PAIS's @alexjabbour.bsky.social's co-authored article "Mass attitudes towards Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: Tentative support for top-down opinion formation" is out now in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 📰 👓
Alexandra Jabbour
@alexjabbour.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Warwick • Previously : Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, PhD UMontreal• Political Behaviour, Public Opinion • #TeamOM • http://alexandrajabbour.github.io
🔔🔔 Russian polls have shown ~75% support for the war in Ukraine since February 2022, essentially flat. New working paper with Kirill Chmel and @nikitasavin.bsky.social shows that number is stable partly because it stopped measuring what people actually think. 🧵 ssrn.com/abstract=711...
A year in the UK and I think I’ve quietly got the basics down
Argentina is about to become world champions without a single shot on target, and despite conceding a legit goal
If you are not convinced that negative partisanship is a thing, just watch this
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... The Peter Mair assistant professorship is out. Sascha’s stint was a short but an exceptionally positive experience that we want to retain and perhaps even augment.
Open competitions for academic posts
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This is a map of Paris showing the 500m buffer (purple circles) around a protected monument. Protected means no alteration of buildings without permission. Now you have an overview of why Paris is still likely to face deadly heat waves in the coming years
My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Happy to see this piece out!
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
New paper out in EJPR with @filipkostelka.bsky.social and his amazing team* at @eui-eu.bsky.social *Martín Alberdi, @maxbradley.bsky.social @t-fiselier.bsky.social @nahlamansour.bsky.social @elyaminaeva.bsky.social @silviaporciuleanu.bsky.social @dianarafailova.bsky.social
Tentative support for preconceptions 🤔 These authors 🧵 look at variations in mass attitudes towards the Russo-Ukrainian War using two types of survey data, finding that top-down models of #PublicOpinion may better explain variations of attitudes across a country buff.ly/j12fNJ5
Closing out the academic year in Copenhagen for the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference, where the heat wave peaks at a scorching 23°C. Can’t wait!
I don’t know if we will win, but this team is insane. The luxury of Cherki coming off the bench in the 87th minute sums up everything
NEW: Léa Pessin, Kevin Munger, "Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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I’ve grown super worried about LLM agents w/ access to all my files and secrets. Existing sandboxes and containers felt hard to use day-to-day, so I built a small convenient utility to keep agents away from important stuff. It’s called “bulle” (for “bubble”). 1/2 vincentarelbundock.github.io/bulle
Just bring Mbappé back to PSG so I can get back the PSG I grew up with (the one everybody makes fun of)
Last week I was at the EUI for a workshop on survey experiments with brilliant PhD researchers. And then I presented a new paper in Lausanne, thanks to @evakrejcova.bsky.social ‘s invitation Why posting only now? Because I’m marking
We have a new paper out in PNAS. Susanna’s thread outlines our findings. The big picture takeaway is that well-designed climate education (active, personally relevant, science-based) can complement fiscal and regulatory instruments by building public support for ambitious policy!
🚨I have a new paper out in PNAS with my co-authors, @maxbradley.bsky.social @renschazottes.bsky.social and @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social: "Educational policies can strengthen climate coalitions." A thread on what we found (and a great story about doing ambitious research without funding!) [1/9]
🚨 8 days left to apply! @svenhegewald.bsky.social and I a are happy to answer questions of prospective applicants.
📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Join us Wednesday at 1:30 PM (ET)! Navigating the non-academic #jobmarket as a political science graduate student or PhD can require a different approach than #academia. "Pursuing Non-Academic Careers with a Political Science PhD" Register here to join us!
Pursuing Non-Academic Careers with a Political Science PhD: An APSA Status Committee Virtual Workshop | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 -
“Pursuing Non-Academic Careers with a Political Science PhD” Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:30 PM (ET) / 10:30 AM (PT) Register Here Navigating the non-academic job market as a Political Science graduate…
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Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk
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Really glad to have been invited to this speaker series! Looking forward to my first visit to Münster (also my fourth country in six days)
It's a new semester in Münster and that means a new start to our speaker series! We have teamed up with @thiloalbers.bsky.social + Andreas Stegmann to organize next year's talks. We are so excited to kick off w @alexjabbour.bsky.social next week 🎉 @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Postdoc In Meta-science
Personal type: Scientific staff
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There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...
Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Nottingham
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New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front." How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares. Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361
Visiting at @cevipof.bsky.social (Sciences Po) until end of April. If you’re around and want to grab a coffee, let me know!
We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
Associate Professorship of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy
University salary from £58,265 - £77,645 per annum which is inclusive of an Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 p.aPermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during th...
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Come work with us! Postdoctoral researcher position in metascience on the UKRI-Funded PRIME project (Bath U), evaluating & implementing results‑blind peer review & translating evidence into policy & practice. FT/PT flexibility possible Advert: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.... #metasci
E. Gregoire elected Mayor of Paris with a left-wing coalition without radical left LFI. Same results likely in the Lyon and Marseille. Symbolically important: LFI may no longer be seen as necessary for the viability of a left wing presidential candidate 1/2⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...
EN DIRECT, résultats des municipales 2026 : Emmanuel Grégoire largement en tête à Paris, Benoît Payan élu à Marseille, Eric Ciotti à Nice... Suivez les résultats du second tour
A l’issue d’une triangulaire inédite depuis 1995, l’ancien premier ministre Edouard Philippe est réélu maire du Havre avec 47,71 % des voix. A Rennes, la candidate de la gauche hors LFI, Nathalie Appé...
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