They care about women’s sports so much, they put the athletes in the back of the photo.

Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026!

Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields

📅Apply by 29 April 2026

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

🔥We're hiring TWO postdocs to start August 2026: one in political behavior and/or democratic representation; and the other in international relations in South Asia. Tight deadline: April 10.

utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

“The public isn’t merely playing the crash-test dummy, but also the underwriter, sponsoring the debugging process while tech companies like Google’s Waymo take home the profits.”

Henrietta Lacks' Family Reaches Settlement in Fight Over Her Stolen Cells Details of the Novartis agreement aren't public, but the family says it is pleased with the outcome.

A long overdue reckoning for Henrietta Lacks — the Black woman whose cancer cells led to breakthroughs but were harvested without her consent. Novartis has settled a lawsuit by Lacks’ estate that alleged the pharmaceutical giant profited off her cells.
https://bit.ly/3NgCeBs

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...

Just when demand for passports is rising…

Offene Stellen / Open Positions

🚨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...

Listen to me. This can happen. THIS CAN HAPPEN.

Live updates: Frey, Walz dispute that ICE killed woman in self-defense ICE officials say the woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Frey called ICE’s version of what happened “garbage...

An ICE agent shot and killed a woman Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.”

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I’m hiring a predoctoral fellow for the 2026-2027 AY with possibility of a second year. This is a great position for someone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or who wants more hands-on experience doing research. Please apply/share! Happy to answer questions!

tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

📢 CfP for 2026 (virtual) Workshop on Human Rights and IR organized by Zoltán Búzás w the International Race and Rights Lab and Klau Institute for Civil & Human Rights. Abstracts due 12/20. Strongly recommend this community, esp. for grad, postdoc, junior scholars

raceandrights.org?page_id=31

🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

On official UC letterhead: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA James B. Milliken President Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 universityofcalifornia.edu CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Irvine UCLA Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz MEDICAL CENTERS Davis Irvine UCLA San Diego San Francisco NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES November 18, 2025 Dear Chancellors: I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive. As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California. Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines. Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership. [continued on next image]

After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption. As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders. Sincerely, James B. Milliken President

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

New REPS Lab paper published today in the American Political Science Review

@repslab.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

a woman is giving a thumbs up and saying this girl ! ALT: a woman is giving a thumbs up and saying this girl !

Whose got two thumbs and tickets to the World Cup??

My first solo publication is officially out! Check out how benevolent sexism and modern sexism influence attitudes toward Trump and Harris.

Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability - Jieun S. Park, 2025 Why do women tend to oppose immigration more than men? I argue that this opposition to immigration is caused by women’s labor market vulnerabilities. As immigra...

Excited to share my new publication in Comparative Political Studies📝

"Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability"

+Grateful to my advisors, colleagues, grant fellowships, editors and reviewers for their support and feedback!

doi.org/10.1177/0010...

What happens when @jinxungoh.bsky.social ’s work on meta-analyses meets REP work on Black voter turnou?

You get a cool paper like this, from recent REPS Lab alum, #AlexDavis:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations!!

Congratulations!

We will (again) be organizing PS-Prep this year.
I especially encourage (and hope to speak with) students from outside the US to apply, to understand an applicational system that is different, voluminous and complicated.
I will also encourage students early in their degree to ...

#APSA2025

The deadline has been extended until October 1, 2025.

UIUC Political Science is HIRING!

Political behavior, broadly defined at the assistant level. Comparative behavior/psych + REP especially encouraged. It's a great place to work on pol beh/psych and UIUC supports partner hires.

Here is the ad with all the details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

A terrific colleague and fellow editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science, @sylviapperry.bsky.social, is leading a special issue on Intergroup Allyship. For more information: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

This is tempting me to watch cause WHAT?!?

news story about how the MN shooter and wife operate a private armed security company.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

Apply for the 2025 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship | Deadline: June 29, 2025 The Fund for Latino Scholarship encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty).

Applications due Sunday (6/15)! The fund encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics. Please contact latinofund@apsanet.org with any questions. buff.ly/2yyA9LT

Congratulations Tyler!

Congrats on the solo pub!!