Dr. Chriss Gregory

Apparently Ted Cruz left, so we're doomed.

Important warning about changes to funding rules being considered by Department of Labor that could pressure participation in religious activities. Sadly, this shouldn't be a surprise since the DoL is literally holding prayer services: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-labor-p...

PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.

This is a dying empire shit.

Fascinating
1. Admin may not have informed Congress but has been talking regime change w US oil industry
2. Oil at $60, US firms not excited about major capex to get VZ heavy sour crude
3. Sounds like WH wants to prod oil firms to make their vision happen, more than WH doing US oil's bidding

None are on bluesky but had a great day discussing these articles on my intro classes yesterday

Kieun Lee & Harry Mottram's "American Immigration Attitudes & NIMBYism"

Kira Sanbonmatsu "Understanding Black Women & Latina's Perspectives on Political Giving."

#politicalsciencesky

And our final paper presented by Gielt Algra on behalf of several coauthors. "The road back: return journey of Dutch veterans."

How to help veterans on their return journeys to Serbia

Up next is karishma jivraj on the perceived value of military service on post-service life in the UK.

Ask what are the benefits of service and the perceived value of their service? Utilizes focus groups of 53 individuals.

Up 1st is Jeanette Harvie "a holistic MTC transition framework: a study of resource needs"

Advancing concept of holistic military transition.
Exploratory results focused on resource needs & community building.

Chairing this #IUS2025 panel on Military Civilian transitions in veterans.

#civmilsky #veteransky

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

And next is @profteigen.bsky.social with David Leal on recruitment motivation and racial attitudes among veterans.

Racial resentment higher in 21st century among veterans compared to desegregation era. Builds off Nteta & Tarsi 2015.

Up next is @proflupton.bsky.social "the veteran effect how military service shapes congressional foreign policy"

New project to look at role of military experience & preferences/ behavior in elites.

And up again @risabrooks12.bsky.social @heidiurben.bsky.social

How vets portray military service when run 4 office & how its perceived (2 RQ). Builds dataset of congressional campaign ads & has experimental portion.

Up next is @risabrooks12.bsky.social & @heidiurben.bsky.social assessing internal accountability in the US military

Is the military evading accountability or lying? (Question born out of Whitlock's Afghanistan papers).

Argue something more complicated at work

Up 1st @rebeccabestir.bsky.social & @profteigen.bsky.social military vs civ messengers affect uptake of messages about diversity (and gender).

Looking at women's roles in military. Anticipate messages from both military leaders and civ academics will move public opinion in direction of elites pref.

Judging by the audience, @heidiurben.bsky.social & @proflupton.bsky.social panel is going to be 🔥

#civmilsky #IUS2025

Up next is Maggie Shepherd "advancing inclusive leadership and global stability through WPS"

Inclusive leadership leads to strategic advantage.

Now Alan Okros presenting his work "GBA plus and the desperate search for data"

Gender based analysis/approach created in Canada after 1996 Beijing Platform for Action as an analytical tool to inform major govt decisions but not without fault.

Side note but shout out to Alan for a great job presenting on behalf of Meaghan and Vanessa.

Up next is Alan Okros representing Meaghan Shoemaker & Vanessa Brown's work who couldn't be here on "navigating feminist backside through strategic language mobilization".

Seeing backlash against gender equality in multiple places.

Up 1st Claire Metelits with Vanessa Brown "the disjuncture in Arms Trade Regulation."

Post-lunch #IUS2025 panel on applying gender analysis

#gendersky #civmilsky

Recruitment patterns (the crooked smile) doesn't mirror population patterns in the US.

3 problematic social changes: decline in Republicanism as civic virtue, decline in civilian oversight, creation of new warrior caste

And we end with Scott Efflandt "from the avf to new warrior caste".

2022 worst recruitment year on record, 2025 best recruitment year. How do we have these polar diff?

Gates commission assumed how goes the army goes the armed forces. Army failed to meet recruiting goals 26 of 50 years in AVF

Up next is Patrick Bury analyzing medal of honor recipients as a sociological study of society.

Builds new dataset on medal of honor recipients & killed/wounded in action. Finds Black /Hispanic soldiers receiving MOH posthumously much more freq. Also find officers less likely 2 receive posthumously

Need 2b mindful of the incoming effects of new policies. Ending DEI will shift recruiting to focus on southern states, US Marines are closing recruiting stations in northern states.

Initiatives predate current administration. Bc of recruiting crisis of early 2000s the services started doing many things to make up difference.
Everything from backlog of waivers to community relations built during covid.

Up next Bradford Wineman "AVF success or new CivMil crisis?"

Narrative is theres a recruitment crisis yet all services met/exceeded goals by April 2025 (except Space). Curious 🤔

Larger conversation on causation. Is it due to who is POTUS? let's unpack.

Challenge this assumption and argue recruiting crisis act as feedback loops to close civmil gaps by creating dialogue that will compel military changes. Utilizing comparative case study of Ireland and UK.