@sotonpolitics.bsky.social has strong representation at #psa26 this year! sad to be missing it this year!

The Royal Liver Building, Liverpool

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open!

We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties.

Deadline: 26 April

Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve...

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

This time on Thursday, we kick off our Spring seminar series with a fascinating talk by @lalamur.bsky.social on the gender politics of contemporary dating! Sign up via Teams:

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a34888...

Congratulations, Andrej! 😍🥳🎉

These Are the True Things | Naghmeh Sohrabi | Substack I'm an historian who writes about politics, history, and culture of Iran and the Middle East. Also about television, books, and whatever catches my fancy. Click to read These Are the True Things, by N...

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:

truethings.naghmehs.com

We are launching another online Spring Seminar Series, starting two weeks from today.

www.psa.ac.uk/specialist_g...

We have a great programme of four fascinating talks from political psychologists, happening fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:00.

The line-up...

Looking forward to presenting this work on dating, love and politics, co-authored with the fab @bertous.bsky.social at @psapolpsychology.bsky.social online seminar series.

Empathy and Political Reasoning: How Empathy Promotes Reflection and Strengthens Democracy
www.ipsa.org/na/book/empa...

Women Talking: Bringing the environment into UK Parliamentary Speech. shorturl.at/k53f6

It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social . Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇

Deep canvassing with automated conversational agents: Personalized messaging to change attitudes - Molly Offer-Westort, Jiehan Liu, Nick Feamster, Kartik Garg, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Sudhamshu Hosamane, ... We test a social media conversational agent for canvassing on the topic of anti-transgender prejudice, replicating and benchmarking treatment effects. In-person...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why Agonistic Workplace Democracy by Tim Christiaens in Review of Social Economy

New paper on agonistic workplace democracy 🚨

Workplace democracy is too often viewed as peaceful & deliberative, while implicit hierarchies from within & without the workplace skew interactions. We must acknowledge conflict to dismantle these hidden inequalities.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All it takes is people who aren’t cowards and take their oaths seriously. Sadly, too much to ask for far too many.

Back from my winter holidays (happy 2026!) and reflecting on 2025 professionally, I realize @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, led by @piariggirozzi.bsky.social is still the best department to work in. Still supportive and still wonderful! 💜

📚 Fiction books I enjoyed reading in 2025: a much longer list (I read 30) includes books I didn’t enjoy but forced myself to finish, and books that were brilliant but so depressing that I would rather forget them. 📚

When Experts Speak Louder: The Limited Influence of Climate Citizens’ Assemblies on Misperceptions Climate misperceptions play a key role in climate inaction as vested interests consistently deny climate change and seek to delay action. There is growing evidence that expert-led communication is ...

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Navigating policy legitimacy: the distributive and procedural justice of road transport pricing schemes - Interest Groups & Advocacy A major question in politics concerns how the policymaking process shapes political legitimacy. Drawing from the distributive and procedural justice literature, we propose two explanatory factors infl...

How can politicians make citizens more accepting of costly climate policies?

Our new study shows that people are more likely to support policies, even if they involve personal costs (!), when diverse stakeholders are actively included in decision-making.

doi.org/10.1057/s413...

Not sure if #poliskypressups will take off, but I've donated to this great effort by @robfordmancs.bsky.social in the hope that it does!

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.

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Cover art by Sara Qaed

@ipp-csic.bsky.social. En un día como el 25N hay que contarlo: La violencia contra las mujeres se esconde en la intimidad de los hogares y se cobra víctimas cada día globalmente con un coste social abrumador: No podemos ignorarlo ni tampoco relativizarlo. @csic.es
elpais.com/opinion/2025...

We were happy to welcome @lalamur.bsky.social who gave a brilliant talk on the impact of political talk about feminism when dating 💘
Future research projects and collaborations were also discussed 🤝 - stay tuned! 🤩

Thank you, Stuttgart, for such a wonderful time! Special thanks to DDME team @demolabs.bsky.social with @franziskamaier.bsky.social @seraphinearnold.bsky.social & André Bächtiger! 💜

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🌟 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! How should Labour respond to the two key issues to voters of the economy and immigration and what are the electoral stakes this week of the budget?

Read on for our answer...

@nprcoxford.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Feelings of financial insecurity are costing Labour support. And, if this budget doesn’t help people feel less worried about finances, Labour will lose more votes on its handling of the national economy AND on immigration too. Financial insecurity is *compounding* losses on other issues/evaluations.

Mil gracias 💜

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What a wonderful experience to present our book project on political talk, dating and gender w/ @bertous.bsky.social at @ipp-csic.bsky.social. Thanks to @martafraile.bsky.social & @ipp-csic.bsky.social for such a warm welcome & organization, despite an eventful fire drill in the building😀.