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At Political Psychology (@ispp-pops.bsky.social), we typically publish empirical articles, but we do have other options! One exciting option are Dialogues, that put 2+ books in conversation with one another.

There is a lot of low-quality survey data out there that's used primarily as a marketing/PR tool with little to no transparency on methods, questions asked, etc. and it is often accepted and written about with far too much credulity.

I can't be the only one who hears this, right? #statsmeme

Let's go Sox

Conservatives are getting sicker, and mistrust of doctors is a plausible cause. Read the latest from @johnsides.bsky.social about the political polarization of health outcomes in the U.S. goodauthority.org/news/the-pol...

For the upcoming movie, Pressure, which tells the weather story leading to D-Day, I put together this 90-second spot for the movie's marketing team. Looking forward to seeing this movie.

We asked 1,200 Americans what they dislike about Democrats and Republicans in a recent Post-ABC-Ipsos poll. Here's what they said -> www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Stats for DC plate GV1836: $15071 in unpaid tickets.

🌟 New article 👥 Eelco Harteveld, Lars Erik Berntzen, Andrej Kokkonen, Haylee Kelsall, Jonas Linde & Stefan Dahlberg 👉 The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies 📗 European Journal of Political Research 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The quarto-preprint @quarto.org format now includes "boxes" (boring grayscale callouts likely more appropriate for academic papers vs. default quarto callouts): github.com/mvuorre/quar...

expand public transit so you can go down to the bars with the boys more

"Democrats and Democratic activists have similar preferences about what candidates should favor. And condemning Israel isn’t high on that list."

Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.

Startled.

Perhaps of interest to folks attending ISPP this year!

Here is some experimental evidence that this attitude — which party is more corrupt — is reasonably malleable www.survey160.com/methodologic...

Curious whether corruption sufficient to mobilize disengaged folks necessary for a midterm win. Folks who dislike both parties, per March CNN poll, are similarly likely to see both parties as corrupt. Details: ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/... Original coverage: www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/p...

Oh, I see, so *now* everyone in Sunderland is happy to be in Europe.

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Let's go Everton (shivers)

Contemplative.

New in @polbehavior.bsky.social: over the first half of this decade, people came to believe that white people experienced more discrimination and black people less. And Republicans now think that whites are more discriminated against than Black folks (though partisan trends are ~ parallel)

🚨 Blog post: When Using OLS Hurts 😩 I replicated a high-profile study on racial bias in tenure decisions and show the authors weakened their own findings by using OLS instead of ordered beta regression 🤯. Use ordered beta and live your best life 👍 #rstats www.robertkubinec.com/post/ord_bet...

The whole Realm is at risk. Finally everyone can understand what it's like living under a blanket of fear.

Survey data suggest looking to LLM chatbots for info on the midterms is rare, but usage rates are similar to early Internet search. Also interesting: a good share of folks don't trust info on candidates from chatbots OR the candidates themselves. caucusai.substack.com/p/whos-askin...

As if there wasn't enough to worry about in Hormuz: Ships trapped in the Gulf are accumulating barnacles, algae and jellyfish as the Middle East conflict drags on and temperatures begin to rise, impeding their ability to eventually exit the region. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Very important photo @darthbluesky.bsky.social Hot Dog eating hot dog

I had missed this earlier but holy crap, Anthropic will turn an operating profit this quarter. I’m genuinely blown away by this. And set to more than double revenues QoQ. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind...

Attempt 1 to get to STL for EPOVB foiled by mother nature. But at least the storm front was no joke.

Congratulations to the data wizards at @ourworldindata.org who created this elegant tool so you can adjust fertility, mortality & migration rates for any country to see the impact on population sizes & age structures. This is really, really great!! Check it out!! Excellent tool, terrific write up.

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

Urban Garden Brewhouse (in former Right Proper Shaw near 7th and T NW) grand opening on Juneteenth. Preview party this Saturday www.eventbrite.com/e/lotus-flow...

Evening vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_hT...

Just been to the Southampton Club Shop

Folks should read this closely.

Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social: Using Swedish full-population data, I show that exposure to religious pluralism through social ties is associated with a lower likelihood that parents baptize their child in the Church of Sweden 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Maybe more interesting is the relatively flat line here in average trust across: banks, elections, national government, judicial system, and military. news.gallup.com/poll/709445/...

Seems like as good a time as any to reup this piece, particularly re: the LIRR, its contracts and how its unions are deeply enmeshed in GOP machine out on Long Island — www.vitalcitynyc.org/why-are-new-...

Lovely day to finally make it to Wheatland Spring.

After 2016’s election, many of us were like, “what the heck is up with Republican Latinos?!? “ Are they ashamed of being Latino or about their immigrants roots? My student @solisrodolfo.bsky.social has nuanced answers, using in-depth interviews in South TX. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Me, proposing yet another paper idea to co-authors when we already have several in the works.

I am usually pro-labor but the LIRR strike is absurd they are already the best paid agency in the country and have tons of extremely generous benefits like 2x wages for working on 2 trains. and now they’re refusing a 4% raise? LIRR union is a perfect example of why US transit is so inefficient

Let's go Nats.

“DPW has impounded 4,450 cars with total of $23M in unpaid citations” so far this year www.popville.com/2026/05/dpw-...

Breakfast Elevenses Luncheon Afternoon tea Dinner Supper

We all kind of miss, I think, the free-wheeling open-to-all academic discussions that existed on #PeakTwitter. Any suggestions for how #IRBluesky can try to make those happen here? Or are they doomed to be a thing of the past?

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, "Beyond Likes", @martafraile.bsky.social, @atiradocastro.bsky.social & @pzuluaga.bsky.social use a national survey and media content analysis to understand the role of social media influencers in shaping public opinion in 🇪🇸. #OpenAccess buff.ly/3Y56w9j