Tom Scotto
@tjscotto.bsky.social
A political scientist and Head of the Department of Government and Public Policy at Strathclyde focused on public opinion and foreign policy and when he's not academicing, golf!
Our paper on motherhood penalties in UK academia; heavy lifting done by Riccardo Di Leo, Mariaelisa Epifanio, & Vera Troeger. Using a unique large survey w/ linked data, we show careers can slow w/ motherhood, even w/o pay gaps,& supportive policies, childcare, and leadership can make a difference.
The motherhood penalties: insights from women in UK academia
The motherhood penalty is often understood as a salary differential between mothers and non-mothers. We use an original survey of academic women in the UK to understand whether the motherhood penal...
www.tandfonline.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Our paper on motherhood penalties in UK academia; heavy lifting done by Riccardo Di Leo, Mariaelisa Epifanio, & Vera Troeger. Using a unique large survey w/ linked data, we show careers can slow w/ motherhood, even w/o pay gaps,& supportive policies, childcare, and leadership can make a difference.
An excellent paper by two excellent people!
Ever wondered why Germany, in 2001 only the seventh country in the world after the Nordic ones and Netherlands to have more than 30% of MPs female, has since completed stagnated and been overtaken by 50-odd countries?
In this newly published paper, @maarja.bsky.social and I try to explain that.
In this newly published paper, @maarja.bsky.social and I try to explain that.
The myth of compensatory effects: How party organisation shapes women's representation in dual-candidacy mixed electoral systems
Electoral systems are widely recognised as important institutional determinants explaining women's political representation. Mixed-member proportional…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
An excellent paper by two excellent people!
Reposted by Tom Scotto
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Reposted by Tom Scotto
Most people support academic freedom (in principle).
But once we move beyond principles, politics kicks in.
Our new research is featured in this piece in The Conversation.
theconversation.com/how-politica...
But once we move beyond principles, politics kicks in.
Our new research is featured in this piece in The Conversation.
theconversation.com/how-politica...
How political leanings affect views on academic freedom – new research
Right-leaning respondents were consistently more supportive of academic freedom.
theconversation.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Most people support academic freedom (in principle).
But once we move beyond principles, politics kicks in.
Our new research is featured in this piece in The Conversation.
theconversation.com/how-politica...
But once we move beyond principles, politics kicks in.
Our new research is featured in this piece in The Conversation.
theconversation.com/how-politica...
Reposted by Tom Scotto
Can Scotland still achieve net zero by 2045? ⏳ Find out CEP's verdict in our new Insight Brief:
📕 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.17868/str... 👈
We launched the brief last week at our panel discussion in The Scottish Parliament.
📕 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.17868/str... 👈
We launched the brief last week at our panel discussion in The Scottish Parliament.
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Can Scotland still achieve net zero by 2045? ⏳ Find out CEP's verdict in our new Insight Brief:
📕 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.17868/str... 👈
We launched the brief last week at our panel discussion in The Scottish Parliament.
📕 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.17868/str... 👈
We launched the brief last week at our panel discussion in The Scottish Parliament.
Reposted by Tom Scotto
Why those who ‘prefer not to say’ trust experts the least: faith, science, and silence - research from Professor Tom Scotto and colleagues blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglob...
@tjscotto.bsky.social
@tjscotto.bsky.social
Why those who ‘prefer not to say’ trust experts the least: faith, science, and silence - Religion and Global Society
Public debates about science often return to the question of trust. Do people still trust scientists? Do they still trust doctors? And how does faith, or the absence of it, shape that trust? Drawing o...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Why those who ‘prefer not to say’ trust experts the least: faith, science, and silence - research from Professor Tom Scotto and colleagues blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglob...
@tjscotto.bsky.social
@tjscotto.bsky.social
Our article on public trust in scientists and doctors in England, led by the most trustworthy @stevepickering.bsky.social is now out in Public Understanding of Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Trust in scientists and doctors: The roles of faith, politics, education and gender - Steven David Pickering, Martin Ejnar Hansen, Han Dorussen, Jason Reifler, Thomas J. Scotto, Yosuke Sunahara, Dorot...
This article examines trust in science in England, focusing on variation across demographic and ideological groups. Using survey data from 11,173 respondents, w...
journals.sagepub.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Our article on public trust in scientists and doctors in England, led by the most trustworthy @stevepickering.bsky.social is now out in Public Understanding of Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Tom Scotto
📢🎙️NEW Energy Conversations podcast!
- The Global Race for Critical Minerals -
⚡🔗Listen: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/c...
Dr Stephen Agyeman & Dr Aliya Tskhay
🔸How can we navigate these challenges?
🔸Can we learn from history?
🔸Why are critical minerals key to the transition?
- The Global Race for Critical Minerals -
⚡🔗Listen: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/c...
Dr Stephen Agyeman & Dr Aliya Tskhay
🔸How can we navigate these challenges?
🔸Can we learn from history?
🔸Why are critical minerals key to the transition?
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📢🎙️NEW Energy Conversations podcast!
- The Global Race for Critical Minerals -
⚡🔗Listen: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/c...
Dr Stephen Agyeman & Dr Aliya Tskhay
🔸How can we navigate these challenges?
🔸Can we learn from history?
🔸Why are critical minerals key to the transition?
- The Global Race for Critical Minerals -
⚡🔗Listen: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/c...
Dr Stephen Agyeman & Dr Aliya Tskhay
🔸How can we navigate these challenges?
🔸Can we learn from history?
🔸Why are critical minerals key to the transition?
Reposted by Tom Scotto
🎙️Event announcement!
Join us for Joe Greenwood-Hau's book launch: Captial, Privilege and Political Participation.
📅8 Oct 2025
📍UofG campus
Register for free: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/capital...
@niceonecombo.bsky.social @stefaniereher.bsky.social @tjscotto.bsky.social @cjcarman.bsky.social
Join us for Joe Greenwood-Hau's book launch: Captial, Privilege and Political Participation.
📅8 Oct 2025
📍UofG campus
Register for free: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/capital...
@niceonecombo.bsky.social @stefaniereher.bsky.social @tjscotto.bsky.social @cjcarman.bsky.social
CAPITAL, PRIVILEGE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION - John Smith Centre
The John Smith Centre invites you to join us for the launch of Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau’s new book, Capital, Privilege and Political Participation. The British Academy Monograph investigates how people’s…
www.johnsmithcentre.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🎙️Event announcement!
Join us for Joe Greenwood-Hau's book launch: Captial, Privilege and Political Participation.
📅8 Oct 2025
📍UofG campus
Register for free: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/capital...
@niceonecombo.bsky.social @stefaniereher.bsky.social @tjscotto.bsky.social @cjcarman.bsky.social
Join us for Joe Greenwood-Hau's book launch: Captial, Privilege and Political Participation.
📅8 Oct 2025
📍UofG campus
Register for free: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/capital...
@niceonecombo.bsky.social @stefaniereher.bsky.social @tjscotto.bsky.social @cjcarman.bsky.social
New in JEMS! 🚨 Led by Riku Kawakami & part of the TrustTracker.org project:
Who gets in? Immigration preferences in England & Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵
Finding: Labour demand matters as much as skills — even low-skill jobs in shortage areas get strong support.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Who gets in? Immigration preferences in England & Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵
Finding: Labour demand matters as much as skills — even low-skill jobs in shortage areas get strong support.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
TrustTracker.org
An international collaboration looking at trust across society
TrustTracker.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New in JEMS! 🚨 Led by Riku Kawakami & part of the TrustTracker.org project:
Who gets in? Immigration preferences in England & Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵
Finding: Labour demand matters as much as skills — even low-skill jobs in shortage areas get strong support.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Who gets in? Immigration preferences in England & Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵
Finding: Labour demand matters as much as skills — even low-skill jobs in shortage areas get strong support.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Pleased to be able to join this September 2nd panel @unistrathclyde.bsky.social discussing the social and political implications for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMNRs)--Come join the fun! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-talk-...
Let's Talk Nuclear Power
The social, political and economic dimensions of modern nuclear power
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Pleased to be able to join this September 2nd panel @unistrathclyde.bsky.social discussing the social and political implications for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMNRs)--Come join the fun! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-talk-...
But of course
Among the permanent changes wrought by the right-wing attack on higher ed will be... the creation of another, slightly different flavored, compliance bureaucracy headed by yet another assistant vice provost for enforcing campus climate micromanagement.
#AsFarce
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
#AsFarce
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Colleges Hire Title VI Coordinators Amid Federal Scrutiny
Experts say the wave in hiring of Title VI staff mirrors a similar surge in the early 2010s, when institutions changed how they respond to Title IX complaints.
www.insidehighered.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
But of course
As my mentor John Aldrich asked (& made a good try at answering), "Why Parties"? My commentary on Guernsey's recent election suggests they're needed there, given the electoral system: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@strathpolir.bsky.social @strathclydehass.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
@strathpolir.bsky.social @strathclydehass.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
Inside the election where everyone gets 38 votes
Is Guernsey's election process a model for other jurisdictions or a
www.bbc.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As my mentor John Aldrich asked (& made a good try at answering), "Why Parties"? My commentary on Guernsey's recent election suggests they're needed there, given the electoral system: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@strathpolir.bsky.social @strathclydehass.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
@strathpolir.bsky.social @strathclydehass.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
I am a bad person because I find this too funny.
June 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I am a bad person because I find this too funny.
Reposted by Tom Scotto
The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) is partnering once more with The Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics when it returns in August this year.
scga.scot/2025/06/24/e...
scga.scot/2025/06/24/e...
Peace in the Middle East?
The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) is partnering once more with The Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics when it returns in August this year for an event entitled Peace in the Middle ...
scga.scot
June 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) is partnering once more with The Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics when it returns in August this year.
scga.scot/2025/06/24/e...
scga.scot/2025/06/24/e...
Fantastic @strathpolir.bsky.social conference on digital democracy facilitated by our ever excellent Dr Gabriela Borz
June 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Fantastic @strathpolir.bsky.social conference on digital democracy facilitated by our ever excellent Dr Gabriela Borz
@strathpolir.bsky.social graduate's publication on voter id laws in the USA--well done!
June 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@strathpolir.bsky.social graduate's publication on voter id laws in the USA--well done!
Sometimes we political scientists get it right (so do broken clocks)
Professor Tom Scotto's article from The Week back in January... www.theweek.in/news/world/2...
A fragile coalition: Why Trump’s MAGA base may clash with Elon Musk and other billionaire backers
US President-elect Donald Trump faces the challenge of reconciling his promises to his base with the priorities of his influential supporters
www.theweek.in
June 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Sometimes we political scientists get it right (so do broken clocks)
Reposted by Tom Scotto
🎧 📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE - listen here👇
strath.ac.uk/humanities/c... 📢 🎧
Just Transitions - How can we prevent people and communities being left behind in the move to #netzero?
Our wonderful guests: Kirsten Jenkins and Hannah Corbett
strath.ac.uk/humanities/c... 📢 🎧
Just Transitions - How can we prevent people and communities being left behind in the move to #netzero?
Our wonderful guests: Kirsten Jenkins and Hannah Corbett
June 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🎧 📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE - listen here👇
strath.ac.uk/humanities/c... 📢 🎧
Just Transitions - How can we prevent people and communities being left behind in the move to #netzero?
Our wonderful guests: Kirsten Jenkins and Hannah Corbett
strath.ac.uk/humanities/c... 📢 🎧
Just Transitions - How can we prevent people and communities being left behind in the move to #netzero?
Our wonderful guests: Kirsten Jenkins and Hannah Corbett
🎧 📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE - listen here👇
strath.ac.uk/humanities/c... 📢 🎧
Just Transitions - How can we prevent people and communities being left behind in the move to #netzero?
Our wonderful guests: Kirsten Jenkins and Hannah Corbett
strath.ac.uk/humanities/c... 📢 🎧
Just Transitions - How can we prevent people and communities being left behind in the move to #netzero?
Our wonderful guests: Kirsten Jenkins and Hannah Corbett
June 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Tom Scotto
Our latest newsletter just launched! 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cep-ne...
including...
🎉 Scottish Parliament congratulates CEP on 10-year Anniversary
📝 Current opportunities at CEP
💻 New reports and upcoming webinars
including...
🎉 Scottish Parliament congratulates CEP on 10-year Anniversary
📝 Current opportunities at CEP
💻 New reports and upcoming webinars
June 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our latest newsletter just launched! 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cep-ne...
including...
🎉 Scottish Parliament congratulates CEP on 10-year Anniversary
📝 Current opportunities at CEP
💻 New reports and upcoming webinars
including...
🎉 Scottish Parliament congratulates CEP on 10-year Anniversary
📝 Current opportunities at CEP
💻 New reports and upcoming webinars
Another great pub by another great Strathclyde alum!
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Another great pub by another great Strathclyde alum!