Sierra Davis Thomander 📊
@sierrathomander.bsky.social
Stanford Political Science PhD Candidate | Gender, Political Behavior/Psych, Experiments & Surveys | LDS | BYU & Qualtrics Alum | 🦥 fan | Zach, Matisse & Violet | she/her | Views my own ✌🏽
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Want to make a conjoint experiment in Qualtrics? I'm sharing a template + how-to I made while Survey Lab manager this past semester. I hope it is helpful! sierradavisthomander.com/blogposts/de...
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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
May the Force Be With You ☄️🌌💫 Happy Halloween!
(I made most of my costume myself and WOW, I need to calm down next year)
#halloween2025 #starwars
(I made most of my costume myself and WOW, I need to calm down next year)
#halloween2025 #starwars
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
May the Force Be With You ☄️🌌💫 Happy Halloween!
(I made most of my costume myself and WOW, I need to calm down next year)
#halloween2025 #starwars
(I made most of my costume myself and WOW, I need to calm down next year)
#halloween2025 #starwars
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🎶 💜🤍💛
But then suddenly we felt it
Like a mighty cannon blast
Every cost and battle lost of every generation past
So we rose up in defiance
Yes, we chose to risk it all
For our sisters' silent voices
Let the patriarchy fall
🎶 💜🤍💛
But then suddenly we felt it
Like a mighty cannon blast
Every cost and battle lost of every generation past
So we rose up in defiance
Yes, we chose to risk it all
For our sisters' silent voices
Let the patriarchy fall
🎶 💜🤍💛
The young are at the gates! 💜💛🏳️🇺🇸💛💜 Matisse & Mom saw their dream musical, Suffs, all about the fight for the 19th amendment and women's rights! Thank you @lwvsf.bsky.social for hosting!
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🎶 💜🤍💛
But then suddenly we felt it
Like a mighty cannon blast
Every cost and battle lost of every generation past
So we rose up in defiance
Yes, we chose to risk it all
For our sisters' silent voices
Let the patriarchy fall
🎶 💜🤍💛
But then suddenly we felt it
Like a mighty cannon blast
Every cost and battle lost of every generation past
So we rose up in defiance
Yes, we chose to risk it all
For our sisters' silent voices
Let the patriarchy fall
🎶 💜🤍💛
The young are at the gates! 💜💛🏳️🇺🇸💛💜 Matisse & Mom saw their dream musical, Suffs, all about the fight for the 19th amendment and women's rights! Thank you @lwvsf.bsky.social for hosting!
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The young are at the gates! 💜💛🏳️🇺🇸💛💜 Matisse & Mom saw their dream musical, Suffs, all about the fight for the 19th amendment and women's rights! Thank you @lwvsf.bsky.social for hosting!
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It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
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basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways
this piece from @whyy.org is great
an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive
whyy.org/segments/oze...
this piece from @whyy.org is great
an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive
whyy.org/segments/oze...
October 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways
this piece from @whyy.org is great
an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive
whyy.org/segments/oze...
this piece from @whyy.org is great
an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive
whyy.org/segments/oze...
Me checking my email while on the academic job market
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Me checking my email while on the academic job market
I know some people think "it is what it is" is a thought-terminating cliche or whatever, but it's getting me through job market season day by day 🤷♀️
October 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I know some people think "it is what it is" is a thought-terminating cliche or whatever, but it's getting me through job market season day by day 🤷♀️
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I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?
If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?
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bring back the santa robes
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
bring back the santa robes
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Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.
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Open enrollment begins on November 1, Mike.
SHERMAN: Who will own the political impact if health insurance does go up 200 percent?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's putting the cart like a mile in front of the horse.
MIKE JOHNSON: That's putting the cart like a mile in front of the horse.
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Open enrollment begins on November 1, Mike.
It's a hit ✨🧡💚🤍🧡💚🤍✨
October 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's a hit ✨🧡💚🤍🧡💚🤍✨
A great day of sorrow for our faith after our President dies and a church building full of our brothers and sisters in Michigan was attacked by a gunman/arsonist. Please keep the victims and families in your thoughts and prayers at this time.
September 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A great day of sorrow for our faith after our President dies and a church building full of our brothers and sisters in Michigan was attacked by a gunman/arsonist. Please keep the victims and families in your thoughts and prayers at this time.
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🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social
Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?
@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions
Thread 🧵1/10
Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?
@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions
Thread 🧵1/10
September 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social
Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?
@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions
Thread 🧵1/10
Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?
@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions
Thread 🧵1/10
Happy to announce that my sweet daughter Matisse is playing Molly in the Palo Alto Players production of Annie! ⭐️🗽🎭
If you're in the Bay Area in November (or wanna visit), come and see her!
paplayers.org/event/annie/
Her show dates🗓️: 11/7, 11/14, 11/15 evening, 11/22 matinee, 11/23
If you're in the Bay Area in November (or wanna visit), come and see her!
paplayers.org/event/annie/
Her show dates🗓️: 11/7, 11/14, 11/15 evening, 11/22 matinee, 11/23
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Happy to announce that my sweet daughter Matisse is playing Molly in the Palo Alto Players production of Annie! ⭐️🗽🎭
If you're in the Bay Area in November (or wanna visit), come and see her!
paplayers.org/event/annie/
Her show dates🗓️: 11/7, 11/14, 11/15 evening, 11/22 matinee, 11/23
If you're in the Bay Area in November (or wanna visit), come and see her!
paplayers.org/event/annie/
Her show dates🗓️: 11/7, 11/14, 11/15 evening, 11/22 matinee, 11/23
17 academic job applications down, now just 21 more to go! 😅
September 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
17 academic job applications down, now just 21 more to go! 😅
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to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)
genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)
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This is absolute nonsense. First of all, VCs don't do survey-based statistical sampling on this scale, where the error is somewhat inherent. Second, modeling errors on a much larger scale are a common and accepted risk in VC.
August 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is absolute nonsense. First of all, VCs don't do survey-based statistical sampling on this scale, where the error is somewhat inherent. Second, modeling errors on a much larger scale are a common and accepted risk in VC.
Want to make a conjoint experiment in Qualtrics? I'm sharing a template + how-to I made while Survey Lab manager this past semester. I hope it is helpful! sierradavisthomander.com/blogposts/de...
Designing Conjoint Experiments in Qualtrics — Sierra Davis Thomander
conjoint experiment, Qualtrics, Qualtrics survey, candidate choice experiment, survey template, Javascript, HTML, experimental design, market research, product design, public policy research, Sierra D...
sierradavisthomander.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Want to make a conjoint experiment in Qualtrics? I'm sharing a template + how-to I made while Survey Lab manager this past semester. I hope it is helpful! sierradavisthomander.com/blogposts/de...
Reposted by Sierra Davis Thomander 📊
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...