This is absolute dereliction Exeter university is home to world leading experts in corruption and kleptocracy (among other things) Now it’s facing being cut to ribbons www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Cool paper by @polpsychjoe.bsky.social and @jaclarner.bsky.social on age & cohort effects on attitudes toward 👑 in 🇬🇧 "Findings indicate that support for the monarchy will likely remain stable, and even increase, considering Britain’s aging population". academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

A graphic that offers a stark illustration of the dreadful electoral strategy pursued by Labour, under Starmer, since taking office. While losing more than four times as many voters to the Greens, Lib Dems. SNP/PC than to Reform, they have won over virtually no Reform voters in return.

Indeed, the "summer of immigration" was a huge failure for Labour. Raising the salience of an issue on which they were very weak, allowing Reform to solidify their post-locals gains. Reform voters were aware they were being appealed to, but were unmoved.

I am 43. I'v been through the launch of the internet, mobile phones, GPS, etc. There has never been a product shoved down our throats so aggressively!!

I am 43. I'v been through the launch of the internet, mobile phones, GPS, etc. There has never been a product shoved down our throats so aggressively!!

My textbook on Political Psychology (with @bpsofficial.bsky.social ) is now available to pre-order from Amazon and other major book sellers The book offers an accessible overview of research in political psychology aimed at undergraduate & postgraduate students www.amazon.co.uk/Key-Topics-P...

My textbook on Political Psychology (with @bpsofficial.bsky.social ) is now available to pre-order from Amazon and other major book sellers The book offers an accessible overview of research in political psychology aimed at undergraduate & postgraduate students www.amazon.co.uk/Key-Topics-P...

‼️ Only 10 days left to apply for the PhD position in my group! All info below 👇

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

Two permanent lecturer posts in politics & IR at the University of Liverpool www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW336/l...

Can't help but wonder whether Labour members are about to discover that St Andy is not the messiah but is, in fact, just as much of a naughty boy as Sir Keir.

Converse (1964) remains undefeated. (also "the center" in American politics has positive valence around it, so is attractive to survey respondents, especially in vague philosophical questions of this type).

In our new paper for @ejprjournal.bsky.social Tim Vlandas and I offer a mathematical statement and simulations to assess the extent of the 'atomistic' fallacy on #VotingBehaviour, and illustrate the problem empirically by focusing on the example of #FarRight voting- available below Open Access

From our May Issue: Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India by @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social and FLORIAN SICHART. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

...and it's a thoroughly enjoyable read!!

It is always striking to me when, meeting non-university friends, they ask how work is, and I say some variant of 'OK personally, altho obviously pretty shit in general', and they ask why, and I say some variant of 'sector in meltdown', and they are surprised and had no idea...

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.

Drawing on qualitative interviews with middle-class households aged 30 to 39 in Paris, this paper examines how parental financial support is negotiated among homebuyers and renters and how it affects family relationships. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Any social scientists want to join a FIFA World Cup TM Powered by ARAMCO fantasy football league? Sign up here, and may the best team (like Arsenal this year in the Premier League) win! play.fifa.com/fantasy/join... (Please feel free to post on twitter if you are still active there)

🚨Our article “Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions?” is out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. Joint work with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @iguinaudeau.bsky.social from the 🇫🇷🇩🇪 UNEQUALMAND project. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/qoBDU%F0%9F%... 1/3

Delighted to share my (timely!) latest paper with @electoralstudies.bsky.social. District protectionism: Public opinion on race, partisanship, and redistricting change. *3 survey experiments* on public views, inc. gerrymandering & majority–minority districts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

The normalisation of the parliamentary far right is one thing, the normalisation of the extra-parliamentary extreme right and the increasingly open cooperation between far-right parties and extreme-right activists quite another

Thoughts in my head when marking student essays: Wow this is good. Oh no what if it's AI? It's surely AI, l will check the reference list. Nope all looks good here. It's not AI, I should give it a first. But what if it is? Can AI write this way? How can I not tell? Am I an idiot?

Noted, thanks Mel. We should probably hold off on making any firm decisions about REF2029 until we've heard from the bloke who made Angry Birds.

Thoughts in my head when marking student essays: Wow this is good. Oh no what if it's AI? It's surely AI, l will check the reference list. Nope all looks good here. It's not AI, I should give it a first. But what if it is? Can AI write this way? How can I not tell? Am I an idiot?

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.

The DoE quote at the end of the article seems to suggest that the government is actually happy with this www.ft.com/content/ded7...

Exciting lineup for our Northern EPOP workshop at York! Message me if you are interested in attending

A year later both strategy and results remain the same

The gains to Labour from Reform voters who were expected to switch their vote after the Mahmood's extreme anti-immigration policies are not even visible in the graph

Tesla Takedown: Brand Politicization and Partisan Consumerism in the Trump Era "Consumers are responsive to partisan activity by corporate leaders and appear willing to adapt their brand views and purchasing behaviors to align with their partisan allegiances." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Herbie Hancock Bruce Springsteen Slayer Wayne Shorter Stone Roses Deerhoof Tame Impala Built to Spill Keith Jarett Stereolab

What does it say about the creeping fascism of contemporary Britain that the country’s imminent “most left wing prime minister for two generations” has to immediately sign off on one of the most extreme and cruel border regimes in Europe?

Trajectoires et origines c’est 27 000 répondants, des immigrés, des descendants d’immigrés, des natifs de natifs, des ultramarins, un questionnaire de plus d’une heure en moyenne, C’est aussi un livre avec 35 auteurs. Surtout il est dispo en libre accès ici : books.openedition.org/ined/26527

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Exciting lineup for our Northern EPOP workshop at York! Message me if you are interested in attending

Incredible opportunity with one of my amazing colleagues. Please pass it on to anyone who you think could be interested

🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!

Meanwhile I spotted hallucinated references of my work in an article published at a relatively respected political science journal back in January and immediately emailed the editor. The article is still there. Not even an erratum was issued

Meanwhile I spotted hallucinated references of my work in an article published at a relatively respected political science journal back in January and immediately emailed the editor. The article is still there. Not even an erratum was issued