🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)! Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social It is open access, and you can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

Equal representation does not affect men’s expectations regarding policy output. However, if men are under-represented, most men across various sub-groups believe institutions are less likely to cater to their interests journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social! Are young men becoming more conservative? This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/

I'm especially happy to have presented the first solo authored paper in my PhD “Rape legislation as state action: Perceived social norms and individual attitudes toward sexual consent in Norway and Sweden” w/ other great papers on the panel “The effect of gender-based violence in different spheres”!

Hør dyktige @inalkristiansen.bsky.social snakke om diktatorer på imponerende vis! Ca. 1 time inn i episoden!

Congratulations to Anna Nordnes Helgøy ‪@annanhelgoy.bsky.social ‬on receiving the The King's Gold Medal for her PhD dissertation on gender divisions in labor and politics! Anna is now a postdoctoral fellow at ISV. www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation! You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!

📢 New article 👥 @liserodland.bsky.social, @vibekewoien.bsky.social & @allernelin.bsky.social 🔎 Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies. 📖 Open access in Governance @govjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

🚨New working paper🚨 "Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers" Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.” w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Feedback welcome!

Viktig fra @elibaltz.bsky.social og medforfattere om samtykkelov og endringer i holdninger til sex shorturl.at/BsVMg

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

From February 2025 - Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life - cup.org/3RDjDyk "...finds a strong negative effect of mental load priming on intentions to engage in politics and at work" - @annanhelgoy.bsky.social & @anacweeks.bsky.social

Hey GenderSky and PoliSky! The ERC project @gendersuccess.bsky.social is hiring! Interested in gender & representation and skilled in survey methods? Join us for a 2-year research position — great conditions, exciting project, fantastic team of colleagues!! Feel free to DM me for more info 🚀

Apply! Vacant position 👉🏼 2 yrs (100%) survey methods and gender representation, University of Bergen. My ERC project on political career, gender dynamics and political inclusion. Great team, exciting opportunities. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Meanwhile in Norway: The government has launched a climate white paper/action plan for 2035 – with close to no actual policy content. The only news item: move away from having national climate target for 2030 and 2035. Klimapolitikk på vei mot lavutslippssamfunnet - regjeringen.no Thread 1/n

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great to see our research @leahruppanner.bsky.social cited in @theguardian.com today! @chloehamilton.bsky.social very cool experiment. "if long-term change is the objective, talking about it with your partner isn’t just recommended, it is essential" 👏 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

One month left to apply for our workshop on political elites! It takes place in Oslo on September 1-2, 2025. There will be great research, amazing views of the Oslonian hills, good food, and expensive beers. Find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorkshop2025 (or just click on the picture).

I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Authoritarianism and conservative gender attitudes go hand in hand.🤝 Amy Alexander and I wrote a Cambridge Element on exactly this relationship and, as of today, it is officially accepted for publication! Will share more soon :)

Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

📢 New Article 👥 Anna Helgøy & Ana Catalano Weeks (@annanhelgoy.bsky.social & @anacweeks.bsky.social) 🔍 Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life. 📖 Open access in British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

NEW - Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life - cup.org/415K3gp - @annanhelgoy.bsky.social & @anacweeks.bsky.social "experiment finds a strong negative effect of mental load priming on intentions to engage in politics and at work" #OpenAccess

New article w brilliant @anacweeks.bsky.social on the mental load and effects on public participation out in @bjpols.bsky.social! Ana summarizes the article nicely in the thread below 👇

Democracy researchers please take note, and tell relevant colleagues: The Dep. of Pol. Sci. in Gothenburg is hiring a new Director for the V-Dem Institute. The Director will also serve as permanent (tenured) member of the Dep., with reduced teaching responsibilities during their tenure as Director.

Norwegian politics has been thrown upside-down in a couple of weeks. After 3,5 years, the unpopular Labour and rural party government broke down. The social democrats continued alone and now enjoy a massive and sudden boost of 6-10 percentage points. [1/4]

Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” Here's a summary thread... 1/n

Happy to see my new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

Delighted to share a new publication out today in the Journal of Marriage and Family w/ the brilliant @leahruppanner.bsky.social. In "A typology of US parents’ mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor" we assess underlying patterns in the domestic "mental load" among 3,000 US parents. 🧵 1/10

In Memoriam Mala Htun (1969-2025) Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The best human! And the best thesis!

Wrote a poem for my favorite train company, @deutsche-bahn.bsky.social ❤️

We are hiring at the PolSci department at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social. Tenure, open to all subfields, can apply for professor promotion immediately (on merits). Top international department, green and buzzing capital city of Oslo, high quality of life, great for families! www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

📢 New article 👥 Anna Helgøy @annanhelgoy.bsky.social & Arno Van Hootegem @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social 👉 The formation of family policy attitudes: the role of justice perceptions in the division of household labour. 📖 Open access in Journal of Social Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S0047279424000345

New article in Journal of Social Policy with the amazing @annanhelgoy.bsky.social. We ask: What explains preferences for different types of family policy? We find: Justice perceptions on the division of physical, but not mental, household labour do!

We are recruiting a researcher with a specialization in public policy and administration or comparative politics for a three-year position in a Horizon project. The application deadline is 16 December 2024 (!). www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Super happy to my paper on feminized part-time work in Norway published! Below is a thread of what I find — it’s a complex issue with some complex, yet very interesting results, so buckle up. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... (1/10)

🎓✨Here’s your starter pack for experts on gender and its intersections in elections, public opinion, political parties, and the women in the EPOP discipline. 💡📚 Nominate yourself and others! 📣 📣 go.bsky.app/HC7Pvbd

On 28 August 2024 Anna Nordnes Helgøy @annanhelgoy.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “Gender divisions in labor and politics: Causes and attitudinal consequences”. The defence is open to anyone interested. For time and place, please see 👇 www.sv.uio.no/isv/forsknin...

An acceptance feels extra nice when co-authored with your partner and best friend! Stay tuned for our paper on formative experiences and perceptions of system abuse, soon in EJPR! This is a new level of assortative mating/friendship. @annanhelgoy.bsky.social @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social

Super excited to see my first PhD paper published! It looks into the welfare attitudes of part-time workers, and finds that through their experience of financial partner dependency, they prefer optional familialism in family policy. It’s open access! Here: academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers @dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin. Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

Tis the season to talk about the mental load! If you are going crazy 🤯 trying to keep track of all the holiday admin, this is for you. Here are 6 insights from my research on the mental load among parents. Data come from a representative sample of 3000 US parents. 1/10

📣 CfP alert 📣 Come and join us in a workshop on "Gender, Politics and Democracy" at the Nordic PSA (NoPSA)! When: 25-28 June 2024 📍in beautiful (and we mean it!!) Bergen, Norway organizers: @rmuriaas.bsky.social and Christina Fiig Info here: www.nopsa2024.no CfP here (WS 22): shorturl.at/mtu04