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Efrén Pérez

@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social
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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. I play accordion 🪗 Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...
Graph showing the number of NSF grants over 7 years—moving to zero in 2026.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes this is stupid but it’s also a corrupt transfer of taxpayer money to a political ally www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/fbi...
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FBI Is Angling to Hand the UFC a No-Bid Contract to Train Agents
The contract would expand an existing partnership between the Trump administration and the UFC.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We all have a secret weapon in our respective careers. I inherited mine from my parents and extended family.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We all have a secret weapon in our respective careers. I inherited mine from my parents and extended family.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.
Trump admin wants to televise an execution
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Geneva @genevavalerie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@ilhanmn.bsky.social cosponsored a bill, the Make ICE Pay Act, that looks a lot like transitional justice for communities affected by named ICE operations. Read about it in my latest for @goodauth.bsky.social 👇🏻 goodauthority.org/news/the-mak...
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The Make Ice Pay Act, explained
A new bill seeks to shift federal funds to communities affected by ICE operations. Understand the Make ICE Pay Act and its connection to transitional justice and reparations.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The victory over Reconstruction was not confined to one state. By the last decade of the 19th century it was complete. The violence was targeted, and the terrorists won. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Volume 83 Issue 2
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maybe hegseth watched ICE agents carry out public executions all year and thought people have become numb to it.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Starting next Monday, this gem in the Elements series I edit will be FREE to download. Highly relevant and timely scholarship from 2 major voices in Latino Politics 🇵🇪 /🇲🇽 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Walls, Cages, and Family Separation
Cambridge Core - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Walls, Cages, and Family Separation
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Starting next Monday, this gem in the Elements series I edit will be FREE to download. Highly relevant and timely scholarship from 2 major voices in Latino Politics 🇵🇪 /🇲🇽 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Walls, Cages, and Family Separation
Cambridge Core - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Walls, Cages, and Family Separation
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An absolute mockery of due process that tramples over the rights of immigrant & refugee children.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Flavio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨📢 WE’RE HIRING! Junior Research Assistant for PPBS at Utrecht University 🗳️🔬 💅 R + Quarto + reproducible survey pipelines ✨ Post-Master’s experience desirable, not required 📍 20–24 h/week | 2.5–3.5 months (pay step dependent) 📅 Apply by Sun 11 Oct 👉 lnkd.in/e7FZGFaK 🌐 ppbs.science
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Folks should check out this (open access) article from Dr Solís providing great context for Latino Republican partisanship. Folks offer nuanced links between their panethnic attachments and partisanship, among other themes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PrejudiceResearch Help me out with stereotype threat I feel that some of field has moved on, saying it's not real But multiple meta-analyses show effects. & there's failed replications but not that many? What's the state of our literature on #StereotypeThreat?
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Teri Kirby @teriak.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🧵1/4 New paper alert! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
😊 Thank you 🙏🏽
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m proud of all my PhD students in poli and psych. Yesterday, Rodolfo Solís completed his PhD 😎 He weathered the pandemic & an anti-Latino climate to produce one of the best dissertations I’ve supervised. Watch out for more of his timely work on Latino Republicans 🇲🇽 @solisrodolfo.bsky.social
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m proud of all my PhD students in poli and psych. Yesterday, Rodolfo Solís completed his PhD 😎 He weathered the pandemic & an anti-Latino climate to produce one of the best dissertations I’ve supervised. Watch out for more of his timely work on Latino Republicans 🇲🇽 @solisrodolfo.bsky.social
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Yoshiko Herrera @yoshikoherrera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Are you applying to #MPSA and working on countries from East European to Central Asian? Please note that thanks to the efforts spearheaded by Olena Nikolayenko we've successfully renamed section 29 from "(Post) Communist Countries" to "Politics of Eastern Europe and Central Asia"
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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Job Alert ‼️ The Department of Political Science at CSU, Northridge is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in American politics w/ a primary expertise in American political institutions. Preference will be given to those with a secondary expertise in public policy and racial/ethnic politics.
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Career Opportunities
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great job in a great department with great colleagues!
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an important read and us not all bad news though still grim.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Migrating to a new place for work is hard — but it can also be fun 🇲🇽
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Arica Schuett @aricaschuett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Today is the date of my first solo publication. 🚨 You'd expect seasoned organizers to be the quickest to turn broad public support into electoral engagement. But in 2020, it was newer organizers who pushed their supporters toward electoral politics.
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Migrating to a new place for work is hard — but it can also be fun 🇲🇽
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How I felt at the end of each semester during grad school…
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How I felt at the end of each semester during grad school…
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Them: “You’re a professor? Wow, you must have some refined musical tastes?” My musical taste as a Mexican intellectual 🇲🇽:
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Them: “You’re a professor? Wow, you must have some refined musical tastes?” My musical taste as a Mexican intellectual 🇲🇽:
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices
But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Rogue AI waiting for me to leave my house so it can murder me
a plush version of Nintendo's iconic character Kirby stands menacingly outside a glass door while propping up a large kitchen knife
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
<all together now>
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“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder: updated covid and flu shots are now available and waiting for you. I just got mine. I know that messaging from DC has been confusing. Here is what the experts say: www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggest the vaccines for most people, including healthy adults ages 18 to 64 and healthy children ages 2 to 18, if their parents want them to get one.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👇🎯 Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics
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Dennis Green: They Are Who We Thought They Were
ALT: Dennis Green: They Are Who We Thought They Were
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Interesting hypotheticals here from a recent YouGov survey in @dhmontgomery.com's Surveyor newsletter. The 10 point "not sure" range for the DSA/MAGA split is I think important to keep in mind alongside the actual choice splits. yougovamerica.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My review essay on solidarity between people of color was accepted for publication today at Advances in Political Psychology "Solidarity between U.S. People of Color: Synthesizing Evidence, Highlighting Challenges, and Proposing Actionable Solutions" Pre-print here: eoperez.com/curriculum-v...
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CV & New Projects
You can download below a copy of my most recent CV: Download Here is a brief selection of recent research papers I have worked on. About one third of the scholarship I produce through the REPS Lab …
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My review essay on solidarity between people of color was accepted for publication today at Advances in Political Psychology "Solidarity between U.S. People of Color: Synthesizing Evidence, Highlighting Challenges, and Proposing Actionable Solutions" Pre-print here: eoperez.com/curriculum-v...
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CV & New Projects
You can download below a copy of my most recent CV: Download Here is a brief selection of recent research papers I have worked on. About one third of the scholarship I produce through the REPS Lab …
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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Had the pleasure of covering this amazing book by @anthonyocampo.bsky.social in my graduate intro to inequality course. Definitely recommend!
The Latinos of Asia, by Anthony Ocampo
 A yellow background with a yin/yang
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#AcademicSky Prof X does fast & sexy "newsworthy" research. Racks up citations. Others later criticize his work. Racks up more citations. Others then cannot replicate his work. Racks up even more citations. Prof X now heralded as superstar given that lovely h-index!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Converse (1964)
Philiip Converse, author of "The nature of belief systems in mass publics" (1964), with laser eyes
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🤣🤣👍🏽
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