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Justin Kirkland
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Professor of Politics and Policy at UVa. Legislatures, Representation, Public Opinion, Subnational Politics, all the good stuff. Co-editor of Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures (Cambridge.org/AmericanLegislatures) .. more

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 15h
Now Open! APSA Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program | Deadline: March 15, 2026
Now Open: APSA Announces Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program | Deadline: March 15, 2026
The American Political Science Association (APSA) invites applications for the Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program, which provides awards of up to $2,500 to support research across all fields of political science. Submit your applications here! The application deadline for the Spring Centennial Center Research Grants is March 15, 2026. The Spring Application Cycle The program is designed to expand access to research funding for scholars whose institutional positions or professional circumstances provide limited or no research support.
politicalsciencenow.com

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 1d
#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

The Decline of Access Donors in Funding National Nominating Conventions - https://cup.org/4tnsHJ5

- Karen Sebold, Eric Heberlig & Robert Boatright

#FirstView
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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 3d
Trump job approval rating by news platform

🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40

www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

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School of Society Environment at Queen Mary @qmulsse.bsky.social · 4d
📢 Job alert - Lecturer in Public Policy (Teaching & Scholarship)
A new position has opened at SPIR, one of the UK’s leading centres for the research and teaching of Politics and International Relations, with a uniquely diverse cohort of students.
Find out more 👇
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Lecturer in Public Policy (Teaching & Scholarship) - QMUL Jobs
ID: 8933. Title: Lecturer in Public Policy (Teaching & Scholarship). Application Deadline:
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Boris Heersink @borisheersink.bsky.social · 4d
Happy to report that I have a new article out with Sid Milkis in Presidential Studies Quarterly: "Through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall: Barack Obama, the Gay Rights Movement, and the Formative Relationship Between Presidents and Social Activists" (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)!
Through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall: Barack Obama, the Gay Rights Movement, and the Formative Relationship Between Presidents and Social Activists
Organized groups frequently appeal to the president of the United States for support of their policy agenda. However, even if presidents are broadly supportive of the groups in question, they may not...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 5d
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.

We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

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Ellie Powell @ellieneffpowell.bsky.social · 6d
Thrilled to share that my paper with @judgelord.bsky.social and Justin Grimmer:"How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies" is out at the AJPS!
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
When elected officials gain power, do they use it to provide more constituent service or affect policy? The answer informs debates over how legislator capacity, term limits, and institutional positio....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 6d
Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence

Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence By Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Washington University, Tabitha Koch, Rice University, and Michael P. Olson, Washington University Women legislators face a variety of gendered barriers both outside and inside the…
Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence
Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence By Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Washington University, Tabitha Koch, Rice University, and Michael P. Olson, Washington University Women legislators face a variety of gendered barriers both outside and inside the legislature. Yet, little previous scholarship has quantitatively examined whether legislative insiders are biased against women and their accomplishments. We explore a new potential explanation for gender inequity in legislatures: that women in office may get less credit than men for similar achievements.
politicalsciencenow.com

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 6d
🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Reposted by Will Jennings, Ruth Dassonneville, Jon Green , and 7 more

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 6d
New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1
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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 7d
I am chairing the Emerging Scholar Award committee for the APSA EPOVB section this year. Send in your submissions (self-nominations welcomed!) with a cv to me and the committee (@wzcmarsh.bsky.social and Holli Semetko) by March 1 for consideration! More info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
Section32 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (Section 32) The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research on elections,
apsanet.org

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 7d
Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

osf.io/preprints/so...

1/15

Reposted by Justin H. Kirkland, Roman Senninger

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Kristian Frederiksen @kristianvsf.bsky.social · 8d
Great to see "The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy" with @robbwiller.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy - Kristian Frederiksen, Robb Willer, Michael Bang Petersen, 2026
Abundant prior research has analyzed the mass public’s role in democratic backsliding. Comparatively little research has studied democratic restoration, the reh...
journals.sagepub.com

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lse-ei.bsky.social
LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 10d
💼 We're #HIRING!

We are seeking an Assistant Professor in International Migration specialised in forced #migration and #policy responses to the #international #displacement of people and/or #immigration, #race and #citizenship (from a #comparative perspective).

🌍️ 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Reposted by Justin H. Kirkland, Bonnie N. Field, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

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Rachel Bernhard @rivb.bsky.social · 10d
In the midst of chaos, excited to share a new publication with @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja, dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq..... As usual, I write an embarrassing thread about my wonderful coauthors-- 🧵 (1/)
A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office
We introduce and seek to explain a new and surprising fact about members of the US Congress: since at least the 1980s, Congresswomen have been substantially wealthier than Congressmen serving in the ....
dx.doi.org

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jawspolisci.bsky.social
Junior Americanist Workshop Series @jawspolisci.bsky.social · 11d
Trying to figure our your next move? Register for our Spring professionalization panel on alternative academic careers! Next Friday 2/6 at 3 pm ET, feat @mollyereynolds.bsky.social, @nataliej.bsky.social, and more 🤓
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Feb. 6 Professionalization Panel: Alternative Academic Careers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Feb. 6 Professionalization Panel: Alternative Academic Careers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
virginia.zoom.us

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 12d
"A must-read for those who care how communication shapes politics in Congress and in America."

Black Voices in the Halls of Power by Jennifer R. Garcia, Christopher T. Stout, & Katherine Tate, Out Now

🗺️ 🗃️ #LawSky #USPOL #PoliSci #PoliSky

https://cup.org/4q5D2GR
Image of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 13d
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

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winls.bsky.social
Women in Legislative Studies @winls.bsky.social · 13d
The University of Missouri, Columbia is seeking a Hicks and Martha Griffiths Endowed Chair in American Politics.

Details and application here: hr.missouri.edu/job-openings (Job Opening ID 58208)

Polisky
Job Openings | Office of Human Resources - Office of Human Resources
hr.missouri.edu

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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 13d
The paper @florianstoeckel.bsky.social and I wrote showing that Brexit prejudice is a) alive and well and b) manifests in a variety of ways now has a volume and issue number! Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The limits of Brexit prejudice
Since the Brexit referendum, two novel political identities, Leaver and Remainer, have gained political salience in the United Kingdom. Some work contends that Leavers and Remainers display great ani....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14d
In 21st century US politics, the two most important ongoing stories are:
1) The radicalization of the GOP, &
2) the degradation of the information environment, ie, the death of accountability journalism.

Neither gets a fraction of the attention devoted to, say, annoying woke undergrads.

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 14d
* Please repost and share *

Call for Papers (due March 1st)
Workshop on "Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy," August 14, Vanderbilt University

more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submit papers: forms.gle/k7BH4so2QJxQ...

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 17d
"Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments" by James M. Curry and Leah Rosenstiel. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20d
i am very close to quitting Chrome entirely but just discovered that you can hard-disable this slop prompt by going to chrome://flags/#ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point and choosing 'Disabled' on the drop-down menu
Chrome new tab that says "Press tab then enter to ask AI Mode"

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 20d
New article in @psjeditor.bsky.social

w/ Qian Zhang and @peterenns.bsky.social

We classify poll questions from the 1980s-2010s into policy agendas topic codes + find attention in polling responds to public priorities, predicts cong + media attention.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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State Futures @state-futures.bsky.social · 20d
New brief from State Futures & @brennancenter.org: As federal election security support retreats, states are stepping up. Lawmakers can protect secure, accessible, and trusted elections through legislation, oversight, communications, & partnerships. Read more: static1.squarespace.com/static/67772...

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Theodore Tallent @theodoretallent.bsky.social · 21d
🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉

Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access)

The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social

(1/6)

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Scott L Greer @handle.invalid · 22d
“against growing speculation of increasing ideological polarisation between different age groups, our analysis of British electoral data suggests that age gaps in attitudes, rather than growing, are either stable or decreasing in magnitude throughout the period examined.”
Political Socialisation in the UK: Describing Generational Changes of Values - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...
link.springer.com

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 23d
🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫

Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.

⁉️Questions welcome

Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏
PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com