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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz

@aleksks.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Political psych, genetics, implicit cognition, sleep and politics. Also, board games. aleksksiazkiewicz.com

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Nate Micatka @nmicatka.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Check out the thread below about my new article with @fatiherol.bsky.social and @aleksks.bsky.social in @ispp-pops.bsky.social ! We show that better sleep quality is associated with being more likely to vote, but that poor sleep quality leads to more engagement in non-electoral political acts.
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Fatih Erol @fatiherol.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: “Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation”: doi.org/10.1111/pops... With @nmicatka.bsky.social & @aleksks.bsky.social, we examined how sleep quality relates to voter turnout & non-electoral participation across multiple countries.🧵1/8
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
UIUC Political Science is HIRING! Political behavior, broadly defined at the assistant level. Comparative behavior/psych + REP especially encouraged. It's a great place to work on pol beh/psych and UIUC supports partner hires. Here is the ad with all the details: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor- Political Behavior- Department of Political Science
Duties & Responsibilities
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In this invited piece for PIBBS I argue that implicit bias education is not inherently worthless but often ineffective (counterproductive) in its current form. I offer recommendations to improve it by making it measurable, agentic, integrated, broad, & evidence-based (MAIBE): osf.io/preprints/ps...
Implicit (unintentional) biases related to social categories such as race, gender, and age are often seen as impediments to belonging and success in diverse organizations. Indeed, organizations around the world expend considerable effort and resources to implement educational programs with the stated goal of addressing — and even eradicating — such biases. However, in recent years, implicit bias education has come under scrutiny for several reasons, including via claims that implicit bias (a) is inherently unchangeable, (b) has no real-world analogs, (c) is unrelated to, and takes focus away from, biased behaviors, (d) provides an excuse for discrimination, and (e) is a structural problem and thus requires structural solutions. After refuting these critiques, I introduce the MAIBE checklist to help organizations decide if implicit bias education is worth their investment based on whether it (a) includes measurable benchmarks (rather than assuming success), (b) foregrounds epistemic agency (rather than treating individuals as passive consumers of information), (c) is integrated into a larger toolbox (rather than administered in isolation), (d) is broad (rather than light-touch), and (e) is evidence-based (rather than unscientific). I conclude by calling for extended collaboration between academic psychologists and organizational decision-makers to synergistically improve both basic science and institutional practices.
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Association for Politics and the Life Sciences @asnpls.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We are searching for a new editor/editorial team for Politics and the Life Sciences. Please share with anyone who may have interest!
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
As APLS Chair I’m happy to answer questions or chat about this! Please reach out if you’re interested, either here or mnbaker@utep.edu
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
There’s an art exhibit called Uncaged Art that had made its way around the country over the last 6 years that showcases art made by migrant children. They were kept in a makeshift caged detention center in Texas in 2018. Seems like the appropriate time to share this. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...
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In El Paso, 'Uncaged Art' spotlights detained kids' memories of home
“These are children imprisoned for weeks and months. They didn’t know their futures. ... But they still created beautiful art."
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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Since we’re apparently doing this again, let’s talk how Canada set an American steamship on fire and sent it over Niagara Falls, and how that created the legal precedent for when a nation can launch a “preemptive attack.” Thread!
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Paper in @pnas.org in which @d-melnikoff.bsky.social and I provide evidence for model-based effects on automatic evaluation. This was a super fun “adversarial” collaboration with 0 adversariality. It may have been nice to be right, but getting it right is nearly as nice: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Andrea Miller @andreamiller.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Skrmetti decision looks an awful lot like Geduldig v. Aiello (1974), which (obviously wrongly) said that pregnancy discrimination was not sex discrimination. In that case, Congress responded by immediately passing the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. We need policymakers to step up now.
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New paper in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Well, actually, not "new". We first put this paper online way back Dec 2022... in any case, we think it's really cool! We find that conspiracy believers tend to be overconfident & really don't seem to realize that most disagree with them
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This gets papered over as old man yelling at clouds but this is impeachable by itself. Greenland is our ally which has allowed a continual U.S. military presence since WWII, including a vital part of our missile defense and space surveillance. Threatening them is unacceptable.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Visionary, rigorous, and collegial." A bit obsequious, but interesting to see. Thanks for the idea! I also asked it for suggestions on how to write better (increase the sense of urgency, sharpen your call to action, weave in a few human-scale examples, etc.) that were actually pretty useful.
ChatGPT description of the writing voice for Sleeping Giant: A Research Agenda for Politics and Chronobiology. "In short, your writing voice feels visionary, rigorous, and collegial"
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Andrea Miller @andreamiller.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So proud of Ron and all of our EJP students! www.wbez.org/education/20...
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How one Illinois man is studying to be a lawyer – from inside a Minnesota prison
"A lot of the time, we are portrayed as people who are just beyond redemption," says Ronald Palm. "But the truth is that some of us just [weren’t] given the chance to excel."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s a tiny step from “We can revoke your visa/green card for speech we don’t like” to “We can revoke your naturalized citizenship for speech we don’t like,” & if you don’t think that’s coming, I ask you again why you think that & who is going to stop the clearly illegal & unconstitutional things?
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Masked plainclothes goons snatching someone who's committed no crime off the street? I'd say we're in the bad place, folks
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Canada is a "distraction" until it's really not.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS explaining why Americans have treated Trump's threats to Canada as a joke and why that's wrong. campaign-trails.ghost.io/blame-canada/
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Blame Canada
As I noted on Bluesky, many Americans – including me – have tended to treat Donald Trump's comments about annexing Canada as a joke. That attitude is a mistake on our part, but let me explain why we'v...
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Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is humiliating. This isn't a "disagreement." An unhinged wannabe imperialist wants to take over our closest ally and friend. There should be massive outrage over this and Republicans should be speaking loudly against it. But here one of this administration's "normal" appointees is defending it
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Court orders defied. I know some in media and the legal profession say it's not a Constitutional crisis unless the Supreme Court majority says "you absolutely must do this, there is no legal wiggle room" and the president says "I hereby officially defy that court order," but that bar is too high.
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Geoff Allen @gallen89.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is just blatant weaponization of executive power. It isn't even attempting to utilize any reasonable understanding of the law.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Strongly endorsed. I don't care what Khalil said. What matters most here is the state punished him, without charge or trial, for speech. They disappeared him like in the sort of authoritarian country America used to criticize. Anyone adjudicating the content of his speech is missing the point.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
👇🎯 The entire ballgame: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Avital Livny @avitallivny.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ugh, this is the worst. Opportunities lost that can not easily be regained. And REUs are specifically designed to identify & support the next generation of scientists coming from under-resourced environments, where they might otherwise be missed.
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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The ANES is a critically important resource for all of us; especially grad students, early career faculty, and those who can't fund opinion data collection. It's a benchmark. A learning tool. The evidentiary basis of countless studies. I owe so, so much to the ANES. We cannot lose it.
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Andrea Miller @andreamiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It feels like a lot of pressure to choose what to say in my very first post, but I think this is the most important thing I can offer this morning: www.propublica.org/article/misc...
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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Frank Gonzalez @frankjgonzo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In print 🙂. I think it’s crucial for political neuroscience to speak to poli sci lit and shed light on how politics works (rather than just the brain). That’s why I’m very proud of this one by myself and Ingrid! @jepsjournal.bsky.social was great, btw. Superb editorial process from start to finish.
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The neural mechanisms of race priming in American politics | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
The neural mechanisms of race priming in American politics - Volume 12 Issue 1
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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This kind of $4 billion cut would mean cuts research to understand how the public evaluates democracy, mapping the universe, developing news drugs to combat infectious disease all to support a company that has done little but blow up a lot of rockets.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We're hiring @uwpolisci.bsky.social & the La Follette School of Public Affairs)! I'm chairing the search committee. Please share with your networks #polisky #PSJMinfo
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Assistant Professor, Chinese Politics and Policy - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member with research and teaching interests in comparative politics, international relations, and/or a substanti...
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Know of a great media source that engages with political psych? We're still looking for nominees for the Markwell Media Award!
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Nominations open until Jan 15 for the Markwell Media Award from the International Society of Political Psychology. We want to recognize excellent institutions, journalists, or other media sources that engage with political psychology. Nominating statements can be emailed at the link below!
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚨In Science🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/ [X->BSky repost]
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Wrote (or read) a great book on mass politics published in 2024? Please (self-)nominate for the ISPP Sears Best Book award! The deadline is December 15. Details here: ispp.org/awards/sears/ We are looking forward to reading your work!
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David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award - ISPP
The David O. Sears Book Award is given for the best book published in the field of the political psychology of mass politics, including political behavior, political values, political identities, and ...
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David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Reposting a paper for new users #polisky Incumbent governments are getting waxed in part due to global economic trends. In @ajpseditor.bsky.social Sebastian Juhl, Laron Williams and I explain why and how electoral results are cross-nationally correlated. Free forever: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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The Economic Roots of Cross-National Similarity in Voter Preferences
We argue that economic and political integration lead voters' political preferences toward cross-national convergence. Analyzing data on voter pref...
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi all, the APSR is now also here: @apsrjournal.bsky.social (please, RT or whatever it's called here).
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Chris Karpowitz @profkarpo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@polbehavior.bsky.social is now here! Please spread the word.
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
Photo of Ahu Tongariki on Rapa Nui at sunrise. The row of moai statues is on a backdrop of sunrise colors on a cloudy morning.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Poland has been so much better on Russia and the Ukraine war than Germany, it's not even close. In general, it's been remarkable to see many Western European countries dither, while Eastern European countries that were occupied or menaced by the Soviet Union going "oh no, never again, no way."
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) how does sleep intersect with politics? 2) does person-first language humanize and could it help with polarization?
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you haven't checked out part 2 of the political psych starter pack for awhile, a variety of additional people have been added over the last weeks
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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.
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Angie Gutierrez @aegutierrez.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone! Happy to have found so many academics on BlueSky. I am sharing my first solo pub that came out last month in PRQ. In this paper, I examine the relationship between threat and Latino identity in CA during the 1990s. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Cutting NIH funding is not just an attack on science. It's an attack on *scientists.* As I discuss in my book, RFK Jr. speaks the same anti-intellectual language as Trump. He sees govt. sci. as "sock puppets." That's why he'd replace 600 experts w/political loyalists. www.npr.org/2024/11/12/n...
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With Trump coming into power, the NIH is in the crosshairs
The National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of biomedical research in the U.S., could face big changes under the new Trump administration, some fueled by pandemic-era criticisms of the agency.
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Aleks Ksiazkiewicz @aleksks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I’m feeling energized after attending the launch of the Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior, and Society yesterday. It’s exactly the kind of interdisciplinary space that we need to bring together life scientists, social scientists, and practitioners. kellnercenter.illinois.edu
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Home | The Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior, and SocietyBlock I logo
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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I feel like I have to say this exact thing every day right now.
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