Public Writing & Media
Selected Writing
"The Party that Keeps Funding Science" · The Atlantic
with Dashun Wang
"Will House Offices Increase Staff Pay? Hypothetically, Yes. Actually, Maybe Not." · First Branch Forecast
with Timothy M. LaPira
"Political Elites Are More Supportive of Progressive Policies Than the Average Voter" · Data For Progress
with Timothy M. LaPira
"Almost a quarter of influential Republicans deny Biden's victory, survey says" · Washington Post's Monkey Cage
with Timothy M. LaPira
"How does changing control of Congress affect the fortunes of lobbying firms?" · Mischiefs of Faction
with Michael T. Heaney
"Paying Congress's interns a living wage is a good idea. Paying professional staff one is even better." · Vox
with Timothy M. LaPira
"Legislative staff are spending an increasing amount of time on constituent services" · LegBranch.org
"Why Representative Democracies Can't Write Off Transparency" · The Atlantic
"Who's putting the most money against net neutrality?" · Daily Dot
with Lee Drutman
"K Street pays top dollar for revolving door talent" · Sunlight Foundation
with Lee Drutman
"You Can't Use Twitter to Predict Election Results" · The Atlantic
Selected Invited Talks & Podcasts
"Science in Polarized Policy System" — Policy Plenary Talk
American Astronomical Society Winter Conference, Phoenix, AZ
"Partisan disparities in the use, trust, production, and funding of science"
University of Wisconsin Madison · Indiana University Bloomington
"Partisan disparities in the use, trust, production, and funding of science"
UIUC · Oxford Reputation Symposium, Saïd Business School · UC San Diego
The Science of Politics Podcast — "Elite Misperceptions of Public Opinion"
Niskanen Center
"False Consensus and Elite Misperceptions of Public Opinion"
Center for Effective Government, University of Chicago · Yale University · Wesleyan University
Wireframe Podcast — Data visualization in design
Politics In Question Podcast — "How Important is Expertise and Experience in Congress?"
Computing Up Podcast — "Politics as Computation"
Spark with Nora Young, CBC Radio — Episode #184