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Zoe Schuck
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political science graduate student. OR grown, MN educated, former CO transplant and currently CA dreaming. ask me about my grandma hobbies!
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Discover this PSJ article from our latest issue exploring shifts in public attention, spending preferences, and policy attitudes on terror-related issues after the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting.

By Youlang Zhang & Xinsheng Liu

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
August 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
nothing has humbled me more than the book for undergraduate mathematics I started last week. made it 11 pages before I had to quit and remind myself that no one else has probably used the quadratic formula in the last 10 years either
August 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
in true grad student fashion, i spent all year mastering latex for an article i was writing for publication in a specific journal, only to finally finish it and see that the journal requires all articles to be submitted in word 🙃
August 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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a lot of people feel that we can't nominate women for president because they'd lose. I explain why these arguments don't make sense...and also, worth remembering that following this logic of "safe" candidates is a big part of why we're here now, in hell. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/democrats-...
Democrats Should Still Nominate Women for President
Has nominating men really turned out that well?
www.everythingishorrible.net
May 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: A Second Circuit motions panel hears arguments on the govt's emergency request to stop Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk from being physically moved from Louisiana to Vermont while the govt appeals the VT fed court's jurisdiction. (It isn't clear this order should even be appealable.)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | Courtroom 1703
YouTube video by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
www.youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I love academia
February 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I thought going into the break I had a good first chunk of my Master’s thesis. However, in trying to clarify my research question and hypothesis after my committee’s round of feedback, I’ve made this disaster.
February 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
First day of spring semester, and my instructions were to make a slide making me “cool and relatable” to the students. Thoughts?
January 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just found a best buddy for the eventual dissertation, stay tuned for the next 5-6 years folks bc me & this tracker are about to get real close
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
immpolicytracking.org
January 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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“You can just use OLS!”
January 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Successfully presented my paper (first chunk/partial draft of the masters thesis), got some wonderful feedback and talked to lots of lovely people! And took some beach time.

#spsa2025
January 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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What happened to national news could happen to local news - as we've seen again and again, elite attacks are the most important factor undermining media trust www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"We find that when passion is expressed by men, it’s often seen as a promising indicator of diligence and leadership capacity. Yet when women display the same passion, they face a different reaction — one that deems their passionate expressions as inappropriate."
hbr.org/2024/12/rese...
Research: Why Passionate Men Succeed, Even When They’re Mediocre
By identifying and developing promising employees early, high-potential programs aim to level the playing field and increase the representation of women in senior roles. But new research reveals an un...
hbr.org
January 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Democrats reduce news consumption when daily news sentiment is negative toward Democrats & increase it when it is negative toward Republicans. Republicans respond to negative Republican sentiment by increasing consumption at conservative news outlets.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
We assess the phenomenon of partisan temporal selective avoidance, or individuals dynamically altering their news consumption when news is negative toward their in- and out-party. Using nine months o....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m headed south for #SPSA2025 next week and must say it will be a welcome respite from my last few weeks of minnesota winter!
January 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
it’s about time I abandoned the el*n sponsored disaster app, but i am really not looking forward to curating another algorithm for myself
December 22, 2024 at 10:33 PM