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Efrén Pérez
@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social
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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 15h
La Virgen Weeps: On Her Feast Day, Bishops Call Out Trump (and Catholic VP Vance) for Gospel Betrayal
Pope Leo confronts "extremely disrespectful" U.S. policies while Catholic JD Vance participates in exactly what the Church condemns
🕊️ La Virgen Weeps: On Her Feast Day, Bishops Call Out Trump (and Catholic VP Vance) for Gospel Betrayal
Pope Leo confronts "extremely disrespectful" U.S. policies while Catholic JD Vance participates in exactly what the Church condemns
threesonorans.substack.com

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Michael Jones‐Correa, Krzysztof Krakowski

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 20h
🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 23h
With everything going on, it's easy to forget that immigration reform can fail EVEN IF a majority says it's "for" it.

Politics runs on attention, and immigration supporters often care less about it than opponents. My new paper in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social tries to address this gap.

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, David Darmofal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Garcia: "Just last night we received about 95,000 photographs from the Epstein estate. We've gone through maybe about 25,000 of them so far ... we will continue to put out more photos in the days and weeks ahead."

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d
Reminder on the anniversary: the best social science evidence we have suggests Florida Republicans stole the 2000 election.

"Did Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?" Kosuke Imai and Gary King
gking.harvard.edu/files/ballot...
Although not widely known until much later, Al Gore received 202 more votes than George W. Bush on election day in Florida. GeorgeW.Bushispresidentbecauseheovercamehiselectiondaydeficitwithoverseasabsenteeballotsthatarrivedandwerecounted after election day. Inthefinalofficialtally, Bushreceived537morevotesthanGore.Thesenumbersaretakenfromtheofficialresults released by the Florida Secretary of State's office and so do not reflect overvotes, undervotes, unsuccessful litigation, butterfly ballot problems, recounts that might have been allowed but were not, or any other hypothetical divergence between voter preferences and counted votes. After the election, the New York Times conducted a six-month investigation and found that 680 of the overseas absentee ballots were illegally counted, and almost no one has publicly disagreed with their assessment. In this article, we describe the statistical procedures we developed and implemented for the Times to ascertain whether disqualifying these 680 ballots would have changed the outcome of the election.These include adding formal Bayesian model averaging procedures to models of ecological inference. We present a variety of new empirical results that delineate the precise conditions under which Al Gore would have been elected president and offer new evidence of the striking effectiveness of the Republican effort to prevent local election officials from applying election law equally to all Florida citizens.

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Scott Clifford, David Darmofal

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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 1d
This paper was a blast to work on. The challenge: present party positions across many issues, in real time, using language voters actually use. 🧵 on why we went with a more involved retrieval-based approach and where I think these tools are headed.
semrasevi.bsky.social Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 4d
🚨Excited to share our new paper published in PNAS (joint with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and Don Green)! AI can enhance political knowledge and provide balanced information about politics with proper guardrails and vetted sources (e.g., party platforms).

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d
Assistant Professors, Grad students, post-docs!!! Tag your favorite senior colleague:

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
A year after touting the “historic realignment” of minority voters that powered him to a second term in the White House, the multiracial coalition President Trump has boasted about is slipping away.
The minority voters who powered Trump to a second term are drifting away
Extended conversations with Black, Latino and Asian American voters who cast ballots for Trump in 2024 showed mixed feelings about the president and their votes.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
"This is a part of the manosphere story — part of it is struggling young men reaching out, but part of it is just assholes calling out to assholes."

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Barron Trump's reported fondness of Andrew Tate.

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 1d
I was a ‘go, go, go’ academic. My days were blurred by meetings, lab work, and deadlines, yet I still felt behind.

www.science.org/content/arti...

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d
Thy kingdom come 👑

Walked to my local taqueria for 3 al pastor and 2 suadero tacos, complete with pickled jalapeños and carrots 🇲🇽🌵🤠

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Efrén O. Pérez, Daxton R. Stewart

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 1d
Damning overview of the nudging literature.

"[We] provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging."

"We find a small aggregated effect size."

"[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered meta-analyses to clarify the true impact [of nudging]."

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 2d
Insofar as we might think glue for MAGA is negative views of social groups, there's not much among Republicans here according to the ANES panel. If MAGA took over the GOP and partisans then follow elite views, we'd expect more change in group evals—not much there among white Republicans.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
"Trump is an outright racist and he appeals to 10s of millions of US citizens who are also outright racists" is both fundamentally, obviously true ... and something that mainstream journalism has decided is impermissible to say.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 4d
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mamalik.bsky.social Mashail Malik @mamalik.bsky.social · 4d
New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 4d
www.latimes.com/california/s...
High schools bullying is up, attendance down as ICE raids sow ‘climate of distress,' study says
A new survey of public high school principals across the U.S. found widespread, heightened distress among students from immigrant families amid ICE raids.
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Reposted by Robb Willer, Efrén O. Pérez, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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Mashail Malik @mamalik.bsky.social · 4d
New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 4d
🚨Excited to share our new paper published in PNAS (joint with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and Don Green)! AI can enhance political knowledge and provide balanced information about politics with proper guardrails and vetted sources (e.g., party platforms).

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Jill A. Jacobson

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Blair Wisco @bwisco.bsky.social · 4d
UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties:

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557
Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor
The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...
spartantalent.uncg.edu

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 4d
Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 6d
Announcement: Please note that the JOP will be on hiatus from December 17 to January 12. During this period, we will not be accepting new submissions.

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Millennial Golden Girl 💜 @brilliantblkgrl.bsky.social · 7d
All of us who earned those “best writer on the FCAT essay” awards in elementary school can tell you that girl at that one school wrote a TRASH paper 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 7d
Proud papá tonight.

School sports ceremony for Emiliano y Kiké (and teammates)🇲🇽🤠🌵

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 7d
My latest at @cprnews.bsky.social with Ryan Warner, discussing the President's threats against members of Congress
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'If You Can Keep It' asks where the needle is moving on the 'republic vs. authoritarianism' gauge | Colorado Public Radio
President Trump has made good on his campaign promise to exact retribution against his perceived enemies, which include members of Congress, prosecutors, universities and media outlets. "If You Can Ke...
www.cpr.org

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 7d
ICE just released new detention statistics.

As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 9d
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 9d
Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10d
"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science"

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Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · 11d
🚨New publication alert! 🚨

Our article “The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa” is now out in @thejop.bsky.social 🎉-- fantastic collaboration with Stephen Dawson, @carlmc.bsky.social & Aksel Sundström

Article: doi.org/10.1086/739777

Short summary thread below 👇
Article abstract reads: Nature protected areas are hailed as an institutional solution to the global biodi-versity crisis. However, conservation entails local economic costs for some com-munities and benefits for others. We propose that the establishment of protectedareas in Africa follows an ethno-political logic which implies that governmentsdistribute protected areas such that their ethnic constituencies are shielded fromtheir costs but enjoy their benefits. We test this argument using continent-widedata on ethnic groups’ power status and protected area establishment since inde-pendence. Difference-in-differences models show that political inclusion decreasesnature protection in groups’ settlement areas. However, this effect is reversed forprotected areas that plausibly generate tourism income. We also find that ethno-political inclusion is linked to legal degradation of protected areas. Our find-ings support long-voiced concerns by activists that politically marginalized groupscarry disproportional costs of conservation. This has implications, given the likelyexpansion of protected areas the decades to come.