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Steven W. Webster @stevenwwebster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd IU Center on American Politics conference is today! Speakers: @egojunk.bsky.social, @tylerreny.bsky.social, @elizabethcconnors.bsky.social, Mary Adams Plooster, @gjmartin.bsky.social, Chris DeSante, @sgadarian.bsky.social, and Taylor Carlson.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was trying to get home from Culver the other day and there was some problem with the trains so when it showed up it was too packed with people to get on so I left the station and walked over to the bus stop and then learned the next bus wasn’t coming for 50 minutes

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you need speakers for subsequent years, this looks awesome! Would love to come see IU and hang out.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Any gold medal events of opening/closing ceremony events are like $6k+ dollars ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I went to buy tickets a few days ago during my open lottery slot and, yes, the like nose-bleed partial view seats of prelim table tennis were $28 + $20 fee, any track and field or swimming or gymnastics tickets are going for well over $650 + $250 fee per ticket for the worst seats during prelims.

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Andrew Gordon @andrewgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

the types of podcasts: a guide

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

👀 Reuters/Ipsos poll: Trump’s approval rating on the economy has sunk to 29%. Lower than Biden’s lowest rating. Far lower than Trump’s first-term lowest.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This is cool, Drew. Going to add to my survey research course syllabus to teach in a few weeks!

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I am chairing the Emerging Scholar Award committee for the APSA EPOVB section this year. Send in your submissions (self-nominations welcomed!) with a cv to me and the committee (@wzcmarsh.bsky.social and Holli Semetko) by March 1 for consideration! More info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

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Section32 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (Section 32) The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research on elections,

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

To clarify a question I've been getting: sending a CV with your nomination is sufficient, no need to send a nominating letter!

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

apsanet.org

Section32 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (Section 32) The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research on elections,

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Any other political scientists getting these weird emails from thelighthousecommunity@proton.me?

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

New article out (w Marcel R, Ben N, and David S) in @pnas.org. We show that young folks who signal interest in becoming cops hold more conservative views on race, multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality, etc.than their peers intending careers in other fields www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Late adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers | PNAS

One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to work in law enforcement a...

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 17/11/2025

It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election (Gift Article)

See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Our @apsrjournal.bsky.social article is now in print! We develop a theory to explain why the public doesn't become more prosocial toward LGBTQ+ people after illegitimate anti-LGBTQ+ violence and provide causal, externally valid, evidence for the theory across 4 studies doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it. This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Drew Stommes @drewstommes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099

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Cory McCartan @corymccartan.com · 21/10/2025

A few weeks ago I shared a new WP on doing ecological inference—learning individual relationships from aggregate data, such as vote choice by race from precinct data. Excited now to introduce `seine`, our open-source R package for doing EI easily and efficiently! corymccartan.com/seine/

seine: Semiparametric Ecological Inference
Ecological inference (EI) is the statistical problem of learning individual-level associations from aggregate-level data. Without certain identifying assumptions and proper estimation methods, researchers can easily draw incorrect conclusions from aggregate data, finding patterns where none exist, missing important individual-level patterns, or even concluding an effect runs in the opposite direction than it actually does. This is known as the ecological fallacy.

The seine package allows researchers to perform modern ecological inference quickly, accurately, and transparently.

Double/debiased machine learning allows for controlling for confounding covariates, which increases the plausibility of identifying assumptions. Machine learning can be used to estimate the key regression model and avoid strong parametric assumptions made by existing EI methods.
Sensitivity analysis and benchmarking let researchers understand how violations of their assumptions will affect results.
A tidy interface makes the package modular and easy to use, and works well with pipe-based workflows.
Minimal dependencies and efficient estimation routines keep everything fast and lightweight.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thanks @rcenteno.bsky.social! Let us know if you have any thoughts!

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is part of a larger book project with @mfroman.bsky.social tentatively titled Making Americans: The Racial Politics of Reproduction. We welcome any and all feedback on the project as we move forward with additional studies.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Bottom line: White backlash to demographic change is not only about who enters the country, but also who is born into it.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Our findings show: 🔹 Demographic change can shift even “fixed” attitudes like abortion. 🔹 Reproductive politics isn’t just moral or religious—it’s racialized. 🔹 White backlash may increasingly target reproduction, not just immigration.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We refer to this logic as racialized Malthusianism: the fear that out-groups will reproduce, erode in-group dominance, and reshape the political/racial order. This connects contemporary “Great Replacement” rhetoric to a longer history of racialized population control.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We replicate with experiments: When prejudiced Whites are primed to think about population growth, their support rises for assuring Latina women---but not White women---have access to abortion, contraception, and sterilization.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Across large-N surveys and original data, we find: ➡️ Whites in places with more Latino growth are more supportive of legal abortion. ➡️ This effect is absent among non-Whites. ➡️ It’s driven exclusively by Whites higher in prejudice.

plot showing relationship between demographic change and support for abortion among different racial and ethnic groups

plot showing relationship is almost exclusively driven by prejudiced whites

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We test whether prejudiced White Americans support abortion as a means of limiting non-White population growth.

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Most research on White backlash to demographic change focuses on immigration. But today, the U.S. is diversifying less through immigration and more through non-White births.

plot showing switch from immigration-led to birth-led demographic change from 1970s to 2020

young people are decreasingly white and increasingly latino

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🌅📙 64.3 #NostalgicDeprivation in Europe 🇪🇺 These authors (🧵⬇️) look at impact of #NostalgicDeprivation on support for #PopulistParties across both Eastern and Western Europe 🌍 linking populist attitudes and voting. 🔗 buff.ly/HuJNAqL

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Nostalgic deprivation and populism: Evidence from 19 European countries

JEREMY FERWERDA, JUSTIN GEST, TYLER RENY

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My coauthor on this project, Marcel, has a much more comprehensive thread on our new paper if you want to read through!

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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

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Late adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers | PNAS

One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to work in law enforcement a...

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The impossible has become possible: we've passed a clean CEQA infill exemption. This is probably the most important thing California has done on housing in the present YIMBY moment.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

i'm not at all qualified to evaluate this study but i am absolutely going to share it with my students, scared straight style

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Excited and honored to be chosen for an emerging scholar award from @apsa.bsky.social Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) section this year!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you haven't gotten around to it, please call your state Senator today and urge them to vote yes on SB 79. This could be transformative for California if it passes and should've been passed back in 2018 when it was first brought up. Don't let the segregationists keep you poor any longer.

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I see a lot of confusion about what it means for Republicans to "own" immigration. Does this mean increasing immigration salience helps Rs on average? Yes. But does that mean anything Rs do on immigration is popular? Absolutely not. Folks should remember: issue ownership can be lost.

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