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Virginia Oliveros

@viroliveros.bsky.social
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Mujer. Argentina. Y algunas cosas más. Author of Patronage at Work: bit.ly/344DWyU Trabajo y Favores: bit.ly/43fUSxV (versión en castellano)

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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you so much for the invitation! And all the questions! A lot to think about. It was great to see you all! And London! Just that 20-minute walk to dinner was worth the flight and the jet lag :-)
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A committee consisting of Ashley Nickels (chair), Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and myself was very happy to recognize Luis Schiumerini (University of Notre Dame) for his book _Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America_ (Cambridge University Press, 2025) 2/3
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊
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Nora Bär @norabar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
En la misión Artemis vuela el cubesat Atenea, desarrollado por estudiantes e ingenieros de universidades nacionales en coordinación con la @CONAE_Oficial mientras el gobierno la asfixia 👇El personal resolvió suspender medidas de fuerza para garantizar el apoyo operativo
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Congrats @anriasantiago.bsky.social and Ken Roberts! "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" is out! Timely, important, and brilliant!
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Santiago Anria @anriasantiago.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy to share that "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" is out now with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and available in multiple formats. If it looks interesting, please consider requesting it at your university library! Check it out 👇 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Polarization and Democracy in Latin America
An insightful examination of Latin America’s contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility. Although Latin American democracies have shown considera...
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Emilia Simison @emisimison.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
And they are here!
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Emilia Simison @emisimison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My book with Alejandro is now out in all formats. Go request it at your university's library! If you want to buy instead, use the code LMUA2025 to get a 20% discount in CUP's website
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
As political scientists, we really want to know when, where, and why people mobilize against repressive governments. Happy to share my latest article is out that helps us understand this in a specific context: intl legal petitions in the UN. How do courageous individuals overcome barriers?
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Individual Mobilization by Victims of Human Rights Abuse: Who Files Petitions in the United Nations?
Abstract. Who files petitions against repressive regimes in the United Nations? Victims of human rights abuse face high personal costs of participation, in
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.
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Allison Grossman @allisong.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Political scientists in the southeast (broadly defined), submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. We're hosting at Tulane on November 9, submissions due September 19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame @kellogginstitute.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We learned last week of the passing of Carlos Acuña, professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. He was an early Kellogg visiting fellow and part of the Institute's formative years. Our gratitude to @bgarciaholgado.bsky.social‬ for this beautiful tribute: bit.ly/45HIVTw
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2025
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This is fantastic! The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
From April 2025 - Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - cup.org/4clGHLw - @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the potential influence of a politician's gender on voter expectations and perceptions in Argentina, focusing on responses from an online survey experiment about a hypothetical city mayor.
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:
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Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez @pablofernandezv.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨The Social Sciences dept @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program, an initiative to attract researchers to Madrid. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 yrs (more below). To express interest, complete form (by 06/24) 👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid! The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below). To express interest, complete form (by 06/24) 👉 n9.cl/qdjvz 1/n
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...) w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
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National Elections Database
The National Elections Database provides detailed national election results for parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide from 1789 to 2023. The version 1.0 of this dataset was first built to...
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Martín Becerra @aracalacana.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Respetuosamente: no nos entreguen". @MarioPecheny, miembro del directorio del Conicet, pide a los senadores que no sean cómplices de la destrucción de la ciencia en la Argentina: youtu.be/T3YuiKT3RcU?...
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MARIO PECHENY - COMISIÓN DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA 04-06-25
YouTube video by Senado Argentina
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Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez @pablofernandezv.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a *2-year fixed-term faculty position* in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? socialsciences.department@uc3m.es 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...
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Visiting Professor in the area of Political Science | UC3M
Contenido compartido desde el sitio web oficial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - www.uc3m.es
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers
Hundreds of activists wearing gas masks took to the streets to call out their government for slashing science funding.
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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Very honored to receive the 2025 Francine Frankel Prize for the best book on South Asian Politics from APSA. Many thanks to the award committee. And it is a privilege to receive this alongside scholars like Adam and Tariq whose work I have long admired.
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My colleagues @andrewleber.bsky.social & @stano.bsky.social: "If American university presidents do not forcefully denounce these unconstitutional and un-American actions, our universities will soon be shells of their former selves, like (...) other nations that have lapsed into authoritarian rule."
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Proud of my colleagues @andrewleber.bsky.social and @stano.bsky.social for calling out Tulane, demanding more. We stand by all students, esp intl students, & defend freedom of speech. Foreign students and faculty make American higher ed great. Free assembly & speech make this country great.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@andrewleber.bsky.social and I have an op-ed out in @nolanews.bsky.social urging @tulaneu.bsky.social to denounce and take legal action to stop the unconstitutional and utterly un-American attacks on foreign students and faculty for their political speech.
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Tulane professors: Tulane must speak out to protect international students
Tulane professors: The Trump administration's actions in relation to international students at U.S. universities are those of an autocrat. Tulane officials must speak out.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If I were a parent, I would not pay $87,000 per year to send my kid to a school that would expel them for exercising their First Amendment rights ***off-campus.***
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"Tulane not among 400 academic institutions to sign letter criticizing Trump’s education intrusion" tulanehullabaloo.com/69720/news/t...
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Tulane not among 400 academic institutions to sign letter criticizing Trump’s education intrusion • The Tulane Hullabaloo
A letter criticizing the Trump administration's higher-ed policies, signed by over 400 academic institutions, was not signed by Tulane...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
1. NEWS The letter that Harvard University received from the Trump administration last Friday, which set off a public battle between the university and the administration, was sent by mistake and was not authorized.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
LMAO - White House said it was Harvard's fault that they did not pick up to verify a letter that the admin said was coming, was on govt letterhead, and signed by three agency officials. Also, the administration stands by the letter. Which was a mistake. What a clown show.
A senior White House official said the administration stood by the letter, calling the university’s decision to publicly rebuff the administration overblown and blaming Harvard for not continuing discussions.

“It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist. “Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Ah - Trump said that their letter allowing them to take over Harvard was sent in error. That is some pretty furious backpeddling. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Another story that must be told: An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.” Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him. “Take him anyway,” came the reply.
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Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Bending the knee just makes it easier for them to kick you in the head: Columbia example number 104
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Political Science Department at Northwestern University @polisciatnu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
MUST READ new article from @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters via @bjpols.bsky.social Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina doi.org/10.1017/S000... #openaccess #polisky #NUResearch
Diaz, Gustavo, Virginia Oliveros, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and Matthew S. Winters. “Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina.” British Journal of Political Science 55 (2025): e54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000668.

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How does a politician’s gender shape citizen responses to performance in office? Much of the existing literature suggests that voters hold higher expectations of women politicians and are more likely to punish them for malfeasance. An alternative perspective suggests that voters view men politicians as more agentic and are, therefore, more responsive to their performance, whether good or bad. Using an online survey experiment in Argentina, we randomly assign respondents to information that the distribution of a government food programme in a hypothetical city is biased or unbiased, and we also randomly assign the gender of the mayor. We find that respondents are more responsive to performance information – both positive and negative – about men mayors. We find little evidence that respondents hold different expectations of malfeasance by men versus women politicians. These results contribute to our understanding of how citizens process performance information in a context with few women politicians.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
ICMYI: reported protests in the US in 2025 are almost certainly outpacing protests during Trump 1.0. In March 2025, we recorded significant growth in the number of cumulative events, and also an uptick in the rate of events (# of protests/week).
Line graph showing comparison of reported protests from Jan 22 through March 31 in both 2017 and 2025. The graph shows 3X more events in 2025 than in the same period in 2017, as well as some prominent upticks in the rate of events per week in 2025.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
They were all sent to GEO private prisons. There's a rent-seeking element here.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025
NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Princeton, Tufts, U Mich, Georgetown - some better responses starting to circulate
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Super happy to see this finally out! Coauthored with a dream team! @gustavodiaz.org Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters Check it out! 👇🏼 *long thread with a summary of the argument may be coming soon
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Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - Volume 55
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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