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James Dennison
@jamesrdennison.bsky.social
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Political and social scientist
Prof @mpc-eui.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social & Pierre Keller Prof @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
Interests: attitudes, behaviour, comms, migration, quant, 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 politics
www.jamesdennison.eu
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indubioproreto.bsky.social
Really great and interesting paper:

"Using British electoral panel data, it shows that greater open-mindedness, tolerance for uncertainty, and social distrust are associated with greater political attitudinal volatilty."
jamesrdennison.bsky.social James Dennison @jamesrdennison.bsky.social · 1d
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
jamesrdennison.bsky.social
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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leberntzen.bsky.social
Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side.

osf.io/preprints/so...

#polisky
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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sophieehill.bsky.social
lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩

Can you see the problem?
Table 1
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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gefjonoff.bsky.social
New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
jamesrdennison.bsky.social
I'm happy to share my *open access* contribution to the "IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts" entitled simply "Immigration". I hope that the entry is of use for researchers at all levels!

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Immigration
link.springer.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jonathanhopkin.bsky.social
Looking at this fiasco, and the mess Starmer is making of government, it’s looking more and more like the defeat of Corbynism was about its own limitations rather than the Machiavellian machinations of the Labour right
josiahmortimer.bsky.social Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16d
Three people who’d be expected to be Your Party bigwigs have largely walked away from Corbyn’s project: former NE mayor Jamie Driscoll, former Labour MP Beth Winter, and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.

I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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leonardocarella.bsky.social
It’s very revealing how the techno-futurist crowd assumes that the rest of us also treat other people as props and gadgets in our lives, as opposed to valuing the fact that there’s a thinking, feeling person there.
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 12d
New insult to life itself just dropped
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
jamesrdennison.bsky.social
This is an absolutely fantastic video by @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social : "Could Britain rejoin Europe?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKk...
Could Britain Rejoin Europe?
YouTube video by Prof James Ker-Lindsay
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
📢 @jamesrdennison.bsky.social, @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & Mariana Carmo Duarte: Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2419550
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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sophieehill.bsky.social
Even in the era of zero-cost LLMs, some scientists are still crafting data for their clinical trials by hand... and getting published in the @bmj.com!

Inspiring.

pubpeer.com/publications...
screenshot of Pubpeer comment. Out of the 396 rows in the dataset, 131 rows have non-missing values for cholesterol. All of these 131 rows are "clones", meaning that they have an identical match in the data across all of these lab panel variables: WBC, Hb, Plt, BUN, Cr, Na, BS, TOTALCHO, LDL, HDL, TG. For example, one clone group looks like this: <table> Looking at the observation ids for each clone group reveals a clear pattern: they are in groups of 4 (except for one), and follow a clear pattern (n, n+101, n+202, n+303). <table>
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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euobserver.com
EU repeats request for Israel to let in media into Gaza
EU repeats request for Israel to let in media into Gaza
The EU has again called on Israel to let foreign journalists into Gaza, but has no say on their access via Rafah.
euobserver.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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zibaldoni.bsky.social
Kemi made me do it.
Version of the Simpsons 'bus driver taps the sign' meme in which the tapped text reads 'Your reminder that the UK book industry is worth over £7bn, more than four times the steel industry (1.7bn) and six times the fishing industry (£1.1bn) so maybe English degrees do have a point after all.'
October 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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euobserver.com
EU states have provisionally agreed to curb Russian diplomats' travel and ban imports of liquid gas, but Austria and Slovakia still have objections to the next round of sanctions.
Austria isolated, as EU edges toward Russia sanctions deal
EU states have provisionally agreed to curb Russian diplomats' travel and ban imports of liquid gas, but Austria and Slovakia still have objections to the next round of sanctions.
euobserver.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈

But is this really the case?

doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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snmorgenstern.bsky.social
⚠️New publication @ssreditorial.bsky.social

📖 #ethics in the practical implementation of #migration information campaigns

➡️ Sender credibility and Anxiety-trigger both impactful for information provision
➡️ but via distinct paths: No double-down-effect

🛄 Multi-treatment RCT, N=2612 in Nigeria
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
reminded today of the incredible Summerhill parody in The Day Today, which is both *extremely* specific and very funny even if you have no idea what Summerhill was.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tebh...
BRASS EYE - The Drumlake Experiment (E02 - Drugs)
YouTube video by dysfunksjon
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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polstudies.bsky.social
IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com
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September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza
Cartoon. Image shows NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Gaza’s ruins, talking to a gaunt woman, huddled with her two children. He’s saying, “New Zealand is a very principled nation. We won’t be rushed”
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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davidpmolina.com
The light of dawn hits cirrus clouds just right for a beautiful palette of cool and warm colors. Photo taken at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. August 2025.

#Stunday #CratersoftheMoon #Idaho #NationalParks #photography #travel #camping #dawn #clouds
The light of dawn hits cirrus clouds just right for a beautiful palette of cool and warm colors. Photo taken at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. Nearby there are green bushes and grass, with a few pines farther away.
September 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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evakrejcova.bsky.social
1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
Another problem is that UK politics has a serious "pipeline problem".

If Starmer keeled over tomorrow, I've no idea who would replace him.

I don't even know who the frontrunners would be.

There are no experienced, tested candidates in either main party, because UK politics no longer develops that
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Sep 11
I suspect Starmer would be in more peril if MPs still picked the leader.

Under the present rules, Labour MPs can fell a prime minister but they can't replace him. And right now, no one can predict who the membership would choose.

That will make many MPs nervous.
www.ft.com/content/1487...
Extract from article by Stephen Bush: "Badenoch may not be the only leader not to make it all the way to the next general election. Starmer’s government increasingly resembles Boris Johnson’s in the early autumn of 2021: struggling with inflation, hit by scandals and developing a reputation among its own MPs for a nightmare combination of bullheaded stubbornness and brittleness under pressure. There is a significant appetite among Labour MPs to believe that the government can still be turned around without a change of leader and all the instability that would bring. But a moment of crisis or panic could very swiftly make this government resemble Johnson’s in 2022: undone by panicking, unhappy backbenchers, blundering from landslide to disaster in a single term. "
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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shakespeare.lol
The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM