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📌 Spotlight on today's #MPSA2026 Roundtable on Latino Voters in 2025 and Beyond. CPS's @robertocarlos.bsky.social participates in the session chaired by #ISRNextGeneration scholar @fmortiz.bsky.social #Polisky

Conspiracy theories in U.S. politics reveal racial gaps often ignored. Using a 2024 MIMACS survey experiment, @fmortiz.bsky.social shows conspiracy beliefs are shaped by state violence awareness, and affect democratic participation. #ISRNextGeneration #MPSA2026

Well I'm full of opportunities to circulate today! We're hiring a post-doc at UT in political behavior/democratic representation. Deadline is April 10 (quick turn around!) Tell your friends, job posting here: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation

Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Behavior and/or Democratic Representation ---- Hiring Department: Department of Government ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled...

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REP being top three ❗️

Thomas J Wood@thomasjwood.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To show prospective students our discipline's research priorities, I scraped the last 6 @apsa-preprints.bsky.social annual meeting programs to count papers by section, then assigned sections to subfields. Polisci remains fascinated with the American case!

My piece, “The Diagnostic State: Police Discretion and the Securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States” just dropped. This one started in graduate school so I’m happy it’s finally out in the world. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The diagnostic state: Police discretion and the securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States - Pyar J Seth, 2026

How do law enforcement agencies shape public health responses during epidemics? While scholars have examined the role of established medical institutions such a...

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🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Do Latinos behave politically according to their racial classification? If so, why? My new article in @polbehavior.bsky.social provides some answers. Open access link here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... 🧵

🇵🇷 Nearly 4 million Americans live in Puerto Rico without formal representation in institutions that determine their laws and budgets. @maraceci.bsky.social et al will amplify PR's political voice with the island's first large, representative panel survey: racialjustice.umich.edu/research-eng...

I’m procrastinating, so I made a small R package for ggplot2 themes inspired by Wicked and The Wizard of Oz. I’m committed to find more joy in data visualization! github.com/fmmortiz/OzT...

GitHub - fmmortiz/OzThemes: OzThemes is an R package providing ggplot2 themes and color palettes inspired by Wicked, Wicked For Good, and The Wizard of Oz.

OzThemes is an R package providing ggplot2 themes and color palettes inspired by Wicked, Wicked For Good, and The Wizard of Oz. - fmmortiz/OzThemes

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My thoughts are with colleagues and friends at Brown, and with their loved ones. Another day, another shooting on a college campus in this country. This kind of violence is preventable if only our leaders had the courage and moral clarity to act.

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research

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With an original survey, @fmortiz.bsky.social finds that conspiracy thinking is racially patterned, responsive to reminders of state violence, and consequential for democratic engagement. ⚡ Find @umisrcps.bsky.social #ISRNextGeneration scholars at #APSA2025.

The full release of the ANES 2024 Time Series #Data is now available. More details here: electionstudies.org/anes-announc...

🎊🎊 Congratulations to Dr. Walker! Her dissertation and book project, When Hard Work Isn’t Enough, examines Black American public opinion and the pursuit of the American Dream. @zoewithoutawhy.bsky.social with Vincent Hutchings, @nickvalentino.bsky.social, Robert Sellers, and Nancy Burns

Francy Luna Diaz@francy-lunadiaz.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the brilliant and newly minted Dr. Z. C. Walker on defending her groundbreaking dissertation today. Dr. Walker’s work helps us understand the the causes and consequences of Black Americans supporting The American Dream. I am excited to read her book!

So happy and proud of Dr. @zoewithoutawhy.bsky.social 🩷 such an inspiration!!!!!!

Francy Luna Diaz@francy-lunadiaz.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the brilliant and newly minted Dr. Z. C. Walker on defending her groundbreaking dissertation today. Dr. Walker’s work helps us understand the the causes and consequences of Black Americans supporting The American Dream. I am excited to read her book!

In the newly released 2024 ANES (@electionstudies.bsky.social), racial groups see modest partisan differences in affect. Other groups (Big Business, Labor Unions, the FBI) less polarized than recent cycles.

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study! The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/... Best, The ANES Team

Excited to share that my new book is now available for pre-order! This book has been a labor of love for the past decade & I am grateful to a whole community of people who supported this project. Get 30% off your purchase using code UCPNEW at UChicago Press! Link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Politics of Skin Tone

A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African A...

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Is government suspicion based on real lived experiences and historic harm? #ISRNextGeneration scholar Franshelly Martinez-Ortiz writes on the case of Michigan, where events like the Flint Water Crisis give rise to lasting mistrust. @maraceci.bsky.social #MPSA2025 ➡️ cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3434

In Michigan, conspiracy thinking can be rooted in real historic harm

Conspiracy thinking may result from paranoia or misinformation -- but it's often rooted actual harms and well-earned mistrust in government.

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