„Working class support for X is up by Y%“. What does this information do to polarization between groups? In a new paper w/ Geoffrey Evans: Perceived working-class alignment with pro/anti camps on immigration & environment shifts identification and sympathy doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Now out: our study on what citizens imagine their political opponents to be like in Brazil, the UK, Germany & Poland 💭 We use open-ended survey answers to show how political stereotypes often blur issues, groups, traits, voters and elites. Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0032... See thread for a summary 👇

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

We have an open call for a postdoc interested in causal effects of Voting Advice Applications on political behaviour (deadline Aug 20): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

Entering the summer means another #academicsky season of jobs/promotions/grants/awards announcements. I always enjoy seeing what folks have been up to, and where they’re going next! It’s especially important in an industry and sector where these conventional ‘wins’ seem fewer and farther between.

For the 4th time, @bramlancee.bsky.social & I, in collaboration with AMCIS, organise a workshop on survey experiments on 5 Oct. 2026. CfP below ⬇️. We particularly welcome papers/research designs from early career researchers. Deadline for submissions: 23 Aug. @aissr.bsky.social

PUP is pleased to offer an internship in our Creative Media Lab for Fall 2026-Spring 2027. The Graphic Design Intern will work with both marketing designers and books designers on projects to promote new books.   This role is hybrid/remote & open to those in NJ or PA. Apply by 7/12: buff.ly/JH2gU2A

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As pride month comes close to its end, read www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Contesting LGBTI Inclusion: Expansion, Contraction, and New Dilemmas By: @payoub.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

ICE is everywhere. In 2022, ICE made arrests in 30% of counties. In 2025, ICE made arrests in 62% of counties. We ask: Do ICE arrests spark political action? Theory and prior evidence suggest it should. We find that ICE activity mostly does not mobilize citizens.

New publication out and open access at @poqjournal.bsky.social with the legendary @jaclarner.bsky.social! How does support for the UK monarchy change over the lifespan or differ between cohorts? 🧵 (1/x) doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Today we launch the new version of The PopuList! The PopuList provides an overview of far-left, far-right and populist parties in 31 European countries from 1989 until 1 May 2026. Explore the new website here: popu-list.org

I'm exceptionally proud of this paper so it is nice to hear that others found some merits in it too. Very grateful to the award committee for taking the time to read and engage with the paper. It is exhibit 79816 in the school of "partisanship is one helluva drug" doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Slides from recent talks and courses on a bunch of topics: macartan.github.io/teaching/sli... replication, experimental design, survey experiments mixed methods... human shields, community driven reconstruction, school sorting, crises, selection and incentives...

I'm exceptionally proud of this paper so it is nice to hear that others found some merits in it too. Very grateful to the award committee for taking the time to read and engage with the paper. It is exhibit 79816 in the school of "partisanship is one helluva drug" doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Like half of European political science, I too am heading to #EPSS2026. I'll be presenting on Saturday at 9:00 on gender and far-right acceptability You can also catch me on three other papers -- presented by exceptional co-authors Say Hi.

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

Out in POQ -- Mind the Gap: Partisan Bias in Justifying Political Violence in the United States academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... a brief 🧵

Join us for the @epssnet.bsky.social First Gen Meeting on Saturday 20 June. Here is the poster that @carogarriga.bsky.social and I will talk about (no worries, we'll be quick!), based on a roundtable on First Gens in political science a couple of years ago.

MORE JOBS! The Dept of Politics is looking to recruit up to SEVEN new lecturers, with five as T&S and two as T&R. Any field is great, but we have gaps in British Politics, Theory, Public Pol, Comparative. The ad for the T&S can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... @livunipol.bsky.social

Public pre-reg. for editors: 1. World Cup associated with (a) longer review times, (b) rise in invitation declines, above standard summer seasonal effects 2. Association from 1 is sig. greater among (a) invitees with in-group nation still in comp., (b) invitees with out-group nation still in comp

Reminder for everyone going to EPSS: Apply for the ETA (www.gov.uk/eta/apply) or check if your ETA is still valid (www.gov.uk/check-eta) #EPSS #PoliticalScience #IDidNotKnow

We’re a (relatively) small but mighty department with lots of exciting things to share on many different topics at this year’s inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social You can check out the 13 papers from my @sotonpolitics.bsky.social colleagues (& collaborators) here 👀

Had a very similar experience a few years ago with Frontiers in Pol Sci: - reviewers automatically invited, incl over Xmas, in mass - very aggressive policy of fast turnaround - unrealistic & damaging quality - absurd amount of reminders - quantity over quality mindset I now refuse to review for F

Heading to the #EPSSBelfast conference next week? The EPSS Diversity Committee has organized several events to make this a welcoming space for everyone. Quick thread on what's happening and when 👇

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

@thejop.bsky.social announces the right to refuse consideration of manuscripts of those who have declined to review 3+ times. Careful who you co author with!

5ª sesión de #DiálogosMax Hablaremos de derechos LGTBI+ entre España y la UE con @piglesiascampos.bsky.social de @felgtbi.bsky.social, @edurubino.bsky.social y @alemvelasco.bsky.social Introduce el debate @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social Entrada libre previa inscripción: forms.gle/diTewGRUPhWD...

💫 New paper! @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social & I are happy to see our new paper published in open access with the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Do group-targeted campaign pledges pay off electorally? We test this with a preregistered survey experiment in Germany.

📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR We test 3 mechanisms: •perceived similarity in values & lifestyle •character judgments •fear of social disapproval ➡️All matter, similarity leads And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

📢 Happy to share our new paper, just out in the European Political Science Review! 🎉 "Priming common European and democratic values does not reduce affective polarization" cambridge.org/core/journal... Short thread 🧵👇

Join us today for @urquijo.bsky.social 's presentation! 🤝

I have never found such a compelling and concise summary of a piece of my work. LLMs could never.

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

A genuinely powerful force for good in this job has left us. Raúl was always exceptionally kind, cared about other people, and was consciously aware of the needs of those suffering with poor mental health. We last spoke just over a week ago and now he is unexpectedly gone. Sad.

📢 The MESS 2026 Conference is coming! Join researchers across the social sciences in Madrid on October 22–23 at CSIC. Guest speaker: Aina Gallego (U. Barcelona). Abstract submissions open until July 10. A new Best PhD Student Paper Prize will be awarded this year! 🔗Submit: forms.gle/K1p8mQXvh27J...

Today marks the beginning of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Here is a graph on why we still need pride.

'The (forgotten) atomistic fallacy in political science and its implications for how we interpret elections': delighted our new research note with Tim Vlandas is just published in one of my favourite Political Science journals @ejprjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Excited that our paper with @bnbakker.bsky.social and @gijsschumacher.bsky.social is now out in Public Opinion Quarterly!

An RDiT/UESD on LGBTQ+ politics *and* Princess Diana!? Take my money.

🚨 Cambio de fecha 🚨 El seminario de @turnbulldugarte.com pasa finalmente al: 📆 3 de junio — 18:00h 📍 @cepcgob.bsky.social + online 📄 “Coalition Negotiation Breakdown and Electoral Returns. Who Benefits When the Center-Right Refuse the Far Right” Con Hugo Marcos-Marne como comentarista.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An RDiT/UESD on LGBTQ+ politics *and* Princess Diana!? Take my money.