🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista... #psjobs #psjminfo

@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.

The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...

Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...

Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA

Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!

Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies

Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s. We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models. Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...

More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages. @npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...

When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments. Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵 bit.ly/StratAm

I teach NYT v. Sullivan in my intro class because it's important for them to know this ruling is what gives them the right to broadly criticize public officials without worrying about being harassed via lawsuit by the rich and powerful. It would be devastating to free speech to overturn Sullivan.

Presidential Authority and the Legitimation of Far-Right News in IJPP w/ @allisonarcher.bsky.social @carolynschmitt.bsky.social & @heesoojang.bsky.social

We studied this shift, which started during the first Trump administration. Far-right outlets became legitimized thru GOP officials granting access, as well as mainstream news coverage of these outlets. #openaccess here journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Some discussion of the state of and collaborations in local news research featuring @benjamintoff.bsky.social and the @localnewsimpact.bsky.social (localnewsimpact.org) by Sophie Culpepper @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/acad...

What happened to national news could happen to local news - as we've seen again and again, elite attacks are the most important factor undermining media trust www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

After the first election of Trump I conducted a yearlong ethnographic study of Trump supporters. I wanted to understand how they see the world and how information systems shaped their understanding of truth. I walked away with seven core findings

An in-depth look at GOP attacks on local news, featuring some of my work with Erik Peterson. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... The paper with Erik (forthcoming at PS) is here: allisonarcher.com/wp-content/u...

"This new restriction, which appears to apply only to matters involving Trump and not to other officials or issues, has effectively killed or indefinitely delayed multiple editorials that have been written and edited but remain unpublished," the memo from Opinion staffers said.

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

Scoop: Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong killed an editorial that was critical of Trump's Cabinet picks, weeks after he blocked a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris by the LAT editorial board www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

Our new book, Storefront Campaigning, is out *today* and FREE to download until 12/12! doi.org/10.1017/9781... Using original data on field office locations, Sean Whyard and I show where offices are placed - and why they matter in presidential campaigns. (1/x)

Ready for the illiberal playbook?No @curdknupfer.bsky.social @sjjphd.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social: "This tactic is insidious; it uses liberalism’s own positions against itself, such as demanding a right to free speech and tolerance to promote illiberal ideas" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My article "Measuring Ideological Polarization on the Circuit Courts of Appeals 1953-2022" is now up at Journal of Law and Courts. doi.org/10.1017/jlc....

My article "The Role of Judge Gender And Ideology in Hiring The Role of Judge Gender and Ideology in Hiring Female Law Clerks," co-authored with Bailey Sanders and Katelyn Stauffer, is now online at the Journal of Law and Courts. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ICYMI, I wrote about the gender gap in 2024 exit polls. Overall the gender gap wasn't record breaking, but there is a lot under the surface that shouldn't be ignored. E.g. young men and women are living in different worlds online, to major consequence. Check it out: abcnews.go.com/538/gender-g...

Happy to share a new collaborative paper on the conceptual and empirical distinction between PoC solidarity and PoC identity, with #SethGoldman, #YuenHuo, #TatisheNteta, and #LindaTropp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 How should we design surveys to capture opinion in fast-changing contexts like elections or within hard-to-reach communities? 🚨 My paper, conditionally accepted at Political Analysis, develops a method that leverages LLMs and adaptive algorithms to construct surveys that evolve with user input.

REP Starter Pack go.bsky.app/GxR7Bkf

Right-wing media is like improv theater, influencers on stage, performing roles based on a set of loose rules, following a loose script, collaborating towards a shared goal, doing call outs/backs w/ a shared audience who is part of the show, cheering & nudging them as the show unfolds.

Here's a political psychology starter pack. For scholars of public opinion and persuasion in the realm of politics. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Welcome to all the new folks incoming. I hope this means people are cutting The Bad Place loose. I've got a starter pack for folks either in journalism/mass comm academia or who are adjacent to it. Some great folks here, and if you'd like to be included please @ me!

Paper w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social accepted at APSR! Are moral values distinct from values? How? Based on the insight that morality is about cooperation, we find variation in moralization of a total of 21 values and that disagreement on moral values is uniquely divisive. jaeheejung.com/research/

How do parents and non-parents decide how children ought to be raised? In a new paper w/Allison Anoll & Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, we argue social movements–like Black Lives Matter–can shape these choices, unpacking the often black-boxed step in child socialization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We should be shocked (a) that this exists, (b) that the former president is amplifying it, and (c) that the former president's amplification isn't even a big news story. Last year an armed, dangerous man showed up at Obama's house after Trump posted the address www.axios.com/2023/07/05/t...

Since moving to truth social, sharing Trump messages still predicted news attention but there has been diminished direct embedding, a lower proportion of stories on his social media activity, and greater relative partisan media attention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How should journalists cover election denialism? And, how do they? In a new article in IJPP, @heesoojang.bsky.social and I @citap.bsky.social propose a new standard of “democracy-framed electoral coverage” and evaluate press coverage of the 2022 US midterms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...