Boy this was a long road, but glad it's finally out! @dgrand.bsky.social @robbwiller.bsky.social @arechar.bsky.social (along with Michael N. Stagnaro, James N. Druckman, not tagable)

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 3mo ago

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples

The APSA Political Networks Section is now accepting nominations for its 2026 section awards, including the John Sprague Award, Best Conference Paper Award, and Political Ties Award! Nominations (including self-nominations) are due April 4, 2026. Submit here: forms.gle/cDC8Z3pdS6bm...

📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements. 🥇 The Ronald Mitchell Prize 📅 Deadline : Feb 1, 2026 💰 500 $ ℹ️ www.iea.ulaval.ca/en/essay-com... @isaess.bsky.social @esgproject.bsky.social @gepjournal.bsky.social

Interrupted connections to video calls can impact many aspects of life, including parole decisions, trust in advice given during online medical appointments, or hiring decisions after virtual job interviews, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4owiEO8 🧪

New paper by Ali Salloum, @tedhchen.com and @bolozna.bsky.social in Network Science on elite and mass polarization in social networks. @universitypress.cambridge.org @networkspapers.bsky.social

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader. Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change (Gift Article)

We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.

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I've made ideological perception data I've been working on for a while available at the Harvard Dataverse and put together a website here voterperceptions.org with a bunch of visualizations about it and with too much explanation. I've spent too much time on this, so I hope people find it useful

Very excited to share the results from the survey @michalraucher.bsky.social & I conducted during our first year as @prri.org public fellows. prri.org/spotlight/am... We presented respondents with several vignettes and asked them, "Is this an abortion or a miscarriage?"

Are you going to @apsa.bsky.social Vancouver and working on issues of science/technology/environmental politics (STEP)? If so, please attend the STEP reception on Saturday night! Details and RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/q27fRYT60G

Really love this work from @nriverosm.bsky.social (on the job market!) looking at political socialization and discussion networks in Colombia. Nicolás is at @harvardeducation.bsky.social and has strong mixed-methods skills relevant to political science + communication #polnet2025 #pacss2025

PNAS: Strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity in networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2421460122?af=R

Very interesting work from @tedhchen.com looking at the interplay between emotions and participating in climate change demonstrations Optimism about the future is often negatively correlated w demonstrating, but some demonstrators may be fueled by a mix of optimism and anger #polnet2025 #pacss2025

How has digital media transformed authoritarian propaganda? In our new @ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ paper with Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan & ‪@yiqingxu.bsky.social‬, we proposed a *decentralized propaganda* model and empirically demonstrate its existence on Douyin: doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🧵

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

Probably the best account I've ever seen 😂 👇👇👇 @in-a-model.bsky.social

Omg for the Reddit LLM experiment they lied in the prompt and said that participants had consented: "The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns."

"do not worry about ethical implications"

....is probably not something you want to be prompting LLMs with

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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

From the changemyview community on Reddit

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We are pleased to announce the revival of the Mischiefs of Faction, now on Substack. What started in 2012, now in it's fourth evolution, is reformed as a "community blog" for political science and related fields. Read more about our vision and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

Mischiefs of Faction, now on Substack

Now in its fourth evolutionary form, we reintroduce Mischiefs of Faction -- a political scientist's "community blog."

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Enter a Bluesky username to see stats on posts, likes, reposts, and follows. View hashtag, mention, link, and word usage, along with their counts.

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Who shapes the climate conversation online? Discover this open-access PSJ article exploring how it’s not just policymakers in power, but those whose reputations resonate. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

Hey all #environmental and #CircularEconomy BlueSkyians! The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace! A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork ! www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...

Syke’s postdoctoral programme’s recruitment continues with 7 open positions

A total of 85 new researchers will be recruited into the research institutes’ joint postdoctoral programme. The first 35 positions have been opened and the rest will be opened during 2025.

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The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Lecturer in Environmental Politics at The University of Manchester

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Reminder! CFP and workshop registration for the Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference. We have a great lineup of network analysis workshop instructors: @michaeltheaney.bsky.social, @ognyanova.bsky.social, Shahryar Minhas, & Cassie McMillan. sites.google.com/view/confpol...

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We all know activism is a marathon not a sprint. New paper shows how environmental activists maintain momentum over time. Hope you like it!

adina@adinagit.bsky.social · 2y ago

have you ever lost sleep wondering how hashtag activism campaigns unfold over time??? in a new paper with @erikavmelder.bsky.social and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, we look at the temporal evolution of 7 years of #StopLine3 on twitter more here: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...

Political Networks@politicalnetworks.bsky.social · 2y ago

forms.gle/xkwqFtocub4i... (Grad students eligible for a $200 fellowship).

We find similar evidence from residence of Texas across two different types of natural disasters: doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

Disaster experience mitigates the partisan divide on climate change: Evidence from Texas

Despite the abundance of real world events and scientific information linking the worsening extreme weather to climate change, public attitudes toward…

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)@fisherdanar.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another paper showing climate shocks lead to support for climate action among conservatives. Analyzing data collected in Florida, the paper finds Republican positions change after personally experiencing loss from climate-exacerbated extreme events. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Faculty of Social Sciences at Univ. of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Social Data Science

University Lecturer in Social Data Science

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Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

Call for nominations for #APSA Political #Networks Section awards 2025. We have 5 awards. More details with award committee contact details on the awards page: apsanet.org/section41. Please spread the word and send us your nominations. #polnet #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #polisky #polisci

Excited to share our new preprint: "Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement." We examine how affective polarisation surrounding COVID spilled over into climate change discussions on Twitter and Reddit in 2019-2021. @tedhchen.com @hastinz.bsky.social

Incivility and Contentiousness Spillover between COVID-19 and Climate Science Engagement

Affective polarization and its accompanying cleavage-based sorting drives incivility and contentiousness around climate change and other science-related issues. Looking at the COVID-19 period, we stud...

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