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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

i promise i am excited about it but NOT for this reason!!!!! hungering for your analysis!

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

i am excited to read your book!! congratulations!!

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

What does Iran's internet blackout feel like at our university? Closer than you might think. I write about it for the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 15/05/2026

“Iran is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Vancouver. So, the Iranians on our campus hold vigil in the night, across an ocean, for the ones they cannot reach, while also expected to be present and functional during the day.” Neda Maghbouleh writes.

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When Iran Cut the Internet, Many in BC Were Left Reeling | The Tyee

I can’t fix it from here at UBC. But as a professor, I can show up for my students.

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We’re lucky to have the slate we do 👏🏼

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Congratulations Jess 💓 Sending every best wish for an impactful and fulfilling term - and thank you for serving.

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Grateful to adapt our new paper on refugee family separation @ersjournal.com into a post for the Council on Contemporary Families. I hope it’s readable & useful for teaching courses on family, inequality, immigration, & policy. thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/06/...

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thank you so much for your editing and curation Alicia 🙏🏼

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Spillover or consolidation? We tested 2 models of cultural polarization w/ ~2,000 Americans. The data support consolidation: once we accounted for networks and dispositions, partisanship lost its explanatory power. 📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025) 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zpe8y_v

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

thank you for sharing! its really nice to see what everyday people are doing on this issue around the U.S. and world.

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our full pre-print is on SocArXiv - thanks for reading these posts! 📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025) 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so... #CulturalSociology #Polarization #BookBans

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Why it matters: research on cultural polarization often assumes that affective animus spills into everyday life. But our findings suggest that even at the height of a politicized issue like book banning, culture is a *resource* for partisan expression-- not its root cause. (8/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What we found: evidence for consolidation. Judgments were shaped primarily by respondents' underlying traits; polarization was rare and limited; after controlling for social networks & traits, most partisan effects disappeared. (7/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What a consolidation model predicts: more politicization, not outright polarization, book ban attitudes shaped by values and identity linked traits, asymmetric judgments, divisions explained by sociodemographic, sociometric, and psychometric factors (6/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What a spillover model predicts: strong polarization across identities, high support for book bans, symmetrical divisions among liberals and conservatives, persist effects even after accounting for social sorting (5/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We showed ~2000 Americans summaries of real novels. Each version randomly altered the protagonist's social identity. Then we asked: is this book appropriate for a library? For a school? (4/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We used the recent surge in book bans as a take-off issue to test polarization. (3/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

2 implicit frameworks dominate research on cultural polarization: the spillover model & the consolidation model (2/9)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Getting a comms-related endorsement from @lauraknelson.bsky.social is everything. I hope I’m getting better at making slide threads. Here’s one for our latest pre-print on book banning:

Do most Americans actually support book banning?

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Getting a comms-related endorsement from @lauraknelson.bsky.social is everything. I hope I’m getting better at making slide threads. Here’s one for our latest pre-print on book banning:

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Has everyone seen @nedasoc.bsky.social 's paper thread game? 👇 Because she has raised. the. bar. (Important, and sobering, paper too)

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A new Texas ruling (Little v. Llano County) says the public can’t sue if libraries pull books for political reasons. It confirms what we found in our new study: most Americans don’t want book bans. It’s political elites—like in Texas—who are cutting off public access. ⬇️

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans dont want them. We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization. The public doesn't echo elite battles. 📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh) 🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

📢 Here's more on the new Texas ruling, from @publisherswkly.bsky.social. As the article says, the ruling is a blow to everyday people's right to read. Our study shows book bans (like the ones enabled in Texas) are out of step with what the public wants ⬆️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Appeals Court Reverses Texas First Amendment Ruling

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 23 reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County, a Texas case challenging the re...

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

been following the Alberta book ban news closely as a lover of graphic novels (Blankets was a canon read for me in my early 20s - its inclusion among the banned piqued my curiosity for sure). Thanks for making the connection here.

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @nedasoc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ooh thanks for this! I will need to find SweeTango!

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