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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exciting news: CREST Sociology is delighted to welcome two new colleagues: Juliette Saetre and Marshall Taylor! Check out their websites to learn more about their work: www.juliettesaetre.com and marshallataylor.com Welcome, Juliette and Marshall! 🎉

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Our team (Delia Baldassarri, Chris Barrie, and me) is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate at NYU! Join our project on social cohesion using neighborhood-based social media data, LLMs, and agent-based modeling. Starting Sept. 2026. Review begins Aug. 1. apply.interfolio.com/189355

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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hier, alors que la France subissait sa journée la plus chaude jamais enregistrée, TotalEnergies a signé son entrée dans une gigantesque concession d'hydrocarbures aux Émirats arabes unis. Le pays crève de chaud et une des plus grosses firmes françaises souffle sur les braises du chaos climatique.

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Congratulations to @juliettes.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Linz Rokkan Prize for the best EUI doctoral thesis in political sociology! "Turning the Tide: Mobility and the Upstream Diffusion of Political Attitudes and Behaviors." 👉🏻 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

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Juliette Saetre wins 2026 Linz Rokkan Prize

Juliette Saetre has won the 2026 Linz Rokkan Prize for her doctoral thesis on the transnational journey of political ideas She received the award at the EUI C

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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congratulations to all new @eui-eu.bsky.social PhD graduates! Here the @eui-sps.bsky.social proudly showing their awards! @clic.bsky.social

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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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James Dennison @jamesrdennison.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New evidence estimates that the Israeli military directly killed 75200 Gazans between Oct '23 and Jan '25. 22800 children were killed. Children, women, and the elderly were 56% of the killed. Non-violent deaths were also far higher than pre-"war". www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey

This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

On en est là. Les glaciers des Alpes devraient atteindre leur pic d'extinction dans seulement huit ans, selon une récente étude scientifique. Plus d'une centaine d'entre eux devrait disparaître définitivement d'ici 2033. Voilà. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage

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Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) @tse-fr.eu · 19/11/2025

Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝 We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences. Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

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The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study

Body weight in adolescence and adulthood may result from the interplay between individuals’ genetic characteristics and the social context in which th…

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Do streaming platforms trap us in cultural filter bubbles? We like to think so but the evidence says otherwise. In a new paper @abelaussant.bsky.social and I find the use of streaming platform to be associated with an increase in consumption diversity. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Screenshot of the title and abstract of the article. the title is
Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity. The abstract reads: Do digital technologies affect diversity in cultural tastes? Digital sociologists have warned of “filter bubbles,” whereas sociologists of culture have shown that diversity in consumption is valued as a marker of upper-middle-class status. We estimate the effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption using a matching technique applied to 2018 survey data from France. We find a statistically significant positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows. The magnitude of this effect is much higher for TV shows. The study brings new evidence against the filter bubble thesis; it shows that platforms do reinforce cultural inequalities by increasing the social gap in consumption diversity. It further suggests that the effect of technology on cultural consumption might mainly operate through its impact on cultural markets rather than changes in cultural experience.

Main figure of the article. Difference in number of genres consumed, liked, and disliked between streaming users and non-users. Streaming users consume more genres than non-users after controlling for confounders. The difference is small for music (0.1 sd), moderate for movies (0.2 sd), and high for TV shows (0.46 sd). However, differences
in number of genres liked or disliked are small or not significant. SMD before (light) and after (dark)
adjustment through matching, with error bars indicating 95 percent confidence interva

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2025...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance

This paper investigates the role of mass media in shaping racial tolerance and advancing civil rights in the post-WWII United States. We study the first attempt in the history of mass media to use a radio broadcast targeted at children to promote an inclusive American society. In 1946, amid persistent racial divisions, the popular radio series The Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination, and exposing the KKK's bigotry. Using digitized historical data on U.S. radio stations and state-of-the-art radio propagation models, we compute geographic exposure to the broadcasts. Exploiting exogenous exposure to the broadcasts, we employ a cohort study design to analyze individual-level data from 1964 to 1980a crucial period for civil rights activism and legislation in the United States. We find lasting impacts on those exposed as children, including increased support for civil rights, improved interraci

Figure 1 reveals that the proportion of words related to intolerance increased by 3.2 times in the 12 months following the start of Operation Intolerance, compared to the pre-intervention period.

Panel A of Figure 5 plots the average of the index for different cohorts. We first observe that younger cohorts in 1946 are more supportive of civil rights compared to those born before 1946. This is in line with American society becoming more progressive over time. We find a difference of 0.29 standard deviations between the respondents in the age cohort -10 (i.e., those born in the years 1954–1958) and those in the age cohort 50

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INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis) @insna.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Student Paper winner, Juliette Saetre!

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l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 11/06/2025

Contrairement aux affirmations du ministre des Armées, la France livre « un flux ininterrompu » d'armes à Israël. Dans un rapport, rendu public ce 10 juin, une dizaine d’ONG dénoncent ces livraisons d’armes. Que contient ce rapport ? On fait le point. ➡️ l.humanite.fr/8c2

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Paloma Moritz @palomamoritz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Mon collègue Yanis Mhamdi a été arrêté par l’armée israélienne alors qu’il était à bord de la mission humanitaire @freedomflotilla.bsky.social. Cette arrestation est illégale. Nous demandons sa libération et la restitution de son matériel de tournage. Le droit à l’information doit être respecté.

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science! 📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) 📅 Apply by June 3 🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌍🪧 In her first PhD paper, @juliettes.bsky.social reveals how historical emigration patterns create latent global infrastructures for diffusion. Now published in the American Journal of Sociology! 🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 09/05/2025

Fun read for sociologists: Apparently Granovetter's "The Strength of Weak Ties," the most cited paper in sociology, was initially rejected from the American Sociological Review. The reviews are a wild slice of disciplinary history. If you're ever dealing w nasty reviews, this could be reassuring...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

How do local protests become global? A new AJS article by @juliettes.bsky.social shows how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent network infrastructures that enable movements to spread across borders. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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How Protests Spread: Diasporas, Wide Bridges, and the Transnational Diffusion of Un Violador en tu Camino | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut

The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Interesting. Study finds that people make errors when estimating politically-relevant percentages (eg about minority racial and ethnic group size), but this is due to the format of the question not underlying misinformation about what they are estimating.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

New study looks at protests against far right in 2002 French elections. Finds “larger protests reduced number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing number of votes for the incumbent president, Chirac.” Also finds “effect worked through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf

Media, Spillovers, and Social Norms: The Electoral
Impact of Anti-Far Right Protests in the 2002
French Election*
Short title: Anti-Far Right Protests
By Nicolas Lagios†, Pierre-Guillaume Méon‡, Ilan Tojerow§
We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie
Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never host protests, we find that larger protests reduced the number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing the number of votes for the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac.
We find that the effect spread out beyond the municipalities that hosted protests and worked through media exposure. Using survey data, we show that protests reduced support for the policies advocated by Le Pen. Moreover, the positive effect on voting for Chirac resulted from right-wing voters switching from Le Pen to Chirac and left-wing voters not casting a blank ballot, implying that some voters voted expressively. Finally, we show that protests reduced the
social desirability of voting for Le Pen.

The figure reports the location and the size of the protests held on May 1, 2002, against Jean-Marie Le Pen. The figure shows a map of France with scattered dots across the country that vary in size in proportion to the size of the protest events.

Table 2 shows the Baseline Results for The Impact of Protests on Voting Outcomes. Each column is devoted to a
different electoral outcome: Specifically, the vote share of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the vote share of Jacques Chirac, and the share of abstentions and blank and invalid ballots. larger protests reduced the far-right candidate’s vote share. More precisely, a 0.1 percentage point increase in the share of the population protesting in a municipality decreased by 2.2 percentage points the vote share of Jean-Marie Le Pen in that municipality.

In Column (2), the dependent variable is the vote share for Jacques Chirac. Here, the
number of participants exhibits a positive coefficient that is statistically significant at the five-
percent level in all specifications. Accordingly, a larger number of participants in the May 1
protests increased the share and the number of voters who cast a ballot for the right of centre
candidate. The magnitude of the effect is again substantial without being implausibly large: A
0.1 percentage point increase in the share of the population protesting in a municipality resulted
in a 4.5 percentage points increase in Jacques Chirac’s vote share. This means that in the absence of protests, Jacques Chirac would have lost 2.3 points in the second round.
Finally, Column (3) suggests that protests also affected the share of abstentions and blank and invalid ballots. The number of participants exhibits a negative coefficient statistically significant at the five-percent level, implying that a 0.1 percentage point increase in the share of the population protesting reduced the share of abstentions and blank and invalid ballots by
2.3 percentage points. In the absence of protests, the share of abstentions and blank and invalid
ballots would have therefore been 0.8 point higher.

Figure 4 reports the estimated marginal effect of the number of participants on the agreement of respondents with the policies sponsored by Jean-Marie Le Pen: immigration, security,
traditional values, criticism of the political class, the abolition of the income tax, and an exit of France from the EU. The marginal effect is always negative and statistically significant at standard levels.
We also looked at two more specific measures of the position of respondents on immigration, which was the theme on which Jean-Marie Le Pen was the most salient. Specifically, respondents were asked their level of agreement with the following two statements: “there are too many immigrants” and “immigrants enrich a culture”. Here, Jean-Marie Le Pen was not explicitly mentioned. We observe that respondents in municipalities that experienced larger protests were less likely to agree with the statement that there are too many immigrants and more likely to agree with the statement that immigrants enrich a culture.

This series of findings is consistent with the models of Lohmann (1994) and Battaglini (2017) that argue that protests can raise public awareness around the issues at stake. Larger protests against Jean-Marie Le Pen might have reduced voters’ support for his policies by signalling the negative issues associated with those policies, thereby decreasing the incentive to vote for the far-right candidate.
Again, we cannot rule out that protests triggered a social desirability bias on specific policies even if an exit from the EU or a critique of the political class were sponsored by other candidates unrelated to and less stigmatized than Jean-Marie Le Pen. In any case, we return to social desirability in Section 7.3.

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵

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juliette saetre @juliettes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I promise (hope) I am not as bad at research as I am at football

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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Powerful explanation of the excellent research by @juliettes.bsky.social at @eui-sps.bsky.social on how political behaviours and ideas spread transnationally through the networks of migrants. #MyEUIResearch www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKzk...

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#MyEUIResearch with Juliette Saetre | Turning the tide: migrants as vectors of influence

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Nina López Uroz @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Check out this fascinating new research by the brilliant @juliettes.bsky.social ! And highly relevant in this political context!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Note that these were private messages exchanged with colleagues and friends, not your standard social media search (which would have been enough concerning)

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go! We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Brilliant research about the diffusion of protest through historical emigration. 🪧🌎

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juliette saetre @juliettes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌎🪧 In the first paper of my PhD—just accepted in the American Journal of Sociology (!!!)—I show how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent global infrastructures for diffusion. 🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp 🧵 (1/7)

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🚨 Action Alert!! Sign the petition now! Add your name to demand the immediate release of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention and a reversal to Columbia University's protocol permitting ICE on campus without a warrant. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

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Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention

On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

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Kasia Nalewajko @knalewajko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Very happy that my paper has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Do insurgents help or hurt genocide targets? Contrary to common belief, I find that insurgent presence reduced Jewish victimisation during the Holocaust in France. Here's what I discovered 👇 1/6

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm....

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Sous l’effet du changement climatique, les Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu environ 40 % de leur volume glaciaire en vingt ans. En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume. Hallucinant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 - Nature

An intercomparison exercise reassesses mass loss from glaciers worldwide based on the main in situ and satellite methods from 2000 to 2023; the results are consistent with previous assessments and pro...

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

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Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece - Volume 118 Issue 2

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Do extreme protest tactics help climate movement? New study surveyed 8,001 French citizens for “effects of exposure to four protest actions with different degrees of extremity.” Found “relative to controls, extreme protest actions reduced support for the activist group…” osf.io/preprints/so...

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Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Support for the Climate Movement and Climate
Mitigation Policies
Kylie Fuller1
, Romain Ferrali2
, Lucas Francou Damesin3
, Izzy Gainsburg4
, Brent Simpson5
,
and Robb Willer4
1New York University
2Aix-Marseille University
3Parlons Climat
4Stanford University
5University of South Carolina

Abstract
In response to the escalating climate crisis, and with major climate policy reforms under debate
across Europe, many environmental activists have turned to extreme protest tactics, such as
vandalizing museums and obstructing major highways. Research suggests that extreme protest
tactics - protest behaviors perceived to be highly disruptive, harmful to others, or both - may
attract media attention, but typically reduce public support for protest groups (e.g., Feinberg et
al., 2020). However, this research has focused primarily on Americans’ responses to public
protest. Additionally, little experimental research has tested the causal effects of extreme tactics
in the context of the climate movement, even though it is the largest social movement in the
world (Hasegawa, 2022). To address these gaps, we fielded a large, pre-registered online survey
experiment, conducted on a representative sample of French citizens (n = 8,001), testing the
effects of exposure to four protest actions featuring different degrees of extremity - a peaceful
march, occupying an office building, blocking public transportation, and damaging
infrastructure. Results showed that, relative to a control condition, extreme protest actions
reduced support for the activist group, willingness to join the climate movement, and support for
climate mitigation policies (e.g., a carbon tax on fossil fuel companies), with these reductions
increasing proportional to the extremity of the protest actions. Additionally, we found no
evidence that exposure to these extreme tactics led to greater support for a more moderate
climate protest group, offering evidence against the “radical flank effect” found in previous
research (Simpson et al., 2022). Overall, results show that previously demonstrated negative
effects of extreme protest tactics on popular support for social movements and their policy goals
extends to activism on climate change, and also generalizes beyond the U.S. to the European
context, a cri…

Figure 1. All protest tactics (vs. the control condition) significantly reduced support for the focal
group. The march, blockade, and sabotage vignettes (versus the control condition) significantly
reduced policy support. None of the protest tactics impacted willingness to personally do more
for climate change.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I know the top line result is on young boys but let’s please also stare at that y-scale and take a moment to appreciate that it is men of *all* ages that super consistently are right wing *since the 1980s*

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reading this paper and absolutely loving it. Addresses an important methodological issue, concise and clearly written, methods are implemented in an R package so others can use them easily. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

WORKING PAPER: Short-Term Mobility and Changes in Political Norms with @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🌐Link: osf.io/preprints/os... Our interconnected world fosters unprecedented flows of people, goods, and ideas. Can this also reshape perceptions of what is politically acceptable? 🧵

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