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Efrén Pérez

@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social

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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.

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Christian Grose @christiangrose.bsky.social · 3d

Very interesting polling results on redistricting. Voters support independent redistricting; and/but want maps that help their parties right now. www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/poll-redistricting-partisan-gerrymandering-midterms-00663612

Poll: Voters support gerrymandering to win the midterms

A majority of both Democrats and Republicans support redrawing congressional districts to give their side a boost next year.

www.politico.com

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Friday! This means it’s almost time for the weekly Pérez family dinner at my house 🇲🇽😎

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 4d

I will not be sad to see Donald Trump leave office.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing California, saying its public universities -- including UC and CSU -- illegally offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants: www.latimes.com/california/s...

In-state college tuition for California’s undocumented students is illegal, Trump suit alleges

California universities offer in-state tuition to undocumented students who graduate from state high schools. Now, the Trump administration is suing CSU, UC and the state, calling the practice illegal...

www.latimes.com

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 4d

You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 4d

It’s usually the latter 🥹

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 4d

Just another day in LA…

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 4d

My preferred view is that public is center-left on policy & representation but center-right on symbols & orientations. Other common alternatives are (1) public is centrist if measured properly, (2) public is center left but bigotry moves right, & (3) Dems strategy is bad/unlucky

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 4d

I wouldn’t go with clustering SEs because you’re then treating the clusters as spatially independent of each other. I’d instead use LM diagnostics to see if you have lag or error dependence, or both.

Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

www.cambridge.org

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 4d

Using open-ended responses to a question about your ideal political party to place voters on an ideological spectrum & how much they think ideologically

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms

Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 4d

Always amazed how, each semester, teaching data analysis inevitably teaches me something new.

This week I learned that spatially correlated residuals in FE models (w/ data from Bailey's great book) probably doesn't require clustering SEs. Thx to @nickchk.com's AMAZING website--what a resource! 🙏

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 5d

You and me both, buddy 😎🥹

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 5d

I have to explain it to a Mexican 5-year old. I embellished a tad 🤣

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

Prof. Summers’ office hours will not take place this week due to unforeseen circumstances.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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The Harvard Crimson
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein
Ties

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Borders Czar Tom Homan just announced he’s ramping up ICE operations in NYC.

Same playbook we’ve been seeing in LA, DC, Chicago & Charlotte. They aren’t hunting criminals, they’re targeting workers and people who are part of the community. Families. Neighbors. The people who keep the city running.

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Brian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 5d

really interesting analysis from Tufts Public Opinion Lab alum Zoe Kava!

zoek.bsky.social @zoek.bsky.social · 5d

I've missed writing, so I wrote a piece on how the parties are judging their oldest leaders. And decided to hop on the substack trend where I'll write about American politics, public opinion, and (sometimes) tennis!

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Democrats Want Younger Leaders. Republicans Don’t.

Data shows that the parties diverge in how they judge their oldest leaders.

substack.com

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zoek.bsky.social @zoek.bsky.social · 5d

Democrats Want Younger Leaders. Republicans Don’t.

Data shows that the parties diverge in how they judge their oldest leaders.

substack.com

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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · 5d

(1/5) How can scholars write effective response memos that boost their chances of publishing? 📝 Aksel Sundström shares tips for crafting strong responses to reviewers—an often-untaught skill for grad students–in his article published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1017/S174... #polisky

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 5d

The losses are piling up, the polls are getting worse, he's been covering for a sex trafficker, his health is declining - just ain't no way to put lipstick on this Trumpian pig. New, from me 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/congress-d...

Congress Delivers An Extraordinary Rebuke To A Weakened, Ailing, Failing Trump

Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 7pm ET/Welcome new subscribers!

www.hopiumchronicles.com

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 5d

It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…

a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters

ALT: a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters

media.tenor.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

laist.com/news/arts-an...

Gary Tyler was wrongly imprisoned for 40 years. The textile artist's work is inspired by his life

An exhibition of Tyler’s quilts captures scenes of humanity from within the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary.

laist.com

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 6d

I will be offering a graduate seminar during the winter quarter on the politics of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and civility (and its critics). If you know any graduate students who might be interested, please let them know!

www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...

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Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social · 6d

Important paper. So far most of the potential solutions I've seen mentioned (in-person surveys, high-quality/validated panels, address-based sampling) cost lots of money and will thus deepen divides based on resources. Something that we'll also need to grapple with.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55uok...

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 6d

It’s my favorite day! The MHAWS gift guide for academics. Thanks to @mirya.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/miryahol...

2025 gift guide

Your guiding light

open.substack.com

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Francisco I. Pedraza @quicopedraza.bsky.social · 6d

So much to unpack here.

1. this is theft
2.”Derivative sovereign immunity” GTFOH.

I have questions.
1. Who set the floor of $1 on private prison wages?
2. How did they arrive at that amount?
3. What are all the B2B contracts that this “arrangement” is making possible?

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 7d

BeiNg aN ArTiST is My PasSiOn…

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 7d

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 7d

Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning from the Pérez family 🇲🇽🌵🤠

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 9d

Live footage of a 73-year old Mexican mom doting on her 49-year old “baby” with some Jalisco-style enchiladas 🇲🇽🌵🤠 #LifeIsGood

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