Jason Roberts

I am a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tweets are my opinions only. “I’m frightened by those who don’t see it.”

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

Tenure Committees Are Too Tolerant of Mediocrity https://t.co/yZTaU7Boii

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

@jacobfhsmith yes fighting childishness with childishness is always the most mature, best option....

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

Great conversation about making the U.S. House more open and participatory: https://t.co/FKxvNoJXNL

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

Fun conversation: https://t.co/lhWKf0HNjX

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

@BrendanNyhan @pangram You are way too confident in detection technology.

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

@namalhotra @MikeCrespin I can see this helping people who have the skills/confidence/tools to take on handy projects. Do you think it can create that in people?

[Stewart Mandel @slmandel]

Maybe Kirk's dog chewed through the wire on his mic.

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

@noeldjohnson @cmicmeissner I’m still using it b/c I understand it. How are checking Claude’s R and Python code?

[spencer @dapperbutch]

for those who cannot sacrifice $1 for the boston globe article, i made a text only version as a pdf so here you go https://t.co/n6w0ZaJbKI

[Rosa DeLauro @rosadelauro]

getting a group together to visit the weird lesbian bar in western mass dm if interested, can’t talk here

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

This was fun to work on:
https://t.co/UHqiF5D14e

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

The House is done with work until after the November elections. That means lawmakers will have had 15 days of legislative business in 4+ months (July-early November)

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

The GOP has canceled 23 House voting days so far in 2026:
Jan 23
Feb 5, Feb 23
Mar 3, Mar 6, Mar 16
April 28
May 18-19
June 2, June 5, June 26
July 1-2
Sep 17
Sep 22-25
Sep 28-30
Oct 1

[Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. @RepGregMurphy]

Sadly we have Members of Congress who didn’t get picked by their 5th Grade Kickball Team and are taking out their frustration on the institution of the House of Representatives. #MoveOn

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

@StephenM look into this: 433-2026-00236

[Jason Roberts @ProfJRoberts]

@ashleytrubin My thoughts exactly!!

[Ruud Koopmans @Ruud_Koop_mans]

Want a tenure-track assistant professor job in political science? Publish in a top journal such as APSR. Or just be female or minority with no publications at all. That is how bad the discrimination and the lack of meritocracy in academia is these days. https://t.co/9b2xcEIqlI

[Wouter Duyck @wduyck]

Solliciteren voor een professor positie in de politieke wetenschappen: vrouw zijn of tot minderheid behoren heeft een grotere impact op benoeming dan een co-auteurschap in het wetenschappelijk toptijdschrift in de discipline. De discriminatie in academia ten koste van expertise is onvoorstelbaar

https://t.co/4nvuy1deCq

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Imagine for a moment that it’s 2023 again.

Four people are completing a PhD and looking for political science faculty jobs.

They match on the following qualifications.

Same subfield: American politics.

Same PhD program rank: 30th.

Same publication record: none yet.

All are still completing their dissertations.

Two are men, and two are women. Two are minority candidates, and two are non-minority candidates.

What does the data predict about their chances of holding a tenure-track job by fall 2024?

Non-minority man: 27%

Non-minority woman: 44%

Minority man: 47%

Minority woman: 45%

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

White male political science PhD's were half as likely to be hired as professors in 2023 as both "underrepresented minority" men and women

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Every US academic who lived through Woke 1 knows that discrimination against white males was pervasive. They divide only on whether they considered it justified by a higher purpose or recognized it as intrinsically unfair and harmful.