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
a cartoon of donald duck holding a stack of money
ALT: a cartoon of donald duck holding a stack of money
media.tenor.com
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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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www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
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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Detail
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Very unprofessional of the APSR to publish a response to a published article without publishing the original authors' reaction. "They will be published in the same issue." So we see them together when we get our hardcopy in the mail and flip through it on a Sunday afternoon?
A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.

Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.

osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.

Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.

osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM