🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop🚨 Back for the 11th time with another great line up. Join us Nov 7-8. Details 👇🏼

Good job team! 🌭 @pearl-uoft.bsky.social

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

New article with @melissabaker.bsky.social out at Politics and the Life Sciences on the dynamic and conditional effects of Big-5 traits on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper with @ericmerkley.bsky.social! Relationship between personality & precautionary pandemic behavior is mostly stable as pandemic circumstances change but relationship between personality & gov policy support/risk perception weaken as circumstances improve. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

PEARL @pearl-uoft.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Give us a follow! bsky.app/profile/pear...

🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 The Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition! 📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social

"The American regime today arrested a member of the legislative opposition, after declaring it would 'liberate' that senator's province from opposition control using the armed forces"

PIZZABALLA ROLLED BY CHICAGO DEEP-DISH CARDINAL

A display of force designed to send a chill through the judiciary. We are heading into very dangerous waters.

PEARL/UofT Poli sci at #MPSA2025

If you're at #MPSA2025 and interested in AI as a tool for persuasion, I will be presenting our paper comparing effects of AI and human source cues in reducing certainty in false beliefs on Saturday at 5:10pm (Political Knowledge, Palmer House 7th floor) Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...

MPSA attendees! Join us this Friday for a great panel + wine and snacks! If you’re interested in joining APLS, please sign up for the newsletter here: aplsnet.org

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

New article forthcoming in @CJPS_RCSP "Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada." Here I measure the prevalence, and test the correlates of domestic/US partisan news exposure in Canada using data that tracks online behaviour 🧵👇1/ osf.io/preprints/os...

UofT facilities worker: "I have to apologize, I saw you walking down the hall and thought to myself 'why is J.D. Vance at UofT?'" To whom do I report this grievous assault? 😑

Trump isn't simply misinformed. He's a Russian asset. Treat him as such. The gravity of the betrayal currently unfolding against Ukraine by the U.S. is both predictable and staggering. Along with *waves hands at everything* I don't know how any country trusts the U.S. ever again

American democracy is crumbling, and the Times is here horserace'ing Canada's conquest. Incredible stuff. But also: 1) there would be war, 2) we will never accept U.S. institutions, and 3) U.S. democracy would be long gone if this ever happened. So no, Dems don't benefit. Get it together NYT

Mitch McConnell is the ultimate hot dog man

I married into an 🇺🇸 family. My daughter will always have a foot in both countries. Seeing the destruction of the special 🇨🇦🇺🇸 relationship and the slow withering of American democracy is so incredibly heartbreaking. My daughter and all our children will be poorer and less free

Now forthcoming at the University of Toronto Press 🥳 If you want a sneak peek at the manuscript, send me an email!

New article with @natashagoel.bsky.social out in Political Behavior today on online incivility and affective polarization. Check out the thread below!

PRL's annual conference is in Salt Lake City, May 1-2, 2025 🎉Apply by 12/31 to present/attend! We are looking for work on democratic attitudes, broadly defined, and preference complete/near complete studies for talks. Details and application: polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...