Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
Among female independents, "support for Trump was significantly lower when expressed to a virtual female co-partisan enumerator" but an ad about women secretly voting for Harris "reduced...private support for Trump while leaving publicly expressed support unchanged" laurapaler.com/wp-content/u...
"the second time in a week that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have stopped the wrong vehicle while executing an arrest warrant and fatally shot someone."
'They said it isn't real': Ebola rumours fuel attacks on health workers www.bbc.com/news/article...
Important from @dannagal.bsky.social - academic freedom is not just under threat in red state public universities. Full thread below. bsky.app/profile/dann...
Remember this? What Trump is doing is much worse for capitalism, democracy, and the rule of law. Important piece www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...
Come ON. I agree it doesn't explicitly celebrate the deaths, but it's very explicitly NOT just a statement of solidarity with Palestinians when read in context. Fable summary below.
Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31
When you are credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women, you don't get to choose who succeeds you when you are forced to drop out of the race
Trump didn't succeed in overturning the election *this time* The Court didn't grant unprecedented powers to Trump in *this particular case* The Republicans in Congress quietly stood up to Trump on *this particular issue* ...so everything's fine? Calling this the Sideshow Bob defense
"cooling is a hot issue on which the populist right has the better side of the argument. That should unsettle American progressives, who assume the far right is consistently irrational while the left is the party of science. On AC, the opposite is closer to the truth." www.wsj.com/opinion/air-...
Answered by the t-shirt, etc. lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-inside...
I asked a (brilliant female) colleague about the apparent gender gap in AI uptake in our field and she suggested that it was driven by women being more likely to be judged as incompetent if they use AI. This resume study suggests, sadly, that she may be correct codeforgoodnow.com/wp-content/u...
Unprecedented corruption. May rank among the great kleptocrats of all time. Here's one list from 2004 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Republicans experience higher exposure to Democrats than vice versa: the average Republican’s coworkers are 50% Democratic versus 32% Republican for the average Democrat."
"the central premise of DOJ’s submission is that xAI can be flagrantly breaking the law (and heavily damaging the environment), and only the executive branch of the federal government has the constitutional authority to do anything about it."
Precisely the problem facing science, health, and academia. These vitally important institutions will fail in their mission if every criticism must be withheld for fear of aiding [-----]. chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/is-a-new-r...
The world's wealthiest man continues to post open racism endorsing pogroms
The man with the nuclear codes is confused and easily misled by flattery www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...