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Geoboo Song (송거부) @gbsong.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The 2024 Scopus CiteScore is out, and I have some exciting news to share! PSJ earned an impressive CiteScore of 12.3. This puts us at #20 out of 1,497 journals in Sociology and Political Science and #2 out of 242 journals in Public Administration.

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Geoboo Song (송거부) @gbsong.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Scopus dropped its March CiteScore, and PSJ @psjeditor.bsky.social is sitting at 12.2! That's a small bump up from last month. Huge thanks for all your support!

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Come meet the PSJ editors! I’ll be there Thursday.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Something that's been clear to me for some time is that a lot of progressive advocacy and politics has overindexed on finding just the right combination of words to say while ignoring the fact that no media ecosystem exists where people might actually hear you say them. New from @mmfa.bsky.social

Across streaming platforms including YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, and Spotify, the left-leaning online shows had at least 55.9 million total followers and subscribers — a figure which is dwarfed by the right-leaning online shows with at least 255.5 million.

This content is further amplified on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — social media platforms where the programs or hosts post full streams, clips, and show links. Left-leaning online shows had at least 48 million followers across these platforms, while the right-leaning online shows had more than 225 million followers.

Of a cumulative 584.6 million followers and subscribers across all eight platforms, Media Matters found that right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82%, or 480.6 million — almost five times more than left-leaning shows’ nearly 104 million.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Live footage of academia right now

Weary Ben Affleck standing, holding a cigarette

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Pausing doom scrolling to share my new publication, looking at the power of entertainment media to shape policy attitudes. We find that people who watched (and were deeply engaged in) the film Don't Look Up held stronger pro-environmental attitudes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This study examines the impact of fiction and film on climate change beliefs. Using data from a nationally representative survey of 2045 individuals conducted in April–May 2022, we examine whether i...

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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We are primed to hit 200k+ sign-ups TODAY! It’s time to expand our circles of sharing. This means reaching out to political & social service groups we feel would be receptive to joining us. At this rate, to be transparent, if we continue to gain 100k/wk it will take 110 wks to get to 11 mil.

A counter in black text on a pale yellow/beige background says “196,267 Committed”.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Here’s a handy countdown timer that shows how much time is left until Mango Mussolini leaves office. www.tickcounter.com/countdown/16...

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It’s nuts that I haven’t posted on BlueSky in a year and somehow I have almost 800 followers. Maybe I should actually post here!

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

That final exam I just gave in an online class--a handful of students used ChatGPT for their short answers and changed just enough of the wording to make it hard for me to do anything about it.

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Johanna Kuenzler @jo-kuenzler.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I'm very happy that Bettina Stauffer's and my article on the policy dimension in the Narrative Policy Framework #NPF made it to PSJ's new blog! If you want to know to get a brief overview of what the article is about (➡️ tl;dr 😉), click here: psjblog.net/2023/10/25/p...

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Happy Halloween from the Policy Studies Journal. Check out the new spooky poem on the PSJ Blog (written by Managing Editor Creed Tumlison): psjblog.net/2023/10/31/t...

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

One by one, my devices logged me out of Twitter. And since I cannot remember my password and refuse to reset it, I am officially done with that other place! Feels good.

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Gwen Arnold @policyandpups.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Policy Studies Journal is seeking applications for a guest editorship of a special issue on homelessness policy. Applications should be submitted as a Word document to policystudiesjournal@gmail.com by January 15, 2024. More information: psjblog.net/2023/10/11/c... polisky policysky

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Gwen Arnold @policyandpups.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

More tips for publishing in Policy Studies Journal and other good policy outlets: psjblog.net/2023/09/27/t... (thanks @melmerry.bsky.social !) #polisky

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

An account has been created for you by the journal editorial staff.... Yep, got one of those emails today. Bring on the peer review request.

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Melissa Merry @melmerry.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Hoping that this will finally be the social media app that breaks my habit of checking Twitter/X.

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