Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab

SPSP make some big announcements this morning. Congratulations to all the SAGE Emerging Scholar Awardees this year including @sakierahudson.bsky.social ! spsp.org/membership/a...

What explains the diploma divide? - Niskanen Center Voters with college degrees are increasingly supporting Democrats, with Republicans now doing better among those without college—a big reversal in recent decades.

What explains the diploma divide?

College education is increasingly dividing Democrats from Republicans as cultural issues rise in import & college grads move leftward

New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast with @wpmarble.bsky.social & @zingherpolisci.bsky.social
www.niskanencenter.org/what-explain...

title of Study Schimpf, C., Wuttke, A., & Schoen, H. (2023). Neither a Trait nor Wildly Fluctuating: On the Stability of Populist Attitudes and its Implications for Empirical Research.

Are populist attitudes best understood as a trait-like worldview or as an issue position, changing with the politics of the day?

New study with C. Schimpf & H. Schoen in @bjpols.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Assistant Professor of American Politics

#polisky
We're hiring!
CP (file review begins 10/13): uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/153...
AP (file review begins 10/20): uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/154...
PA/PP (file review begins 10/30): uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/154...
& USC has Social Determinants of Health searches:
uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/154...

What could this picture of me buried beneath a couch full of disobedient dogs possibly tell you about my political beliefs? Check out the data in this new @goodauth.bsky.social piece to find out. 
goodauthority.org/news/the-pol...

Two cool papers showing that proximity to migrants and exposure to mass migration *do not* lead to overall increases in anti-immigrant sentiment.

A common narrative on the center and right is that immigration reduces social cohesion. This and other research (e.g., Hopkins’) suggests otherwise.

‼️Announcement‼️
Hi everyone, my lab (Youth and Society Lab) website is now up and I am happy to announce that I will be recruiting a doctoral student to work with me starting in the fall of 2024. lab.vanderbilt.edu/youthandsoci...

@repslab.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Why the first Black lesbian senator matters Sen. Laphonza Butler being sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo via @VP. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Laphonza Butler, sworn in

Senator Butler is not Barbara Lee, but as Nadia Brown (@brownphdgirl.bsky.social) writes, "their records reveal that Butler and Lee share similar commitments to women’s issues, advocacy for marginalized groups, and illustrious records in public life." goodauthority.org/news/why-the...

👋New Working Paper 📄🧵

When pollsters or researchers use online samples to study Black voters, who exactly are they reaching?

W. Halm, M. Huerta, J. Torres & I compare multiple surveys during Philadelphia's 2023 Dem. mayoral primary to find out.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Post-baccalaureate Fellow – Junior Specialist University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

Colleagues in political science, please share this opportunity for a full-time position at @ucrpolisci.bsky.social for a recent graduate who will support the NSF-funded MSIRA program. Will be especially beneficial for someone considering a PhD in political science!

Got a new working paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them w/ appointed city managers

design: shift-share IV

paper: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r54lw...

Do you like high table? Do you like countryside walks and high tea? Do you have a budding research agenda? This is the best. Gendersky

What do California voters think about @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's choice of Laphonza Butler for US Senator? Data Viewpoint and I polled a representative sample of California voters on October 1, right before the appointment.

Full poll results are here: dataviewpoint.godaddysites.com/2023-poll-of...

Great line up for speakers for the Social Cog Preconference at SPSP in San Diego. 👇👇👇

Chef’s kiss 💋👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Hey SPSPers, Kate Ratliff and I are excited to co-organize the Social Cognition Preconference for #SPSP2024! We have an amazing list of speakers: Jimmy Calanchini, Jennifer Kubota, Brian Lucas, Tal Moran, Jordan Starck, Sabrina Thai, and Keith Maddox (keynote)!! Hope to see you there!

Photo of UIC Campus with Chicago skyline

Social psych job alert! The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is hiring a TT assistant professor. We particularly encourage those already in assistant prof positions to apply. See below for more info about the search & our dept. Please share!

Job ad: tinyurl.com/uicsocialsea...

Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.

We are still searching for a program manger here at PDRI-DevLab, who would manage a portfolio of studies around migration, displacement and human trafficking. Come work with Erik Wibbels, and I and our great, fun, and collegial team. Please consider applying (or nudging others to apply).

New Halloween costume this year.

Brief introduction:
Hi, I'm Max and a PhD student in the Netherlands. I research how our social and cultural environment influences our implicit and explicit biases. What happens when there are large-scale protests? Or cultural celebrations? I'm also a big Open Science advocate. Nice to meet you :)

Introduction: Bringing Activism Back In Two main questions animate our desire to produce this special issue: first, what are the main claims, struggles and possibilities of contemporary intersectional feminisms; and second, how shall we,...

I co-edited a Special Issue on Intersectional Feminisms based on scholarly conversations/connections from the European Conference on Gender & Politics - the essays are all ungated. Check it out!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AVTM2...

Introducing the Center for Conflict and Cooperation at New York University We are launching a new Center at New York University to conduct and coordinate global, large-scale research on intergroup relations

I'm excited to launch the CENTER FOR CONFLICT & COOPERATION @NYU. We are planning research around the world on topics related to social identity, intergroup relations, polarization & social media.

Subscribe to learn about—and join—our research: jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/introducin...

US adults across racial backgrounds, strongly associated vegetarianism with Whiteness

Racially inclusive messaging about vegetarianism, may increase vegetarian belongingness among Black people

#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

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