Michal Grahn
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Michal Grahn
@grahn.bsky.social
PoliSci Assistant Professor at Uppsala University. AE @respol.bsky.social

Pol behavior, public opinion, sexuality & gender, experiments.🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

Web: michalgrahn.com
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So happy to have received a new, generous grant (500k EUR) from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social to continue exploring the causes and consequences of voluntary segregation among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Sweden. This time with a dream team of @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com
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New paper out! Working with geospatial data is cool.
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social

Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?

We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out

doi.org/10.1086/740816
Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
doi.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social

Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?

We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out

doi.org/10.1086/740816
Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
doi.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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Join us the 17 February at @sns.it in Florence (and online) to discuss equality in academia!
January 30, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus.

We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.
❗My first publication is out!

Using a conjoint experiment with adoption solicitations, @bertous.bsky.social and I demonstrate that modern societies still exhibit prejudice against non-traditional relationships, including same-sex, open and age-gap couples

More below and in @poqjournal.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐

And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?

I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!

Hope this sparks some conversations 💡

tally.so/r/447Xxk
The Mental Load Quiz
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our
Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...
Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination
The process of strategically redefining key liberal-democratic and other widely accepted social and political concepts by the far-right and other illiberal actors has recently become a widespread, ...
doi.org
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Happy new year 2026 from up north! ❄️
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Happy holidays! :) 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is where your e-mail finds me. Happy holidays! 🎄🎄🎄
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Ph-Done, as they say. I’m feeling relieved to be done, happy to have passed, privileged to have so many wonderful friends around me, tired after a hectic week, and excited for what comes next.
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat.

Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Had the pleasure to serve on the examination committee today at Lund University for @jwa.bsky.social brilliant PhD dissertation on feminist activist solidarity and mobilization in Egypt and Tunisia. An insightful work, rich both theoretically and empirically.
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵

We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?

Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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We're happy to announce at least three vacant PhD positions starting in fall 2026! Read more and apply here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...
Forskningsassistent i statsvetenskap - Uppsala universitet
Forskningsassistent i statsvetenskap, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Uppsala universitet
www.uu.se
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
@elinbja.bsky.social and I are leading SWEPSA (Swedish Political Science Association) for the coming two years! Looking forward to it! :)

www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Elin Bjarnegård and Michal Grahn elected to the leadership of SWEPSA – Department of Government – Uppsala University
www.uu.se
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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New article by @rmuriaas.bsky.social and I: While seniority can benefit all parliamentarians and serve as a powerful resource, it does not confer power equally. Women face structural barriers to accessing seniority, and even when they attain it, their legitimacy and influence remains contested.
Staying Power: Unpacking Seniority as a Gendered Informal Institution in Parliament
Abstract. Political seniority—commonly understood as accumulated parliamentary tenure—is an underexamined informal institution that structures access to po
academic.oup.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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New article out! 🔥

I’m excited to share our new piece on how political seniority works as a gendered informal institution that shapes access to power in parliaments.

The article draws on interviews with the French National Assembly.

gendersky polisky

academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Huge congratulations to the best @turnbulldugarte.com & @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social for getting Wallenberg fellowships (equivalent to two ERC grants!!!) So well-deserved!!
Another 27 promising researchers will now receive five-year basic research grants from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This funding provides researchers in the beginning of their careers with the opportunity to contribute groundbreaking new knowledge
#research #science
tinyurl.com/yu4svfjh
Long-term research grants awarded to 27 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
tinyurl.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Yesterday, I had a lovely opportunity to present co-authored work on how to counter femonationalism at
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite!

@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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❗️ Tue, Dec 2, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with

@grahn.bsky.social

"Countering Femonationalism:
Evidence from an Audio-visual Experiment in Germany"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

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December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Tomorrow, the fantastic @grahn.bsky.social is presenting his amazing research at MZES Speaker Series. So glad to have you in Mannheim, Michal!!
❗️ Tue, Dec 2, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with

@grahn.bsky.social

"Countering Femonationalism:
Evidence from an Audio-visual Experiment in Germany"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

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www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM