Allison Archer
@allisonarcher.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Houston researching media and politics.
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The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee.
🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/
🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee.
🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/
🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/
I'm chairing the Public Opinion division this year -- please consider submitting your proposals to PO!
Submissions close next week! Have you submitted your #APSA2026 proposals?
Join political scientists and scholars in #Boston, for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 3–6, to address the latest scholarship in political science.
📄 Submit proposals by January 14th! buff.ly/ssE37eh
Join political scientists and scholars in #Boston, for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 3–6, to address the latest scholarship in political science.
📄 Submit proposals by January 14th! buff.ly/ssE37eh
Call for Proposals: 2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition | "Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild" | Deadline: January 14, 2026
Submit your 2026 proposals now! The American Political Science Association (APSA) invites proposals for the 122nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts, from September 3–6, 2026, to address the latest scholarship in political science and explore this year’s conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.”
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January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I'm chairing the Public Opinion division this year -- please consider submitting your proposals to PO!
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Have you submitted your #APSA2026 Annual Meeting proposals? Join us for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, September 3–6, exploring the conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” Deadline: 1/14 Submit your proposals now: buff.ly/PYyBksl
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Have you submitted your #APSA2026 Annual Meeting proposals? Join us for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, September 3–6, exploring the conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” Deadline: 1/14 Submit your proposals now: buff.ly/PYyBksl
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Check out our new article looking at who wanted to quit Twitter and who decided to wait and see after ownership of the platform changed hands.
How did Twitter users react right after Elon Musk bought the social media site? @macaukfmak.bsky.social @zeningduan.bsky.social Sijia Yang and I used a panel survey (wave 1 before Musk took control of Twitter, wave 2 after) to find out. 1/ urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
To quit or not to quit Twitter? The interplay of identities, perceptions, and behavioral reactions to changing platform ownership
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (now ‘X’) raised concerns about its governance and functioning. Using this as a case study, we propose a framework to analyze the interplay of social identities, ...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Check out our new article looking at who wanted to quit Twitter and who decided to wait and see after ownership of the platform changed hands.
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Elite rhetoric is instrumental in shaping views of partisan media outlets.
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Elite rhetoric is instrumental in shaping views of partisan media outlets.
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
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🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
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@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Comparative Politics - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an Assistant, Associate, ...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
#psjobs
#psjminfo
careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
#psjobs
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@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - American Political Thought - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an open rank position of ...
careers.uh.edu
September 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.
Professor - Aspire Institute for Global Engagement Endowed Professor - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for tenured Professor for the...
careers.uh.edu
August 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.
September 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.
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The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
L.A. Times Owner Says He Will Take Newspaper Public in Next Year
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July 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
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Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
What Is News?
As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut. Pew Research Center.
www.pewresearch.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
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Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA
May 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA
Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!
**NEW ISSUE**
Volume 58 Number 2 is now officially published!
Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....
Volume 58 Number 2 is now officially published!
Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....
May 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!
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Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies
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Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
April 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
April 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
March 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵
March 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵
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New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models.
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models.
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
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Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...
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The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
And what it means for American Democracy
data4democracy.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...
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More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages.
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages.
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...