Anne Whitesell
Associate Professor of Political Science at Miami University (Ohio). Very good at puzzles and correcting misinformation about welfare.
My first book:
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- I don't know what causes migraines, but living under an increasingly authoritarian regime certainly doesn't help.
- What really causes migraines? #MigraineChat
- Do students get lost less on campuses where the buildings look different? I'm beginning to think acres of identical brick buildings is a bad idea.
- Reposted by Anne WhitesellUnpacking Americans’ Opinions on ‘Pro-Life’ Policies: Abortion, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide. (@annewhitesell.bsky.social @prri.org) prri.org/spotlight/un...
- Trying to get @reuning.bsky.social to moderate his expectations on how quickly the town and university will be back up and running after 12”+ of snow. This isn’t Minnesota, or even central PA. We’re basically in the South.
- Along with everything else happening in the world, today is the National March for Life and because I've become obsessed with the consistent life ethic, I decided to write about American public opinion across several "pro-life" policies: prri.org/spotlight/un...
- My favorite part of this is how American Catholics diverge from official Church teaching. As a Catholic, I don't find this surprising, but it does support my annoyance at assumptions that Catholic must equal conservative.
- I assumed this was his move to ethnographic research.
- "Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. [...] Vance knows that lying and killing are sins. Vance knows. He doesn't care." www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
- He, in fact, did not make it out healthy.
- It was less than a decade ago when we held our failed vote. How the times have changed.
- Reposted by Anne WhitesellVance's argument has a long history. He statements could have come out of the country's mid-century fascists, who also argued for anti-immigrant housing policy. I trace that history here: theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...
- Hey, I wrote this! Many thanks to Pope Leo for promoting my research agenda.
- The most tense moments in my marriage to @reuning.bsky.social came when we were making pasta, so I'm going to need this to get resolved. Or my marriage is doomed.
- now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
- When Pope Leo spoke about immigration as a pro-life issue, I knew I had to write about it. Today my piece in @theconversation.com is out about what it means to be "pro-life." theconversation.com/what-does-pr...
- In case anyone is wondering what it’s like to work at a polling station on a college campus for an off off year election, we’ve already googled “space-time continuum” and have nearly finished a 1,000 piece puzzle.
- So much wrong with this, but I have to point out that SO MANY SNAP RECIPIENTS ARE WORKING AND STILL CAN’T MAKE ENDS MEET.
- Reposted by Anne WhitesellUpdating my LEGO White House
- I know my brain is broken because I read 6 or 7 and went:
- The joy my students are experiencing from Canvas being down is pretty incredible. But the despair they feel from GrubHub being down is also incredible.
- Universities when Canvas is down:
- Gotta love that even his relationship with God is transactional.
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- Today @garlicksauce.bsky.social zoomed into my health, advocacy, and policy class, and after I figured out how to work the audio, we enjoyed a great presentation and Q&A on the influence of lobbying in healthcare! I expect book sales will soar.
- Posting about this before @reuning.bsky.social scoops me. I emailed someone at my university about restrictions for spending grant money on April 21, 2024. She emailed me back one week ago.
- Also plaguing college classrooms.
- Case closed, I guess.
- Me, reassuring my parents 15 years ago that getting a PhD in political science wasn’t a horrible idea: There will always be professor jobs!
- Final #polisky eJobs count (including 8/30-8/31): May-August 2024: 319 total positions (219 open to assistant TT) May-August 2025: 228 total positions (140 open to assistant TT)
- Very excited to share the results from the survey @michalraucher.bsky.social & I conducted during our first year as @prri.org public fellows. prri.org/spotlight/am... We presented respondents with several vignettes and asked them, "Is this an abortion or a miscarriage?"
- Turns out there's a fair amount of uncertainty, and people with less education are more likely to be unsure. If people don't know what constitutes an abortion, how do they know what's legal in their state? Well, turns out they don't.
- More than 40% of respondents were unsure if a given situation is legal in their state. And that uncertainty is greater among people with less education. (There's super interesting findings when you break down these results by opinions on abortion, but you have to read the blog post for that.)
- @mirandayaver.bsky.social - are you talking about this in your health policy class? Asking for me, due to teach health policy at 2:50 today.
- 1000+ current and former HHS staff speak out: "Should he decline to resign, we call upon the President and U.S. Congress to appoint a new Sec. of HHS, one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science." www.savehhs.org
- Thrilled to be back for another year as a PRRI Public Fellow!
- We’re excited to introduce the 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows cohort! 🎉 Meet 12 public scholars conducting innovative research that explores religion’s intersection with immigration, racial justice, reproductive health and rights, and LGBTQ rights. Learn more here: prri.org/press-releas...
- I can use AI to message my advisees. Do we think they can use AI to message me back? What are we even doing here?
- Here’s a secret: I’ve been on the market a lot. I won’t apply for jobs at departments with PhD programs. Teaching in a PhD program doesn’t have to be the goal.
- Political science professors should receive hazard pay for working during Interesting Times ™.
- Played this and Minnesotan @reuning.bsky.social had VERY STRONG FEELINGS about it.
- Definitely not me tearing up reading an email from a former student telling me about her first week at law school. Nope. Definitely just something in my eye.
- Here's the problem with going on a family vacation to Germany in summer 2025: all the Nuremberg and Dachau content feels wayyyy too familiar.
- Reposted by Anne Whitesell- Undesirables from seedy underground locations making lots of noise at night (cicadas) - How much an ice cream vendor on the Mall tries to charge you for one chocolate ice cream before you explain you aren’t a tourist - Preferring Rehoboth over Bethany
