Rookie numbers. I hit this at a mid season nothing game away at Crewe.

I was on BBCR4’s Rethink today talking with @benansell.bsky.social about political authenticity Research links to follow. With co-authors @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, @jmoss88.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

[After spending all day reading about a global paedophile ring and marking and sitting down to watch Hitler's Circle of Evil on Netflix] But _why_ am I so sad?

Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...

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Qualtrics conjoint folks (using Leeper code): do you have any tips/tricks for how to make it look good on mobile (or at least not look awful)? Looks fine on desktop, but mobile is a mess (and study population prob mostly mobile). Keen to not reinvent the wheel if this is already solved.

So every year I do a short survey with my first year British Politics students. Anyway, Labour have gone from 44% to 15%. The 'other' category - mea culpa for not adding the Greens - has gone from 18% to 41%.

I got the train from London to Florence and the first delay I had was from London to Southampton on the way home

What happens when #Trust becomes volatile? 💥 @cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survey data from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 to analyse how #VotingBehaviour is impacted by three key components of #PoliticalTrust. Find out what they are 👉 📖 buff.ly/gT7AWxe

Out now: *A Research Agenda for Political Trust* This excellent collection of papers points out future directions for political trust research: the unanswered questions, problems, promising theoretical pathways, and methodological innovations. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r... And: it's open access!

Some weekend reading for you

📢 New book chapter 👥 Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV) & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social 🔎 Political Trust in Norway; A Large But Lopsided Research Field 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Given that only a third of the hypotheses were supported, one takeaway is that our theories are crap.

Watching a BBC documentary about the Titanic. Of all 6 commentators, 4 went to Oxford. The other two were in the army. And none of them seem to have done anything remotely connected to the Titanic (but one was a sailor!).

A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance': www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...

From November 2025 - The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia - https://cup.org/4p1QbRA "right-wing opposition to criticism of the imperial past is stronger than left-wing support" - Christopher Claassen & @danjdevine.bsky.social #OpenAccess

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance': www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights... Some key findings...

If you work on any aspect of trust and politics, you'll definitely want to check out this agenda-setting collection co-edited by our brilliant colleague @danjdevine.bsky.social. Plus, it's open access and free for all! #polisky #commsky #socsky #econsky

Important agenda setter on public trust, including the who's who in that area.

A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine. I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors. Hope it's useful. 🙌 djdevineorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Record attendance for the south coast derby in the women's second division ⚽🔵

A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine. I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors. Hope it's useful. 🙌 djdevineorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

After the 2015 election I was pretty sad and wondering how bad things would get. Anyway, fast forward 11 years

Last day to submit your paper(s)!

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

I am re-upping this as a reminder that @polbehavior.bsky.social is looking for a new editor! Editing was the most rewarding part of my career and I encourage folks to think about applying.

Populists and socialists are more likely than other politicians to come from lower-class families, and social democrats to have less educated parents. Yet both groups are just as likely to have highly educated and higher class friends and partners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

V happy to have another great paper published @jeppjournal.bsky.social

But at least the first and last aren't irrational. We've regularly seen violent protests over the last year and are regularly warned about the potential for cyber attacks.

New Special Issue in @the-peio.bsky.social: Public Opinion and International Organizations. In the SI intro, we map the field, place the SI papers & identify ways forward: rdcu.be/eXt2R with @jonastallberg.bsky.social, 🙏 @adreher.bsky.social, reviewers & SI authors #Polisky #InternationalRelations

The UK government can't take a position on anything - even this.

Today is 7 years since my first ever journal rejection! (2019, EJPR). Don't think I knew at the time how many more were to follow...

Labour has declined most amongst those in their 30s and early 40s. Those, generally more on the left, have known nothing but Tory and recession Labour. Starmer was a chance for change. It wasn't delivered. The anger is betrayal.

A sickly gentleman living in a sanatorium in Görbersdorf (now Sokołowsko, Poland). I'll take it, on balance.

Zwischen den Jahren, beste Zeit.

🙏 Humility for being entrusted with the task of steering such a precious ship. Gratitude for such a stellar team that runs JEPP as if they had done nothing else before. Asya, @danjdevine.bsky.social, Martin, @twinzen.bsky.social, @vanghel.bsky.social, and @koblischke.bsky.social: you truly rock 🕺

What role did/does/could/should faith play in shaping our national identities? With Prof Linda Woodhead and great panel. Book here👇

Really fascinating piece of survey research by @chrisclaassen.bsky.social and @danjdevine.bsky.social. Conclusion: "So for political parties, openly criticising empire is not a winning strategy. It yields only minimal gains on the left while antagonising and mobilising voters on the right."

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

Also a useful reminder that ~half the country don't know who Zack Polanski is, or at least enough to know whether they like him. There's a good chance that many expressing some opinion are also making it up.

The latest in the deluge of evidence that Labour are not only barking up the wrong tree but on the entirely wrong planet.

@danjdevine.bsky.social's turn in our series: 🐈 The tree is up, marking the final few weeks of the year. We have recently got a new, much younger, and more active cat, and so we suspect it won’t be the only time we have to put the tree up (the older one is fine, just past her tree-climbing days) 🧵

It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

I'm also thinking about all of those student halls and houses that have wiped non-student housing, and the impact on the areas around them when they remain empty. Obviously an opportunity to repurpose and reduce rents but that seems a less likely outcome

Neither of these PMs will be in power in 5 years and they only have themselves to blame. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Next try after my initial flight got cancelled due to the storm yesterday: Very much looking forward to presenting "Parties under Pressure" @sotonpolitics.bsky.social today (weather and flights permitting, wish me luck!). Thanks so much, @danjdevine.bsky.social, for having me! tinyurl.com/bp7tpr4a

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? 'Master' is too far, but I spent a _lot_ of effort on getting to a pretty decent standard (~ A Level) of Icelandic that has turned out to have fairly limited usage