Going to the EPSS conference in Belfast next week and I am following the news extra closely on the violence and destruction going on there right now. My heart goes out to all the victims. I hope people find a way of living together in peace and justice soon.

I think about this a lot when engaging with the media. Just because my research say, in my case, that voters discriminate against Muslim politicians heavily, does not mean that political parties should take my research and let it shape their choices. As academics, we should reflect more on this.

✨ It has happened, finally. A reviewer has suggested I should really cite a paper by Sanne van Oosten. ✨

Zouden ze dit al geweten hebben bij Tata? Zodat ze met Donald Pols de milieubeweging konden verdelen? Zo ja, dan zou dat passen bij een bredere trend om linkse bewegingen te verdelen, waar ik eerder dit over schreef: www.populismstudies.org/the-awkward-... & www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/carriere/cyb...

Today, I will be leading a workshop on different academic models of co-authorship and their (dis)advantages. See you in the @compasoxford.bsky.social board room or online today at 4PM. Send me or organiser @benbrindle.bsky.social a message for a link if you are interested in joining online.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

⁉️Do immigrant candidates get the immigrant vote? Many party strategists assume they do. But do they really? Short answer: Nope. And I have done the research to support this. Read more about why & why this is relevant for the upcoming UK local elections here: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/do-i...

🆕 Birds of a feather voting together? 🪽 🗳️ @sbvanoosten.bsky.social assesses respondents decision's across hypotheticals in France, Germany and the Netherlands to discuss politician identity vs policy position and the impacts on #VotingBehaviour

✨The research explaining the Muslim vote✨ The upcoming UK local elections on May 7th, once again, have many people debating what Muslims will vote. Most discussions take place without any knowledge of the existing research on the topic. With this thread, I aim to change that. 🧵

#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Affinity voting in Europe: the impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians - https://cup.org/42jDQhH - @sbvanoosten.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

The European Political Science Review (EPSR) has published my solo-authored paper on Affinity Voting in Europe 🤓 In it, I ask: Do voters prefer in-group politicians? Answer: Sometimes, sometimes not. Minorities prefer their in-group less often than majorities do. 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S175...

👍Very excited to see that my solo-authored article: "Surveying Minoritized Citizens: A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization" has been published in Survey Research Methods✨ I hope survey researchers to reconsider how they survey group membership💪 doi.org/10.18148/srm...

Progressief Nederland - new name & I like it. It has Big Tent Energy 🤓

Ethnic minority presence in the boardroom. FTSE 100: 98/100 firms, from 52% in 2019 56% > 1 person 20% of board roles in FTSE100 FTSE 250: 205/350 firms (82%), from 22% in 2019 Parker Review 2026

It was great to present, w/ @stefaniesprong.bsky.social, fresh findings from the @equalstrength.bsky.social project at @compasoxford.bsky.social in Oxford. Our team can't wait to present the first comparative, cross-domain field experiment on ethnic discrimination in Europe at the next conferences!

This Thursday @stefaniesprong.bsky.social and @distasioval.bsky.social will present research findings from the @equalstrength.bsky.social-consortium. I'm really looking forward to seeing all of the team's hard work be presented. Join in Oxford or online at 3h45 on Thursday March 5th.

🤓Thursday February 19th at 15h45 @ Oxford and online: Katharina Lawall will discuss how disinformation instrumentalising gender equality to further radical right ideologies can be set straight. Join us in this hybrid seminar by @katharinalawall.bsky.social about femonationalism

✨✨ 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...

Really looking forward to this talk by @profsob.bsky.social tomorrow in Oxford and online. Join online or in Oxford!

How do attitudes towards race and ethnicity shape political views in Britain? Join us on 05 Feb at 15.45 (GMT) as @profsob.bsky.social explores this topic, with a focus on racial colour blindness in post-Brexit Britain. Attendance is free and open to all 🔗 www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...

Really looking forward to this seminar by @turnbulldugarte.com on Thursday. Drop by if you are in Oxford (+ for drinks after) or join online. Stuart is an amazing speaker and this research is as timely as ever.

Across Europe, social democratic parties are increasingly adopting restrictive immigration rhetoric in response to the electoral success of radical right parties. Join Dr Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte this Thursday, 22 January, to learn more about this trend. The seminar is free and open to all. ⬇️

“Flood the zone with shit” - zei Trump ooit. In zijn tweede termijn doet hij precies dat: een constante stroom aan decreten, tweets en controverse. Feiten vervagen en kritiek wordt bijna onmogelijk. ➡️ Hoe doorbreek je die chaos? 🌪️ We onderzoeken het op 20 januari, meld je gratis aan: buff.ly/6Ihtjuv

🥳 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 are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides? Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts: Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h... Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...

Populists and socialists are more likely than other politicians to come from lower-class families, and social democrats to have less educated parents. Yet both groups are just as likely to have highly educated and higher class friends and partners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Given that only a third of the hypotheses were supported, one takeaway is that our theories are crap.

Another great @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper I'm happy to have edited is out here, on workers' descriptive representation, by @manuelwagner.bsky.social and @laurenzennser.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

My latest for the Observer on the growing Green threat to Labour and why London’s “all up” local elections could provide some of the biggest drama in this May’s local and devolved elections observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

On my way to Florence, where I will be presenting at the EUI's PBC @behaviour-eui.bsky.social a project co-authored w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social We show that (anti-immigration) 🇬🇧🇮🇹 people 'update' their social identity when primed with narratives pitting immigrants against other social groups

I've had the honour to convene this seminar series about the politics of immigration and exclusion. Looking forward to learning more about the research by @turnbulldugarte.com @profsob.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social and @stefaniesprong.bsky.social + drinks after!

My husband is a romantic guy. He told me to take my passport and come with him for a surprise and said it would be a bit... nerdy? We went by train to Rotterdam to the Fenix Art Museum About Migration. A phenomenal museum, especially if you're a migration scholar nerd like me 😅 fenix.nl/en/

Survey researchers, have you thought about the political consequences of miscategorizing respondents' identities? Raymundo Lopez (ABD, raymundolopez.com/index.html) has written a wonderful summary of my APSR on PS Now (@apsa.bsky.social). Read it here! politicalsciencenow.com/the-politics...

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...

In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat. Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Check out the very first EqualStrength publication, led by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social

So proud of the @equalstrength.bsky.social team! 👏🏻 Over two years ago, we started this project and soon decided we did not want to just select names for our experiments but carefully pretest them first. [1/2]

Awesome project with wonderful people and amazing research! What more could you ask for ?!?! Now check out our first @equalstrength.bsky.social publication!

For everyone using names in experimental research, check out this first publication in Nature's Scientific Data from our @equalstrength.bsky.social project on perceptions of names in Europe Lead by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social; great summary by @sbvanoosten.bsky.social below ⬇️

Every year it becomes clearer that names carry a multitude of signals, but often they are used as a clear signal of for example race or ethnicity. Untangling this interplay of gender, class, race, and ethnicity will be easier with this extensive dataset!

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

Enjoyed a fascinating seminar and dinner with @cdiehl.bsky.social yesterday. She presented research on expressing experiences of discrimination and perceptions of structural inequalities. Long story short: it ain't what it seems. And after that we had A LOT OF (very delicious) food 😋

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵