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Efrén Pérez

@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social

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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 6h

Do your hands talk when you do? 🗣️✋

Check out this @duke-university.bsky.social write up about my new work with my postdoc Esha Naidu (she is on the job market!) showing gestures reflect culture & identity—our nonverbal “accents” can shape interracial communication.

trinity.duke.edu/news/talking...

Talking with Our Hands: Duke Study Reveals How Culture Shapes Our Gestures

You are having dinner with friends, and the conversation is lively. Do your hands join the chat, or do they stay focused on your knife and fork?

trinity.duke.edu

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 7h

OK but Juan Gabriel > Bad Bunny www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

Before Bad Bunny, the World Had Juan Gabriel

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Meredith Farkas

Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 15h

this is literally never not accurate

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Nathan P. Kalmoe

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

The 2026 primaries could be the bloodbath Dem incumbents largely avoided in 2018

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Nathan P. Kalmoe

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Daniel W. Drezner

Maria Lorraine @marialorraine.bsky.social · 1d

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“The President was not sleeping,” WH spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said.

Trump, who repeatedly mocked President Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe,” had his eyes closed, was slumped in his chair, and snored while Dr. Oz was speaking.

Gift article:
wapo.st/4oqQm8F

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣👍🏽

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d

When you get an email from your department chair asking you to head a new committee:

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 5d

And ya’ll thought I was kidding that if the Dodgers won the World Series, I’d have a grandson named Juan Antonio Shohei Roki Yoshinobu Pérez

Look at my co-ethnics already ⚾️🇲🇽

Reposted by Will Jennings, Efrén O. Pérez, Dan Immergluck , and 1 more Will Jennings, Efrén O. Pérez, Dan Immergluck, David Darmofal

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 5d

More broadly, heavily-Latino counties moved far to the right in NJ last year, and back to the left this year:

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Efrén O. Pérez, Stuart Shapiro

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 5d

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections

Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash

www.gelliottmorris.com

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 3 more Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Efrén O. Pérez, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 6d

It looks like public polls had a small Republican bias in VA and a relatively large one in NJ this year.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Linda J. Skitka , and 3 more Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Linda J. Skitka, Efrén O. Pérez, Calvin K. Lai, Mohammad Atari

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 6d

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

iconic scene from Grey's Anatomy. Meredith Grey in scrub telling Derek "so pick me, choose me, love me"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t drive fancy cars or wear expensive clothes, but man do I throw some mean family parties with live mariachi and norteño music
🇲🇽🌵🤠

And I do it for memories like this one, with my parents and sisters, from 2 weeks ago (right when the last band left) 🪗🥁🎶

#PerezFamilyPride

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 7d

Cevich time in LA’s San Fernando Valley 🇲🇽🌵🔥

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 7d

We dedicated the paper to our co-author James Liu:
"We express our heartfelt gratitude for the invaluable contributions of our late coauthor, Professor James H. Liu, whose research vision, dedication, and insight have left a lasting impact on this work and whose memory we deeply honor."

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Efrén O. Pérez

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 7d

And here's the paper, led by the incredible Silvia Mari, in which we find that stronger beliefs in traditional gender roles is associated with less voting intention across 18 countries.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 7d

Analysis of rainfall changes and flood consequences

🧪 #climate #environment
#earth

wapo.st/4oklfvh

Deadly rivers in the sky

A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.

wapo.st

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Efrén O. Pérez, Robert C. Richards , and 3 more Anna O. Law, Efrén O. Pérez, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Stella M. Rouse, David Darmofal

Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 7d

Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase.

New explainer of our PNAS study:
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...

Amateur hour in Congress: How political newcomers fuel gridlock and government shutdowns

The public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more likely to view bipartisanship as a concession, not a tool for advancing policy.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Mirya R. Holman, Christian Flachsland , and 1 more Efrén O. Pérez, Mirya R. Holman, Christian Flachsland, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 8d

“Can political activism foster electoral participation?” Study examines “1913 Pilgrimage, a large-scale nationwide march in support of women’s suffrage.” Finds “women’s activism can drive political participation even in the virtual absence of women politicians.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women
Mona Morgan-Collins
and
Valeria Rueda

Abstract

Can political activism foster electoral participation? We investigate this question by examining the role of the British suffragists in fostering women’s electoral participation. While scholars have shown that women politicians increase women’s participation in politics, less attention has been paid to the role of activists. We fill this gap by studying the 1913 Pilgrimage, a large-scale nationwide march in support of women’s parliamentary suffrage. Using a novel database of geocoded electoral registers, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy to show that proximity to the Pilgrimage increased women’s registration in local elections. To explain this effect, we show that exposure to women activists spurred other women’s political mobilization, and that our results are not driven by an endogenous selection of the march path and cannot be attributed to mobilization by other movements or politicians. Our findings highlight that women’s activism can drive political participation even in the virtual absence of women politicians.

Figure 2. Map of the march and data availability at the division level.
Note: March path in sampled counties is along main roads connecting stopping points and along straight lines outside the sample (see Appendix Figure C.1 for stopping points).

Figure 3. The effects of the march using different treatment definitions.
Note: Plots the coefficient of interest β, defined using different distance buffers; ninety per cent and ninety-five per cent CIs; standard errors clustered at the parliamentary division level, using Model 2 in Table 3

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 8d

If Mexican food is not the best in the world, how come our dead keep coming back from the grave to eat it? #DiaDeMuertos

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 9d

Emiliano and team celebrating their season-ending game ⚾️🇲🇽🌵⚾️

Nick Valentino @nickvalentino.bsky.social · 9d

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies

electionstudies.org

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 9d

When people ask about office hours, the last sentence is key 🇲🇽🌵

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 9d

Halloween in Harlem be like 🎃

A photo of a sign written in Spanish saying something like “no triko tri” (presumably no treat or trick) and stop bothering the s**t of us

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 9d

Halloween in Harlem be like 🎃

Reposted by Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Steve Peers , and 12 more Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, American Library Association, Efrén O. Pérez, Philip Nel, Robert Black, Laurent Pech, David R. Miller, Henry Jones, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Aviel Roshwald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 10d

BREAKING: US judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship reut.rs/49vlwXM

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, David Darmofal

Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 10d

Here is the history of the refugee cap US presidents have set since the creation of the country's resettlement program in 1980. Yesterday, Trump announced a cap of 7500, half of the 15k cap he had set in his first administration. 15k was unprecedentedly low then, 7.5k is unprecedentedly low now.

refugee cap and number of refugees admitted by year from 1980 to 2023. Shows a decrease over time, from more than 200k at the start of the program (1980) to 15k under Trump 1. Biden rose the cap to 150k, where the graph ends.

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 10d

2 Mexican parents celebrating Halloween at their kids’ school amidst the national turmoil 🇲🇽😎

I’m the Garfield, but I eat pozole instead of lasagna 🌵🇲🇽

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