🤝 How can climate advocates build coalitions with labor?

In this brief, Geoffrey Henderson (@umich.edu) shares lessons on coalition building from interviewing labor & climate advocates. Key takeaway: coalitions need well-designed policies and inclusive processes.

🔗 scholars.org/contribution...

@profciara.bsky.social (Stetson University) is an election and campaign-finance law scholar who has testified before Congress and helped draft Supreme Court briefs.

🗳️ Specialty: Election and constitutional law, campaign finance, and political spending

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/ciar...

@profdschultz.bsky.social (Hamline University) has taught election law for nearly 30 years and is a licensed attorney admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court bar.

🗳️ Specialty: Supreme Court issues and election law and litigation

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/davi...

@liamerivaki.bsky.social (Washington State) studies how people receive & evaluate info about elections, how election officials communicate with the public, and more.

🗳️ Specialty: Public communication by election officials & perceptions of election integrity

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/thes...

@jennifermccoy.bsky.social (Georgia State) studies democratic erosion, political polarization, electoral processes, and election monitoring.

🗳️ Specialty: Political polarization, democratic backsliding and recovery, election systems and monitoring

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/jenn...

Thad Kousser (UC San Diego) studies state and national politics, voting reforms, direct democracy, and the relationship between political institutions and public trust.

🗳️ Specialty: Trust in elections, voting reforms, and state politics

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/thad...

@pgronke.bsky.social (Reed College) studies American elections, with a particular focus on early and convenience voting, election administration, and voter behavior.

🗳️ Specialty: Early and mail-in voting

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/paul...

@joshuaadouglas.bsky.social (University of Kentucky) is an election law & voting rights scholar whose research examines the legal rules governing elections and access to the ballot.

🗳️ Specialty: Election law, voting rights, and access to the ballot

Connect:
scholars.org/scholar/josh...

Henry F. Carey (Georgia State) is an election law and voting rights scholar whose research examines the legal rules governing elections and access to the ballot.

🗳️ Specialty: Election law, voting rights, and access to the ballot

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/henr...

@bcburden.bsky.social (UW Madison) studies U.S. elections, election administration, voting behavior, public opinion, representation, and Congress.

🗳️ Specialty: Congressional elections, campaigns, and voting behavior

Connect: scholars.org/scholar/barr...

🗳️ With early voting underway and Election Day just weeks away, the mechanics of the 2026 midterms are becoming a story in their own right. For reporters covering the midterms, the following experts are available to provide commentary and analysis. 👇

🔗 Connect: scholars.org/features/9-e...

• Yifan Xu Miller, @nu-ctm.bsky.social
• Ezinne D. Ofoegbu, Santa Clara University
• Gwen Ottinger, Drexel University
• Da'Shay Templeton, California Lutheran University
• Hannah Thompson, @npi.ucanr.edu

• Conial Caldwell Jr., @umbc.edu
• @drtamanikaferguson.bsky.social, @wellesley.edu
• Ain Grooms, @uwmadison.bsky.social
• Arianna Injeian, The University of Alabama
• @basakkus.bsky.social, Wesleyan University

📰 Meet the 2026–27 SSN Media Fellows!

Over the next year, these 10 SSN members will work with mentors from across the network and SSN national staff to expand their media work across television, radio, print, op-eds, and social media. 👇

🔗 Meet them: scholars.org/media-fellow...

New research from @anitaraj.bsky.social of
@newcombinstitute.bsky.social shows that ~two-thirds of women have experienced abuse from a partner, with the numbers increasing for trans people. Raj says the solution lies in building community responses.

In @19thnews.org:

In this insidehighered.com piece, Elizabeth Niehaus of @ucfreespeech.bsky.social argues that institutions must recognize faculty civic engagement as part of their democratic mission, and support it the same way they support teaching and research.

Learn more. ⤵️
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

We are thrilled to welcome @francescachiaradia.bsky.social of @jbs.cam.ac.uk to the network! Chiaradia’s research combines quasi-experimental methods with natural language processing to examine how innovation can be made more equitable and sustainable.

Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/fran...

I'm joining @jennifermccoy.bsky.social tomorrow for an @scholars.org online conversation about how US democracy became imperiled and one important thing we can do about it. Join the free webinar, which kicks off at 4:30 Eastern. Register: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/d...