New paper by Ali Salloum, @tedhchen.com and @bolozna.bsky.social in Network Science on elite and mass polarization in social networks. @universitypress.cambridge.org @networkspapers.bsky.social

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader. Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

I've made ideological perception data I've been working on for a while available at the Harvard Dataverse and put together a website here voterperceptions.org with a bunch of visualizations about it and with too much explanation. I've spent too much time on this, so I hope people find it useful

Very excited to share the results from the survey @michalraucher.bsky.social & I conducted during our first year as @prri.org public fellows. prri.org/spotlight/am... We presented respondents with several vignettes and asked them, "Is this an abortion or a miscarriage?"

Are you going to @apsa.bsky.social Vancouver and working on issues of science/technology/environmental politics (STEP)? If so, please attend the STEP reception on Saturday night! Details and RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/q27fRYT60G

Really love this work from @nriverosm.bsky.social (on the job market!) looking at political socialization and discussion networks in Colombia. Nicolás is at @harvardeducation.bsky.social and has strong mixed-methods skills relevant to political science + communication #polnet2025 #pacss2025

PNAS: Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2421460122?af=R

Very interesting work from @tedhchen.com looking at the interplay between emotions and participating in climate change demonstrations Optimism about the future is often negatively correlated w demonstrating, but some demonstrators may be fueled by a mix of optimism and anger #polnet2025 #pacss2025

How has digital media transformed authoritarian propaganda? In our new @ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ paper with Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan & ‪@yiqingxu.bsky.social‬, we proposed a *decentralized propaganda* model and empirically demonstrate its existence on Douyin: doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🧵

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

Probably the best account I've ever seen 😂 👇👇👇 @in-a-model.bsky.social

Omg for the Reddit LLM experiment they lied in the prompt and said that participants had consented: "The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns."

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

We are pleased to announce the revival of the Mischiefs of Faction, now on Substack. What started in 2012, now in it's fourth evolution, is reformed as a "community blog" for political science and related fields. Read more about our vision and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

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Who shapes the climate conversation online? Discover this open-access PSJ article exploring how it’s not just policymakers in power, but those whose reputations resonate. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

Hey all #environmental and #CircularEconomy BlueSkyians! The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace! A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork ! www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Reminder! CFP and workshop registration for the Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference. We have a great lineup of network analysis workshop instructors: @michaeltheaney.bsky.social, @ognyanova.bsky.social, Shahryar Minhas, & Cassie McMillan. sites.google.com/view/confpol...

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We all know activism is a marathon not a sprint. New paper shows how environmental activists maintain momentum over time. Hope you like it!

Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...

We find similar evidence from residence of Texas across two different types of natural disasters: doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

Faculty of Social Sciences at Univ. of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

Call for nominations for #APSA Political #Networks Section awards 2025. We have 5 awards. More details with award committee contact details on the awards page: apsanet.org/section41. Please spread the word and send us your nominations. #polnet #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #polisky #polisci

Excited to share our new preprint: "Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement." We examine how affective polarisation surrounding COVID spilled over into climate change discussions on Twitter and Reddit in 2019-2021. @tedhchen.com @hastinz.bsky.social

Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States By Ashley D. Ross, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Stella M.…

Join us February 21 for our event, "The State of Climate Negotiations, and Why COP30 is Important." This is part of a webinar series hosted by @ufpa.bsky.social @brown-ibes.bsky.social, NAEA, and CSSN. cssn.org/event/cop30-...

For old time's sake, here's a photo of @reuning.bsky.social's and @annewhitesell.bsky.social's JoJo.