Absolutely deranged folks.

From our November Issue: Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members by MARCEL F. ROMAN and JACK THOMPSON www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

The Spanish Conservative Party in Extremadura just aligned itself with the gender theses of the radical right, while presenting Catalan independentists across the political spectrum as far-right and an "humiliation" for the rest of Spaniards. Political enemy doctrine and backlash against progress.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB) @cpoliticaub.bsky.social 🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️ 👏🏻 Well deserved!

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816

CAN-A-DA CAN-A-DA www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press). Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... (summary of core arguments in thread below) @lseir.bsky.social

New definition of sovereignty dropped

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL | Elecciones presidenciales - 2ª vuelta (81,4 % de freguesías escrutadas) 🟥 Seguro (PS) 64,3 % ⬛️ Ventura (Chega) 35,7 % El socialista António José Seguro será el próximo presidente de la República de Portugal.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Firms deliberately operate from small cities & towns, where rents & labor costs are lower & a growing pool of 1st-gen grads are seeking jobs. Improvements in internet connectivity made it possible to plug these locations directly into global AI supply chains, w/o relocating workers to cities."

To the Marxist imperative “always historicize” the neoliberal imperative can perhaps be understood as “always anthropologize,” always understand the differences that exist within society to be a difference between humans as humans, to be an expression of human nature.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches X office, Musk summoned - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social ! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran.

The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging

“A majority of delegates from Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and the territories” opposed the social conservative motion to repeal the ban on conversion therapy, causing it to be defeated.

At some point, the fact that *over* 1/3 of gaming workers were laid off last year, and the fact that over half a million tech workers have been laid off over the last 3 years, will have to be reckoned with as a society, instead of being swept under the rug anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

🌈 We are very happy to announce the first session of 2026! Next week, on February 5, @angeliawagner.bsky.social and @joannaeveritt.bsky.social will present their amazing work on queer Canadian candidates and social media. 📆 Be sure to join us!

Lijphart's idea that compulsory voting is a perfect antidote to the lack of electoral power of less-educated citizens, therefore, is not supported by the data www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Manchester capitalism rebranded as a lifestyle choice. It's what happens when the left withdraws from shaping identities around work, life, and politics. Individualism, conservatism ("marry early"), puritanism. They all shape how he will act politically. "Care for the sick? No, it's their own fault"

"First-generation college graduates are 10% less likely to be tenured at an R1, are tenured at institutions ranked 11% lower, earn 3% less, and report 5% lower job satisfaction, than their former PhD classmates (from the same institution and field) with a parent with a non-PhD graduate degree.".

From our August Issue: Election-Denying Republican Candidates Underperformed in the 2022 Midterms by JANET MALZAHN and ANDREW B. HALL. www-cambridge-org.libezproxy2.syr.edu/core/journal...

❗My first publication is out! Using a conjoint experiment with adoption solicitations, @bertous.bsky.social and I demonstrate that modern societies still exhibit prejudice against non-traditional relationships, including same-sex, open and age-gap couples More below and in @poqjournal.bsky.social

Got out just before the light faded. There is *a lot* of snow and it's rare the the harbour is frozen.

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

The scarcity mindset (partially, but not totally attributable to the actual lack of resources) and the upper-middle class culture distorts academia's original objective of being an institution promoting personal and collective growth. Great article on the matter. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Action --> reaction Ultimately, we cannot win the fight against the far right, and more importantly for liberal democracy and pluralism, through technological gimmicks and fancy social media campaigns. It requires serious government policies and investments in education, people, and society.

Do homophobia and sexual prejudice still exist in tolerant societies? In POQ, Ortega & Bosco's new study reveals how non-traditional relationships continue to be stigmatised in parenting contexts, even in seemingly liberal societies. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Amazing chart with horrible acronyms - for the first time in my living memory, unemployment in Northern Europe and Southern Europe seems to have converged. Seemed unthinkable during the Eurozone crisis.

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

⏳ 5 days left to apply! 4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at in a collegial & supportive department. Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related. Deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

On this subject and in many other ones we're currently exercised about, it's useful to think about the limits of discourse in the face of capital

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

Dr. King believed our democracy would only make sense when every child was fed, every mind was educated, and every community had dignity and freedom. That vision is still unfolding. So, on this MLK Day, let us recommit to the work of building the world he dared to imagine.

Now it's really done: the liberals of Renew Europe joins the EPP and the Socialists to delay the ratification of the EU-US trade deal. The three centrist parties have a majority in the chamber to make it happen. The European Parliament is NOT voting this deal.

EU ambassadors have been summoned to an emergency meeting in Brussels on Sunday over Greenland and U.S. tariff threats.-Reuters

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

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.

"It said the UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year." Reducing inequality is a key part of addressing the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ni una crisis sin proyectar debilidad ante EEUU; sin dar a entender a Trump que nos dejamos pisar e invitarle a que continúe haciéndolo.

A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...