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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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Blair Wisco @bwisco.bsky.social · 11h
UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties:

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557
Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor
The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...
spartantalent.uncg.edu

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 13h
Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 2d
Announcement: Please note that the JOP will be on hiatus from December 17 to January 12. During this period, we will not be accepting new submissions.

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Millennial Golden Girl 💜 @brilliantblkgrl.bsky.social · 3d
All of us who earned those “best writer on the FCAT essay” awards in elementary school can tell you that girl at that one school wrote a TRASH paper 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 3d
Proud papá tonight.

School sports ceremony for Emiliano y Kiké (and teammates)🇲🇽🤠🌵

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
My latest at @cprnews.bsky.social with Ryan Warner, discussing the President's threats against members of Congress
www.cpr.org/show-segment...
'If You Can Keep It' asks where the needle is moving on the 'republic vs. authoritarianism' gauge | Colorado Public Radio
President Trump has made good on his campaign promise to exact retribution against his perceived enemies, which include members of Congress, prosecutors, universities and media outlets. "If You Can Ke...
www.cpr.org

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 3d
ICE just released new detention statistics.

As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 5d
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 5d
Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 6d
"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science"

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Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · 6d
🚨New publication alert! 🚨

Our article “The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa” is now out in @thejop.bsky.social 🎉-- fantastic collaboration with Stephen Dawson, @carlmc.bsky.social & Aksel Sundström

Article: doi.org/10.1086/739777

Short summary thread below 👇
Article abstract reads: Nature protected areas are hailed as an institutional solution to the global biodi-versity crisis. However, conservation entails local economic costs for some com-munities and benefits for others. We propose that the establishment of protectedareas in Africa follows an ethno-political logic which implies that governmentsdistribute protected areas such that their ethnic constituencies are shielded fromtheir costs but enjoy their benefits. We test this argument using continent-widedata on ethnic groups’ power status and protected area establishment since inde-pendence. Difference-in-differences models show that political inclusion decreasesnature protection in groups’ settlement areas. However, this effect is reversed forprotected areas that plausibly generate tourism income. We also find that ethno-political inclusion is linked to legal degradation of protected areas. Our find-ings support long-voiced concerns by activists that politically marginalized groupscarry disproportional costs of conservation. This has implications, given the likelyexpansion of protected areas the decades to come.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 7d
Tomorrow at Strength In Numbers: a bunch of charts and math on "affordability" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/eight-char...
Eight charts that explain why "affordability" is suddenly everywhere
All politics is affordability now
www.gelliottmorris.com

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 7d
Who directs spending: Congress or the president?

There's long been a gap between what Congress appropriates & what agencies spend. presidents find ways to not spend money they don't request

New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Kevin Angell

www.niskanencenter.org/who-now-dire...
Who now directs spending: Congress or the president? - Niskanen Center
Kevin Angell compares what Congress appropriated to what agencies actually spent over decades, finding that presidents have long moved spending toward their preferences.
www.niskanencenter.org

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Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social · 7d
Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10d
As a son of Appalachia, I understand the opioid crisis better than anyone. That's why I'm proud to stand with the Honduran president who delivered drugs to needy Americans with such efficiency.

by JD Vance

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d
The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.

REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?

TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11d
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
Homeland Security tweet says “there us no room at the table for invaders.”

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 11d
Anyone planning on filing for the Anthropic lawsuit? I saw one of my books in the database list and not sure what to do.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 11d
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mjbsp.bsky.social mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 11d
Stop submitting AI slop to journals and preprint servers

This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop
socarxiv.bsky.social SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 11d
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 11d
🤣🤣👌🏽

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 11d
Me to my kids every Thanks-taking:

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 11d
Stop submitting AI slop to journals and preprint servers

This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop
socarxiv.bsky.social SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 11d
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11d
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
 
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.

As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:

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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page

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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 12d
So, is "When Prophesy Fails"—the foundation of cognitive dissonance theory—debunked?

Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd.

It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed...

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briandavidearp.bsky.social Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 14d
Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 13d
I think this is what people in privileged positions don't "get" (or try to get)

Toni Morrison: "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work."

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 13d
Honestly this was a very hard paper to write in midst of everything that’s been happening here… deportation is truly an inhumane policy…

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 13d
Meritocracy is a form of system justifying ideology. Extending recent work on SJT by @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social, we found that stronger endorsement or meritocracy predicted more support for deportation and less worry about deportation for both Latinos and Asian Americans

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 13d
The first of the two is a collab with political scientist Nathan Chan. We used two waves of CMPS data (including the latest 2024) to examine relationship between meritocracy and deportation sentiments among Asian and Latino Americans
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