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Nazita Lajevardi
@nazita.bsky.social
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Political scientist. Scholar of race, religion, and American politics.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 1d
Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year.

Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Richard E. Lenski, Joe R. Feagin , and 11 more

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com

Reposted by Justin H. Kirkland, Nazita Lajevardi, Werner Krause , and 3 more

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 1d
🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨

Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just announced it will hear our case challenging President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Iikka Korhonen, Nazita Lajevardi , and 1 more

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 2d
Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA.

We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

link.europa.eu/bcmC87

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a new congressional map that could help Republicans win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional for discriminating based on race
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
25A608 Order
www.documentcloud.org

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Nazita Lajevardi

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 Applications are open for the 2026–27 Good Authority Fellowship! 🚨

Political scientists passionate about public engagement will receive a $2,500 stipend and mentorship in writing for broad audiences.

Apply by Jan 9, 2026, 5pm PT.

Apply at the link👇

goodauthority.org/news/announc...
Announcing the 2026-2027 Good Authority fellows program!
Apply by Jan. 9, 2026 to join the Good Authority team of contributors.
goodauthority.org

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Tom van der Meer, Nazita Lajevardi , and 2 more

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Dave @daveamp.bsky.social · 4d
Political Scientists: I am the chair of the committee that is picking the next editor of @polbehavior.bsky.social. If you are interested, I'd be happy to chat about it (and I know the current editors would be too).

You can find the call for proposals here:
Political Behavior
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: We have recently transitioned from Editorial Manager to SNAPP. The submission process for SNAPP requires ...
link.springer.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio , and 27 more

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 10d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders , and 21 more

sarahobolt.bsky.social
Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Linda J. Skitka , and 9 more

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 13d
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings , and 18 more

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ence morse @ence.bsky.social · 16d
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Kornelis Blok, Brendan Nyhan , and 14 more

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 16d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com

Reposted by Steven French, Nazita Lajevardi, James Connelly

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18d
We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.

Meanwhile in Denmark:

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi, Patrick Präg

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 18d
New #openaccess study

We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide

Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment.

"A time panelty for the Global South?"
shorturl.at/ZiAFb
Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany’s system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent. Graph that shows that 44.1 percent of requests did not lead to an appointment that could be selected. For the 55.9 percent where an appointment was available the distribution of wait times follows a steep curve with short wait times in many cases and a long tail of few cases with very long wait times of up to 98 days. The average wait times and chances to find an appointment varied a lot between Germany's diplomatic missions. The latter range from almost 0 to 100 percent. This variance is not random. Rather, economic wellbeing (GDP per capita) is a key predictor of wait times and chances of finding an appointment. The poorer the country a German embassy/consulate is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an appointment.

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi

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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 19d
Hot off the presses @polbehavior.bsky.social with stellar coauthors: "Gender Stereotypes Across Electoral Contexts" asks whether and how candidates use feminine + masculine stereotypes differently across office type. More here: 👇
Gender Stereotypes across Electoral Contexts - Political Behavior
We examine how the office a candidate seeks influences their use of feminine stereotypes in campaign messaging, focusing on the interplay between government branches (legislative and executive) and ju...
link.springer.com

Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Nazita Lajevardi

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19d
Tell @wearehighered.bsky.social about what's happening on YOUR campus with the attacks on higher ed.

We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest?

And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better.

www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker
Campus Tracker — We Are Higher Ed
www.wearehighered.org

Reposted by Benjamin Braun, Nazita Lajevardi, Sebastian Kohl , and 1 more

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 19d
Next week, with the Progressive Politics Research Network, we are going to publish 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. While housing has become a huge grievance across Europe, it is often absent from progressive parties‘ agendas. Our group of experts discusses different aspects of this

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt , and 6 more

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 20d
Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 20d
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Cathy N. Davidson, Robert C. Richards , and 2 more

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22d
“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”

Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist

newrepublic.com/article/2030...
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Cathy N. Davidson, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 5 more

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22d
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.

I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Michael W. Kraus, Nazita Lajevardi , and 1 more

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Russell Sage Foundation @russellsagefdn.bsky.social · 23d
Doctoral students! We now offer grants under our Dissertation Research Grants program.

Meet Anwuli Okwuashi (St. Louis University), a 2025 DRG grantee! She will examine how limited access to banks widens racial homeownership gaps.

#APPAM25 #APPAM2025

www.russellsage.org/apply/grants...

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Nazita Lajevardi

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24d
The percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their lives declined from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Among the fastest declines in the world.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi, Joanna L. Grossman

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 24d
"Millions of younger American women are increasingly imagining their futures elsewhere." In a new @gallup.com survey, 40% of younger women in the US (those ages 15-44) say that, if they had the opportunity, they'd like to move permanently to another country. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
Line chart showing a sharp increase in the share of younger women in the United States (those ages 15 to 44) who say that, if they had the opportunity, they would like to move permanently to another country. The chart is based on Gallup surveys.

Reposted by Julia Lynch, Nazita Lajevardi

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 24d
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @journalrep.bsky.social -

Federal Enforcement and Black Political Representation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Voting Rights Act - cup.org/4drlmAz

- @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social & Jasmine Carrera Smith

#JREP10
JREP abstract discussing the importance of the 15th Amendment and federal enforcement for Black representation in U.S. politics, analyzing periods from 1866 to 1993, and its impact on democracy and political participation.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Nazita Lajevardi, Ann Bartow , and 4 more

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, American Library Association, Robert C. Richards , and 7 more

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24d
This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, John Holbein, Justin H. Kirkland , and 2 more

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 25d
New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reposted by Hugo Mercier, Mark J. Brandt, Mary Feeney , and 3 more

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 25d
Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Reposted by Nazita Lajevardi

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Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social · 25d
🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open!

Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based.
👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F