Out now with @adamsharris.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social : We test “rooted” activist frames for LGBTQI tolerance—grounded in local history & national narratives—in Zimbabwe. Biggest thanks to the many people who helped get this off the ground. (1/3) Read here:

Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit! @uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities. Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD. Apply 👇

Today is the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Disability shapes people’s lives in many ways — including how they participate in elections. To mark the day, here’s a selection of our research on this important topic.

Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! 1/7

We have a vacancy at UCL for a new permanent lecturer in British and Comparative politics, working as part of the Constitution Unit

My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🌈 Join us next Thursday December 4 for our last webinar of the year! 👉 @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt will present their amazing work on the Budapest Pride and how it impacted Hungary. 📆 Mark your calendars!

APSA Latinas/os Travel Grant. Reimbursement support for in-person travel to Vancouver, with priority given to participation in Latina/o politics. Apply by November 28, 2026:

For any interested folks in London tomorrow at 18:15, I so appreciate @govandopp.bsky.social's selection and invitation to give the Leonard Schapiro Memorial lecture this year: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/illib...

Big news from the CJEU that brings two early cases in my 2016 book (Poland and Germany, with the marriage in Berlin) back into the spotlight: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Lesbian and gay party leaders receive lower leadership evaluations than straight leaders in the UK, and the effects are consistent across genders. Interesting yet discouraging findings in our BJPS paper. @josephfcozza.bsky.social @gdilandro.bsky.social Andrea Aldrich @utgovernment.bsky.social

Grateful to @elpais.com and editor Pablo León Sánchez for picking up our intervention on Cuomo–Mamdani and the concept of reputational (i.e. how not to use it!). elpais.com/sociedad/lgt...

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

Really looking forward to this discussion this afternoon!

For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs - https://cup.org/4oC35oH - @nikhil-kalyanpur.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

📣 Excited to share a new dataset article with @qalbaugh.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We identify 176 out LGBTQ2S+ candidates in the 2015, 2019 & 2021 Canadian federal elections using a replicable search procedure based on individual candidate searches.

Why does this matter? Because it shows how LGBTQ people still experience stigma about coming out. And it also completely upends the current far right narrative about identities “changing”.

The Guardian: Lawyers trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn conversion therapy bans deceived the court about the research they cited, according to the researchers themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WE WANT YOU! 🫵 The call for a new editorial team for the EJPG is now open❗ The mandate of the journal's sitting stellar team led by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social will come to an end in July 2026. 📆 Applications must be received by November 23rd Details of call here: rb.gy/lqidii

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Always something to worry about (for those of us who have moved to the UK in recent years) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Sage/CQ Press Award presented by @apsa.bsky.social honors research-based projects focused on advancing social justice. Congratulations to winners @kstoeckl.bsky.social and @payoub.bsky.social for their scholarship on LGBTQ+ rights. Read more: politicalsciencenow.com/phillip-ayou...

Congratulations to Rachel Bernhard, Professorial Fellow, on receiving a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant! Her project, ‘Walls and Wicked Problems: The Role of Complexity in Politics,’ will investigate how complexity shapes political discourse. 🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/5bYBw

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🔔 Nomination deadline extended to August 15, 2025! ISA Human Rights colleagues, I'm serving on this committee and we are still accepting nominations. This Human Rights Section award will be given to the best paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention. www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

After 3.5 years, I finished my PhD @uclspp.bsky.social earlier this month. 🙂🎉 Many thanks to my amazing supervisors @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Nils Metternich, @payoub.bsky.social for being incredibly supportive and great mentors throughout!

🌈🤩 @pspolisci.bsky.social has a new special issue on #LGBTQ politics full of insightful and innovative content! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @polisky.bsky.social

Book workshop 3/3 done. Huge number of people to thank for allowing me to indulge myself and talk about how queer citizens are political animals. Now just need to finish the thing! 🗳️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

If you liked the @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social NYT episode last week, I really can't recommend enough the latest episode of A Bit Fruity by @mattxiv.bsky.social as a follow up watch/listen to that. youtu.be/vTyR3oIn6is?...

Since my video was shared a lot on here, attaching a few other nice shots from the Pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Day 25: Taking a dip into international LGBTQ politics: linking anti-LGBTQ policies to Putin decreases support. From innovative scholar @payoub.bsky.social Douglas Page & Sam Whitt, "Countering International Backlash by Discrediting the Messengers." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Still going strong!!! A million thanks to our excellent lead editors @payoub.bsky.social @jennpiscopo.bsky.social, the terrific associate editors, authors and reviewers. In times of increased backlash our journal and your work matters more than ever. ❤️‍🔥

So proud of @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social (one of our great @uclspp.bsky.social PhD candidates) for expertly organizing a wonderful workshop with cherished UK-based colleagues working on gender politics! Appreciate this community and their fantastic contributions (both in general & to this workshop!).

Dear colleagues -- please see this workshop @sriprateekraj.bsky.social and @dramylind.bsky.social are organizing at BISA. Deadline is upcoming and seems like a great opportunity!

Check out this cool Pride event for those in London on June 13th! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-... featuring @frammaturo.bsky.social and lots of great folks!

Off to the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions this week? Looking for a home for that excellent research paper you're about to workshop? The EJPG would love to receive it. Questions? Get in touch with our editors @jennpiscopo.bsky.social @payoub.bsky.social or one of our associated editors.

Wherein I opine that the upcoming presidential elections in Poland will either enable or stymie democratic reform after the PiS years. For a largely ceremonial office, this one matters. goodauthority.org/news/trzasko...

On average, Americans prefer a liberal Pope—someone who supports same-sex marriage, climate reform, ordaining women, and confronting authoritarian leaders. But: they want these views without political engagement. The ideal Pope is progressive—but apolitical.

Our concept of 'reputational chaining' has some value for understanding the Canadian election: "The Liberals, who months ago seemed all but certain to lose, owe a large part of their success to Trump’s aggression." (from NYT)

🚨 New article in Comparative Political Studies (@cpsjournal.bsky.social)! After many years of rewarding work, Sam, Vera, and I can finally share findings from Mosul, Iraq on how shared suffering under ISIS shaped support for LGBT+ rights. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/4