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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're hiring four (4!!) TT positions in political science at Univ. Arkansas this year. I've been an AP here for just over a year and have absolutely loved it. Great students, collegial department, and a beautiful part of the country. I'm on the committee for CP/IR position (MENA). Happy to chat!

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The only research center in the United States focused on disabled parents may close soon due to loss of federal funding. New from me at @motherjones.com. “It is a profound setback for disability rights and family equity.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The only research center for disabled parents is losing federal funding

Staff call it a "profound setback for disability rights and family equity."

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

As Hitchens said “the greatly overpraised Oliver Wendell Holmes…”

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 24/03/2026

"If people with disabilities are not in public life, then they are out of the public’s mind and not seen as a group of people whose needs must be addressed but a problem that must be hidden." @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on Newsom's & Trump's dyslexia fumbles: www.ms.now/opinion/gavi... #neurodiversity

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Opinion | Trump is wrong to call learning disabilities disqualifying. Newsom is wrong to call them 'strengths.'

Eric Garcia: Neither Trump nor Newsom talks about dyslexia with the care and nuance the topic deserves

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Felt compelled to post this great review on IPV - a devastating and important topic that gets surprisingly little attention given how prevalent it is, even in advanced democracies. A lot of low-hanging fruit for empirical researchers.

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Understanding Intimate Partner Violence

Violence against women occurs at high rates in societies across the world. The most common form is intimate partner violence, abuse perpetrated against a spouse or intimate relationship partner. We pr...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified. So they ran an experiment.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

Men under 30 are far more likely today than in 2022 to view legal sports betting as bad for society % who say the fact that betting on sports is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, among ....
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Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 8-Aug. 3, 2025.
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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Love this. Why do people identify strongly with stigmatized social groups/categories? Identification is more about making sense of the self (meaning) than it is about feeling "good" about the self (esteem)

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

RIP D'Angelo. Will be spinning this today in memory of one of the all time greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLP...

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D'Angelo - Africa (Demo)

YouTube video by Music For Listening

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Apropos of nothing, family control studies of more than 2 million Swedish children find no effect of prenatal acetaminophen exposure on subsequent autism diagnosis. Authors conclude prior observational findings likely due to confounding. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 10/09/2025

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the
power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the
discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow-
ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the
consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with
some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey
political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the
statistical power of political science research.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This simply cannot be said enough. Americans overwhelmingly reject political violence. The impact of these events - no matter the target - is terrible, but the shooter is not *representative* of anyone.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Moved to Arkansas so I figured I’d better get a hard copy of this banger.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you: (all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

Screen capture of the first bage of an article in American Political Science Review, reading as follows:
Title: "They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business": Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen
Ann K. Heffernan, University of Michigan, United States

Contributing to a growing interest in disability in political science, this article makes the case for the central role of disability in upholding the belief in work as requisite for full citizenship. Turning to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how disability and the figure of the disabled worker were used to fortify emergent understandings of work against the changes wrought by industrial capitalism. Focusing on three sites of disabled labor—the school-based workshop, custodial institution, and industrial factory—it reveals the crucial ideological work performed by disability in sustaining the myth of the independent worker-citizen. Where existing scholarship has focused on disability either as an identity category or as a target of rights and policy, this article models an alternative approach, arguing for the relevance of disability as a concept that is integral to, and productive of, the ways we understand citizenship and political belonging.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🚨Recent paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social on how people (fail to) respond to the vulnerability of marginalized groups during public health crises, now open access at JEPS.

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Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

For the first time all devolved national elections in the UK will use different electoral systems Cool site below by @eoghanly.bsky.social allows you to see how they all work turning votes into seats 👇

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If you make open science a precondition for publication you get open science. Love to see it.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This paper is an absolute masterclass in measurement. Love seeing this kind of work in the APSR.

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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I was sent a paper to review that cites a book I did not write. As in, it cites a made up book with my name on it. Quick look in the references, and I quickly found several more non-existent papers. People. People. This is supposed to be science. What are we doing? This made my soul feel tired.

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Brian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

clear evidence in the CES that ideology is beginning to overcome Dem party loyalty among black and hispanic voters: 2016 to 2024 swing in Dem support: conservative black voters: 80% -> 51% moderate hispanic voters: 79% -> 60% conservative hispanic voters: 30% -> 9%

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2Z... What a fool believes might be the funkiest song ever written by a white guy.

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The Doobie Brothers "What a Fool Believes" '81 Live

YouTube video by strongyamato

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @uarkansas.bsky.social as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues in political science and the Blair Center in beautiful Fayetteville!

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Great paper. Seems strange to me that we do not seem to see much use of GP measures in political science given that the measures are readily available in the ANES, or any other study with relevant feeling thermometers.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Glad to hop on this bandwagon. How often in 2024 did I actually improve an empty page?

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Does disability affect support for political parties?" Just published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with Melanie Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 👇

The abstract of the publication, which reads:

While it is well-established that disability reduces the probability of electoral turnout, far less is known about the relationship between disability and support for particular political parties. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from Understanding Society we explore the relationship between disability and party support in England and Wales along left-right and protest dimensions. Consistent with our hypotheses, analysis of cross-sectional data suggests that, after accounting for demographic characteristics, disabled people are significantly less likely to support parties to the right and more likely to support protest parties. In contrast, however, after accounting for time invariant individual unobserved heterogeneity using panel data methods, we find no evidence of a relationship between disability and left-right party support, and far less evidence of a relationship with protest parties. We discuss and attempt to reconcile these findings.

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Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com · 06/11/2024

The social sciences as we know them largely emerged out of the attempt to understand how populations supported fascism in the 1930s. But although we are much better at observing the same forces this time, we never had nor built the infrastructure to really change the underlying factors.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Delighted to learn that my paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social is out today at JEPS! Throughout the COVID19 pandemic, governments sought to increase compliance by emphasizing the vulnerability of minority groups to severe illness/death...1/n🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Vulnerability Appeals in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from a National Survey Experiment | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core

Vulnerability Appeals in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from a National Survey Experiment

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

In preparing for the job market I recently wrote a draft syllabus for a proposed course on the Politics of Disability. Sharing it here in case its of interest to others - would love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hope it helps! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/srq5e...

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Love this. Reading death penalty abolitionists was my #1 gateway drug into the broader study of politics. I took a course at Cornell law school taught by the great capital defense lawyer, John Blume, who radicalized me. Beccaria is still my fav: oll.libertyfund.org/titles/volta...

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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments | Online Library of Liberty

An extremely influential Enlightenment treatise on legal reform in which Beccaria advocates the ending of torture and the death penalty. The book also contains a lengthy commentary by Voltaire which i...

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I'm on the job market this Fall! I work on public opinion and political psychology in the United States. I study how political processes - policy feedback, exposure to protest action, and experiences of discrimination - shape political cohesion in social minority groups. joshuathorp.github.io

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Joshua R. Thorp

PhD Candidate in political science at the University of Michigan

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Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

New paper (🎉) on disability and welfare attitudes with @joshuathorp.bsky.social now online at Political Psychology. We use survey experiments to better understand support for government assistance for disabled people, and uncover evidence of substantial conditionality. 🔗 below! polisky polipsy

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Responsibility for impairment shapes the perceived deservingness of welfare claimants with disabilities

When do people support government assistance for people with disabilities? Disability welfare programs account for large shares of national welfare budgets, but little is known about public attitudes....

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Delighted to learn that my paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social on disability and welfare attitudes in the UK is forthcoming at Political Psychology! This is my first publication and I'm thrilled its found such a great home. Preprint: osf.io/mtb4n/ polisky behaviorsky

A quote from an email notifying the author that their article has been accepted at the journal Political Psychology

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

I’ll be thrilled if Taylor saves American democracy but my swiftie fiancé will never let me hear the end of it.

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Polisky folks who work on parasocial contact. What counts as contact? Does reading about an individual who is framed as an exemplar of a group count as parasocial contact? What if it's a fictitious individual? Control over the manipulation seems dubious here. behaviorsky

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Super excited to talk about the political psychology of disability at JAWS today! 3pm EST. Register below! Polisky behaviorsky

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Josh Thorp @joshuathorp.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Hi Polisky friends - I'm on the job market! I am a PhD candidate in American politics at the University of Michigan, working on political psych/behavior in minority groups. My dissertation focuses on disability as a dimension of political identity and cohesion. joshthorp.com PSJMinfo behavioursky

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Joshua R. Thorp

PhD Candidate in American Politics, University of Michigan

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Stefanie Reher @stefaniereher.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Doing empirical research on disability + politics? Moritz Raykowski and I are putting together a panel for APSA Virtual on 8-9 Feb 24 connect.apsanet.org/virtual-rese.... If you'd like to be part of it send your title + abstract to stefanie.reher@strath.ac.uk by Oct 12th. polisky behavioursky

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APSA Virtual Research Meeting

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Monica C. Schneider @poliscimonica.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I’m looking to put together at least one panel on disability research for @MPSAnet . If you are interested, please contact me before 10/4! Polisky

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Christoph Nguyen @cgnguyen.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Introducing the Political Psychology Feed for people doing work in that area. Tags (for now) are polipsy, polipsysky, polpsy, and polpsysky. Let me know if you want to be added. Also thanks to @profmusgrave.bsky.social for the very guide. Polisky Link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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