Feeling kind of blue today: #LetsGoBlueJays #Jaysin6

Poll of 235 mayors: 84% of women candidates were harassed while campaigning vs 64% of men candidates. 25% of women mayors experienced harassment at least 3x/month vs 10% of men mayors. 2x as many women mayors reported threats to their family as men mayors. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Get the inside track! 🎯 Here’s a sneak peek at the 8 workshops that will define #CPSA_ACSP26👇🏾 🔴 DEADLINE NOV 10 shorturl.at/AgUow @westernupolisci.bsky.social @erintolley.bsky.social @traceyraney.bsky.social @katepuddister.bsky.social @melomas.bsky.social @bittner.bsky.social @tariajadi.bsky.social

How should we identify LGBTQ2S+ candidates? In new research with @qalbaugh.bsky.social , we compare 3 methods for identifying LGBTQ2S+ candidates in 🇨🇦 federal elections (2019–2021).

Had a fabulous time at the Blue Rodeo concert in Toronto last night. For anyone who missed it, the livestream can be found here:

In what world is okay for a group of men to assume that an inebriated stranger is their sexual plaything? Our world, unfortunately. I wrote about the Hockey Canada trial in today's @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I wanna encourage allies to make donations today. Every sexual assault centre in the country has seen an uptick in calls *just* from the trial, let alone today's verdict. I'd also encourage you to support the most effective rape resistance program in the world (based here in Canada!)

Trump said the Everglades center would house “some of the most vicious people on the planet." But > a third of the detainees have no US criminal charges or convictions. DHS says they are "terrorists, gangsters" but "they just don’t have a rap sheet in the US” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The media outlet that asks you to pay $25/month doesn't know if the president can take away an American's citizenship and has to call another person to figure it out

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UH5PdOR @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Afterglow Florence McGillivray 1914

I'm delighted to share a new article at Politics & Gender with @kebaisley.bsky.social and Kate Burke Pellizzari examining whether LGBTQ+ candidates face challenges financing their campaigns: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Feminist Institutionalism and Ethnography" @grahn.bsky.social & Cherry M Miller propose ethnographic approaches for scholars looking to research the gendered outcomes of institutions. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky buff.ly/4jmQsMv

Glorious Northland Ted Harrison 1983

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Labor Union Membership and Women’s Political Ambition" David Macdonald tests a novel supply-side explanation of women's political under-representation using CES data in the 🇺🇸. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky buff.ly/3PHyCWX

New paper in IPSR with @traceyraney.bsky.social! Drawing on the reforms in the Canadian Senate, we argue that institutions in flux can be regendered by the people within them: amidst all the changes, Canadian senators successfully cemented new feminist rules. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Scary. Glad to hear no one was injured in this incident but it bears repeating: the cost of being in politics shouldn't be violence or threats of violence. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

ex-president sex pest endorses ex-governor sex pest in effort to fight current president sex pest

Charlotte Bennett, the former staffer Cuomo's been hounding in the courts since she went public with his sexual harassment of her, appeared with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social at a Brad Lander event yesterday. If you haven't yet voted, making things less shitty for Cuomo's victims is a reason to do so.

Excellent Toronto Star op-ed on Bill 5 which recently became law in Ontario. It gives sweeping powers to the govt, allowing it to centralize power and circumvent democratic processes, all in the name of 'economic protectionism':

Wild Flowers Tom Thomson 1915

Happy to share my new paper w/ @zacspicer.bsky.social & @IStedman.bsky.social on councillor-perpetrated sexual violence in Canada published in State and Local Government Review. In it we offer recommendations for municipal govts on how to combat this problem. doi.org/10.1177/0160... #gendersky

Hold the Light Lee Munn 2023

Great interview w/ Jacinda Ardern in The Guardian: "But public life today is so horrible, so brutal. Why would anyone go into politics? 'I think the rehumanisation of people in public life is really important,' she says." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Northern Lights, BC Frederick Varley 1936

Excited to dive into my advance copy of a new book on party loyalty in 🇨🇦 politics by @alexmarland.bsky.social, @jaredwesley.ca & @mireillelalancette.bsky.social. Join us in Toronto at CPSA on June 5th, 12 p.m. to celebrate this important new work!

Cdn PM appoints 14 women and 14 men to his second cabinet BUT "[a] closer look reveals Carney’s appointments may be seen as a form of gender-washing — symbolically inclusive, but not substantively so. Notably, men hold five of the six most powerful positions…" theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Petty in Pink

Some very smart people talking about important issues that 🇨🇦 must confront in the aftermath of the federal election on this upcoming panel:

Lions Gate Sam Siegel n.d.

Thousands of pro-life supporters are actively working to elect pro-life CONS. Poilievre can say whatever he wants — the fact is by allowing these candidates to run & push anti-abortion legislation, he's giving them the platform to roll back women's reproductive rights. #WomenAgainstPoiLIEvre

A beautiful spring day in Toronto. Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 🌷🐣

Why aren't we talking about harassment in #elxn45? In my new op-ed, I reflect on the harassment women continue to face in #cdnpoli, and the threat it poses to democracy: theconversation.com/growing-thre... @theconversationca.bsky.social #gendersky #polisky

Sound advice. Heed it!

There's a reason ladies loathe Pierre Actually a whole bunch of reasons 👇

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 Our twentieth anniversary issue is now out! Our editor @mlkrook.bsky.social‬ introduces the issue reflecting on founding of the journal and previewing all of the wonderful research featured in this special edition of P&G. polisci gendersky buff.ly/jHgKiwp

At a campaign event last week, Pierre Poilievre promised an “end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.” He needs to clarify unequivocally that he doesn't mean this... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Super interesting article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social on nonbinary voters: "From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Polisky Gendersky

There's an old saying in politics: you have to earn the benefit of the doubt. Poilievre hasn't earned the grace necessary to weather this gaffe unscathed.

My new op-ed with Rebecca Wallace about the lack of gender parity in Carney’s new cabinet. We hope gender-equal cabinets will be expected by Canadians, not just a one-off under Trudeau. #InformedOpinions is calling for us to #BalanceThePower www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

With most MPs & Senators away from Ottawa, it was a pleasure to host students from @torontomet.bsky.social studying women in politics, with my @senindepend.bsky.social colleagues, to talk with students about work & life for women in the #SenateofCanada & policymaking.

This is an insightful piece on why 🇨🇦's next PM needs to appoint a new Minister for Women and Gender Equality, and what's at stake without one. Efforts to address gender-based violence will be set back especially: www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Canada faces profound threats and needs to protect its information system just as we do our financial system. @taylorowen.bsky.social and I explain why 🇨🇦 needs a minister of communications in today’s @thestar.com

International academic research chair search! If you are an established scholar with expertise in public policy, public administration, and/or political polarization, please consider this opportunity and share with your networks! #academicsky #poliscisky #academia #polisky

Really, is no one going to talk about the fact that in his STATE OF THE UNION address, Donald Trump said about Greenland: “One way or the other we’re gonna get it” — and Congress laughed. THEY LAUGHED. NATO is already dead. youtu.be/yLoU_NvwI-k?...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In " Shifting Stereotypes About Men and Women Candidates" Claire Gothreau & Lasse Laustsen provide experimental evidence that gender stereotypes are less of a barrier to candidacy than previously thought. gendersky polisky https://buff.ly/4gSTSE9

2024 YR4 after getting a closer look at what’s happening on earth…

📢 New #PAG20 Book Review 📚 Anne Van Bavel reviews 'Gender and Violence Against Political Actors' by @elinbja.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social. This edited volume highlights the theoretical and methodological tools scholars use to study gendered violence in politics. buff.ly/3WPkT46

DEAR MEDIA: STOP FRAMING THE UNIVERSITY BUDGET CRISIS AS PRIMARILY ABOUT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. THIS IS A CRISIS CAUSED BY PROVINCIAL FUNDING CUTS AND TUITION CAPS. calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/p...