable!
All this to say: What's happening in Bloomington right now is downright unfathomable!
Some of them are even ranked one spot above above Yale in USNWR's "Best Undergraduate Teaching" ratings for 2025
(It's us, it's UMBC)
(It's us, it's UMBC)
A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.
"Elite colleges have convinced us that scarcity equals quality, that a lower acceptance rate means a better education. But their own behavior shows that many of their decisions are more about manipulating the market than academic or any other kind of excellence." 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Some of them are even ranked one spot above above Yale in USNWR's "Best Undergraduate Teaching" ratings for 2025
(It's us, it's UMBC)
(It's us, it's UMBC)