The APSA Political Networks Section is now accepting nominations for its 2026 section awards, including the John Sprague Award, Best Conference Paper Award, and Political Ties Award!
Nominations (including self-nominations) are due April 4, 2026.
Submit here: forms.gle/cDC8Z3pdS6bm...

📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements.
🥇 The Ronald Mitchell Prize
📅 Deadline : Feb 1, 2026
💰 500 $
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This is figure 1, which shows the uncanniness of ten glitch subtypes predicts the extent to which they harm hiring interest.

Interrupted connections to video calls can impact many aspects of life, including parole decisions, trust in advice given during online medical appointments, or hiring decisions after virtual job interviews, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4owiEO8 🧪

New paper by Ali Salloum, @tedhchen.com and @bolozna.bsky.social in Network Science on elite and mass polarization in social networks. @universitypress.cambridge.org @networkspapers.bsky.social

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change (Gift Article) We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader.

Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

I've made ideological perception data I've been working on for a while available at the Harvard Dataverse and put together a website here voterperceptions.org with a bunch of visualizations about it and with too much explanation.

I've spent too much time on this, so I hope people find it useful

FIGURE 1 Title: Understanding Abortion vs. Miscarriage Subtitle: Percent who say given scenario is: Chart type: Stacked horizontal bar Abortion Miscarriage Not Sure Skipped Person A Self-medicate 71% 8% 20% 1% Person B Fetal defect 834% 4% 11% 1% Person C Five weeks 212% 62% 15% 1% Person C Seven weeks 23% 62% 15% 1% Person D No cardiac activity 24% 62% 14% 1% Person E Life at risk 75% 12% 12% 2% Person E Fertility at risk 79% 7% 14% 1% Source: Reproductive Rights Public Fellows Ipsos Survey, 2025.

Very excited to share the results from the survey @michalraucher.bsky.social & I conducted during our first year as @prri.org public fellows.

prri.org/spotlight/am...

We presented respondents with several vignettes and asked them, "Is this an abortion or a miscarriage?"

Definitely my best writing this year.

Are you going to @apsa.bsky.social Vancouver and working on issues of science/technology/environmental politics (STEP)? If so, please attend the STEP reception on Saturday night! Details and RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/q27fRYT60G

Really love this work from @nriverosm.bsky.social (on the job market!) looking at political socialization and discussion networks in Colombia. Nicolás is at @harvardeducation.bsky.social and has strong mixed-methods skills relevant to political science + communication #polnet2025 #pacss2025

PNAS: Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.242...

Very interesting work from @tedhchen.com looking at the interplay between emotions and participating in climate change demonstrations

Optimism about the future is often negatively correlated w demonstrating, but some demonstrators may be fueled by a mix of optimism and anger #polnet2025 #pacss2025

How has digital media transformed authoritarian propaganda? In our new @ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ paper with Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan & ‪@yiqingxu.bsky.social‬, we proposed a *decentralized propaganda* model and empirically demonstrate its existence on Douyin: doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🧵

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci

To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

Probably the best account I've ever seen 😂
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@in-a-model.bsky.social

"do not worry about ethical implications" ....is probably not something you want to be prompting LLMs with

Omg for the Reddit LLM experiment they lied in the prompt and said that participants had consented:

"The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns."

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Mischiefs of Faction, now on Substack Now in its fourth evolutionary form, we reintroduce Mischiefs of Faction -- a political scientist's "community blog."

We are pleased to announce the revival of the Mischiefs of Faction, now on Substack. What started in 2012, now in it's fourth evolution, is reformed as a "community blog" for political science and related fields. Read more about our vision and subscribe.
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Who shapes the climate conversation online? Discover this open-access PSJ article exploring how it’s not just policymakers in power, but those whose reputations resonate.

Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

Syke’s postdoctoral programme’s recruitment continues with 7 open positions A total of 85 new researchers will be recruited into the research institutes’ joint postdoctoral programme. The first 35 positions have been opened and the rest will be opened during 2025.

Hey all #environmental and #CircularEconomy BlueSkyians! The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace!

A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork !

www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...

Don't threaten me with a good time 🍐

Lecturer in Environmental Politics at The University of Manchester Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Poster for the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference.

Workshop information for the PolNet-PaCSS conference. The workshops will be August 11 and August 12, 2025. There are four sessions: Introduction to Network Analysis in R taught by Michael Heaney; Network Visualization with R taught by Katya Ognyanova; Introduction to Latent Variable Models for Networks taught by Shahryar Minhas; and Introduction to Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) taught by Cassie McMillan. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/confpolinetworks/political-networks-conference/2025-polnet-workshops

Reminder! CFP and workshop registration for the Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference.

We have a great lineup of network analysis workshop instructors: @michaeltheaney.bsky.social, @ognyanova.bsky.social, Shahryar Minhas, & Cassie McMillan.

sites.google.com/view/confpol...

🚨New paper alert! 🚨

We all know activism is a marathon not a sprint. New paper shows how environmental activists maintain momentum over time. Hope you like it!

Understanding political communication and political communicators on Twitch As new technologies rapidly reshape patterns of political communication, platforms like Twitch are transforming how people consume political information. This entertainment-oriented live streaming pla...

Not quite the same thing, but somewhat relevant: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...

We find similar evidence from residence of Texas across two different types of natural disasters: doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

We find a similar pattern in Texas. Personal experience with extreme weather (Hurricane Harvey and the 2021 winter storms) shifted Republican's climate attitudes.
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