I know those aren’t ducks, and they’re technically not in a row, but it’s a metaphor.

We’re almost done with Spring Quarter here (both sets of final exams are tomorrow, along with various other fun things (meetings, and an interview with Televisa). But I thought I’d update with some of the latest news.

Matt and I just got the final acceptance of our revisions to Water’s Edge from JoP, so it’ll be coming out in issue 70.4, so there’s finally some closure on that paper. The media bias paper (now solo authored, with the tentative title “Who’s the Fairest of Them All”) is finished and back with suggested edits from PSQ... nothing too major, so I’ll hopefully turn to that after grades are turned in on Monday. I think that paper really turned out well, so it’s nice it’s had such a comparatively smooth journey. “Shot by the Messenger” is in the middle of an R&R at Political Behavior, which seems promising, and Tabloid just got sent out for review by AJPS. I still haven’t decided where to send Sins of the Father, but several people have contacted me about it since ICA, so I take that as a good sign. Oh, and the online partisanship piece appears all-but-official at Pol Com (Shanto made a bit of a stir at ICA with it’s substantially-increased rejection ratio, so that makes me feel especially good about it getting picked up there). Still no word from Princeton from the second reviewer of the manuscript, but given how positive the first review was, Matt says I shouldn’t worry (as I tend to do). Oh, and the Sunday morning interview full-population study (we generally call it Meet the Press in our shorthand) is under review at Conflict Management and Peace Studies.

Data collection from the newspaper partisanship project appears to be going relatively well, with fewer hiccups than in the pilot project I ran a couple years ago (I guess that’s why you do pilots). Two new experiments just closed their pilot runs (more on those later), and single-coded data are now nearly complete for the Howell and Kriner joint project. I’d like to get the whole thing dual-coded with arbitration, but I’m not sure where we’ll be able to get the funds for that.

Speaking of joint projects, I’m about to leave town again for yet another conference... this one is an all-UC conference on Teaching, Learning and Technology. I’m giving a plenary speech to the entire conference on our archive effort here at UCLA, so that should be disconcerting. Should be good for the archive, though, and for our expansion into other California markets.

Summer’s going to be busy, but hopefully a good kind of busy: I’ll be presenting a couple more papers at APSA in Boston, doing some travel with the family, and basically trying to get things squared away for the tenure file, which goes in this Fall. Wish me luck.