Join us the 17 February at @sns.it in Florence (and online) to discuss equality in academia!

Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus. We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.

How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐 And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents? I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out! Hope this sparks some conversations 💡 tally.so/r/447Xxk

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

Happy new year 2026 from up north! ❄️

Happy holidays! :) 🎄

This is where your e-mail finds me. Happy holidays! 🎄🎄🎄

Ph-Done, as they say. I’m feeling relieved to be done, happy to have passed, privileged to have so many wonderful friends around me, tired after a hectic week, and excited for what comes next.

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...

Had the pleasure to serve on the examination committee today at Lund University for @jwa.bsky.social brilliant PhD dissertation on feminist activist solidarity and mobilization in Egypt and Tunisia. An insightful work, rich both theoretically and empirically.

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...

We're happy to announce at least three vacant PhD positions starting in fall 2026! Read more and apply here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

@elinbja.bsky.social and I are leading SWEPSA (Swedish Political Science Association) for the coming two years! Looking forward to it! :) www.uu.se/en/departmen...

This is a terrible move that will hurt the trans community as well as the Labour Party in the long term.

Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good. Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

New article by @rmuriaas.bsky.social and I: While seniority can benefit all parliamentarians and serve as a powerful resource, it does not confer power equally. Women face structural barriers to accessing seniority, and even when they attain it, their legitimacy and influence remains contested.

New article out! 🔥 I’m excited to share our new piece on how political seniority works as a gendered informal institution that shapes access to power in parliaments. The article draws on interviews with the French National Assembly. gendersky polisky academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

Huge congratulations to the best @turnbulldugarte.com & @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social for getting Wallenberg fellowships (equivalent to two ERC grants!!!) So well-deserved!!

Yesterday, I had a lovely opportunity to present co-authored work on how to counter femonationalism at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite! @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com

❗️ Tue, Dec 2, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @grahn.bsky.social "Countering Femonationalism: Evidence from an Audio-visual Experiment in Germany" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

Tomorrow, the fantastic @grahn.bsky.social is presenting his amazing research at MZES Speaker Series. So glad to have you in Mannheim, Michal!!

Very unprofessional of the APSR to publish a response to a published article without publishing the original authors' reaction. "They will be published in the same issue." So we see them together when we get our hardcopy in the mail and flip through it on a Sunday afternoon?

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

I had the privilege to present my ongoing research on rebutting femonationalism (with @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com) at @helsinki.fi yesterday. Great crowd and feedback. :) thanks to @jekantol.bsky.social & @cherrymmiller.bsky.social for having me.

For any interested folks in London tomorrow at 18:15, I so appreciate @govandopp.bsky.social's selection and invitation to give the Leonard Schapiro Memorial lecture this year: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/illib...

Early this week, Cherry Miller and I had the pleasure of giving a PhD course in feminist research designs and methods to a talented group of 9 PhD students at @helsinki.fi So much talents and creativity in their projects! @uppgap.bsky.social

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

To be awarded a PhD, you first have to ”defend” your thesis. In Sweden, this is a public event—anyone can come and ask questions. Thus, the thesis is nailed to the wall of the department in advance, where it can be read. Luckily, it can also be read online: portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...

Our paper just got accepted in the @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 and is now on the journal website: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... For me personally, it's a milestone: my first paper accepted after a peer review!

So happy to have received a new, generous grant (500k EUR) from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social to continue exploring the causes and consequences of voluntary segregation among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Sweden. This time with a dream team of @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com

A fun way to start the wknd: We have received the reviews of ”Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout." […] I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics. @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social @turnbulldugarte.com

A fun way to start the wknd: We have received the reviews of ”Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout." […] I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics. @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social @turnbulldugarte.com

A 46,000-year-old Neanderthal bone from Crimea, identified though DNA in its collagen, is related to Neanderthals found 3,000 kilometers away in Siberia, revealing that Neanderthals traveled vast distances in periods with favorable climates. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/SwiS50XkXAU

Happy, alongside @emiliabelknap.bsky.social, to make my debut contribution with the fantastic folks at @ukandeu.bsky.social Emilia & I use data from @britishelectionstudy.com to correct the atomistic fallacy in people's understanding the Reform UK gender gap ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

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

It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election. It's also Open Access! #AusPol @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social

It’s here! Gendering Party Politics published with Oxford University Press & available in all good bookshops in hardcover & paperback. Edited by @merylkenny.bsky.social and @elinbja.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61464

Very happy to see "The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines" out in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

This week, @uu-polisci.bsky.social were lucky to host @danjdevine.bsky.social from and learn more about his exciting new research on accent-based candidate evaluation.

Great to see this roundtable and reviews out! Looking forward to more continued conversations around peace research’s way forward! With M Åkebo and A Jarstad Thanks to @h-diplo.bsky.social @tlyons.bsky.social @lkriesberg.bsky.social @emmamurphy.bsky.social Paul Diehl issforum.org/roundtables/...

▶️ Political Representation 👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social & @sopro.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>> 3/

🇪🇺 Europeans say no to tariffs! Check out the @uu.se press release on our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social study exploring what Europeans really think about trade barriers in an era of rising global tensions. www.uu.se/en/press/pre... Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

📄Is there public support for tariffs in Europe -- as a protectionist measure, a tool of retaliation, or a way to fund the green transition? Our timely conjoint experiment, fielded in two core European constituencies 🇩🇪 🇬🇧, shows no public appetite for tariffs in Europe. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Takeaway from this article (now with page numbers!): men support political gender quota/ parity laws less than women (whether legal quotas exist in their country or not), but people *do not* believe women elected in a system with quotas are less qualified / support them less. Because…: they aren’t!

🚨New paper out at Journal of European Public Policy: Do Europeans want tariffs? No! Our conjoint experiments show that the mass public does not support tariffs, no matter how they are framed. Full paper below ⬇️ It was great to work on such a timely piece with a stellar team of co-authors ✨

Tariffs might be the word of 2025. Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? @grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

One week into my stay at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, visiting the research group on Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda led by Dr Elizaveta Kuznetsova until mid-December. So grateful to spend time in such an inspiring academic environment! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/portrait/p/e...