Josh McCrain
@joshmccrain
Assistant Professor at @UUtah. Political scientist. Local media, policing, public opinion, and public policy.
New in @PNASNews with @ylelkes and @eunjikim_media: Measuring dynamic media bias Examining cable news from 2010-2021, we find bias varies over time within and across: - channels - program times (afternoon/primetime) - shows pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JI… 🧵1/4
Force Science has responded to Adams et al.’s recent article, “Forced Science,” and it’s shockingly bad, for at least four reasons.
Hey @arthur_spirling I found your reddit account reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/lt…
F my very cushy employer who gives me a very cushy job -- quite the take
Eman Abdelhadi: “F*** the University of Chicago... but it’s my best shot at power.” At Socialism 2025, @UChicago professor Eman Abdelhadi called her employer “evil colonial landlord." Use it. Organize it. Seize its structural leverage. “We don’t have power... but I work at one…
For those outside of this field: "force science" is a bullshit pseudo science frequently used in court to justify police shootings Ian and team here systematically dismantle force science
New publication in Police Quarterly: "Forced Science: A Critical Appraisal of the Scientific Rigor of ‘Force Science’ Policing Research." It’s no mistake that evidence-based policing begins with *evidence*. High-quality science improves outcomes for officers, agencies, and…
Happy to have been asked to serve as part of the editorial board for the newly formed journal Evidence Base (@EvidenceBaseJnl). Evidence based policing can always use more *high quality* evidence, and very optimistic that Evidence Base can help move that mission forward.
Welcome to our Editorial Board @ian_t_adams
great paper
local press coverage of state legislators increases voter engagement, electoral returns to ideological moderation, & incumbency advantage. State legislators who receive stronger press coverage work more for their constituencies & diverge less from voters cambridge.org/core/journals/…
The idea of having somewhere to in policing scholarship for registered reports - I love the idea, but the discipline has been slow to embrace open science generally, so I can see the argument that maybe there wouldn't be enough supply. What do you think - would you consider…
Kicking around some ideas for @police_practice 1. Commission state of the art reviews/future directions pieces from leading policing researchers 2. Move towards accepting registered reports Meanwhile, we continue to focus on high quality empirical work & decreases review times
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RT for awareness. Tax code is already punitive to poker players (you get taxed on winning years but can't write off losing years unless you file as a pro; it's easy to have a down year even as a good player) and Senate-passed version of OBBBA would make it considerably worse.
RT for awareness. Tax code is already punitive to poker players (you get taxed on winning years but can't write off losing years unless you file as a pro; it's easy to have a down year even as a good player) and Senate-passed version of OBBBA would make it considerably worse.
This new amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would end professional gambling in the US and hurt casual gamblers, too. You could pay more in tax than you won. Contact your representative quickly.
what happened to this guy?
Fetterman when asked re: timing “Oh my God, I just want to go home. I've already my I've missed our entire trip to to the beach…, there's no drama that we know the votes are going to go…And I think, I don't think it's really helpful to put people here till some ungodly hour.”
there must be a joke here @arthur_spirling help me out
Wreck of sunken $30m yacht Bayesian to be examined bbc.in/4loBRR0
Wreck of sunken $30m yacht Bayesian to be examined bbc.in/4loBRR0