🚨New Working Paper!🚨 How do Americans mentally map political coalitions? We often talk as if U.S. politics is just two sorted camps. But when people think about which groups go with which, the picture is more complicated. 🧵👇

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Join us at the 2026 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Penn, from June 15–26! ℹ️ More info: sicss.io/2026/penn . ⏳ Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026, at 11:59 pm EST. #SICSS #ComputationalSocialScience

a @github.com actions script that consults the retraction watch database and opens a PR if it sees a retracted article in .bib @ylelkes.bsky.social etc. github.com/recite/retra...

Issues · recite/retract

Github Actions to open an issue when a retracted article is discovered in a .bib file - Issues · recite/retract

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In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below). Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paul Teas@icedteas.bsky.social · 2y ago

POLITICAL SCIENCE MYSTERY: Why do partisans who feel colder toward the opposing political party seem LESS supportive of antidemocratic actions against them (e.g., closing polling stations)? Intuitively, dislike = more norm violations. What’s going on?🧵

Can’t believe this isn’t satire

I definitely assumed the weapons the cops "took off the streets" were being destroyed, not returned to the streets for profit. I don't know WHY I assumed harm was actually being reduced, but I know better now!

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2y ago

*gritting my teeth so hard my jaw fractures" www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

this dude is basically the nation’s leading expert on legal ethics, we are so cooked.

This concern is not *why* I adopted quizzes this year, but I can report: I said explicitly that lectures were meant to help students do and understand the reading, not to substitute for it, and that quizzes would be be about the reading, not about the lectures. On the first quiz of the term...

Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Luskin's "Robert's Rules: Suggestions for Writing" has some excellent, pithy advice for academic writers. #polisky PDF: github.com/soodoku/on-w...

At NPR... "I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other." Silence. slate.com/business/202...

NPR Is a Mess. But “Wokeness” Isn’t the Problem.

The real story behind the public broadcaster’s woes.

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americans (reps+dems) dislike norm violations. but some (reps) still vote for norm-breakers. so we're back at vote choice. again. not public opinion abt norm-violations. vote choice. back-sliding is an elite-constraint problem; cant public opinion way out of it. paper: tinyurl.com/normviopubop...

Learned about this history of the ANES W. Miller wrote from @ylelkes.bsky.social yesterday. So many fascinating bits in here, including the ANES existing in part b/c it got the 1948 margin ~right, and due to chance inclusion of a vote choice item. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So happy to see this now published at PNAS! This paper, coauthored with Shanto Iyengar, @ylelkes.bsky.social, and Sean Westwood, was my first project for @prl.bsky.social, and there will be many more coming soon! 🥳 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're looking for candidates who hold or are close to getting a PhD in political science, psychology, communication, cognitive science or similar Please get in touch if interested!   Team @leneaaroe.bsky.social @boralexander.bsky.social @mattlevendusky.bsky.social @ylelkes.bsky.social Vin Arceneaux

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 I'm hiring two postdocs (2-3 years) for a research project on political polarization hosted at @aarhusuni.bsky.social Application deadline August 15, starting date October 1 or later. Please help share widely! polisky #AcademicSky #PhDChat international.au.dk/about/profil...

Two postdoctoral positions in research project on political polarization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Cheers to Vin, @bnbakker.bsky.social, Neil, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for this. Much needed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why have the @nytimes.com & others covered the tumult at Harvard & Penn so much? @ylelkes.bsky.social, Sam Wolken & I provide an answer in a new @ajpseditor.bsky.social "The Rise of and Demand for Identity-Oriented Media Coverage": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/u...

The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?

Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come.

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#OpenAccess from our new issue - Ancestral Kinship and the Origins of Ideology - cup.org/3vctG5k - Neil Fasching & @ylelkes.bsky.social

Solow "rarely used email. He offered this “economist’s explanation” of his distaste for electronic correspondence in the 2014 interview for this obituary: “If you make communications costless, you will get messages of zero value.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Robert Solow, Nobel-winning economist who studied tech, dies at 99

Robert M. Solow’s economic research made him a respected voice on public policy, particularly on matters of employment.

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Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.

American local government elections database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - American local government elections database

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last day to apply for the PRL meeting in NOLA. We welcome work in the areas of partisan animosity and democratic attitudes, broadly defined, and from any discipline. We cover flight and accomodations for accepted papers.

Polarization Research Lab@prl.bsky.social · 3y ago

15 days left to apply to present at PRL's Annual Meeting March 21-22 in NOLA! polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti... polisky

"Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time" www.nature.com/artic...

A few days left to apply to the conference in NOLA. We take an expansive view of the topic, and are interested in things related to Democratic attitudes, perceptions, beliefs etc, from any discipline.

Polarization Research Lab@prl.bsky.social · 3y ago

15 days left to apply to present at PRL's Annual Meeting March 21-22 in NOLA! polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti... polisky