🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Last day to apply!

'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist.

🌀 ⚖️ How civil liberties were tested during the COVID-19 pandemic 🦠 @pavlosvas1.bsky.social, @haleymcavay.bsky.social, Sylvain Brouard & @mfoucault.bsky.social show the delicate balance between public health measures and individual freedoms

Why supporters of the Mahmood-Starmer settlement reforms need to own "MOSTLY from 5 to 15 year" - instead of [false] euphemism of "mostly 10" Keir Starmer's Labour govt propose to triple timeline esp for most black + brown migrants (but more rarely for those who are white) + quadruple for refugees.

The current "automatic" process involves succeeding in the Life in the UK and English language tests and paying 3000 pounds.

🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

and references, and gathering your travel history for five years, and ...

The current "automatic" process involves succeeding in the Life in the UK and English language tests and paying 3000 pounds.

This really is one of the best conferences to attend out there -very high quality presentations and a friendly, relaxed vibe!

Are we accurately interpreting election results? In our new paper, forthcoming in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Tim Vlandas and I discuss the risks associated with drawing inferences about national level outcomes based on individual-level analyses- i.e. the 'atomistic fallacy'.

Paul McCartney and I now share the same citizenship!! 🇬🇧

🇬🇧 UK Poll of Polls: 15 March 2026 27% ➡️ Reform 19% 🌹 Labour 18% 🌳 Conservative 16% 🍃 Green 12% 🐥 Lib Dem 5% 👽 Other 3% ✖️ SNP

This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot. What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening. How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?

“a deliberate choice to stamp on the dreams of exceptional young people for a headline”. www.ft.com/content/4493...

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

Well, two months later the article and its fake literature references are still online 🤦‍♂️

It's almost like this trend doesn't exist 🤔

Well, two months later the article and its fake literature references are still online 🤦‍♂️

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes? In a new WP with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and @scottclifford.bsky.social, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people’s attitudes are not what researchers expect.

Number of academics working in the UK falls for first time www.timeshighereducation.com/news/number-...

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

Why do some people want to migrate while others don’t—even in similar conditions?🌍 My new #openaccess article in IMR shows how psychology🧠—notably values, risk tolerance, and personality—predict both aspiration and irregularity willingness.🔎🔓 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEJZT...

Foreign influencers help authoritarian regimes: while they may not sway domestic audiences already saturated with propaganda, they can reshape the perceptions of more credulous foreign publics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is a fantastic teaching resource for anyone covering Zaller (and I sincerely hope it still is many of us)

This is a fantastic teaching resource for anyone covering Zaller (and I sincerely hope it still is many of us)

They want January 6 in Britain. They're actively rooting for it.

2025 #Throwbackpaper Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration in 🇫🇷 African and non-European origin immigrants are strongly more supportive of immigration compared to those of European origin, regardless of immigrant generation & other individual-level factors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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2025 #Throwbackpaper Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration in 🇫🇷 African and non-European origin immigrants are strongly more supportive of immigration compared to those of European origin, regardless of immigrant generation & other individual-level factors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out now and open access! A new scale to gauge support for intergroup violence, including in (post-)conflict settings. With @ramziabouismail.bsky.social, @alekscichocka.bsky.social, @hakancakmak.bsky.social, @samicoksan.bsky.social, and Nikhil Sengupta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

And another refugee shipwreck, 15 miles off the coast of south Crete. 3 dead, 20 rescued, 27 missing. www.neakriti.gr/kriti/irakle...

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

Child poverty, unemployment, depopulation, and acute local deprivation. Every factor that research highlights as contributing to the Reform vote is there. Does Labour seriously think that these voters are gonna be swayed by the latest net migration figures? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've written for The Social Change Blog on 'Developing higher education for driving social change'. It's a short piece inspired by finding a small newspaper cutting at my grandmother's house a few years ago - a front page story about my mum graduating university. blogs.york.ac.uk/social-chang...

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access) Wealthy people tend to vote Tory. But do changes in wealth have an effect on vote choice? Drawing on an 11-year panel from 🇬🇧 we found that changes in patrimony (in terms of number & value of assets) is unrelated to vote choice www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Catch up now on our Inequalities Seminar with Dr Haley McAvay (@lsesociology.bsky.social) She explores the enduring relationship between residential diversity in adolescence and political behaviour later in life. youtu.be/kh3EyPWzeG0

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access) Wealthy people tend to vote Tory. But do changes in wealth have an effect on vote choice? Drawing on an 11-year panel from 🇬🇧 we found that changes in patrimony (in terms of number & value of assets) is unrelated to vote choice www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

System justification is authoritarian regimes is strongly associated with preferences for authoritarian governance & systemic threats mobilize high system justifiers, further increasing support for authoritarian governance. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access) Authoritarianism in 🇬🇧 is positively associated with anti-immigration attitudes yet within-person changes in immigration attitudes precede changes in authoritarianism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access) Authoritarianism in 🇬🇧 is positively associated with anti-immigration attitudes yet within-person changes in immigration attitudes precede changes in authoritarianism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

✨✨ Solo-authored article accepted for publication in the European Political Science Review (EPSR) Affinity voting in Europe: The impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians Pre-print of accepted version available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Interesting new paper in Political Psychology from @benmtappin.bsky.social and Ryan McKay investigating party cues onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Good 👇 ‘Silent decoupling’ under way as Elsevier talks near crunch point www.timeshighereducation.com/news/silent-...