It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

When does "they" go from pronoun to Pronoun? In our October issue, Renström & Klysing study ideological ties to use/views of gender-inclusive language. Read their findings on how Social Dominance Orientation & Right Wing Authoritarianism relate to de-gendered & multi-gendered "they." buff.ly/durLXMS

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

-- Call for Papers -- Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025

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What do our leaders say after tragedy? Layous et al. study Congressmembers' official statements after George Floyd's death. They find sorrow shared equally by Republicans & Democrats, but trends of system "defending" & system "mending" statements from each, respectively. Read more: buff.ly/J0MVJBD

Congress used to pass bipartisan immigration laws. What the heck happened? The end of the Cold War created cracks in the parties, and 9/11 amplified them, laying the foundation for our current immigration predicament. My new piece at Good Authority. goodauthority.org/news/congres...

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social! I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

PRL welcomes postdoc applications at Dartmouth for 2026-2027. Work with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social & @ylelkes.bsky.social on projects like www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and elite rhetoric analysis using americaspoliticalpulse.com/elites/ Pls apply by Jan 5 on Interfolio 🙏 apply.interfolio.com/175722

Does the carceral state discourage or mobilize voters? Krishnamurthy's piece in our October issue on California's Proposition 47 finds that high incarceration rate communities were associated w/ increased voter turnout & higher support for the criminal justice reform measure. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

🐶New preprint! 🐶 co-led by Ayça Akkuş w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 ECPS Interview 🗳️ 🇳🇱 Professor Sarah de Lange: D66’s Victory in Dutch Elections Cannot Be Presented as a Victory over Populism ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🔗 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/professor-de...

And here's the paper, led by the incredible Silvia Mari, in which we find that stronger beliefs in traditional gender roles is associated with less voting intention across 18 countries. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What's the take home message? If you're submitting AI slop you're a loser. You're just making these great free services harder to run, and making it more difficult to separate signal (science) from noise (your crappy AI shit.)

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Hannah-Arendt Institute in Dresden is looking for an Assistant Director. (In German)

Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Really excited to share my first solo-authored article, out now in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! I test when and why Democrats and Republicans differ in their tolerance for undemocratic actions. 🧵

Who motivates future political engagement? Wegemer & Levy's panel study of high school students finds that political interest is mostly self-driven. For most students, motivation largely predicted more political discussions, rather than the other way around. Read online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Great to see our content analysis of 27 Chinese youth depression scales finally out! Following @eikofried.bsky.social excellent work on depression scales, we included 27 scales and quantified the heterogeneity by analyzing data from 12,000 youth who completed 4 of them. Comments are welcome!

Currently in FirstView: In “An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology,” @kevinlcope.bsky.social develops a method for estimating the ideology of federal judges. He introduces the Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Score (JuDJIS) which is based on over 20,000 evaluations by a sample of jurists.

New review from me on whether there are ideological differences in science denial. Although Dems/libs are much more likely to report they trust science than Reps/cons in the U.S., similar diffs do not emerge in most countries, and in some, it's the reverse. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm far from an expert on Dutch politics, but the positive framing of the results seems off. E.g., -The largest party (D66, liberal-centrist) is the smallest a largest party has been (ever, I think). -The number of seats going to far-right populist parties is the ~same or higher than it was before.

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Review of applications begins November 10 - please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172357

What makes some people tolerate organized crime like the mafia? This article from Mirisola et al. in our October issue points to the interplay of national and territorial identity and masculine honor values as leading factors. Read the full article online for more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Reminder to apply to the DRRC postdoc fellowship! Deadline is this week.

Currently in FirstView: “Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos.” @marvins.bsky.social and @fhopp.bsky.social examine 810 party manifestos in 4 languages to study how different instruments lead to different results for extracting moral foundations.

🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology: 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401

The Political Behaviour Stream of the MSc in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social is welcoming applications for entry in 2026/27: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse... Benefit from teaching and supervision from world-leading scholars, weekly research seminars & an active alumni network:

Congrats to Abigail Cassario, one of the winners of SPSP's 2025 Student Publication Prize! Her research with Mark Brandt found minimal evidence that threats like unemployment, immigration, or COVID-19 shift people rightward. Learn more: ow.ly/TunV50XhgP5

Two exciting ERC-funded PhD positions on attention and technology use with @matti.vuorre.com I’ll be an (external) part of the supervision team and can highly recommend this department @tilburg-university.bsky.social tiu.nu/22989

Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky apply.interfolio.com/173938 📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

How does culture impact system justification in individuals? This article from Li & Tian exploring political belief finds that views prioritizing relationships & harmony are linked to a stronger tendency to justify the existing social & political system. Read online: buff.ly/yJQjeTY

This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📣 The EASP General Meeting 2026 is on Bluesky! Follow them for updates and news about the best conference of the year 🤩

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

This preprint reports on a project with @j-rock.bsky.social. We merged a light touch intervention (typical of survey experiments) w/ an intensive intervention (more typical of practitioner efforts) for reducing toxic polarization to see if we could cheaply boost 🚀 the more intensive intervention

“Men are still seen as more agentic than women, though ‘equal’ is on the rise” Alice Eagly, SESP Scientific Impact Award recipient. #SESP2025 #SESP25

Preprint led by Salvador Vargas (on the job market!), with Chadly Stern, on stereotypes linking race & social class. We find a mean-level White–rich/Black–poor stereotype; the stereotype is strongest among third-group participants; and likely explained by social sampling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Job 🚨! PRL is looking for a postdoc based at Dartmouth College for next year. Candidates should bring advanced data skills and enjoy writing. Read more about our work at polarizationresearchlab.org and apply through Interfolio by February 15, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/175722

Do we grow out of susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs? In our October issue, Bordeleau & Stockemer's analysis of existing research finds a negative correlation between age and conspiracy endorsement. Read the findings and what they could mean for future conspiracy research: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Meet Dr. Elisabeth Silver, our newest organizational psychologist! 💚 Dr. Silver's background spans biopsychology, computational methods, & workplace differences. Her work focuses on how orgs and individual employees respond to changing workplace demographics. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

How do we decide if we can trust another group? Wei et al.'s article in our October issue shows that trust is a complex dynamic, not built on one trait alone. They find that warmth towards an outgroup only boosts trust when also seen as competent. Read more online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Sociologists! Consider applying for the Kohli Fellowship for Sociology, which provides financial support for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the WZB in Berlin. Deadline is Nov. 16. bit.ly/4opl1ms