Just a shout out to the reviewers at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social The Canadian political behaviour community is excellent, people almost always accept. I can see that they're also really busy - just looked through 8 potential reviewers and all had reviewed this year. Thanks!

In case you were wondering, Canadian party identification 1988-2025

"History Ottawa" opens next week in Canada's capital! A new museum? Uh no, a nightclub. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

History Ottawa to open next week in Ottawa’s ByWard Market

Ottawa’s newest nightclub will officially open next week in the ByWard Market.

ctvnews.ca

Its baffling to me why prominent Democrats aren't loudly and repeatedly saying "after we win the next election we are going to vigorously investigate everyone who give money to Trump". It works both ways, as deterrence and as campaigning.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s worth repeating on a regular basis: the Trump administration’s corruption is truly unprecedented. I get why Trump is seeking bribes. What I’m less sure about is how the bribers think this will end. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-corrup...

🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop is back for its 12th edition! Join us on Nov. 13–14, 2026 @UofT! We welcome paper/poster proposals on any topic in political behaviour, broadly defined! 📅 Submission Deadline: July 11. Apply here: utorontops.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Had Claude do a review of a draft paper and it referred to one problem as a "known kill-shot in peer review". Well then, guess I better work on that.

On my way to #CPSA_ASPC26 and Toronto Union really is a beautiful train station. If they would only finish that last bit of construction...

📬 Your #CPSA_ACSP26 participant INFO is here! We're thrilled to welcome you @uottawa.ca next week! Everything you need for the conference: programme, registration hub, Boutique Expo, quiet room, Wi-Fi & more. 🍁👉 conta.cc/4ecGFab @jplewis.bsky.social @alexmarland.bsky.social @jlisayoung.bsky.social

Everyone needs to relax about the canvas hack. We all do that 2-factor authentication thing five times a day, so the data is safe now. Right?

Again! Now I have to wait another five years for another chance.

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 4mo ago

Local nerd disappointed he didn’t get the long form census

LLM just said "I appreciate you being direct". Are they getting passive aggressive now? It was bad enough when my printer started talking, not sure I can handle sass from my computer.

A fun little update of the data from this book - this year possibly the highest number of floor-crossings ever (at least since 1990s)? For non-Canadians: multiple floor crossings to the Liberal Party recently, which is on the edge of a majority.

Jared Wesley@jaredwesley.ca · 5mo ago

Mark Carney is now one seat away from a majority. In our book (partyloyalty.ca), we discuss the strains that floor-crossing places on both parties... + vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/08/s...

The last few years have really made it clear that people (including academics) basically only have substantive preferences, almost no procedural principles at all. Majoritarianism? Sovereignty? Plain text of constitutions? All completely flipped ideologically. Even among experts!

You're too busy and don't have time to do all the reviews? Easy step one, stop reviewing for Elsevier journals. Later you can also stop editing and submitting to them. (sorry to Electoral Studies, but this calls for market discipline, time to devalue those assets)

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Elsevier are not only rip-off merchants in relation to university libraries but provide perhaps the worst experience for peer reviewers of any of the publishers.

So LLMs have guidelines about discussing presidents? Trying out ChatGTP5.2, and it reasons: "OK, I’m thinking through how to respect guidelines on discussing influential politicians. Redirecting to general topics like race and elections research instead of focusing on Obama as an individual."

Reviewing PhD applications for next year, and I can't believe the number and quality of them. We always have good applicants, but this year we could easily admit three full cohorts. And I suspect the acceptance rate will be really high too.

I was an external examiner for a PhD defense for the first time today, and it was a great experience. I went in person rather than zoom. That has costs, but I think its worth it. Partly because its an important event, but also somehow being in person makes it important. 10/10 would examine again.

New work on on Immigration attitudes, out in @irpp.org with @natashagoel.bsky.social We show dramatical increase in anti-immigration opinion in Canada over the past couple of years. Its very different than previous shifts like in 1990s...

IRPP@irpp.org · 9mo ago

In 2015, only 16% strongly agreed Canada had too much immigration. By 2024, that number doubled to 33%. This IRPP paper by @randybesco.bsky.social and @natashagoel.bsky.social reveals a striking reversal in Canadians’ views on immigration: centre.irpp.org/research-stu...

Very satisfying year for Toronto to win the American League baseball championship. Just sayin.

Love to see our beautiful wildlife on @utm.utoronto.ca campus

I copy pasted some text from a french-language Word document. And now Word thinks my entire document must be french, and underlined everything in red as misspelled 🤦

Paper submitted 💪

This an interesting phrasing from the Minister of Indigenous services. "Canadians and Indigenous peoples" echoes a common phrasing "Canadians and Quebecers" used by Quebec nationalist politicians as a way of emphasizing that these are two separate groups of peoples.

Another example of universities corrupting our youth 🤣

Free paper idea! Do people from Ontario actually know or care less about provincial politics than people in other provinces?

Luc Turgeon@lturgeon.bsky.social · last yr.

Perhaps more accurate would be that Ontarians don’t care much about provincial politics (that’s my experience after 25 years in this province). Friends and family in Alberta also seem to care much more about provincial politics.

The Paper Skygest feed is excellent and you should all add it. If you want to see research/paper posts, its clearly the best thing around. Almost like old academic twitter.

Nikhil Garg@nkgarg.bsky.social · last yr.

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

I'm just finishing my American Politics syllabus, and used a bunch of podasts/substacks/explainers. So thank you very much to @goodauth.bsky.social @adambonica.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @juliaazari.bsky.social @egojunk.bsky.social @proflupton.bsky.social @sarahbinder.bsky.social and..

Totally forgot that Converse 1964 include a discussion of ideology and mass support of the Nazi party!

Adding some material to our PhD Canadian course on political behavior of Quebec nationalism/sovereignty. Do you have recommendations for classic or influential pieces?

Here is a fun chart: turnout over time. Contrary to popular wisdom, there is no long slow decline. In fact, there is a single, permeant step down in 2000. I'm pretty sure I know why, but surely someone has published on this before?