Dominik Stecuła
@stecula.bsky.social
Political Communication researcher
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I just ran a survey (with @stecula.bsky.social and Alex Rivard) and we found that people have no idea what housing prices are like in their community. People simultaneously underestimate what homes cost in their metros and think that where they live is much more expensive than the rest of the US.
Sometimes I think people forget that, in 2021 Rent Control got more votes than Jacob Frey did.
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I just ran a survey (with @stecula.bsky.social and Alex Rivard) and we found that people have no idea what housing prices are like in their community. People simultaneously underestimate what homes cost in their metros and think that where they live is much more expensive than the rest of the US.
Call me old fashioned, but I think freedom of speech is good, ackschually, and we shouldn't be jailing people for posting memes. Glad that to see the GOP commitment to free speech was full fledged and unwavering and not at all cynical political theater.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting
A Middle Tennessee sheriff is defending the arrest of a man for posting an online meme quoting President Donald Trump.
www.newschannel5.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Call me old fashioned, but I think freedom of speech is good, ackschually, and we shouldn't be jailing people for posting memes. Glad that to see the GOP commitment to free speech was full fledged and unwavering and not at all cynical political theater.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Our universities are truly a US superpower. Most states have at least one world class research university that is an engine of the local economy and a magnet for top talent from all over the world. Policies like this are not like stepping on a rake, its like blowing your own head off with a cannon.
Gov. DeSantis directs Florida universities not to use H1B visas. This is such a self-owned. The US is a major exporter of higher ed & sells more of it to China each year than soy. But because a disfavored group offers that service, it's being attacked mercilessly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our universities are truly a US superpower. Most states have at least one world class research university that is an engine of the local economy and a magnet for top talent from all over the world. Policies like this are not like stepping on a rake, its like blowing your own head off with a cannon.
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in case you missed it when I posted the preprint on acceptance, here's the more aesthetically pleasing, actually formatted (and unfortunately timely) article for your reading pleasure! (cc: Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, @matthewhitt.bsky.social):
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Mindset to gain? Framing effects, Need for Chaos, and the limits of ‘Burning It All Down’ | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core
Mindset to gain? Framing effects, Need for Chaos, and the limits of ‘Burning It All Down’
www.cambridge.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
in case you missed it when I posted the preprint on acceptance, here's the more aesthetically pleasing, actually formatted (and unfortunately timely) article for your reading pleasure! (cc: Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, @matthewhitt.bsky.social):
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)
Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)
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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
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Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.
Just lost a paper after an R&R. One reviewer said accept. The other said “At the risk of frustrating the authors, however, I’m afraid the paper is still pretty badly written.” The latter comment, a constructive, intellectual feast of a comment, prevailed. Editor rejected it. Peer review is a joke.
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just lost a paper after an R&R. One reviewer said accept. The other said “At the risk of frustrating the authors, however, I’m afraid the paper is still pretty badly written.” The latter comment, a constructive, intellectual feast of a comment, prevailed. Editor rejected it. Peer review is a joke.
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Throwback Thursday!
Let’s take a moment to look back at the 2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference!
The many smiling faces in the selection of pictures show just how amazing the preconference was. You can find more pictures at this link: shorturl.at/EJj3v
Let’s take a moment to look back at the 2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference!
The many smiling faces in the selection of pictures show just how amazing the preconference was. You can find more pictures at this link: shorturl.at/EJj3v
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Throwback Thursday!
Let’s take a moment to look back at the 2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference!
The many smiling faces in the selection of pictures show just how amazing the preconference was. You can find more pictures at this link: shorturl.at/EJj3v
Let’s take a moment to look back at the 2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference!
The many smiling faces in the selection of pictures show just how amazing the preconference was. You can find more pictures at this link: shorturl.at/EJj3v
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New (very timely!) paper with Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social,
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New (very timely!) paper with Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social,
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
APSA in Vancouver was a blast, so great to see old friends. See you all next year in Boston.
September 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
APSA in Vancouver was a blast, so great to see old friends. See you all next year in Boston.
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Today's ACIP meeting may use VAERS data to make false claims about vaccine injury.
To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...
To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...
Vaccine death and side effects database relies on unverified reports – and Trump officials and right-wing media are applying it out of context
Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. But the database could also be used as a gauge for public concerns.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today's ACIP meeting may use VAERS data to make false claims about vaccine injury.
To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...
To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...
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What are we doing here, @nytimes.com? You were obviously not built for covering authoritarianism.
August 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
What are we doing here, @nytimes.com? You were obviously not built for covering authoritarianism.
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately
Fascinating work from William Gee (on the job market!) looking at different social strategies (making lots of weak-tie friends v a few very strong friends) and their implications for polarizing. William is a student of @drchip97.bsky.social in communication at OSU #pacss2025 #polnet2025
August 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately
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Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla...
It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year
Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year
Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
Klarman Fellowships
The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...
as.cornell.edu
August 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla...
It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year
Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year
Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
Consider the stark contrast between how Trump and Vance treated Zelensky and Putin. American soldiers, on their knees, rolling the red carpet before war criminal Putin. A shameful day.
August 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Consider the stark contrast between how Trump and Vance treated Zelensky and Putin. American soldiers, on their knees, rolling the red carpet before war criminal Putin. A shameful day.
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Few Americans actively support the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed. But, our data show that many seem to have no problem with it.
@stecula.bsky.social and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...
@stecula.bsky.social and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...
Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science a...
www.scientificamerican.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Few Americans actively support the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed. But, our data show that many seem to have no problem with it.
@stecula.bsky.social and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...
@stecula.bsky.social and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...
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🚨🚨 Only a few days left to submit a paper for the Political Communication Preconference at APSA! 🚨🚨
@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions!
DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions!
DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
u.osu.edu
May 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚨🚨 Only a few days left to submit a paper for the Political Communication Preconference at APSA! 🚨🚨
@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions!
DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
@ashleymuddiman.bsky.social @stecula.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your submissions!
DEADLINE: May 25th, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7). CFP here: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
3 more days! Get your applications in and share widely!
The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
u.osu.edu
May 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
3 more days! Get your applications in and share widely!
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new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5
Reminder that there are 13 more days to apply to the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference. Join us in Vancouver!
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
u.osu.edu
May 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reminder that there are 13 more days to apply to the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference. Join us in Vancouver!
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
Trump University 2.0
If it goes along with anything along these lines, Columbia should really go all in and stop calling itself a "university"
Exclusive | Trump Administration Proposes Terms for Federal Oversight of Columbia University
The government has presented the Ivy League school with a proposal for a consent decree.
www.wsj.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Trump University 2.0
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For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
May 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz