🗓️ Bath friends, mark your calendars!
On May 14 5:30pm @leahruppanner.bsky.social is giving a talk on the mental load and her excellent new book, Drained!
Free & open to the public, please join us for a great conversation ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leah-ruppa...
@uniofbathipr.bsky.social
🚨Job alert🚨
We are looking for two lecturers/assistant professors in environmental politics (permanent!)
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
The Blue Trail (directed by Gabriel Mascaro) showing on Wednesday 8 April at 18:45 at The Lexi Cinema in London
Special preview screening with Cine Brazil and as part of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26
thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinem...
Want to know more about sugar cane plantations, dominoes, bodegas, electricity blackouts, salsa, reggaeton, and the history and politics of América and its peoples, from Chile to Canadá? Apply to our MA in Latin American Studies: History, Politics & Society
#BadBunny
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
How does democracy erode when the state itself is weakened?
In The Democracy Paradox, Javier Pérez Sandoval (Kellogg Institute) explains why populist leaders "hollow out" state capacity – and what that means for justice, security, and elections.
Listen: https://bit.ly/4qW9i0d
📚 Book Launch - Join Professors Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, editors of Modern Peru: A New History
📅 28 January 2026 | 13.00 – 14.30
📍 In-person | 51 Gordon Square
🎤 Explore a sweeping account of Peru’s history with leading scholars
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
@paulodrinot.bsky.social
How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
Line chart showing the share of men/women ages 18-40 who want to leave the US permanently from 2008 to 2025. In 2025, 40% of women, and 19% of men, in this age cohort say they want to leave.
Line chart from 1993 to 2023 showing the share of 12th grader boys and girls who want to get married. In 2023, there is a 23 point gap, with girls less likely to want to get married.
Bar chart showing share of men/women who interact with their friends on social media, and how often. 30% of men say "never" compared to 18% of women.
Horizontal bar chart showing share of teen girls and teen boys who plan to go to college. 60% of girls but 46% of boys say they plan to go to college.
Now on my substack, Gender Gap: 5 notable gaps discussed in 2025.
1. leaving the U.S.
2. marriage aspirations
3. social media use
4. loneliness
5. college plans
I picked these bc they signal how men/women structure their social lives and are imagining their futures.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why Chile Voted for Kast: Insights from Experts
José Antonio Kast marks the biggest rightward shift since 1990. Join our expert roundtable:
✅ What drove this dramatic turn?
✅ The issues that shaped the campaign
✅ Impact on Latin America
📅 21 Jan | 13:00 | In-person
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟
I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
New blog post: US aggression against Venezuela: a war foretold" written on a pale sage background with a photo of Pablo Uchoa in the centre of the image
Have you read our first blog post yet?
"Save for a total change of heart in Donald Trump, it is hard to see a reversal of the US military buildup off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast...."
Read the full post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
Job: Lecturer in Global Politics with a regional specialization in Latin America, UCL. Apply by 4 January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.
Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.
osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
It’s fantastic to see this out! Congratulations, @mduque.bsky.social!
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
I'm thrilled that my book, Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior, is now available for pre-order through CUP and Amazon!
Let me know if you'd like an electronic copy for your class, and I'll send it to you!
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Our Canadian series begins this month with "The Quebec Referendum, October 1995: Thirty Years After".
📅28 October 2025
🕜18.00 ONLINE
Register by 27 October 12noon
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Join a panel of distinguished commentators on Quebec history and politics.
The website for my forthcoming book, Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics, is now live!
www.paritypolitics.org
Reach out if you might be interested in having me come give a talk! The book will be published by Polity in February 2026.
Gendersky Polisky
🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities!
Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.
Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9
doi.org/10.1177/1065...
(4) "Backlash or Progressive Mobilization? Voter Reactions to Perceived Trajectories of Women’s Representation" by Magdalena Breyer
@mabreyer.bsky.social l
doi-org.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/10.1177/0010...
📚 Seminar Alert!
Jonathan Bell, Professor of American History at UCL, introduces his forthcoming book: The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics and Health in the U.S. since the Rights Revolutions
📅 15 Oct 2025
⏰ 4pm
📍 51 Gordon Square
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social !
📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests”
With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social
Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️🌈
But is this really the case?
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Check out the Annual Report for the @uclamericas.bsky.social to learn more about what my awesome colleagues have been up to!
📢 Meet the Editors: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
📅 APSA Annual Meeting, Fri 12, 2:30–3:30pm
📍 Salon Cezanne, Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver
Join the editors for an informal gathering to learn about the series & share your research on gender and politics
www.cambridge.org/core/series/...
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social, current editor @mlkrook.bsky.social asked the previous editors (myself and @sfranceschet.bsky.social included) to identify our favorite articles published during our terms. Check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Excited to share that I have a new book coming out in February 2026! Drawing on my work as an academic & consultant over the last 25 years, the book provides a road map for achieving gender parity in politics - the what, why, & how.
Available now for preorder:
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...