Phillip Ayoub

Lesbian and gay party leaders receive lower leadership evaluations than straight leaders in the UK, and the effects are consistent across genders. Interesting yet discouraging findings in our BJPS paper. @josephfcozza.bsky.social @gdilandro.bsky.social Andrea Aldrich @utgovernment.bsky.social

Mamdani y el voto LGTBIQ+ en Nueva York Los intentos de perfilar al alcalde electo como un radical y sembrar miedo no funcionaron ante la autenticidad del demócrata

Grateful to @elpais.com and editor Pablo León Sánchez for picking up our intervention on Cuomo–Mamdani and the concept of reputational (i.e. how not to use it!). elpais.com/sociedad/lgt...

US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage right The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights.

www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵

Really looking forward to this discussion this afternoon!

Canada ranks 71st for women in politics Canada ranks 71st in the world for women in parliament. Voters support gender quotas to make politics more representative.

For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...

Logo of "Review of International Studies" next to an image of the Earth, with the hashtag "#OpenAccess" on a dark background.

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -

Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs - https://cup.org/4oC35oH

- @nikhil-kalyanpur.bsky.social

#FirstView

The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is.

Very proud of my pal’s public work.

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"

"The UK's upfront immigration costs now vastly exceed other leading research nations, so the UK is struggling to compete. EU countries can more easily attract talent from the EU due to free movement, and from non-EU countries due to their relatively low visa costs. "Non-EU countries are also attractive to global research talent due to lower comparative immigration costs than the UK." British scientific institutions are having to spend huge sums on visa costs for cancer professionals they wish to attract and recruit. The Francis Crick Institute, one of the world's leading biomedical research centres, is now spending more than £500,000 a year on visas for cancer scientists. Cancer Research UK institutes are spending almost £690,000 a year, up 44% from £470,000 in 2022-23.

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

📣 Excited to share a new dataset article with @qalbaugh.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We identify 176 out LGBTQ2S+ candidates in the 2015, 2019 & 2021 Canadian federal elections using a replicable search procedure based on individual candidate searches.

Why does this matter? Because it shows how LGBTQ people still experience stigma about coming out. And it also completely upends the current far right narrative about identities “changing”.

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

The Guardian: Lawyers trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn conversion therapy bans deceived the court about the research they cited, according to the researchers themselves.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Application deadline: 23 November 2025 The Editorial Management Board of the European Journal of Politics and Gender invites applications for the editorship of the journal to run for a period of three years from July 2026, with the possibility of renewing for a second two-year term. The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender. The journal has an Impact Factor of 2.3, ranking in the top quartile of both Political Science and Women’s Studies journals. The journal understands research in ‘politics and gender’ to include both gender and LGBTQIA+ politics. The new editorial team is expected to continue the journal’s LGBTQIA+-inclusive approach to gender and politics scholarship. The current Lead Editors, Phillip Ayoub and Jennifer Piscopo, are stepping down with their Associate Editor team in July 2026. We are looking to appoint a team of two to three new Co-Lead Editors to shape the journal. The newly appointed Co-Lead Editors may work alongside one of the outgoing Lead Editors for a period of several months to ensure a smooth transition.

WE WANT YOU! 🫵

The call for a new editorial team for the EJPG is now open❗
The mandate of the journal's sitting stellar team led by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social will come to an end in July 2026.

📆 Applications must be received by November 23rd

Details of call here: rb.gy/lqidii

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

And this great piece: bsky.app/profile/tabo...

Nigel Farage roundly condemned over plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain Cross-party criticism after Reform UK leader threatens hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants with deportation

Always something to worry about (for those of us who have moved to the UK in recent years) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kristina Stoeckl smiling at the camera

Phillip M. Ayoub looking at the camera

The Sage/CQ Press Award presented by @apsa.bsky.social honors research-based projects focused on advancing social justice.

Congratulations to winners @kstoeckl.bsky.social and @payoub.bsky.social for their scholarship on LGBTQ+ rights.

Read more: politicalsciencenow.com/phillip-ayou...

We’re deeply moved by this award. Thank you! For us, it honors LGBTQ activists who have taught us so much and also recognizes LGBTQ politics as central to the APSA. We are especially grateful to the three wonderful members of the committee whom we look up to, and whose recognition means a lot.

This is a wonderful reminder. I did the same last year and got to see a colleague win a paper award — makes APSA all the more enjoyable to celebrate others‘ great work:) ! (And thank you so much Stu — we’re all so lucky to have you as such a generous and supportive colleague in you!)

Congratulations to Rachel Bernhard, Professorial Fellow, on receiving a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant!

Her project, ‘Walls and Wicked Problems: The Role of Complexity in Politics,’ will investigate how complexity shapes political discourse.

🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/5bYBw

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The political consequences of the mental load Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of extensive media exposure on public perceptions and normalization. It references specific research surveys conducted on Sky News UK and Australia, analyzing changes in public attitudes and policy effects due to media strategies.

NEW -

Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL

"exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population"

- @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🔔 Nomination deadline extended to August 15, 2025! ISA Human Rights colleagues, I'm serving on this committee and we are still accepting nominations. This Human Rights Section award will be given to the best paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention. www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

After 3.5 years, I finished my PhD @uclspp.bsky.social earlier this month. 🙂🎉 Many thanks to my amazing supervisors @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Nils Metternich, @payoub.bsky.social for being incredibly supportive and great mentors throughout!

🌈🤩 @pspolisci.bsky.social has a new special issue on #LGBTQ politics full of insightful and innovative content! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @polisky.bsky.social

Book workshop 3/3 done.

Huge number of people to thank for allowing me to indulge myself and talk about how queer citizens are political animals.

Now just need to finish the thing!
🗳️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you so much, @casmudde.bsky.social ! So kind of you.