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Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL) @poalab.bsky.social · 5h

ESRC-funded PhD @lsegovernment.bsky.social × Campaign Lab: New Ways to Think Political Persuasion (start Sep 2026, 3.5 yrs)

Methods-heavy (experiments/computation)

Topics: multi-stage persuasion, interpersonal mechanisms, AI–voter interactions

📅Apply by 10 Dec 2025: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 8d

Are you, or do you know, someone who wants to do a PhD?

Applications are open for full funding (scholarship + maintenance) @sotonpolitics.bsky.social through the @scdtp.bsky.social

Get in touch if you're interested

southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply/

Apply - South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership

Our call for applications for studentships commencing in 2026/27 is now open (from 26th January 2025, 12:00am) The deadline for application is 17:00 GMT 16th Jan 2026. Below are our current applicatio...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 8h

An excellent (although deeply depressing) piece by Thomas Edsall, with some great interviews with top US political scientists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 9h

He called a bunch of generals fat and then called for dismantling procedures designed to prevent abuse and bullying.

Opinion writers have weird incentives to be contrarian.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 20h

Swedish people in front of charts
Source: digitaltmuseum.org

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 1d

My department is hosting a workshop on democracy and social media (12-13 March, 2026).

Papers are welcome covering comparative regulation of social media, empirical papers on the effects of social media, and work on democratic theory and social media. Deadline: Nov 1st.

www.su.se/english/rese...

Call for papers: Workshop on Democratic Political Orders & the Governance of Social Media Platforms - Stockholm University

www.su.se

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 22h

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · Feb 26

How did Southern white elites react after Reconstruction? They cut taxes and weakened bureaucratic capacity. Sadly, very relevant research from @pavisuri.bsky.social and @notstevenwhite.bsky.social.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 23h

There are variations in the extent of disenfranchisement in the South, which could be driving this.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 23h

Even during Jim Crow when there was essentially full disenfranchisement of African Americans in much of the South, the Republican Presidential candidates still managed to get ~30% of the vote. It is unclear to me who the voting base for the Republicans was in the South at this time.

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Dov Waxman @dovwaxman.bsky.social · 1d

On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Gaza war that Hamas initiated with its horrific surprise attack in southern Israel, it’s worth taking stock of the war’s devastating toll. Here's a long thread, which is not exhaustive, of the toll:

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 1d

My department is hosting a workshop on democracy and social media (12-13 March, 2026).

Papers are welcome covering comparative regulation of social media, empirical papers on the effects of social media, and work on democratic theory and social media. Deadline: Nov 1st.

www.su.se/english/rese...

Call for papers: Workshop on Democratic Political Orders & the Governance of Social Media Platforms - Stockholm University

www.su.se

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 1d

Granted I have 2,659 entries in my Zotero library (the browser extension was a mistake) so as a total share it isn't that many.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 1d

16 entries in my Zotero library start with "the effect[s] of".

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 8d

My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI.

This is part of WASP-HS, an interdisciplinary research cluster on AI’s impact on people and society.

Come and be my colleague!

Submission date: 15 Nov. 2025

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI

The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)?

I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.

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Daniel Spiro @danielspiro.bsky.social · 1d

Question to American friends:
Trump is trying to amass coercive power and particularly the military, clearly intends to use it to increase federal (=his own) control over states.
(How) are state govmnts preping for showdown? Trying to take control of local mil capacity or still just using judiciary?

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

they are called 'stockholmers'

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 2d

🆕 Sore losers on election night? 🫢

Einar Bäckström shows #VoterSatisfaction does not change right after electoral decisions, but becomes more polarised over time ⏰ instead long-term processes drive the winner-loser gap🏅

📖 #OA

Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 4d

Excellent work from my SU colleague Einar Bäckström on the temporal dynamics of the winner loser gap in democracy satisfaction using a regression discontinuity in time design across 21 European countries.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap

www.cambridge.org

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 2d

Democrats Abroad Sweden have renamed the No Kings protest to No Dictators as to not offend Swedish monarchists.

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Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social · 4d

This paper was a long time in the making, one of my favorites I’ve ever worked on, and is now live at SPPQ! doi.org/10.1017/spq....

Is Gerrymandering Poisoning the Well of Democracy? Evaluating the Relationship between Redistricting and Citizens' Attitudes

Ryan D. Williamson and Florian Justwan

Redistricting is often a hotly contested affair within states as the party in power attempts to maximize its chances for electoral success through injecting partisanship into the process. Previous works have evaluated how different redistricting practices can influence elections, but little is known about how redistricting can impact citizen attitudes toward government. Using an original survey with a unique experiment, we evaluate the relationship between how redistricting is performed and how satisfied citizens are with the state of democracy in the United States. We find that the mere perception of redistricting being done in a partisan manner leads to decreased levels of system support. Further-more, our models show that independent redistricting commissions tend to reduce the perceived prevalence of gerrymandering and boost citizens' evaluations of the democratic process.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 4d

Congratulations! Super timely, my California Proposition 50 ballot came in the mail just the other day...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 4d

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Know of a good graphic, for use in teaching, to show the idea underlying age-period-cohort (APC) effects?

Please share!

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