"People generally accurate in perceiving partners’ attachment, but overestimated partners’ attachment anxiety and avoidance and often projected own attachment orientation. These perceptions persisted over time and depended on how the relationship was going." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1.NEW ARTICLE. Fresh out of the oven, I want to share my article on “neoliberal populism” just out in out in Global Perspectives. I analyze the ideational origins of Peru's resilient neoliberalism in the 1980s. Here a free access to the article (for a month). online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/d...

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My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Paper out now in Nature Climate Change! nature.com/articles/s41... Open version: osf.io/preprints/so... This was a team effort with Jan Voelkel, @nmalhotra.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, @geojane.bsky.social, Adina Abeles, Jarret Crawford, Kylie Fuller, Chrystal Redekopp, and others.

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you liked this week's disinfo as narrative paper, you might like this earlier paper about the moral panic about Drag Queen Story Hour and how anti-trans narratives recreate older anti-queer narratives, which, we argue, is why they are so successful. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... [Paywalled]

I have an article out today in Culture, Theory and Critique. In it, I think about how the dominant western way that we think and construct meaning makes autism and trans identities difficult to reconcile. Open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congrats to my colleague Dr. Durowaa-Boateng and her co-authors on this new publication of a harmonized dataset of education- and age-specific estimated fertility rates for DHS countries 👏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yay! Our paper is out! journalofpositivesexuality.org

Fantastic new article by @yunhanwen.bsky.social that reconceptualizes Chinese urban development as what she calls "party-state urbanism" in IJURR. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

My latest article is now available online at Social Forces. I analyzed original survey data to explore how/why Asian Americans were scapegoated for the COVID-19 pandemic, and what may have shaped Americans' susceptibility to these kinds of outgroup blame narratives. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Republicans are getting more brazen — in rhetoric and policy — in pushing teenage girls to give birth. The good news is that it won't work. Girls aren't going to fall for it. An analysis. www.salon.com/2026/04/20/m...

New paper 📑 People w/ autism spectrum disorder may be more vulnerable to sexual victimization, whether or not they’ve been formally diagnosed doi.org/10.1080/0022...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Kein Witz: Das postet die CSU heute während die Literpreise für Sprit auf Rekordniveau sind und sich der Konflikt in Iran wieder zuspitzt. Zusammen mit dem Satz: "Ab jetzt gilt wieder der Wettbewerb der besten Antriebstechnologien."

#OutNow in #iCS Who gets seen and heard in science communication on TikTok? Analysing 10,800 videos and 448,000 comments, this study shows how gender, race, and communication style interact to shape audience engagement. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Roan demonstrated more moral courage than many powerful people in her decision to leave a talent agency after reports revealed the exec’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell. Yet she received far more social backlash over a non-event than praise after taking a material risk for the sake of her principles.

"Laut der „Zeit“ beichtet die Figur Lasse in der Serie mit dem Arbeitstitel „The Au Pair“ seiner Freundin unter Tränen, dass er Bilder von ihr in Sex-Chatgruppen hochgeladen und die Reaktionen der anderen Männer darauf ihn erregt habe." Bitte was www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/unver...

The people screaming loudest about the ”deep state” are actually the ones running it. Look at Trump, Vance, Musk, Thiel, and their friends: They control the administration, own the platforms, hold your data, and hoard the wealth. They are the ones we should fear

He told ChatGPT he was a nazі іncel who wanted to dіe, then asked how many people you’d have to shoot at his school to get on the news. ChatGPT helped him pick his ammo, pick his target, pick the best time for the massacre, and then told him how to use the gun. Then he did. youtu.be/IbG-JGdGniY

I have a new #paper available as a preprint on #OSF! 📰 This study introduces "MQ-Class" to tackle two key methodological challenges in measuring #media #ideology : 🟦detecting subtle forms of news bias 💻📱 🟦integrating #human #expertise with LLMs👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 (See more below!) doi.org/10.31235/osf...

👍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...

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

🚨 New publication 🚨 Developing and validating the ambivalent prejudice towards gay men scale (APGS): Initial evidence of hostile and benevolent prejudice towards gay men in the United Kingdom Read & share now! 📰: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HTST8... 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #SocialPsychology More info 👇

New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front." How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares. Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361

Bodenständige gegen Weltoffene? In unserer neuen Studie prüfen wir, wie stark die Lebensführung mit politischen Einstellungen zusammenhängt. Befund: systematische Zusammenhänge, aber wenig Hinweise auf tiefe Spaltung. Unterschiede vor allem bei Klima und Migration.🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Der Bericht des Außendienst vom Jobcenter liest sich wie ein Stasi-Bericht. Auf 4 Seiten wird dort ein nicht angemeldeter Hausbesuch dokumentiert. A. ist privatinsolvent und bezieht #Bürgergeld, er ist wegen schweren Depressionen in Behandlung und wird vom Jobcenter akribisch überprüft, weswegen es

a grandma needing to be a food delivery person so she can pay for her partner’s cancer treatment isn’t a feel good story it’s an indictment of a failed society

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen: Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas. Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.

Excited to share my most recent co-authored publication! An article on Angel Reese and social media discourse, in Communication & Sport--led by two wonderful graduate students! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#TheMonogamousState: Monogamy is central to how states define citizenship and public order. Using France, it shows how colonial and racialized opposition to polygamy helped construct the state through the regulation of sexuality and family form.

It’s true: not all men use sexual force. But 95.1% of men in a recent, anonymous survey of men between the ages of 18 and 34 reported having recently used at least one strategy to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.

We would be having much different conversations about sexual violence if everyone saw a perpetrator’s denial of violence this way. “He has no remorse and look at how eager he is to hurt her again,” instead of, “he has the right to defend himself.”

🔥 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data. I'm co-editing a Special Issue of Sexuality & Culture with Amin Ghaziani. 📝 Full details: link.springer.com/collections/hcbbadjbha #CfP #callforpapers #sexuality #gender #data

"...from over 41,000 participants in the BBC Loneliness Experiment, researchers found that, unlike heterosexual and other sexual minority participants, asexual people experienced similar levels of loneliness whether or not they were in a romantic relationship" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Failing to include LGBT individuals in climate plans in not only a policy gap and a breach of international human rights law. It highlights the systematic vulnerabilities LGBT people face worldwide. -Victo Madrigal-Borloz #LGBTClimate

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

NEW IN TSQ Kayla Preston examines the process by which some young people become involved in right-wing organizations following their exposure to far-right YouTube content during adolescence. Read more at bit.ly/4mgk6oB

I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation. These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.

Here we go! We are VERY excited to announce the publication of the 16th ed of Understanding Human Sexuality, by Janet Hyde & now also myself & the incredible @morgancjerald.bsky.social ! What an honor to participate in educating thousands of students about sexuality & to share in this legacy. 😍

Our new article has just been published, Mehita Iqani, Anna Feigenbaum, Tamara Kredo, Suntosh R. Pillary and Kevin Guyan in the South African Journal of Science sajs.co.za/article/view...

My newest article from Policing the Rainbow is out now in Social Science & Medicine where I show the detrimental effects of police contact for both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Thrilled that my new article on the history of alphamobilities, and the #mobility #privileges of the #ultrarich is out now (open access, in the new issue of the Historische Zeitschrift)! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Call Congress and tell them to do their job: 202-224-3121

A fascinating new article in Sociological Theory explains why transgender "makes sense" and transracial does not. Duran argues this reflects the different constructions of the two systems, not an illogical incoherence of the left. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...