Please come join us at LASA 2026 in Paris if you’re around next week! @lasabluesky.bsky.social

Estaremos en @lasabluesky.bsky.social #lasa2026 la proxima semana! Nuestros colegas presentarán trabajos sobre el clientelismo @marianaborges.bsky.social, la migración irregular @vchengm.bsky.social, la gobernanza regional @piariggirozzi.bsky.social y el presupuesto participativo @pspada.bsky.social

Looking for a methods summer school this year? The University of Southampton will host an Introduction to Experiments in Social Science Summer School from 29 June to 3 July 2026. It is quite accessible and does not require prior experience with quantitative methods 👇

🚨❗ C-🐻 🏖️ 🏫 on 🧪 in 🍻 🥼 ♎ 🆙 🕟 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

🌟 New publication 🌟 Very happy that our paper “When Legislators Do Not Differentiate: A Field Experiment on British MPs' Responses to Constituent Policy Queries” has been accepted at the British Journal of Political Science! Current link here: osf.io/preprints/os... Short thread below 👇

#PSA26 It was lovely to meet members and participants at our panels hosted by the @psalatinamerica.bsky.social at Oxford yesterday! We hope to continue growing our network in future events. @piariggirozzi.bsky.social @marianaborges.bsky.social

The Latin American Politics SG has 2 panels at #PSA26 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social 👉 Parties, Public Opinion and the New Right: The state of Democracy in Latin America 👉 Bureaucracy, Territory, and Belonging in Latin America @marianaborges.bsky.social @piariggirozzi.bsky.social Néstor Castañeda

At #PSA26 next week, we'll present our work on vulnerabilities, attachments, and intentions to migrate, using original data from El Salvador. Come join on Wed, 1 April, 1:30pm, Wadham, C. Day-Lewis (@piariggirozzi.bsky.social @jackiewahba.bsky.social Guillermo Garcia) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Two things can be true: i) QS rankings are heavily subjective, corruptible, self-fuelling and generally an outrage against social science measurement; ii) nonetheless, Politics & IR at Southampton is bloody good, on the rise and great fun, and I'm delighted to be part of it.

At the University of Southampton, we will be running an interdisciplinary summer school on experiments for students, researchers, and practitioners from 29 June to 3 July. Information and registration details can be found at: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Lastly, we had @emiliabelknap.bsky.social present on how to conduct feminist focus groups with a particular focus on how to encourage collective meaning making. She outlined how to use an intersectional lens to consider consider power hierarchies in focus groups. Then, a Q&A session with our panel!

Next we have Dr Matthew Hunt discussing sociolinguistics and contextual expectations - about how categories of people of different ages, genders and ethnicities are expected to behave in a particular frame.

Professor Silke Roth of Sociology @silkeroth.bsky.social kicks off our Spring Into Methods event discusses coalition building as a strategy to achieve intersectionality and her long career in applying intersectional approaches to gender and inequality research.

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science. 1/7

🚨 Summer School Alert!!🚨 Don’t miss out this Free opportunity for PhDs and ECRs at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social 🤓 Register by May 9 🗓️ More info here 👇🏽 www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/news/...

The Latin American Politics Specialist Group at #PSA25 organised 2 engaging panels this year! Insightful discussions on diverse topics in politics/public policy from ‘greenwashing’ policy in Brazil to the relationship anticorruption-democracy in Central America. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

@siennaeverett.bsky.social on climate attitudes @vchengm.bsky.social on bureaucracy @nataliatrujillo.bsky.social on migration @jydenham.bsky.social on Englishness @fransplains.bsky.social on Tory pol. econ + more great work from Bsky-less Bradley Ward, Mariana Borges, Michele Zadra, Deborah Timoni

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews - cup.org/4jnwXmY - @rsenninger.bsky.social & @henrikseeberg.bsky.social

Just published on APSR First View: "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Overleaf is down 🍃! Anyone else experiencing this, have an idea of what’s going on? Thanks! 🥶

This week we launched our Latin American initiative in the Department! We are a group of scholars working in a diverse range of topics and using distinct methodologies. We are deeply interested in the region and are looking to strengthen our work to become a point of reference in the field. 📚

Do Voters Differentially Punish Transnational Corruption? New publication with @danberliner.bsky.social at the EJPR! doi.org/10.1111/1475...