With the Supreme Court green-lighting racial profiling for immigration raids, it's a reality we know too well in the borderlands. With appreciation to all who contributed to this piece, here is my recent @calmatters.org commentary on the ruling: calmatters.org/commentary/2...

📢 Who opposes birthright citizenship in the U.S.? Lajevardi & Merolla show broad support overall, but a sizable minority—disproportionately White—favor ending it, with views tied to ideology and attitudes toward undocumented immigrants. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to report that our paper, "5 out of 6 Measures of Identity and Solidarity with People of Color are Equivalent Across English and Spanish Interviews," was accepted at Politics, Groups, and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social This is Sydney Tran's first "first-author" paper (my psych PhD student).

New UCLA study highlights large disparities in L.A.'s Latinx labor force

New collaboration between political scientists and social psychologists, with me falling somewhere in between 😎🇲🇽

I'm not fully updated, but I am happy to note a steady increase in polisci TT jobs being posted the last week. A decline over last year, but better than the COVID market. #psjminfo www.politicalsciencejobs.org/job-listings

🚨 All data nerds 🤓: ANES 2024 full release is now available!

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Today we celebrate the Voting Rights Act's 60th birthday! While the VRA has been dramatically weakened in the past 15 years, it remains among the crown jewels of the Civil Rights Movement. Understanding why it's so vital requires understanding its history and context. Time for a birthday thread...

We have a JOP article about how swifties ~randomly denied tickets to the eras tour due to website allocation errors changed their views on related policies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

New paper out with Kasheena (lead author), Efren, and me! We stress-tested the idea of a people of color coalition using a blockage mediation design and two preregistered experiments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨🚨🚨 The Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc on US voting/election policy. Part of a partnership with the Brennan Center running the Voting Laws Roundup. (I have a feeling this work is gonna be important...) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04879

Revising my survey and experiments grad course and looking for examples of papers that do a good job of (really) integrating observational and experimental data. Suggestions? Self-reference welcome.

While I'm here: I want to emphasize that research on Black women voters—merits placement in top political science journals. This work should not be relegated solely to subfield or niche outlets. That’s all.

UC Berkeley is hiring an Assistant Professor this fall, with a preference for candidates in International Relations, American Politics, or Public Law. I am on the committee and glad to answer questions. Please apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04948

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

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Check out my latest paper with @mattnelsen.bsky.social and Monique Newton on symbolic politics, political socialization, and support for reprarations-related policies. This is a mixed-methods paper using 41 in-depth interviews and a conjoint experiment and is available #OpenAccess!

Runners protesting ICE cover 15 miles through immigrant communities

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research on the emotional effects of xenophobic rhetoric on Latino immigration attitudes at #ISPP2025 Thanks to everyone who joined — excited to keep learning from this community. @polpsyispp.bsky.social @ispp-pops.bsky.social

This happened in my neighborhood this week. A woman who is an Iranian asylum seeker with a hearing date collapsed in ICE custody. She was taken to UCLA hospital. ICE took her after she was released from the hospital. This is happening all around LA. www.nbcnews.com/video/irania...

Survey shows Californians want ballots in more languages

A great way to start the week 😎 Jessica Cobian (REPS Lab affiliate) is officially ABD 🔥🇲🇽🇺🇸 Co-chairs: me and #MattBarreto Special thanks to @yuenhuo.bsky.social and @graemeblair.com for helping us coach Jessica through this project.