Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social She is a rising star and on the market!

Two years ago, @nber.org asked me to talk about my research on political violence during Reconstruction. Political violence is not just about intimidation, it is also related to thwarting and violently penalizing political success. Seems appropriate to revisit that today. youtu.be/Wrdj4oLq4wk

Off to a great start at #CUBoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social! UT grad @mirandasullivan.bsky.social presenting her excellent work on the impact of respectability politics among Latines… she finds… (She’s on the market! Keep your eye on this rising star 🌟#hookem)

Happy to report that our paper, "5 out of 6 Measures of Identity and Solidarity with People of Color are Equivalent Across English and Spanish Interviews," was accepted at Politics, Groups, and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social This is Sydney Tran's first "first-author" paper (my psych PhD student).

Why do some immigrants politically invest in their host country while others do not? @robertocarlos.bsky.social, @mfroman.bsky.social and @mamalik.bsky.social show the salience of migration motive, esp. economic motive, in shaping political incorporation. More at #APSA2025!

Sure does seem to capture the vibe

As 'race science' becomes more normalized every day, from tech CEOs to the White House to MAGA followers, we need to know about its origins and how to debunk it. Sapiens is an excellent source for articles to explain the origins of these myths and why they're wrong. www.sapiens.org/biology/athl...

*TAPS SIGN VERY LOUDLY*

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

It wasn't as clear to me in grad school how much Barbara Geddes shaped me. She always gave these small nuggets of advice (almost under her breath-with no requirements that you listen). This @gldinstitute.bsky.social podcast interview with her has a lot of those & more: soundcloud.com/gldresearch/...

As we're again hearing nonsense about fraud in the 2020 election, I'm glad to see our (cc @ianshapiro.bsky.social) open access paper was published last week at @polbehavior.bsky.social. A thread, but tl;dr: belief in fraud in 2020 was fully rooted in white racial resentment doi.org/10.1007/s111...

I expect this to be an important book. Congrats, @tanikar.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/book/60875

The flotsam and jetsum that is rounding up the huddled masses. Co-ethnics included (“paging Jim Sidanius’ work) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

New collaboration between political scientists and social psychologists, with me falling somewhere in between 😎🇲🇽

Out now in The Conversation explaining our recent work on population estimates of people who identify as transgender in the US theconversation.com/weve-been-tr...

excellent episode: "desire plays a really important role in reproducing the myths of the bourgeois state. People take comfort in all that the state promises. We take comfort in the fantasy that we can escape the particularities of our private life, of our gender, our race, our sexuality”

Per @johncluverius.bsky.social: meet me!!! But for real, very special to have this support from our association. Thank you, @apsa.bsky.social !!

I designed this lecture on the history and politics of crime data to be an educational tool for classes and political ed. It’s organized in sections that can be taught separately if needed. And, of course, it emphasizes the early criticisms of crime data by Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. Du Bois.

In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u... This is why diverse newsrooms matter. One of the first pieces to really name what Trump is doing—and still not clearly enough. His project is a brazen white identity project. Brazen and racist.

🚨Calling all REP Members🚨 🗞️Share your news with us🗞️ Kiela Crabtree and I are taking on the annual REP newsletter! Please send in any news and/or announcements for us to include to Kiela ([email protected]) More details 👇

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

🚨 Updated working paper! Ekin Dursun and I ask what instruments best manipulate emotions on surveys (osf.io/56h4g). We find that vignettes really work! They have large effects on emotions of interest & smaller effects on emotions *not* of interest. But as always, it's complicated.👇 (1/17)

You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Against #American #Ethnic #Democracy: White Rule and Black Rebellion By Derefe Kimarley Chevannes doi.org/10.1017/S153...

New article out (w Marcel R, Ben N, and David S) in @pnas.org. We show that young folks who signal interest in becoming cops hold more conservative views on race, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality, etc.than their peers intending careers in other fields www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Fantastic piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social that drills down on why so many elite institutions have given Trump what he wants. It’s not just an appeasement strategy (bad enough on its own) but also reflects deeper reactionary tendencies among those leading these institutions.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

New article out at the American Journal of Political Science: "The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society." With Dr. Elsa Voytas. Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem. All charts free to use:

New REPS Lab paper, “Is Unity Durable Among People of Color? Two Large Experiments Stress-Testing Solidarity Between Black and Latino Americans,” out today in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (link at end of thread). This is Kasheena’s first lead author paper! 🧵🇲🇺

🧵 Just out in SRE. I dig into how Christian nationalism promotes white supremacy by focusing on racial stereotypes. CN is positively linked with viewing Whites as smarter & more hardworking than Blacks & Latinos. BUT the action is mostly on how CN shapes views re: Whites. 1/5 doi.org/10.1177/2332...

Draft finally finished ✨

my regular reminder that many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country very plainly believe in eugenics

Yes, and our follow-up with Mike and Sam maybe even more so

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/4

A concise and well-explained summary of our recent APSR paper on PID among Asian Americans and Latinos, via APSA’s Political Science Now… politicalsciencenow.com/the-identity...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Forty Acres and a Mule: Symbolic Politics & the Pursuit for Black Reparations in the United States By Matthew D. Nelsen, Monique Newton & @asdurso.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Congratulations to my fabulous new department colleague Emily Steele on winning the Fenno Prize for the best book in Legislative Studies from the Legislative Studies section of APSA for her book with Nathan F. Batto, Making Punches Count: The Individual Logic of Legislative Brawls!! Way to go Emily!

It’s publication day!!🎊 In a new Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social piece, Rebecca Johnson, Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social & I ask: How do you measure conflict in local politics in the United States? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happening today at 1:00 PM Eastern! Don’t miss this timely conversation on what happens when patriotism and Christian nationalism collide. There’s still time to register — sign up now and join us! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research on the emotional effects of xenophobic rhetoric on Latino immigration attitudes at #ISPP2025 Thanks to everyone who joined — excited to keep learning from this community. @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social

New at @thejop.bsky.social w/ @kevintmorris.bsky.social, Mike Miller, and Coryn Grange. We find administrative burdens in Texas (mail ballot/application rejections) --- (1) decreased turnout, (2) fell hardest on minorities, (3) persisted for at least two years, (4) even hit the highly engaged.