📖 A new BJPolS article in which we develop and test the concept of ‘partisan intolerance’ - the gap between a person’s willingness to interfere with contentious activities by in-partisans versus the same activities by out-partisans - and we find high levels of partisan intolerance in the UK 👇

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

Also, if the idea is equivalent living conditions across the UK, then in a fragmented party system, devolving power politically could easily lead to the opposite. Maybe local politicians make better choices, but partisanship will in most cases trump localness.

Re No10 in Manchester: The historical context of those choices is different, but it's not like Germany having half of its ministries in Bonn and the EU having some of its bureaucracy and the EP in Strasbourg has prevented the radical right from criticising the political project as elitist.

My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Our (with Radha Sarkar) meta-reanalysis of the experimental religion and politics literature is now out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social Open-access link: doi.org/10.1017/S000... Brief thread

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

*PSA EXCELLENCE & IMPACT FUND* We are pleased to launch and make available another round of E&I Funding. This fund is available to PSA Specialist Groups who can apply for up to £2000. 📆 Deadline for applications: 31 July 2026 ➡️ Details, application form and guidelines online

Less than a month to apply for TPBW! Submit your proposals here: utorontops.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

Terrible that Russia hit the Pechersk Lavra. I visited in 2021 while living in Kyiv for a few months - it would be similar to Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's being on fire here. We really need to up our efforts to support Ukraine with air defence, especially patriots. Slava Ukraini!

It's a bit funny. Everyone's complaining that the government isn't bold enough, and if they are bold, people say it's all too draconic and they should have done another review etc.

The government putting in a social media ban for under 16s is likely the right policy, given the evidence on impacts on mental health. Below a few thoughts regarding some critical points that people have put forward:

Taking a stand ✋️🧍 These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms buff.ly/tHRWa65

Registration for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17-19 September) is now open!! The deadline to sign-up is 5 August, with early bird rates available until mid-July. For full information, please see the conference website: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve...

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Wow! This from a ‘progressive’ government

🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language? New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This is excellent by Rowenna Davis- much to learn for Labour (and other local campaigns) here re story telling, social media, ground game and campaign strategy. thinklabour.co.uk/thinking/the...

While people with similar political views tend to grow closer over time, friendships between those who start out politically distant rarely shift opinions, suggesting social influence depends strongly on initial similarity in beliefs www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🚨 Get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Emeritus Professor Michael Laver 👉️ Measuring policy positions of political agents ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 16 June ➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 ‼️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuring-...

Thanks a lot for the engaging discussion and for inviting me, @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social & @markuskollberg.bsky.social! Always good to exchange perspectives with political practitioners. Great panel and audience questions!

The APSA Pres Task Force on AI, Politics, & Political Science's report comes in the form of an edited volume identifying questions & establishing a foundation for the empirical study of how politics & governance are affected by AI. Check out these early chapter drafts: shorturl.at/cMZzI #polisky

Burnham already lost one leadership campaign when he was too timid, quick to compromise & lacking deeper thinking on policy. From what I have seen so far, this might not have changed markedly. Where is the break with Starmer on policy or broader political orientation many will have hoped for?

Latest piece for @thehousemag.bsky.social, in which I look at Mo Salah and the parasocial contact hypothesis. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

Millions of people(including me) turn to LLMs for information and advice. But who shapes their output? A @nature.com paper shows the influence of state controlled media on LLM output. Read all the details in the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My post on tactical voting at the local and devolved elections 2026: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... No evidence of effective anti-Reform tactical switching by the left, so 50% of Reform gains were in places were most votes were for parties of the left....

📣 New publication 📣 Delighted to see my article with the brilliant Teresa Bejan and James Tilley now out in the BJPolS We develop and test the concept of 'partisan intolerance' - and find high levels of intolerance in Britain, associated with affective polarisation 👇

🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop is back for its 12th edition! Join us on Nov. 13–14, 2026 @UofT! We welcome paper/poster proposals on any topic in political behaviour, broadly defined! 📅 Submission Deadline: July 11. Apply here: utorontops.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Chapter on AI and Democracy with Bailey Flanigan, @politicsprof.bsky.social and Charles Stewart 👇

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

The Department of Government is recruiting one fellow to teach 5 seminar groups for our Intro to Political Science course (GV101). The successful applicant will be a full member of our exciting research community. More info: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The School of Politics and International Relations is hiring an Assistant Professor (fixed-term, 3 years) in European Comparative Politics. Deadline: 19 May 2026 Job ad and details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Exciting news here at the LSE School of Public Policy -- our new Dean is Anne-Marie Slaughter! Very proud to be a part of the SPP, and looking forward to what’s ahead. www.lse.ac.uk/news/anne-ma...

🚨 The APSA Experimental Research section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its 2nd Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship. The program prrovides a mentor and some funding. (1/2) Apply by June 15 forms.gle/fXHaqYK3TEL3...

✍️ Apply to our ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship! The European Institute is looking to support a Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2026/27 academic year. 🗓️ Deadline: Monday 1 June, 23.59 (UK time) 👉 Find out more: https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/research/postdoctoral-fellowship-opportunity

Just over 2 weeks to go until the deadline for #EPOP2026 abstract submissions. We are pleased to announce that there'll be limited: - fee waivers for PhD/ECR (within 3 years of PhD) members - fee discounts for members whose universities do not provide conference funding. Submit via the link below!

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open! We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties. Deadline: 26 April Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

A rare good news story about our MPs!

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

Very happy to have this null finding conditionally accepted in @bjpols.bsky.social. Check out Daniel’s 🧵👇 The project is also an attempt to find design-based answers to some of the ethical Qs raised about political audit experiments. Thoughts on ethics are here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

Today at 4pm BST: @simonhix.bsky.social (EUI) presents his new work on the Méline Tariff and the Rise of Socialism in 🇫🇷 at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar (hybrid), co-organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us!

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵