Reposted by Naman Rawat Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 11/09/2026Over the last five years I've been very discouraged at the way politicians in Sweden have insinuated that those of us who have become citizens in the last ten years are a threat or illegitimate. 12710
Reposted by Naman Rawat Alyssa Heinze @alyssarheinze.bsky.social · 02/07/2026We are looking for a full-time Research Manager based in Hyderabad! Please apply/share with your networks! tinyurl.com/telanganaRMtinyurl.comResearch Manager_Peer Mentorship Project.docxRESEARCH MANAGER POSITIONProject: “Training Elected Women Representatives on Ecological Commons” Lead Researchers Dr. Rachel Brulé (Boston University, USA) Dr. Bhumi Purohit (Georgetown University... 054
Reposted by Naman Rawat Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July 16158
Reposted by Naman Rawat Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true 25569220
Reposted by Naman Rawat Pia Raffler @piaraffler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577 33615
Reposted by Naman Rawat Alejandro Fernández-Roldán @aleferna.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If you work on public opinion and/or political behaviour you might want to consider submitting your abstract(s) to JCPOP 2026 in Barcelona - All the info 👇 063
Reposted by Naman Rawat International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 14/06/2026📝 The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2026 More info @ ergaxia.gr/diorganoseis... The conference is organised with the participation of the Department of Business and Organizations Management (DEO), University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata, and the Municipality of Kalamata.ergaxia.grRC26 ISA International Conference 2026 – ErgaxiaBusiness consulting WordPress theme 001
Reposted by Naman Rawat European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 13/06/2026🔓New #OpenAccess at ESR Do people avoid dating political opponents because of politics itself? #ShannonTaflinger @hudde.bsky.social suggest otherwise! Political affiliation is used as a proxy for non-political characteristics: similarity, character, and social approval! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag020doi.orgValidate User 084
Reposted by Naman Rawat Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026@annagbusse.bsky.social and I are here for u osf.io/preprints/so... 1285
Reposted by Naman Rawat Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵 6297122
Reposted by Naman Rawat Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 06/06/2026Today is Sweden's National Day. The new citizenship law will go into effect today. This means ~100,000 pending applications citizenship applications will likely be rejected, an act of quasi-retroactive law making. A sad day for Sweden. 019390
Reposted by Naman Rawat Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 21/05/2026Ignoring the obvious issues of creating a tiered system of punishment, stripping citizenship as a punishment isn't effective because people can just renounce their non-Swedish citizenship. All it does is chip away at the rule of law and weaken the value of citizenship. 14815
Reposted by Naman Rawat Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026⚖️ Does electoral uncertainty make governments short sighted? ➡️ Using Swedish local data, @axelcronert.bsky.social & Pär Nyman show electoral competition moderates tax policy, but find little evidence of policy myopia www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView 0115
Reposted by Naman Rawat Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers. 25879450
Reposted by Naman Rawat Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Reminder: 🎓 XIV Workshop on Empirical Political Science 📅 Save the date 3 July 2026 • 10:00–13:30 📍 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @politiquesuab.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/barcelo...sites.google.comBarcelona PhD WorkshopWho is it for? 012
Reposted by Naman Rawat FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Pre-announcement: Call for questions, Selects 2027 Contribute your questions to the Swiss electoral study during the 2027 federal elections. 📅 Call: end of April 2026 🗓 Deadline: end of June 2026 Selects 2023, including datasets, questionnaires & documentation www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue... 069
Reposted by Naman Rawat @nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 27/03/20261/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.comtandfonline.comLooking through racism’s lenses: institutional, structural and systemic readings across the ERS archiveThis article returns to the Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) archive to examine how institutional, structural, and systemic racism have been defined, operationalised, and related across five decades... 11813
Reposted by Naman Rawat Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support. 9721228
Reposted by Naman Rawat Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 22112
Reposted by Naman Rawat lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The British state getting into bed with Palantir is just incredibly blackpilling, especially since it is being done by a Labour government who are composed of the exact sort of people that Palantir's owners and operators openly say they wish to drive from power forever! Inept self-loathing fools. 738876
Reposted by Naman Rawat Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 20/03/2026⁉️ Are anti-immigration people really "sexually modern"? No ⁉️ Are people more supportive of anti-immigration platforms when these also include progressive positions on gender and sexuality? Also no I explore these questions w/ 🇬🇧🇩🇪 original survey data (+ a conjoint in 🇩🇪) 👉 osf.io/preprints/so... 13712
Reposted by Naman Rawat Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 17/03/2026AI systems are now making decisions about you — who gets hired, whose content gets removed, whose voice gets heard. My new paper finds something concerning: LLMs infer your ethnic identity from subtle textual cues… … and use it to discriminate against you. 🧵 1/arxiv.orgLarge Language Models Reproduce Racial Stereotypes When Used for Text AnnotationLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated text annotation in tasks ranging from academic research to content moderation and hiring. Across 19 LLMs and two experiments totaling m... 12912
Reposted by Naman Rawat Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026„The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. […] The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history“ (V-Dem 2026) 312670
Reposted by Naman Rawat Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index. 314960
Reposted by Naman Rawat EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community. March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027. More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...epssnet.orgMentorship program - EPSSThe EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program. This initiative builds on the success of this scheme by the LGBTQ+ group in previous years. The EPSS Mentoring Program is a new initiative designed to develop a new network of contacts within the EPSS community. Our mentoring program is designed … 01817
Reposted by Naman Rawat JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15/03/2026MEGA could well outlast MAGA. Do European countries have strong enough institutional and constitutional checks to survive giving power to the far-right? Hungary didn't, Poland is struggling, the UK definitely doesn't. Democracy is incredibly fragile. Once it's lost it's very hard to restore. 0117
Reposted by Naman Rawat Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Out in @thejop.bsky.social: How Exiles Mobilize Domestic Dissent with @aasiegel.bsky.social We investigate how Egyptian exiles influenced a cascade of online dissent that culminated in anti-regime protests back home in September 2019. Article link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 0239
Reposted by Naman Rawat Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Naman Rawat Thomas Sattler @sattlersthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...dx.doi.orgAcademia's Class Problem: First-Generation Scholars in Political SciencePolitical scientists devote a massive amount of attention to socioeconomic background of political actors and descriptive representation in political institutio 12315
Reposted by Naman Rawat MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 09/03/2026❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Kåre Vernby ( @stockholm-uni.bsky.social ) "The Local Roots of the Nationalization of Politics" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2mzes.uni-mannheim.deDetail 131
Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026In Sweden, most PhD students work at 80% contract to extend funding. Now international PhDs are being deported for doing exactly that. So much for “Swedish exceptionalism”. www.tv4.se/artikel/ZhUi...tv4.seDoktoranden Fahimas hotas av utvisning – sista åretIndisk doktorand i Göteborg hotas av utvisning. Backas upp av Centrum för rättvisa. 000
Reposted by Naman Rawat Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Had a great conversation with @andyluttrell.bsky.social on why even the best messaging won't bring everyone to your side, and all things immigration opinion and politics. Give it a listen! opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/maki... 165
Reposted by Naman Rawat Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.sciencedirect.comThe Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across EuropeDoes gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif… 56321
Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197... 1229
Reposted by Naman Rawat Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 02/03/2026🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147... 316667
Reposted by Naman Rawat Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 21/02/2026The current processing time for a citizenship application in Sweden is 47 months. The government wants to apply new citizenship requirements to people who applied for citizenship years ago but are still waiting. There is grassroots mobilization against this: www.fairtransitionsweden.comfairtransitionsweden.comFair Transition — Transition Clause for Swedish CitizenshipSweden's new citizenship law lacks transition provisions for pending applications. We advocate for a transition clause to protect good-faith applicants. 1259
Reposted by Naman Rawat Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Update: As @robfordmancs.bsky.social said to @theguardian.com, zero net migration may offer Labour "the opportunity to steer the domestic political agenda away from" Reform's key topic. Other experts stress that Labour loses votes to Greens & LD. Yes, *for now*, but Labour may play the long game. 011
Reposted by Naman Rawat Ulf Bjereld @ulfbjereld.bsky.social · 11/02/2026"Professor Ludvig Beckman lämnar sin plats i Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest. Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser han. – Jag kan inte legitimera utvisningar av 18-åringar som växt upp här och som har föräldrar som bor här, säger han."dn.seHan lämnar Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest – kallar politiken omänskligProfessor Ludvig Beckman lämnar Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest. Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser han. 010533
Reposted by Naman Rawat Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through. 29643220
Reposted by Naman Rawat Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 02/02/2026A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story19thnews.orgWhen one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilkMoms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE. 381751867
Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Very very likely that Trump might attack Iran.... just to create a distraction from what is happening with ICE in Minnesota. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comUS-Iran relations: Is the US preparing to strike Iran?Satellite images show a steady and significant build-up of US military forces in the region. 000
Reposted by Naman Rawat NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September: 11947313103
Reposted by Naman Rawat 🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 21/01/2026The “criminal immigrant" narrative manufactured by the US media-propaganda apparatus psychologically embeds immigrants into racial hierarchies within the social imagination PDF: joeledmartinez.com/wp-content/u... 032
Reposted by Naman Rawat Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Cartoon by @mortenmorland.bsky.social. 281152410
Reposted by Naman Rawat capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/nytimes.comVideo Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments 27918412
Reposted by Naman Rawat Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 13/01/2026Just so people understand the timeline: (1) The president of the United States called Somali-Americans "garbage" and the Vice President says that the US has a "Somali Problem". (2) The White House directs immigration agencies to Minnesota due to its large Somali community. 183
Reposted by Naman Rawat ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday 5352052828