Michelle Torres
@smtorres.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. @UCLA. @WUSTL PhD. Methods, Political Behavior & PolComm. Dancer, Cards/Blues fan, wine lover & food enthusiast. Orgullosamente CIDE.
Brief pause from maternity leave to share that the article "Nonpartisan ballots and the partisanship of who serves in office", co-authored with the amazing Dan Butler and Adam Dynes, has just been accepted at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Nonpartisan Ballots and the Partisanship of Who Serves in Office | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Brief pause from maternity leave to share that the article "Nonpartisan ballots and the partisanship of who serves in office", co-authored with the amazing Dan Butler and Adam Dynes, has just been accepted at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Go and meet my brilliant co-authors in a very exciting and interesting panel! We would love your feedback!
I'm at #APSA25! On Saturday at 2 pm (Panel "Seeing is Believing: Innovations and Applications in Image Data Analysis"), I'll present a new project with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, and @smtorres.bsky.social in which we quantitatively measure media slant based on news article images.
September 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Go and meet my brilliant co-authors in a very exciting and interesting panel! We would love your feedback!
On my way to EPSA traveling with the newly minted ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @homola.bsky.social! Couldn't be any prouder of and happier for this guy who happens to be my favorite researcher and human being 💜
June 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On my way to EPSA traveling with the newly minted ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @homola.bsky.social! Couldn't be any prouder of and happier for this guy who happens to be my favorite researcher and human being 💜
Enormous win! Beyond excited that I'll call César my colleague. Can't wait! #HSI #LatinosAssemble
🚨News flash🚨
In a late-breaking development, UCLA political science has successfully cut a deal with Cesar Vargas Nuñez, who will be joining our roster in ‘26.
This guy has it all: sharp intellect, highly productive, and an all around great human being. Big win for our department & university.
In a late-breaking development, UCLA political science has successfully cut a deal with Cesar Vargas Nuñez, who will be joining our roster in ‘26.
This guy has it all: sharp intellect, highly productive, and an all around great human being. Big win for our department & university.
March 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Enormous win! Beyond excited that I'll call César my colleague. Can't wait! #HSI #LatinosAssemble
📣DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK!📣 Call for Nominations: Midwest Women’s Caucus Early Career Award
The Midwest Women’s Caucus invites nominations for the Early Career Award, recognizing outstanding research, teaching, and service contributions of early-career scholars (pre-tenure).
The Midwest Women’s Caucus invites nominations for the Early Career Award, recognizing outstanding research, teaching, and service contributions of early-career scholars (pre-tenure).
February 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
📣DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK!📣 Call for Nominations: Midwest Women’s Caucus Early Career Award
The Midwest Women’s Caucus invites nominations for the Early Career Award, recognizing outstanding research, teaching, and service contributions of early-career scholars (pre-tenure).
The Midwest Women’s Caucus invites nominations for the Early Career Award, recognizing outstanding research, teaching, and service contributions of early-career scholars (pre-tenure).
📣Call for nominations 📣
The committee for the Becky Morton & Tom Carsey Political Methodology Mentoring Award is accepting nominations for AY24-25.
This SPM Award honors members who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students.
The committee for the Becky Morton & Tom Carsey Political Methodology Mentoring Award is accepting nominations for AY24-25.
This SPM Award honors members who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students.
February 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
📣Call for nominations 📣
The committee for the Becky Morton & Tom Carsey Political Methodology Mentoring Award is accepting nominations for AY24-25.
This SPM Award honors members who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students.
The committee for the Becky Morton & Tom Carsey Political Methodology Mentoring Award is accepting nominations for AY24-25.
This SPM Award honors members who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students.
Submit your papers and reach out with any questions:
📢 Call for Papers!
Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era
Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2
co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social
More details below 👇
Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era
Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2
co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social
More details below 👇
Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Digital Communication in Social Movement
| Computational Communication Research
tinyurl.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Submit your papers and reach out with any questions:
Is @latimes.com 's Soon-Shiong EVER going to answer to these scandals? This is shocking and incredibly scary.
My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
January 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Is @latimes.com 's Soon-Shiong EVER going to answer to these scandals? This is shocking and incredibly scary.
¡Feliz de regresar a casa! Y más para celebrar sus 50 años. Infinitamente agradecida por la invitación. ¡Nos vemos mañana!
November 10, 2024 at 9:52 PM
¡Feliz de regresar a casa! Y más para celebrar sus 50 años. Infinitamente agradecida por la invitación. ¡Nos vemos mañana!
The strongest evidence of the intergenerational gap between me and my grad students is not that they don't get my TAR jokes or that they don't know who Dirk Nowitzki is. It is that they understand my references to Bluey 🙈 (after seeing my costume ears: "are you a fox or Bingo?")
October 31, 2024 at 6:29 PM
The strongest evidence of the intergenerational gap between me and my grad students is not that they don't get my TAR jokes or that they don't know who Dirk Nowitzki is. It is that they understand my references to Bluey 🙈 (after seeing my costume ears: "are you a fox or Bingo?")
Beyond proud of my undergrad students who crushed the poster session today! They're young, hard working, bright & kind. It was a lot of work but this is my rough and tiny attempt at channeling the great & incomparable @rkwrice . Thanks everyone for your help and work!
December 6, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Beyond proud of my undergrad students who crushed the poster session today! They're young, hard working, bright & kind. It was a lot of work but this is my rough and tiny attempt at channeling the great & incomparable @rkwrice . Thanks everyone for your help and work!