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Here's your #nerdfest thread for the weekend. Brought courtesy of the fine work of my @NiskanenCenter colleague (& poli sci hero) @MattGrossmann's amazing poli sci podcast The Science of Politics. No matter who you are, you'd be better informed listening to this pod. The latest
episode was very fortuitous for me, personally, bc it featured BRILLIANT research from @Davin_Phoenix on what he calls The Anger Gap, which refers to the fact that unlike white voters, black voters are less responsive to anger or threat cues than whites. And this research is a
shining example of why we NEED NEED NEED diversity in our PhDs bc only a scholar of color could have seen the gap in this threat theories, bc only a scholar of color would know that black voters, operating under a system of institutionalized racism would be less prone to anger &
