iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Protestors in Greenland are outside the U.S. embassy chanting “Go Home USA.” #cdnpoli

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

65.1🦋 Do Respectful Politicians Make Less Polarized Citizens? 🤝 @rtpedersen.bsky.social @julianchr.bsky.social & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen use survey data to test whether positive rhetoric 🗣️ ✅ can reduce #polarization in the same way negative rhetoric 🗣️ ❎ increases it buff.ly/5I8UL8K

cambridge.org

Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens - Volume 65 Issue 1

0106

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 20/01/2026

Important perspective from Greenland.

467119924128

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Why do some explanations for public budget cuts work better than others? @rtpedersen.bsky.social & Paw Hansen examine how justification-based strategies reduce citizen opposition to cuts. Read more: buff.ly/y5DidFn @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

022

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Why do some explanations for public budget cuts work better than others? @rtpedersen.bsky.social & Paw Hansen examine how justification-based strategies reduce citizen opposition to cuts. Read more: buff.ly/siVcxu3 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

043

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🆕 Do Respectful Politicians Make Less Polarized Citizens? 🤝 @rtpedersen.bsky.social @julianchr.bsky.social & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen use survey data to test whether politicians’ positive rhetoric 🗣️ ✅ can reduce #polarization in the same way negative rhetoric 🗣️ ❎ increases it 📖

buff.ly

Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens

087

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 12/10/2025

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens - cup.org/46JRPk3 - @rtpedersen.bsky.social, Julian Christensen & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen #FirstView

Banner for the European Journal of Political Research, available on Cambridge Core, the platform of Cambridge University Press. The banner is in blue with white and lighter blue text.

064

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

People are more likely to act against online abuse of politicians if you tell them that such comments 1) hurt individual politicians, (2) violate social norms, and (3) undermine democracy. New article in R&P by Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, Mads Thau and Myself: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.com

Countering online abuse of politicians through information about consequences and norms - Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, Rasmus Tue Pedersen, Mads Thau, 2025

In recent years, a growing body of research has documented how both local and national politicians experience insults, sexism, and even threats on social media ...

030

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Olle Folke @ollefolke.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4

68533

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Andreas Lindqvist @andreaslindqvist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Former commander of Pituffik Susan Meyers must have known that she would be fired for this. But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command. Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months? Berlingske has obtained her leaked email #Defence

27711238

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

NEW - The Gendered Cost of Politics - cup.org/42favop - Frederik Klaaborg Kjøller & @leneholmp.bsky.social "the conjoint experiment reveals that women candidates state stronger preferences for equal working environments in politics than men..." #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of sexism and harassment on political candidates in the 2021 Danish local elections. The study evaluates candidates' perceptions and the corresponding risk of victimization, with findings suggesting stronger repercussions for women candidates, preferences for double job size, and implications for advised oversights in politics.

0258

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Jaakko Meriläinen @jmerilainen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

academic.oup.com

Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection

Abstract. A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have imp

46125

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Denmarks Radio reports that many of the Greenlanders who participated in Donald Trump Jr.’s PR stunt are homeless people, who got “bribed” with a nice dinner in return for being a part of it

dr.dk

Kilder til DR: Trumps folk 'bestak' hjemløse og socialt udsatte med hotelmiddag for at lege Trump-støtter

Flere kilder genkender flere af deltagerne ved Trump-frokosten i Nuuk som hjemløse og socialt udsatte borgere.

176

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New article in @jepsjournal.bsky.social. We show (to our own surprise) that exposure to online abuse of politicians does not decrease citizens’ prospective political participation. If anything, it may in some cases mobilize citizens politically! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.org

Exposure to Online Abuse of Politicians Does Not Scare Citizens Away From Politics | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core

Exposure to Online Abuse of Politicians Does Not Scare Citizens Away From Politics

030

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Next time you enjoy a craft beer, remember to thank President Carter. In 1978 he legalized homebrewing of beer in the US, paving the way for the craft beer revolution www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/long-jo...

homebrewersassociation.org

The Long Journey to Homebrew Legalization | AHA

Homebrewing legalization took effect on February 1, 1979, but the fight to make beer at home didn’t stop there.

030

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm pretty sure that ChatGPT isn't sentient, but I still can't help think that after a day of helping me debugging code, it somehow appreciates the tasks given by my youngest kid more

Here's the image of a cat in outer space! The feline is floating in a galaxy filled with stars, wearing an astronaut suit.

040

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) Online abuse of politicians 2) Political discontent and populism is, to a large extent, driven by “good-old-days-bias”

041

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Olle Folke @ollefolke.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

310346

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

What do ordinary people think about online abuse of politicians? In a new paper, we show how citizens perceive criticism, insults, threats and sexist remarks directed at politicians on social media (open access link: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). Surprisingly... (1/n)

Abstract
Online abuse is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for democratic societies. Citizens play an important role in curtailing abuse as they often moderate online content through counter speech and by reporting abusive messages. However, we know little about when citizens actually perceive negative comments directed at politicians as being abusive, and the factors shaping these perceptions are also understudied. In this study, we therefore investigate how citizens perceive criticism, insults, threats and sexist remarks directed at politicians on social media. Based on a survey experiment with 2,000 Danish citizens, we show that citizens’ assessments of the abusiveness of such remarks are not only affected by the content of the messages, but also by political ideology, political trust and gender. Surprisingly, partisanship does not seem to substantively affect perceptions of abuse. Our study provides novel insights into what exactly citizens consider to be abusive behaviour on

102

Rasmus T Pedersen @rtpedersen.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Non-correlation of the day. Among Danish voters, willingness to run for political office is correlated with the usual suspects: political interest (duh!), gender and age - But not with political trust. Don't even know if I expected pos or neg, but no correlation somehow seems odd. Polisky

130

Reposted by Rasmus T Pedersen

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Today also: nothing makes the intentional murder and kidnapping of children and unarmed civilians legitimate or understandable.

0459