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But what about his handshake?

Almost half of Britons (47%) mistakenly believe that migration to the UK is primarily illegal rather than legal.

This view is held by 72% of those who support requiring large numbers of migrants to leave

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Designing Conjoint Experiments in Qualtrics — Sierra Davis Thomander conjoint experiment, Qualtrics, Qualtrics survey, candidate choice experiment, survey template, Javascript, HTML, experimental design, market research, product design, public policy research, Sierra D...

Want to make a conjoint experiment in Qualtrics? I'm sharing a template + how-to I made while Survey Lab manager this past semester. I hope it is helpful! sierradavisthomander.com/blogposts/de...

W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

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Is the elite experiments still ongoing? Last I heard from them was COVID.

I vaguely know there is a DC area group. I assume southern universities have something?

Also, perhaps most important, who do Hawaii scholars hang out with?

Socal has the socal behavior conference and the PIPE conferences.

Is the Chicago area behavior conference still a thing?

Is there a public listing of the various political science mini conferences?

Off the top of my head you have PRIEC, SPIRE and MARGIE for REP folks.

There is the Four Corner Political Psychology Conference, Four Corners Conflict Network, and FRPSA in the mountain west.

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I will never recover from the COVID market. Has it been 5 years already?

1362. A mermaid appeared.

I tell my students no more than three papers.

I don't follow my own advice.

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Added. Thanks for the tip.

PS Jobs - Job Listings This is a listing of academic jobs for political scientists. If a job hasn't been listed yet, you can submit it here.

Contrary to expectations, the job market is about the same this year compared to last year in terms of TT jobs. The big difference I notice so far is fewer explicitly REP jobs. #psjminfo

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/job-listings

Partners | Consortium on the American Political Economy Our partners and related organizations.

The Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group is now soliciting papers for the Fall 2025 semester workshop series www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/partners.

If you're in the Boulder/Denver metro area feel free to join us Sept 19th for a mini conference on race, gender, and immigration politics at CU. We've finalized presenters, but attendee registration is still open.

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior.

Official job ads coming soon...

Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

We’re hiring a junior colleague in AP @au-spa.bsky.social

Please share broadly & questions can come to me! (I’m chair!)

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I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Absolutely WILD

I know I am preaching to the choir, but I think it's important to remember what higher ed represents - merit based social mobility - and why it's worth protecting.

Academia isn't perfect of course. There is a hidden curriculum and lots of old boys networking. Notwithstanding, it is possible for a hard working person with merit to rise up the ranks.

What other institutions allow for social mobility like that? The only other I can think of is the military.

Among other things, what bothers me about the attack on higher ed is that it is one of the few ways to climb up socially. It doesn't matter if you come from South Dakota, East LA, or Manhattan. It doesn't matter if your parents were rich or poor. If you get a PhD you are a Doctor.

Trump administration opens inquiry into universities over Daca scholarships Education department to look into scholarships for students from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program

It is bad public policy to discourage migrants from pursuing higher education. Education helps them learn English, assimilate, increase their lifetime earnings, etc.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Watch Octopuses Team Up With Fish to Hunt—and Punch Those That Don't Contribute The collaboration across species reveals a surprising social behavior of octopuses, researchers say

If you teach about collective action and free-riding this is a neat example to use with students. Octopus and fish team up to hunt (collectively better than separate hunting) and octopus "punches" fish away who try to free ride. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

Policy agendas of the American state legislatures - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Policy agendas of the American state legislatures

Here's a treat for state politics and policy researchers: Ethan Dee and I published a dataset in Nature: Scientific Data with the universe of state legislative bills since ~2009 coded by 28 policy areas. We used a machine learning model built off open source components.

Hello public policy and poli sci folks! If you are on the job market this fall and would like someone like me to look at your materials, I am happy to do so!

Notre Dame has posted a faculty opening for an individual to lead the university's program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy.
Deadline to apply is October 15.

Details here:
apply.interfolio.com/170389

@indianajournos.bsky.social

VERY excited about this massive AI persuasion experiment - big effects on UK policy positions, driven mostly by post-training (rather than hyperpersonalization or model scale); and the more info the model provides, the more persuasive it is