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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Northwestern poli sci is hiring in quant methods! I'm not on the committee, but I AM excited to welcome new junior colleagues. We're also hiring in IR -- separate search, same amazing department (and university!)

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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/ Happy to share our paper 'Still Instrumentally Inclusive' w/ @turnbulldugarte.com in @apsrjournal.bsky.social. Understanding homonationalism remains important. Recent events (Berlin) have shown how quickly LGBT+ rights can become instrumentalized in debates about immigration and Islam.

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Political Science Department at Northwestern University @polisciatnu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please join us in congratulating TWO professors, Isabella Bellezza ( @isabellabellezza.bsky.social ) & Elizabeth Thom ( @ipratnu.bsky.social ), who have have both received 2026 APSA Best Dissertation Awards!!! 👏👏👏💜🚀🚀🚀 politicalsciencenow.com/congratulati...

photo of Dr. Isabella Bellezza, College Fellow & Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

photo of Dr. Elizabeth L. Thom, College Fellow & Assistant Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy & Culture at Northwestern University

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Congratulations, Dr. Cassario! An incredible political psychologist, an incredible friend, and an achievement so well deserved! 👏

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Cool to see my recent @thejop.bsky.social study covered by LGBTQ Nation. And here's a recent Fox Chicago interview if you'd rather hear me talk about it: youtu.be/flb60Z7NksM?...

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FOX 32 News at Noon - Wednesday, Jun. 03, 2026

YouTube video by FOX 32 Chicago

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thrilled this is finally out in its JOP-formatted version! Hope it's useful to anyone working on LGBT politics, (electoral) discrimination, status differentials within & across identity categories, and non-textual experiments. Main findings in quoted thread. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚨Job opportunity🚨 UNC Poli Sci is hiring a postdoc (one year renewable) to advance research on political behavior, with a special focus on free expression in higher education. Competitive salary and benefits. No teaching. Please encourage people to apply. Ad: timryan.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon!

Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026.

Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Pleased to see this one out in its JOP-formatted version @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for
Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments
Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath
January 27, 2026
We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se-
lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of
American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality
and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com).
Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously
published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’
choosing.
The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a
meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi-
pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit
to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for
submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Friday’s workshop was a joy to host. ☺️ We brought together researchers and activists to talk about LGBTQ+ criminalization, discrimination at work and in parenting, dating bias, and how the far right weaponizes LGBTQ issues. Grateful to everyone involved and to VU's VICES for the support. 🏳️‍🌈

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

When people hear others’ views on politically sensitive topics (e.g., migration, abortion), they quickly become disrespectful or disengage. How can we express our views in such a way that they foster respect and interaction? @emilykubin.bsky.social, @kurtjgray.bsky.social & I studied this. 🧵1/7

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It’s #PrideMonth 🌈 & I'm proud to share my new JOP article. Using a survey experiment, I show: Republicans still penalize gay candidates. Democrats do not—but they do penalize even subtle gender nonconformity, expecting gay cands to look & sound “straight” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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The Right Kind of (Gay) Man? Sexuality, Gender Presentation, and Heteronormative Constraints on Electability | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

New lab preprint, from @abbycassario.bsky.social's furiously typing fingers to your eyes

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/05/2025

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Thrilled to share my article “The Right Kind of (Gay) Man?” was accepted @thejop.bsky.social I started it as a 1st-year grad student, it became my MA, then a dissertation & job market paper. It’s the piece I’m most proud of (and relieved to finally share) 🏳️‍🌈 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Excited to see this in print! It speaks to a number of social science literatures—protest effectiveness, repression, propaganda, stereotypes & morality, gender & politics, and disparate treatment between & within identity categories.

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