Which Canadian MPs are on Bluesky and what do they post? My new paper w/ @rohanalexander.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social unpacks these questions, finding MPs use it like Twitter to discuss policy, the Ottawa bubble & constituency Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #polsky #commsky #cdnpoli

🚨NEW STUDY: Do Americans support a woman president? Our list experiment during the 2024 election, when @kamalaharris.com was on the ballot, reveals hidden bias, and it's more widespread than you'd expect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🪃Do legislators trade proposals? ➡️Leveraging a lottery in the Canadian Parliament, @semrasevi.bsky.social & D.P. Green find little evidence MPs second motions to gain favor. Support seems driven by shared interests, not quid pro quo www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🚨NEW PAPER: Do legislators trade favours? My latest with Donald Green uses a natural lottery in the Canadian Parliament to test whether MPs return favours when others support their proposals. Our findings may surprise you.👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨NEW PAPER: Do incumbents really have an edge in elections? Research says yes. But what happens when party labels are added to the ballot? A natural experiment from Canadian elections tells an interesting story👇🧵

From classroom to control room: #UofT students join Global News on election night 🗳️ uoft.me/bzJ

#UofTArtSci students joined @globalnews.ca on election night, working behind the scenes in the newsroom to help call live results — an unforgettable hands-on experience. Read more: bit.ly/3YpJPQL

Just days after Canadians elected Liberal leader Mark Carney as Prime Minister, the mix of victories, upsets and expected outcomes reflects deeper trends that #UofTArtSci elections expert Semra Sevi has spent years analyzing. Read more: bit.ly/4lVQ7ld

Can AI reduce prejudice? 🇺🇸 In our new preprint, GPT-4o moved the needle on trans rights in a national U.S. study using morally tailored messages. The shift was real and short-lived. For more, read 👇 Comments and feedback are welcome.

Prejudice is common in modern societies. Reducing prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective & scalable manner. Can AI help reduce prejudice? My new working paper w @semrasevi.bsky.social, @mbosley.bsky.social & Crabtree examines this question! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Why aren't we talking about harassment in #elxn45? In my new op-ed, I reflect on the harassment women continue to face in #cdnpoli, and the threat it poses to democracy: theconversation.com/growing-thre... @theconversationca.bsky.social #gendersky #polisky

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 with Charles Crabtree & André Blais "Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Are feminine traits a liability in elections? My latest with André Blais at Acta Politica is now online!

Ever wonder whether snap elections backfire? In my latest with Marco M. Aviña & @rdassonneville.bsky.social we study this question in the Canadian context. Now out at the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really excited to share my latest with André Blais now out at Electoral Studies on "Are women election averse?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @uoft.bsky.social

New paper now conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social With @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social - one of the best (& nicest) people in polisky - we ran a meta analysis looking at effects of educational group-based biases in candidate choice experiments. 👉https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hrufe

Friends, please encourage your students to consider a pre-doctoral fellowship with me working on meta-analyses of political science experiments. I promise a good trade of money and skills in exchange for effort and time! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...