Joe Noonan
@joenoonan.se
PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Interested in political attitudes and behaviors. I enjoy working with #rstats.
website: https://joenoonan.se/
website: https://joenoonan.se/
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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
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
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📣 Are you a PhD student in the quantitative social sciences interested in interdisciplnary research? Join us at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (25 May-19 Jun 2026) at @tse-fr.eu.
Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🎓🔍
👉 More info + application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🎓🔍
👉 More info + application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📣 Are you a PhD student in the quantitative social sciences interested in interdisciplnary research? Join us at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (25 May-19 Jun 2026) at @tse-fr.eu.
Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🎓🔍
👉 More info + application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
Apply by 15 Dec 2025 🎓🔍
👉 More info + application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
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V happy to see this paper out with @chrisclaassen.bsky.social at @bjpols.bsky.social .
We argue that nostalgia for Britain's past is an important, distinct opinion dimension which has meaningful consequences for party evaluations and vote choice.
We argue that nostalgia for Britain's past is an important, distinct opinion dimension which has meaningful consequences for party evaluations and vote choice.
NEWS -
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia - https://cup.org/4p1QbRA
"right-wing opposition to criticism of the imperial past is stronger than left-wing support"
- Christopher Claassen & @danjdevine.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia - https://cup.org/4p1QbRA
"right-wing opposition to criticism of the imperial past is stronger than left-wing support"
- Christopher Claassen & @danjdevine.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
V happy to see this paper out with @chrisclaassen.bsky.social at @bjpols.bsky.social .
We argue that nostalgia for Britain's past is an important, distinct opinion dimension which has meaningful consequences for party evaluations and vote choice.
We argue that nostalgia for Britain's past is an important, distinct opinion dimension which has meaningful consequences for party evaluations and vote choice.
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🌟 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 🧵)
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 🧵)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science PAR 2025/838
The Department of Political Science is an international academic environment that welcomes students, researchers and
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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🌟 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 🧵)
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 🧵)
In America, Northern European countries exist to be a rhetorical foil to whatever is happening in the US. Totally blizzare to hear Fareed Zakaria describe Denmark, Norway and Sweden as clan-based societies.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0o...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0o...
Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
In America, Northern European countries exist to be a rhetorical foil to whatever is happening in the US. Totally blizzare to hear Fareed Zakaria describe Denmark, Norway and Sweden as clan-based societies.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0o...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0o...
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New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
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I wrote a blog post with some reflections about academic argumentation and giving and receiving critique. Aimed at Political Science PhDs in their first year.
joenoonan.se/post/critique/
joenoonan.se/post/critique/
Academic argumentation and critique – Joseph Noonan
joenoonan.se
November 30, 2024 at 9:22 AM
I wrote a blog post with some reflections about academic argumentation and giving and receiving critique. Aimed at Political Science PhDs in their first year.
joenoonan.se/post/critique/
joenoonan.se/post/critique/
Very disappointing that no movie theater in Uppsala is showing the full 5 hour version of Fanny och Alexander this Christmas season.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Very disappointing that no movie theater in Uppsala is showing the full 5 hour version of Fanny och Alexander this Christmas season.
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Asking people to opt-out of postmortem organ donation, rather than opt-in, can increase the supply of organs from deceased donors. But it can also decrease the supply from living donors, as people assume the organ supply is sufficiently met. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/ASpk50XmJRZ
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Asking people to opt-out of postmortem organ donation, rather than opt-in, can increase the supply of organs from deceased donors. But it can also decrease the supply from living donors, as people assume the organ supply is sufficiently met. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/ASpk50XmJRZ
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We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/
Join Us
Website of the Uppsala University Information Laboratory.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We have an open PhD position on Fair Social Network Analysis (focused on method development but also on integrating social theory and real data analysis). Please consider applying if this is something of your interest or share this to potentially interested candidates. uuinfolab.github.io/joinus/
Trump cannot be understood in terms of ideology. He is not ideologically motivated. Any attempts to do so just ends up being backward engineered post hoc story telling.
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Trump cannot be understood in terms of ideology. He is not ideologically motivated. Any attempts to do so just ends up being backward engineered post hoc story telling.
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A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened.
And think of where we are now.
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Det finns många problem med Black Friday. Störst av dem är att svenskarna är värda den, skriver svensk-amerikanska Clara Popenoe Thor.
Clara Popenoe Thor: Svenskarna förtjänar inte Black Friday
”Först när man gjort detta kan man gå ut och shoppa med hedern i behåll.”
www.etc.se
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Det finns många problem med Black Friday. Störst av dem är att svenskarna är värda den, skriver svensk-amerikanska Clara Popenoe Thor.
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So happy to have received a new, generous grant (500k EUR) from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social to continue exploring the causes and consequences of voluntary segregation among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Sweden. This time with a dream team of @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com
a cartoon of donald duck holding a stack of money
ALT: a cartoon of donald duck holding a stack of money
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November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
So happy to have received a new, generous grant (500k EUR) from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social to continue exploring the causes and consequences of voluntary segregation among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Sweden. This time with a dream team of @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
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Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research | PNAS
The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat
to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data coll...
www.pnas.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I really recommend reading Furious Minds by @lkatfield.bsky.social, it provides an excellent and accessible road map to the different intellectual contours shaping the current administration.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I really recommend reading Furious Minds by @lkatfield.bsky.social, it provides an excellent and accessible road map to the different intellectual contours shaping the current administration.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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We need a total and complete shutdown of WSJ data graphics until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
h/t @merz.bsky.social @drmikewiser.bsky.social
h/t @merz.bsky.social @drmikewiser.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
We need a total and complete shutdown of WSJ data graphics until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
h/t @merz.bsky.social @drmikewiser.bsky.social
h/t @merz.bsky.social @drmikewiser.bsky.social
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This very interesting paper raises a broader questions: why do some scandals stay contained while others discredit an entire political class? Part of the answer, I think, lies in diffeences in the clarity of accountability across democratic political systems. A well-established line of research
NEW -
Political Scandals and Vertical Contagion in Multilevel Systems - cup.org/47wHeJB
- @jaclarner.bsky.social, Robert Johns, @ailsahenderson.bsky.social, @frasmcm.bsky.social & @cjcarman.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Political Scandals and Vertical Contagion in Multilevel Systems - cup.org/47wHeJB
- @jaclarner.bsky.social, Robert Johns, @ailsahenderson.bsky.social, @frasmcm.bsky.social & @cjcarman.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This very interesting paper raises a broader questions: why do some scandals stay contained while others discredit an entire political class? Part of the answer, I think, lies in diffeences in the clarity of accountability across democratic political systems. A well-established line of research
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Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝
We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝
We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
In June, there was a scandal where the Migration Minister Johan Forssell's (M) teenage son was involved in this group. He actively recruited other young men to join it. The PM and others will criticized for downplaying this by calling his sons involvement as "hanging out with the wrong crowd".
Four men from Active Club Sweden have been sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of several racially motivated assaults in Stockholm
The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Four ‘active club’ members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults
Men aged 20 to 23 convicted at trial that showed pattern of far-right activists assembling in gyms
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
In June, there was a scandal where the Migration Minister Johan Forssell's (M) teenage son was involved in this group. He actively recruited other young men to join it. The PM and others will criticized for downplaying this by calling his sons involvement as "hanging out with the wrong crowd".
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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I will beat this drum to death -- a pillar of the Dem platform should be the creation of a fully independent anti-corruption bureau.
In polls "corruption shows up higher in terms of people's concerns than even affordability. If you were a party that said, "We see the problem, we have a plan on how to fix it," that would be a really strong message," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I will beat this drum to death -- a pillar of the Dem platform should be the creation of a fully independent anti-corruption bureau.