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Enduring Wounds: How State Violence Shapes Racial Disparities in Conspiracy Thinking April 23-26, 2026 | #MPSA2026 In Event: Politics of Racial Trauma Sat, April 25, 8:00 to 9:30 CDT Franshelly Marie Martinez-Ortiz University of Michigan Center for Political Studies

Conspiracy theories in U.S. politics reveal racial gaps often ignored. Using a 2024 MIMACS survey experiment, @fmortiz.bsky.social shows conspiracy beliefs are shaped by state violence awareness, and affect democratic participation. #ISRNextGeneration #MPSA2026

Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation ---- Hiring Department: Department of Government ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled...

Well I'm full of opportunities to circulate today! We're hiring a post-doc at UT in political behavior/democratic representation.

Deadline is April 10 (quick turn around!)

Tell your friends, job posting here:
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REP being top three ❗️

The diagnostic state: Police discretion and the securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States - Pyar J Seth, 2026 How do law enforcement agencies shape public health responses during epidemics? While scholars have examined the role of established medical institutions such a...

My piece, “The Diagnostic State: Police Discretion and the Securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States” just dropped. This one started in graduate school so I’m happy it’s finally out in the world.

Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Do Latinos behave politically according to their racial classification? If so, why? My new article in @polbehavior.bsky.social provides some answers.

Open access link here: doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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🇵🇷 Nearly 4 million Americans live in Puerto Rico without formal representation in institutions that determine their laws and budgets. @maraceci.bsky.social et al will amplify PR's political voice with the island's first large, representative panel survey:
racialjustice.umich.edu/research-eng...

GitHub - fmmortiz/OzThemes: OzThemes is an R package providing ggplot2 themes and color palettes inspired by Wicked, Wicked For Good, and The Wizard of Oz. OzThemes is an R package providing ggplot2 themes and color palettes inspired by Wicked, Wicked For Good, and The Wizard of Oz. - fmmortiz/OzThemes

I’m procrastinating, so I made a small R package for ggplot2 themes inspired by Wicked and The Wizard of Oz.

I’m committed to find more joy in data visualization!

github.com/fmmortiz/OzT...

My thoughts are with colleagues and friends at Brown, and with their loved ones. Another day, another shooting on a college campus in this country.

This kind of violence is preventable if only our leaders had the courage and moral clarity to act.

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here:

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Precisely so important, and exactly why I make that distinction in my own work.

Enduring Wounds: The Legacy of Racially-Targetted Institutional Violence In Event: Racial Violence, History, and Contemporary US Politics Fri, September 12, 2:00 to 3:30pm PDT Franshelly Marie Martinez-Ortiz, University of Michigan ISR Next Generation Scholar

With an original survey, @fmortiz.bsky.social finds that conspiracy thinking is racially patterned, responsive to reminders of state violence, and consequential for democratic engagement. ⚡ Find @umisrcps.bsky.social #ISRNextGeneration scholars at #APSA2025.

Full release of the ANES 2024 is now available.

The full release of the ANES 2024 Time Series #Data is now available. More details here: electionstudies.org/anes-announc...

🎊🎊 Congratulations to Dr. Walker! Her dissertation and book project, When Hard Work Isn’t Enough, examines Black American public opinion and the pursuit of the American Dream. @zoewithoutawhy.bsky.social with Vincent Hutchings, @nickvalentino.bsky.social, Robert Sellers, and Nancy Burns

So happy and proud of Dr. @zoewithoutawhy.bsky.social 🩷 such an inspiration!!!!!!

In the newly released 2024 ANES (@electionstudies.bsky.social), racial groups see modest partisan differences in affect.

Other groups (Big Business, Labor Unions, the FBI) less polarized than recent cycles.

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!

The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Best,

The ANES Team

Excited to have you join us. Go blue!

The Politics of Skin Tone A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African A...

Excited to share that my new book is now available for pre-order! This book has been a labor of love for the past decade & I am grateful to a whole community of people who supported this project.

Get 30% off your purchase using code UCPNEW at UChicago Press! Link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

In Michigan, conspiracy thinking can be rooted in real historic harm Conspiracy thinking may result from paranoia or misinformation -- but it's often rooted actual harms and well-earned mistrust in government.

Is government suspicion based on real lived experiences and historic harm? #ISRNextGeneration scholar Franshelly Martinez-Ortiz writes on the case of Michigan, where events like the Flint Water Crisis give rise to lasting mistrust. @maraceci.bsky.social #MPSA2025 ➡️
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