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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👀 Interestingly, the dislike is much bigger when we use citizens’ own perceptions of inconsistency rather than the expert measure. In other words, citizens dislike ideological inconsistency - when they perceive it.

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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Attention on this important @haaretzcom.bsky.social story is focused on the warnings Netanyahu ignored before the Hamas Oct. 7 attack. But equally chilling is his government's neglect of the hostages after the attack despite proposals to free them from day 1

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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs

In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Extensive English-language bias influences who we talk to and with, even when talking about them

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

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Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Brayden @braydecker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I recently took 2024 CES data and mapped out clusters of the American electorate that may form parties if reform were to happen. You can find the simulation here where you can map out different scenarios in the House and see profiles of the different parties: usmultipartysystem.pages.dev?tab=house

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If America Had Ten Parties

An interactive simulation of US elections under proportional representation, built from 45,707 CES 2024 survey responses.

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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

MPSA papers submitted! I will be presenting work with @hmridge.bsky.social on the conditional effect of ascriptive identities on tolerance for democratic transgressions next Saturday. We are very grateful to the @prl.bsky.social for including our experiments in their survey in Germany and Israel!

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is similar to what we find in our recent study on which countries people want their government to learn from. China ranks in the middle but still comes out ahead of the United States, pointing to shifting perceptions of the two powers.

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Margherita Cusmano @margheritacusmano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🚨 New Open Access publication In my new paper in Social Justice Research, I explore how migration experiences—and crucially, when migration happens—shape attitudes toward distributive justice. 📖 Read the full (open access) paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Zach Dickson @zachdickson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/03/2026

What does Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu hope to gain by starting a war on Iran? Here are five possibilities. 🔗: aje.news/6v109d | #Infographic

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The population of people who know that there is such a thing as the Strait of Hormuz, know that Iran is blocking it, but don''t know *why* is within epsilon of zero.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Same reason you don't have massive protests in Egypt or Iran any more.

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Does anyone else have students asking about the draft?

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Interesting AmericasBarometer result from @johnsides.bsky.social in this week's @goodauth.bsky.social newsletter. Strong public willingness to trade features of democracy (free elections, free expression) for material and physical security, with some party differences. mailchi.mp/goodauthorit...

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

What do you do if you suspect a reviewer used AI to do the review? (hallucinated citation, inverted conclusions)

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Excited to see Contours of Israeli Politics (@templeunivpress.bsky.social) included in the Middle East Institute book list this year! 🧿 t.co/6DT1MFcSU6

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https://mei.edu/blog/10-books-expand-your-knowledge-middle-east-2025-edition

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

New Publication Alert! Check "Holidays, Religiosity, and Democratic Attitudes" by @hmridge.bsky.social doi.org/10.1163/1876...

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Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences @wilkinsoncollege.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ChapmanU Professor Hannah Ridge (Political Science) published a journal article, "Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel," using European Social Survey data in Politics and Religion. @hmridge.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

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Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel | Politics and Religion | Cambridge Core

Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

📓 New paper examining the effect of religious cues on (non)democratic attitudes. Jewish Israelis who answer questions on the Sabbath expressed more openness to non-democratic governance The effect was strongest among the 'secular' respondents (@ESS_Survey @ElectionStudyIL) doi.org/10.1163/1876...

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

📘Excited to see this at the Temple University Press table at #APSA2025

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Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Tried to explain this to a senior colleague recently, who suggested I was overreacting - thanks to @abuaardvark.bsky.social for saying it more clearly and eloquently

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The trick to getting a PhD is to be the first person ever to find fascination in a deeply, insanely boring thing.

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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"The WHO said that both its staff residence & its main warehouse in Deir al-Balah had been attacked by Israeli forces, with soldiers detaining two staff & two of their family members before releasing three of them...which it said was “part of a pattern of systematic destruction of health facilities"

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WHO says Israel attacked its Gaza premises

UN agency warns war is pushing health system towards collapse as local officials report raft of deaths from starvation

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

“But they didn’t do that. They lied. Repeatedly. They claimed that they didn’t see evidence of systemic abuses. They resorted to strange formulations such as “too many Palestinians have been killed,” as if there was some acceptable number that had been exceeded.” Excellent by @mattduss.bsky.social

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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Feeling really grateful and thankful to the Polarization Research Lab at Stanford for agreeing to fund my study with Hannah Ridge on democratic backsliding! More details to come soon.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Asymmetric Polarization: The Perception that Republicans Pose Harm to Disadvantaged Groups Drives Democrats' Greater Dislike of Republicans in Social Contexts eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

When a journal reviewer says political science articles should not talk about politics, what should you talk about? Comparativesky MenaSky

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Medical journals like the Lancet have been publishing articles a/b the Gaza Ministry of Health numbers’ reliability since fall 23. Given scale of destruction & recording methods, they were always undercounts. Outside numbers underestimate civilian death b/c they treat all adult men as combatants.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“Massive #s of students are going to emerge... who are essentially illiterate. Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate + having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” This isn't the only reason AI is bad, but it's why it is bad for students.

It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”

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Thalia Gerzso @thaliagerzso.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Excellent new paper on the psychological trait of authoritarianism on political attitudes and voting 🚨

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Every day the question, “If he was intentionally trying to kill people and destroy the economy, what would he being doing differently?” goes unanswered.

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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

An important takeaway from our research is that people are more likely to discount (or downplay) extreme messages (such as: we are going to install a dictatorship) when the party is normalized. Let's not normalize radical parties; stigmatization works.

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Brendan S. Maher @brendansmaher.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

King: listen, if I have to, you know, *prove* stuff against each person I want to deprive of liberty, then I won’t be able to deprive as many people of liberty! American Founders: Exactly. And, just to be clear, we’re going to write this part down.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Websites tracking the student visa revocations and ICE abductions on college campuses www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

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Campus Abductions — We Are Higher Ed

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Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“The tariffs, like the shuttering of USAID before it, are going to disproportionately hurt not only American allies — but precisely the sectors and companies (like Tunisian olive oil) which American development aid has spent years supporting and promoting” writes @abuaardvark.bsky.social

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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion @jssreligion.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Muslim ≠ Arab and vice versa...but for many, ethnicity and religion become conjoined in what's termed "ethnodoxy." Do people who share this view more strongly have different attitudes about immigration? @hmridge.bsky.social explains her findings in this video: youtu.be/Sz6417k0nGE?...

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When ethnic group becomes religious orthodoxy

YouTube video by JSSR—Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Many “savvy” folks argue protests can’t work. Evidence suggests otherwise. “Muslim ban set off a fury of protests across US, garnering tremendous media attention and discussion… Portraying ‘Ban’ at odds with inclusive elements of American identity prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes…”

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A Change of Heart? Why Individual-Level Public Opinion Shifted Against Trump’s “Muslim Ban” - Political Behavior

Public opinion research suggests that rapid and significant individual-level fluctuations in opinions toward various policies is fairly unexpected absent methodological artifacts. While this may gener...

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Adria Lawrence @aklawrence.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

There goes the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) program. Because why would it be important for students to learn critical languages and gain experiences and understanding of other countries? 😭

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Using ESS survey data, this study shows that people (*even "secular" people*) have different opinions on issues like women's rights and immigration during holidays t.co/KiyVSIR4mQ

Graph of predicted support for allowing gay couples to adopt based on religiosity and taking surveys on the Sabbath or not

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

To say that past year was a watershed moment in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an understatement.

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Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

U.S. states with higher state capacity had better Covid-19 outcomes PolDataSky behavioursky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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