🚨New article🚨
What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy?
This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’'
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shorturl.at/jptiu
The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social!
Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes.
doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292
We're looking for a new postdoc to join our team! Do you enjoy conceptualizing, improving, and rethinking empirical methods training for social scientists? Then this job might be for you 😊
Feel free to share among your network and to reach out if you have any questions!
I think a big part of that is fewer active users. Not sure how much is fragmentation across sites but also burnout/disenchantment with social media.
Then once this becomes a place more for political griping and less for intellectual exchange, the inertia continues
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.
Here’s what we found 👇
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CALL FOR EDITOR -
Journal of Experimental Political Science (@jepsjournal.bsky.social seeks an editor or editorial team from 2027.
Deadline to apply: April 15, 2026 - https://cup.org/4ae3Tul
cc @@experimentsapsa.bsky.social
#PSA26
Swimming, guaranteed relief while under water. Unfortunately you do have to come back up for air.
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣
The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods.
Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
Nice wine. A favorite of your buddy @salilb.bsky.social, as I’m sure you know.
Enjoy the book!
We’re hiring! The MPI for Political & Social Science in Göttingen is hiring a Director’s Assistant (m/f/d) for the Dept. of Political Institutions & Conflict. Full-time, start ASAP. Support Ursula Daxecker with events, travel, communication & editorial tasks. www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...
Expensive Manhattan bike ride today.
Part 1: red light
Part 2: why did this other cyclist stop, there’s no cross traffic
Part 3: let me pass him
Part 4: why are all these police standing there
Part 5: are they really giving me a ticket!!!
2 minutes? More like 2 seconds.
In a large global study (N = 49,968, 68 countries) we found that the open-mindedness aspect of intellectual humility was the strongest predictor for rejecting conspiracy beliefs out of 17 potential individual difference measures.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
❓ "Are immigration attitudes as binary as we think?
❗ No — and treating them that way makes polarization worse, say MZES director Marc Helbling and @akoustov.bsky.social .
Even people labeled ‘anti-immigration’ hold nuanced, conditional views.
👉 futuresofdifference.substack.com/p/miscategor...
❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 13:45-15:15 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@rahsaanmax.bsky.social
"Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Public Support for Immigration"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social.
Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other.
This has potentially big issues for conclusions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Almost 40 years after its release, today I finally figured out the LL line from I’m Bad is ‘you want a hit give me an hour plus a pen and a pad’ and not ‘you want a hit give me an hour plus a pain in the pants’!!
#kidswithinternetlyricswillneverknowmyconfusion
Views that immigration is good (a third), neutral (a third) or bad (a third).for culture & the economy now divide parry voters much more dramatically
Labour/LD/Green: +40 Good > Bad
Reform/Cons: -45 Bad > Good
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
Why is my taxi driver watching a cooking show on his cell phone attached to the windshield, while driving? #theradioalsoplaying #bluetoothalsoinhisear #cameraalsorecording #howmanywaystodivideattention
Does living in ethnically diverse areas in adolescence give us an increased tolerance toward immigration later in life?
Join Dr Haley McAvay at the next @lseinequalities.bsky.social Seminar ➡️ buff.ly/cjsy4sZ
🚨Job alert 🚨
I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.
If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.
📤 Please share widely!
www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
A good moment to advertise this week’s Rethink where we discuss the promise of AI with proponents and skeptics alike and I make a bad stochastic parrot joke. With @emollick.bsky.social Rosalind Picard, Mike Wooldridge and more.
But, I think @damonberes.com is right.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!
Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica...
Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Matthew Goodwin hopes to make the transition from being a former academic to elected politics by standing for Reform in the Gorton & Denton by-election.
It sounds like he will be making his "Trump is right" case about civilisational erasure to the Greater Manchester constituency's voters
📣 Let’s take a sneak peek at our upcoming talks 🤩
The MZES Speaker Series 2026 will kick off on
📆 Tue, 17 February
We are very much looking forward to
Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano)
@melindacmills.bsky.social
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social
Olga Stavrova (Uni Mannheim)
(...)
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Is meat consumption becoming political? @willemboterman.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social examine Dutch surveys showing meat eating aligns with right-wing ideology & climate scepticism. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/HU5Mdec
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #FoodPolitics
