This is bleak.

If you happen to be in Madrid, don’t miss the opportunity to join us. 8M is approaching, and having @francescafeo.bsky.social is a good way to remember the need to recognize and study the existence of gender inequalities in the political realm. Are you going to miss it?

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

La propuesta de Zucman aportaría a nuestro país más justicia económica: un impuesto del 2% a los ultrarricos con más de 100 millones de euros. Supondría una recaudación de 5.200 millones. España puede ser referente. elpais.com/economia/202...

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

How does cinema shape how we think about migration? In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen. 🧵 1/3 academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social . Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇

You are/know of an early career researcher interested in social movements? Look no further, do join us for the 2026 Cosmos Summer School cosmos.sns.it/all-events/c...

The Spanish right supports banning the use of burka and niqab in public spaces. The argument for the policy seems to be (partly) that it will promote the emancipation of women. We happen to have evidence that a similar policy in France had the *opposite* effect. 1/2 elpais.com/espana/2026-...

Lost autonomy events, that is, sudden transformative shocks symbolizing a loss of autonomy for minorities, can be profoundly disruptive, eliciting pro-secessionist backlashes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ONLINE FIRST New in TSQ: Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) examine how people view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics. Read more at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

20 years of #protest #survey #data now available @gesis.org! 📝 The ipb has systematically processed and harmonized a collection of 31 protest surveys collected over 20 years at various #demonstrations in 🇩🇪 and 🇵🇱, on #peace, #climate, #trade, #migration, & more. For more information:

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW IN TSQ Donatella della Porta, Federica Stagni, Stella Christou, and Martín Portos (@mportosg.bsky.social) discuss how pro-Palestine student camps served as eventful forms of protest that transformed social relations, identities, and temporal horizons. Read more at bit.ly/3YDwq7d

Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! 💫🇵🇸 doi.org/10.1080/0038...

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Some really interesting findings for all of us later bloomers who struggled to connect across fields and build a base of broad knowledge: "Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 New publication alert: "The losers of ecological transitions: rural and urban support for green policies in Spain" by @martavallve.bsky.social & @evaanduiza.bsky.social in @environmentalpol.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

Article by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social on multimodal LLMs and hate speech: larger models aligned with human judgment, but pervasive demographic and lexical biases remain, and visual identity cues may amplify disparities.

If you do not have to go, you do not go.

Out now with @adamsharris.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social : We test “rooted” activist frames for LGBTQI tolerance—grounded in local history & national narratives—in Zimbabwe. Biggest thanks to the many people who helped get this off the ground. (1/3) Read here:

Over the moon 😍. My paper "Renewing Democracy: How Exposure to Electoral Turnovers Reinforces Citizens’ Democratic Support" is accepted in World Politics. LINK: osf.io/preprints/os.... First paper fully conceived since my second child was born 4 years ago. For those who know, big milestone. 🧵 1/

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We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very good opportunity to brush up on your methods (qual and mixed) for poli.sci. grad students and faculty ⬇️ www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Next Friday Florence Argentina & Chile Far Right Javier Sajuria @sajuria.com

NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)

Imprescindible este post de @ainagallego.bsky.social para @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social

Why women's equal representation increases policy losers’ consent. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social Science Research invites abstracts for an upcoming special issue on AI and Inequality Abstracts of 500 words are due by November 17, 2025. Final paper submission deadline is July 31, 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

‼️On Friday, Alberto López on "How Group Affinities Explain the Rise of Conservative Gays"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

I’m very proud to share a newly published research article co-authored w/ @luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance: “Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country” 🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗

🔔 New paper with @susanszky.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly: The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non-Democracies: The Case of Hungary 🔔 We test whether politicization mobilizes or demobilizes partization in an autocratizing context Paper: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...

New article in Social Forces (@sfjournal.bsky.social)! Using the case of racial segregation & discrimination against LGBTQ students at Christian universities, Gabby Gomez & I consider whether & why some orgs discriminate against different groups over time. Free to read at doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀 Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨ This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

Reveladora entrevista de la BBC a Maria Corina Machado. En 2019 declara que el régimen de Maduro "solo saldrá del poder ante la amenaza creíble, inminente y severa del uso de la fuerza" por estados foráneos en nombre de la responsabilidad de proteger -R2P de la ONU www.bbc.com/mundo/notici...