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Phillip Ayoub
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Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 17
Out now with @kstoeckl.bsky.social and I are happy to share our new book "The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights" nyupress.org/978147982479... A decade in the making, it offers in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights—and how the LGBTI movement responds to it.
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Publisher of academic books and electronic media publishing for general interest and in a wide variety of fields.
https://nyupress.org/9781479824793/the-global-fight-against-lgbti-rights/…
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lizamugge.bsky.social
Political Masculinities in Europe – Public Panel

🗓 11 Feb, 10:30–12:00, BrIAS (Brussels)
🎙 With Karen Celis, @payoub.bsky.social @tomekbesta.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @veralomazzi.bsky.social and me!
This panel is part of a NWO-VICI Grant

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Political Masculinities in Europe – Public Panel – The Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies
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January 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
payoub.bsky.social
The CfP is out for a great annual PhD student workshop run out of our department: www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...
PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change
www.conflictandchange.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
Apologies for being self-referential but
Abstract of the paper "How Mainstream Politician Erode Norms": "How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggest that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender."
January 15, 2026 at 12:57 PM
payoub.bsky.social
Out now with @adamsharris.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social : We test “rooted” activist frames for LGBTQI tolerance—grounded in local history & national narratives—in Zimbabwe. Biggest thanks to the many people who helped get this off the ground. (1/3) Read here:
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Nov 27
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Rooting Equality: Testing the Effectiveness of Activist Frames Combating Homophobia in Zimbabwe - https://cup.org/3XSzLPn

- @payoub.bsky.social & Adam S. Harris

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract of a discussing the effectiveness of locally rooted human rights activism in reducing homophobia in Zimbabwe, focusing on strategies for challenging anti-LGBTQ sentiments and promoting LGBTQ rights in African contexts.
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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conunitucl.bsky.social
Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!

@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.

Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.

Apply 👇
Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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electoralstudies.bsky.social
Today is the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Disability shapes people’s lives in many ways — including how they participate in elections. To mark the day, here’s a selection of our research on this important topic.
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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joshgoddard98.bsky.social
Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

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November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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drtomdog.bsky.social
We have a vacancy at UCL for a new permanent lecturer in British and Comparative politics, working as part of the Constitution Unit
conunitucl.bsky.social UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · Nov 28
Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!

@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.

Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.

Apply 👇
Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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kvelasco.bsky.social
My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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queerseminar.bsky.social
🌈 Join us next Thursday December 4 for our last webinar of the year!

👉 @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt will present their amazing work on the Budapest Pride and how it impacted Hungary.

📆 Mark your calendars!
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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apsa.bsky.social
APSA Latinas/os Travel Grant. Reimbursement support for in-person travel to Vancouver, with priority given to participation in Latina/o politics. Apply by November 28, 2026:
Call for Applications: APSA Committee on the Status of Latinas/os Travel Grant | Deadline: November 28, 2025 -
The APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession is sponsoring reimbursement travel grants to support scholars who attended the 2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The grants are…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
payoub.bsky.social
For any interested folks in London tomorrow at 18:15, I so appreciate @govandopp.bsky.social's selection and invitation to give the Leonard Schapiro Memorial lecture this year: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/illib...
Illiberal Times, Inclusive Strategies: What LGBTQ Politics Teach Us About Navigating Crises in Human Rights | King's College London
Government and Opposition’s annual Leonard Schapiro lecture with Professor Phillip Ayoub.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
payoub.bsky.social
Big news from the CJEU that brings two early cases in my 2016 book (Poland and Germany, with the marriage in Berlin) back into the spotlight: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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zeynsom.bsky.social
Lesbian and gay party leaders receive lower leadership evaluations than straight leaders in the UK, and the effects are consistent across genders. Interesting yet discouraging findings in our BJPS paper. @josephfcozza.bsky.social @gdilandro.bsky.social Andrea Aldrich @utgovernment.bsky.social
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Nov 6
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A Rainbow Ceiling? Sexual Orientation and Party Leader Evaluations - https://cup.org/47G8q7r

- Joseph Francesco Cozza, @gdilandro.bsky.social, Andrea Aldrich & @zeynsom.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract focused on how citizens evaluate lesbian and gay leaders, particularly in political contexts, and its impact on leadership evaluations compared to straight counterparts.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
payoub.bsky.social
Grateful to @elpais.com and editor Pablo León Sánchez for picking up our intervention on Cuomo–Mamdani and the concept of reputational (i.e. how not to use it!). elpais.com/sociedad/lgt...
Mamdani y el voto LGTBIQ+ en Nueva York
Los intentos de perfilar al alcalde electo como un radical y sembrar miedo no funcionaron ante la autenticidad del demócrata
elpais.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
payoub.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage right
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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jacquibroadhead.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this discussion this afternoon!
compasoxford.bsky.social COMPAS @compasoxford.bsky.social · Oct 28
💡Happening this week!

Welcoming Cities, Arrival Infrastructure: Introductory Panel.

Join us this Thursday at 3:45 PM for a discussion on welcoming, arrival, integration, and inclusion in cities as sites of migration.

➡️ Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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jennpiscopo.bsky.social
For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
Canada ranks 71st for women in politics
Canada ranks 71st in the world for women in parliament. Voters support gender quotas to make politics more representative.
policyoptions.irpp.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -

Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs - https://cup.org/4oC35oH

- @nikhil-kalyanpur.bsky.social

#FirstView
Logo of "Review of International Studies" next to an image of the Earth, with the hashtag "#OpenAccess" on a dark background.
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is.

Very proud of my pal’s public work.

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The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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chanret.bsky.social
"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"
aeajournals.bsky.social AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Oct 21
Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
www.aeaweb.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
"The UK's upfront immigration costs now vastly exceed other leading research nations, so the UK is struggling to compete. EU countries can more easily attract talent from the EU due to free movement, and from non-EU countries due to their relatively low visa costs. "Non-EU countries are also attractive to global research talent due to lower comparative immigration costs than the UK." British scientific institutions are having to spend huge sums on visa costs for cancer professionals they wish to attract and recruit. The Francis Crick Institute, one of the world's leading biomedical research centres, is now spending more than £500,000 a year on visas for cancer scientists. Cancer Research UK institutes are spending almost £690,000 a year, up 44% from £470,000 in 2022-23.
April 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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kebaisley.bsky.social
📣 Excited to share a new dataset article with @qalbaugh.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We identify 176 out LGBTQ2S+ candidates in the 2015, 2019 & 2021 Canadian federal elections using a replicable search procedure based on individual candidate searches.
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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hvnorrisphd.bsky.social
Why does this matter? Because it shows how LGBTQ people still experience stigma about coming out. And it also completely upends the current far right narrative about identities “changing”.
pewresearch.org Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Oct 9
A broad majority of LGBTQ Americans (82%) say they first felt they might be lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or transgender before age 18. This includes 58% who say they first felt this way before age 14. 💭
Chart shows that A broad majority of LGBTQ adults (82%) thought they might be LGBTQ before age 18, but far fewer (43%) came out to someone that young
October 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM