Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This past Sunday I presented my paper "Public Resource Provision and the Objective Correlates of Place-Based Affective Polarization in Canada” at the Prairie Political Science Association in beautiful Banff, Alberta. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback! 010
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New working paper: does living somewhere with fewer public resources make people more politically divided against their neighbours? I build 3 new indices (resource provision, economic deprivation, cultural amenities) across Canada + survey data - and find yes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comPublic Resource Provision and the Objective Correlates of Place-Based Affective Polarization in CanadaThis paper examines the objective origins of place-based affective polarization-the emotional divide between rural and urban Canadians. Building on Katherine Cr 120
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Excited to share that last week I was interviewed on Global News' Vancouver CKNW 730 about my work with @semrasevi.bsky.social on Canadian youth voting patterns! Link: open.spotify.com/episode/6VXI...open.spotify.comHow do young Canadians and Conservative Politics mix?Mornings with Simi - The Morning Bite · Episode 000
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanuoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Are young Canadian voters shifting toward far-right parties? Not so much say @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @semrasevi.bsky.social and @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social, after an analysis of nine elections in the Canadian Election Study @ca.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/young-canadi...theconversation.comYoung Canadians aren’t drifting toward conservative and far-right partiesThe bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone. 083
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Excited to share that yesterday I was interviewed on Global News' Shaye Ganam show on Calgary 770AM and Edmonton 880CHED about my recent work with @semrasevi.bsky.social on Canadian youth voting patterns. Link here: open.spotify.com/episode/1g4s...open.spotify.comYoung Canadians aren't drifting toward Conservative and far-right partiesShaye Ganam · Episode 000
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Excited to share this new piece with @semrasevi.bsky.social in @ca.theconversation.com, the "young Canadians are drifting right" story doesn't hold up. The real shift? Conservative support among seniors just fell to a 25-year low. Youth support barely moved. theconversation.com/young-canadi...theconversation.comYoung Canadians aren’t drifting toward conservative and far-right partiesThe bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone. 010
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanThe Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 25/08/2026Young Canadians aren’t drifting toward conservative and far-right partiestheconversation.comYoung Canadians aren’t drifting toward conservative and far-right partiesThe bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone. 084
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Proud to have presented this co-authored piece with @semrasevi.bsky.social "Are Young Canadians Shifting to the Right? Evidence from the Canadian Election Study, 2015–2025" at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social in Ottawa today! Thank you to my great co-author and all who came to engage with our work! 052
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Proud to have presented a co-authored piece with @sborwein.bsky.social and Jack Lucas, "Party, Place, and Policy in the Urban-Rural Divide" at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social in Ottawa! Thank you to the amazing co-authors, the discussant, panellists, and everyone who came and engaged with our work. 021
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 13/04/2026#OpenAccess @jepsjournal.bsky.social - The Power of Place: Rural Descriptive Representation and Policy Support - cup.org/4c9cfpi - Lukas K. Alexander & Dihan Shi #FristView 073
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Thrilled to share that our new article is out in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social! Place Consciousness and Voting in Canada — with @sborwein.bsky.social & Jack Lucas We find that place consciousness shapes vote choice in nuanced ways across Canada's urban–rural cleavage. cup.org/4snKTk1 2115
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 13/04/2026#OpenAccess from @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social - Place Consciousness and Voting in Canada - cup.org/4snKTk1 - @sborwein.bsky.social, Jack Lucas & @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social #FirstView 053
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanSeva @seva.bsky.social · 17/01/2026driving my new Xiaomi across the border to smuggle exotic goods (vaccines) to benighted americans 5977
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanStefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 09/01/2026A headline to sum up our times: 862613831
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanAbby @arobertswrites.com · 26/12/2025You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question. 495009951
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 24/12/2025This is a really great piece worth reading as an economist. Very clarifying on different perspective of goals for humanistic disciplines. Also love the title, which i read as a reference to Breiman’s “Two Cultures” piece in 2001 about the fracture between stats and cs regarding Machine learning 3287
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Journal article: “the data are available on request” The data: 530664
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025This really is a must read for anyone in academia. 351897782
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanFrederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky 38524
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Rstudio wrapped bsky.app/profile/sal.... 77815
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I took a quick trip back to UBC. MA in Political Science officially complete. Grateful for the mentorship and excited to keep pursuing questions about place, immigration, and Canadian political behaviour. Thesis: dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0... 010
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects: -"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size" -"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...academic.oup.comAn Audit of Social Science Survey ExperimentsAbstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment 48336
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanStewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 29/11/2025This gets at the fundamentally flawed approach of the federal government: they are trying to find a policy solution to an identity problem. It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed. 1121078
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Black Friday is when the media whips people into a frenzy, then does stories where they scold these horrible frenzied people. 2877884
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanJoe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 27/11/2025Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 35223
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanSean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2025AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail 421297
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLean404 Media @404media.co · 17/11/2025We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”404media.coA Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely OnWe can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.” 8259123
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanMichael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A detailed report on the pilot experiment is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IEG6... The majority of our sample comes from marginalized backgrounds, where the cost of prepping, taking, and sending GRE scores would have the most impact in terms of time and cost. Here is a Likert scale result: 1193
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025AI usage accounted for less than 1% of online activity and “the most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were…Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy,” i.e., dark triad personality traits. Nice. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...liebertpub.comEvaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social NetworkingDespite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article ... 2349
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanSebastián Vallejo Vera @svallejovera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Just *published* our paper with @westernupolisci.bsky.social PhD student, Hunter Driggers, on LLM bias from party cues in annotation tasks. We extend a previous study showing annotation bias from human coders in the presence of party cues… LLM show similar bias 🧵: rdcu.be/eIKCjrdcu.beLLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language modelsHumanities and Social Sciences Communications - LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models 2158
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanThe Economist @economist.com · 16/09/2025The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO 1012865
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I’m very proud to share that last week I successfully defended my Master’s thesis, “The Material Origins of Place-Based Affective Polarization in Canada.” Its now available on the UBC library: open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c... 130
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanMatt Polacko @mattpolacko.bsky.social · 25/08/2025🚨New Publication🚨 Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships. Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social #polisky doi.org/10.1017/S000... 14825
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanPolitical Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025📺Do TV ads sway voters in presidential primaries? ➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView 062
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanEric Merkley @ericmerkley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgEvaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge CoreEvaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada 152
Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Proud to have presented our coauthored paper @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social on immigration rhetoric in party manifestos. Honoured to work with Salar Asadolahi, @mjdonnelly.bsky.social , @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Marc-Antoine Rancourt. This was truly a team effort! Thanks to everyone who came. 071
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Bravo, young man! www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...comicsands.comAutistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken'Beautifully stated, young man! 767346208378
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanWill Wheeler @willwheels1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Me trying to keep up with the DiD literature. 1726
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Some expected. Some surprises. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...newsweek.comDonald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural AmericansRural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump's base, and any slippage in their support could have major implications for future Republican success. 1421221594403
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/04/2025They are obviously slow learners 35014899310733
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanTimea Balogh @tbalogh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A short thread 🧵 1/ntandfonline.comDoes political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen... 1207
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025One of these things is not like the other. 457177315305
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanAlina Zumbrunn @alinazumbrunn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Can rural and urban #consciousness be measured in #Europe? New publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social from our project on the Rural-Urban Divide in Europe #RUDE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMeasuring rural and urban consciousness in EuropeA rural consciousness, encompassing a rural identity and resentments directed at urban areas and the political elite, has emerged as a key explanation… 0187
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanJournal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745 0102
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanAmerican Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aaronerlich.bsky.social @jgansmorse.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/01/15/c... 0124
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/01/2025Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on Tuesday in a year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary.nytimes.comChief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and JudiciaryIn his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings. 24722552
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/12/2024And there it is: Assad in Moscow. Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych www.cnn.com/world/live-n...cnn.comAssad flees to Moscow as Syria rebels capture Damascus | CNNThe long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus on Sunday. Follow the latest live news updates here. 40473571496
Reposted by Bradley Wood-MacLeanMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/12/2024This quote 426240274296