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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 1h

Could not be more well-deserved! Congratulations Hahrie! 🎉 @hahrie.bsky.social

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 19h

When your poli/psy PhD students get to meet and chat with another political psychologist (Angel Saavedra, Bowdoin College) 😎

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the grim topic, this is a very good paper: monuments that signal white supremacy can substitute performative violence and thus reduce it.

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

Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South

www.cambridge.org

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d

When you hate immigrants so much that you chase them into the afterlife 🙃🙃🙃

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Immigration sought to deport 88-year-old. But he already died

The Department of Homeland Security's intense push to ramp up deportations is dragging in even the dead as it unnerves immigrant households and crams court calendars.

www.latimes.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Five out of six measures of identity and solidarity with U.S. people of color are equivalent across English and Spanish interviews

As the US continues to racially diversify, researchers are increasingly investigating the prevalence of self-identification as – and feelings of solidarity with – people of color (PoC). Prior resea...

www.tandfonline.com

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Hannah Walker @hlw.bsky.social · 2d

📢 WORKING PAPER ALERT 📢

"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig

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Registering Returning Citizens Via Social Ties — ExpandingEngagement

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Francesco Bromo @francescobromo.bsky.social · 2d

New JREP paper with a team of amazing co-authors❗

We use CMPS data (2008-2020) + a genetic matching approach to examine how country of origin shapes the voting behavior of U.S. Latinos, revealing substantial variation in party ID and electoral choices.

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/rep....

Many of Us Are Not Like the Others: Country of Origin and Latino Voting Behavior in the United States | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridge Core

Many of Us Are Not Like the Others: Country of Origin and Latino Voting Behavior in the United States

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Chicago News @chicago.thesocial.news · 2d

Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: ‘We Have To Be Human’

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Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: 'We Have To Be Human'

Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents.

blockclubchicago.org

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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 7d

So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.

Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

Conventional wisdom says that, once in power, opposition parties will return backsliding countries to the democratic path. In reality, not only is this not true, but it is not uncommon for the opposition to adopt the autocratic habits of the regime they replaced.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

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Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 4d

What's going on in the Dakotas? Christian Castillo
UC Riverside presents work co-authored with @lauraevans.bsky.social

The politics of extractive markets gets even more complex when layering sovereignty.

"Green Mining: The Politics of Lithium and
Indigenous Peoples"

#UCRPRIEC20

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 5d

We all suspected this but it’s incredible to see a systematic study on the automation of caste bias in GPT-5. The harm is immense, especially when we consider India is already OpenAI’s second largest market. Screenshots of findings that will haunt me below www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

www.technologyreview.com

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much to Kyle Dobson for visiting with my lab today & sharing work on civilian-police interactions. Super helpful to think about these interactions at multiple levels of analysis & from both police & civilian perspectives! More about Kyle's fabulous work here: kyleshdobson.com.

Kyle S. H. Dobson, Ph.D.

Personal Website

kyleshdobson.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5d

There is an AMMMMMMMMAZING #economics paper I need everyone to check out IMMEDIATELY.

TLDR: The research paper finds that 36 PERCENT of the decline white enrollment in public school in the Deep South is driven by the presence of segregation academies. #blacksky #econsky

Segregation Academies: The Impact of “Whites Only” Private Education on Public Schools in Deep South∗ Danielle Graves† This draft: March 2024 Abstract After years of resisting the mandate put forth by Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools began integrating across the Deep South in the 1960s and 70s. White parents sought to perpetuate the segregated status quo by organizing all-white private schools known as “segregation academies.” I create a novel data set of segregation academies in the Deep South and find that they caused public school enrollment to decline by 14% . White students drive this decline: segregation academies caused a 36% decrease in white enrollment, but had no impact on Black enrollment. Ultimately, the white share of enrollment decreased by 23% and is accompanied by an increase in the relative segregation of public schools. Consistent with a simple model of taste-based discrimination and costly outside options, these effects are largest in rural counties with a history of racial animus, low median household income, and a high percentage of the population that is Black.

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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · 6d

Today is the day. 🌈

We're SO back with the Queer Politics Webinar. Y por la puerta grande:

We have @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social presenting their outstanding work on Transgender Norm Diffusion.

Join us at 6 pm (CET)!

Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 23d

🌈 Hi everyone!

😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.

👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology

Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 6d

feedback loop of shit

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 6d

@landgravephd.bsky.social, Nicholas R. Jenkins & Aubree J. Hardesty show that voters across parties trust, donate to & support candidates who reject PAC money—penalizing those who accept it. Campaign financing choices clearly shape perceptions.

Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do congressional candidates benefit from rejecting PAC contributions? Evidence from a pre-registered candidate evaluation survey experiment - Michelangelo Landgrave, Nicholas R. Jenkins, Aubree J. Har...

Do congressional candidates benefit electorally from the public’s disdain of political action committees (PACs)? Despite the large sums of money given by PACs, ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 6d

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -

Racial Inequality in War - https://cup.org/46z3IcC

"biased assessments decreased the likelihood that Black soldiers were assigned combat occupational specialties"

- CONNOR HUFF, @ericmin.bsky.social & ROBERT SCHUB

#FirstView

Banner reading "#OpenAccess" in white text on a green background above the name "American Political Science Review" in white text on a blue background.

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 7d

Across large-N surveys and original data, we find:
➡️ Whites in places with more Latino growth are more supportive of legal abortion.
➡️ This effect is absent among non-Whites.
➡️ It’s driven exclusively by Whites higher in prejudice.

plot showing relationship between demographic change and support for abortion among different racial and ethnic groups

plot showing relationship is almost exclusively driven by prejudiced whites

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 7d

Natalism for me but not for thee. Read my new working paper w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social and Ben Newman: we show some conservative white people support legalizing abortion and contraception access in an effort to minimize the growth of the non-white population.

Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 7d

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 7d

This is a great opportunity for students interested in a PhD in political science in the US!

We help break down opaque parts of the application process and provide students with individualized feedback. I recommend interested students apply, especially those not coming from elite R1 universities

Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social · 8d

We will (again) be organizing PS-Prep this year.
I especially encourage (and hope to speak with) students from outside the US to apply, to understand an applicational system that is different, voluminous and complicated.
I will also encourage students early in their degree to ...

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 7d

Natalism for me but not for thee. Read my new working paper w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social and Ben Newman: we show some conservative white people support legalizing abortion and contraception access in an effort to minimize the growth of the non-white population.

Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 7d

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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