Congratulations to the wonderful newly minted political science PhD from Aarhus Dr Balezina

📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

I really, really do not want Britain's first (openly) LGBTQ+ prime minister to be Wes - just throw trans folks under the bus- Streeting.

AJPS Editors Blog Post: Pre-Analysis Plans (PAP) Policy Change. We recently clarified our policy regarding the execution of pre-analysis plans and the reporting of supplemental materials. These changes are in line with increasing transparency in reporting ajps.org/2026/05/13/p...

📣 New publication 📣 Delighted to see my article with the brilliant Teresa Bejan and James Tilley now out in the BJPolS We develop and test the concept of 'partisan intolerance' - and find high levels of intolerance in Britain, associated with affective polarisation 👇

I really, really do not want Britain's first (openly) LGBTQ+ prime minister to be Wes - just throw trans folks under the bus- Streeting.

Had the pleasure of presenting ongoing work at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) yesterday! Thanks to Erwan Dujeancourt and Emma von Essen for having me and everyone in the GAINS group for great feedback!

Campaign Lab are hiring for 3 new roles - Great opportunity for anyone from an academic or applied research background who's excited about running RCTs and doing data science with progressive campaigns in the UK! campaignlab.uk/work-with-us/

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Can confirm, not good. www.therainbowvote.com

Reminder 🙂 ❗️ Tue, May 12, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series 🔗 Zoom link can be requested at [email protected] 👇

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

More people in the UK work for McDonalds than in the whole steel industry.

⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS - EPSS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON PLACE, POLITICS AND EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY ⏰ Submit by Weds 20 May! For all those interested in politics of geographic divides and keen to explore impact potential of their work. More info/submit here: shorturl.at/xS0iS @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social

❗ New paper out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! 😯 @bertous.bsky.social and I used a conjoint experiment to investigate whether name-based preferences influence adoption decisions. We take Catalonia as the case study, where linguistic boundaries overlap with contested political identities.

Another round of talking about how to tackle common biases in quasi-experimental designs, this time at @gesis.org in Cologne. 🗓️ May 11th, 10-11am, Room A-104, USH I'll be there Mon/Tue - feel free to reach out if you're around and fancy a chat☕ Join online here: ethz.zoom.us/j/69720935316

Soo, since yesterday I am officially PhDone! 😮🎓✨🥂 I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisors Sylvia Kritzinger & @markuswagner.bsky.social for their guidance & support in this journey, and to my wonderful committee @gessler.bsky.social & @chrisclaassen.bsky.social for the thoughtful discussion. 1/2

Looking forward to being back in Mannheim next week. If you are keen to hear how political parties are rewarded and punished for taking non-ambiguous positions on trans rights, then you might find this paper I'll be presenting (w\ @bogatyrev.bsky.social) of interest!

We are delighted to present the new editorial team of the @ejpgjournal.bsky.social ! Led by @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social as co-EIC, the six-strong team represents a new generation of gender and politics and LGBTQ+ politics scholars who will take the journal forward from July 2026.

📢 Postdoc opportunity at @UB-IPERG (University of Barcelona) 1-year position in Historical Political Economy. 💶 €35–40k | Start: Fall 2026 🗓️ Deadline for Expressions of Interest: June 5, 2026 All the info: 🔗 www.ub.edu/iperg/postdo...

📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

🌈 We continue our 2026 programme with the amazing Nancy Yun Tang! 😯 She will present her super interesting work on transgender citizens in China. 📆 Be sure to join us next Thursday May 7 at 9am PT/12pm ET/6pm CEST.

"Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment" by Henrik Bech Seeberg. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jop/curr...

🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels. Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📄 New paper with a fantastic MA student @jmschulte.bsky.social: When social democrats move right on migration, do voters actually follow? We study Olaf Scholz's radical shift on migration in Germany (October 2023).

Does far-right legislative representation change the descriptive make-up of candidate lists among mainstream parties? Using a RDD with registry data from Sweden, this paper led by @grahn.bsky.social provides an answer doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

The gender of the interviewers caused minimal bias in the measurement of gender-based discrimination and gender attitudes and that GOI effects are consistent across societies with varying levels of gender equality academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

📣 Do you work on migration and how it relates to security including economic, policy, political, and psychological aspects? We're hosting a 1-day workshop at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social on 23 June. Limited funding available. Abstracts due 11 May: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/VywDnKXg3c #polisky #migcitsky

Does partisanship affect justifications of political violence? Berntzen et al. find that both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to justify identical acts of political violence when the victims are from the opposing party. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

New in ISQ (with Ben Goldsmith and Kelly Matush, @kmatush.bsky.social ) 🎉 doi.org/10.1093/isq/... Companion to our APSR article: doi.org/10.1017/S000... High-level visits: divergent effects 🔀 ISQ: Domestic approval ↓ APSR: Foreign opinion ↑

THIS IS HAPPENING! What Europeans Think about Immigration and Why It Matters James Dennison and Andrew Geddes Oxford University Press, publication date June 25 2026, £30 lnkd.in/dU8dRYuB

If you are headed to the first-ever meeting of EPSS in Belfast, bookmark this schedule & come check out all the excellent research on gender, sexuality, and politics! @turnbulldugarte.com & I had a v tough job narrowing it down… from engagement and ambition to polarization, backlash and more 👇

The programme for @epssnet.bsky.social's inaugural conference in Belfast is now live. W\ @anacweeks.bsky.social, we were responsible for chairing the Gender & Sexuality Section. Our section will have 13 panels over 3 days. You can see the full programme here: lnkd.in/gQbba9ev

👍Very excited to see that my solo-authored article: "Surveying Minoritized Citizens: A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization" has been published in Survey Research Methods✨ I hope survey researchers to reconsider how they survey group membership💪 doi.org/10.18148/srm...

Episode I returns to haunt us again

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

A hat trick of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social prizes last night! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize, @dbonansinga.bsky.social for Specialist Group of the Year @psa-italian.bsky.social & @williamlallen.bsky.social for the Joni Lovenduski early-career achievement award. #psa26

we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology. in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard. we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:

But it might work for us...

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My time to shine his come.

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open! We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties. Deadline: 26 April Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I.

Heroes and villains, valence, and group based inferences, but this time using real world historical figures. Hitler views as ideologically part of the other camp. Jesus viewed as ideologically one of us.

Just registered: see you in Belfast @epssnet.bsky.social! If you're also a member, consider signing up to the mentoring scheme by March 31 (either as a mentee, mentor, or both 👋). I've found it to be really rewarding and worthwhile. Details here: epssnet.org/about/divers... #polisky

We explain political change using totally different causal models if we approve of outcome of not: 1. Change we like is organic, bottom-up genuine expression of public demand 2. Change we dislike is artificial, top-down result of manipulative elite I’m calling this Motivated Causal Attribution

At the University of Southampton, we will be running an interdisciplinary summer school on experiments for students, researchers, and practitioners from 29 June to 3 July. Information and registration details can be found at: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Happy to publish my latest article in @polstudies.bsky.social "Policy Diversification without Ideological Attenuation: The Programmatic Changes of Western European Far-Right Parties (1990–2025)" #populism #farright journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why do some people want to migrate while others don’t—even in similar conditions?🌍 My new #openaccess article in IMR shows how psychology🧠—notably values, risk tolerance, and personality—predict both aspiration and irregularity willingness.🔎🔓 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEJZT...