Eric Merkley
@ericmerkley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto | Director of the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL) | Political behaviour, political and science communication, Canadian/American politics
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Eric Merkley
@ericmerkley.bsky.social
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New article forthcoming in @CJPS_RCSP "Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada." Here I measure the prevalence, and test the correlates of domestic/US partisan news exposure in Canada using data that tracks online behaviour 🧵👇1/
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Top of 9. One run lead. Unreal
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Top of 9. One run lead. Unreal
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Join us next Thursday, November 6 for our event on political polarization and social media featuring @ericmerkley.bsky.social !
More details can be found at www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-med...
More details can be found at www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-med...
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Join us next Thursday, November 6 for our event on political polarization and social media featuring @ericmerkley.bsky.social !
More details can be found at www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-med...
More details can be found at www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-med...
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🚨Registration is open for the TPBW🚨
Join us on Nov. 7-8 to discuss exciting political behavior/behaviour research. We have an awesome list of presentations and posters from all around the 🌏🌍🌎
Program: www.rubenson.org/events
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us on Nov. 7-8 to discuss exciting political behavior/behaviour research. We have an awesome list of presentations and posters from all around the 🌏🌍🌎
Program: www.rubenson.org/events
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration
Registration is now open for the 2025 Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop, taking place November 7 & 8 at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
The deadline to ...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🚨Registration is open for the TPBW🚨
Join us on Nov. 7-8 to discuss exciting political behavior/behaviour research. We have an awesome list of presentations and posters from all around the 🌏🌍🌎
Program: www.rubenson.org/events
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us on Nov. 7-8 to discuss exciting political behavior/behaviour research. We have an awesome list of presentations and posters from all around the 🌏🌍🌎
Program: www.rubenson.org/events
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop🚨
Back for the 11th time with another great line up. Join us Nov 7-8.
Details 👇🏼
Back for the 11th time with another great line up. Join us Nov 7-8.
Details 👇🏼
🚨Registration is open for the TPBW🚨
Join us on Nov. 7-8 to discuss exciting political behavior/behaviour research. We have an awesome list of presentations and posters from all around the 🌏🌍🌎
Program: www.rubenson.org/events
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us on Nov. 7-8 to discuss exciting political behavior/behaviour research. We have an awesome list of presentations and posters from all around the 🌏🌍🌎
Program: www.rubenson.org/events
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration
Registration is now open for the 2025 Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop, taking place November 7 & 8 at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
The deadline to ...
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop🚨
Back for the 11th time with another great line up. Join us Nov 7-8.
Details 👇🏼
Back for the 11th time with another great line up. Join us Nov 7-8.
Details 👇🏼
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Good job team! 🌭 @pearl-uoft.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good job team! 🌭 @pearl-uoft.bsky.social
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He's right, and it's not just Brazil.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
July 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
He's right, and it's not just Brazil.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
New article with @melissabaker.bsky.social out at Politics and the Life Sciences on the dynamic and conditional effects of Big-5 traits on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours 1/
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Big-5 personality traits and their dynamic and conditional effects on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors | Politics and the Life Sciences | Cambridge Core
Big-5 personality traits and their dynamic and conditional effects on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors
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June 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New article with @melissabaker.bsky.social out at Politics and the Life Sciences on the dynamic and conditional effects of Big-5 traits on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours 1/
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New paper with @ericmerkley.bsky.social! Relationship between personality & precautionary pandemic behavior is mostly stable as pandemic circumstances change but relationship between personality & gov policy support/risk perception weaken as circumstances improve. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big-5 personality traits and their dynamic and conditional effects on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors | Politics and the Life Sciences | Cambridge Core
Big-5 personality traits and their dynamic and conditional effects on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors
www.cambridge.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New paper with @ericmerkley.bsky.social! Relationship between personality & precautionary pandemic behavior is mostly stable as pandemic circumstances change but relationship between personality & gov policy support/risk perception weaken as circumstances improve. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/
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Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core
Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada
www.cambridge.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚨 The Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition!
📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk
Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social
📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk
Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
🚨 The Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition!
📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk
Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social
📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk
Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social
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"The American regime today arrested a member of the legislative opposition, after declaring it would 'liberate' that senator's province from opposition control using the armed forces"
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
June 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"The American regime today arrested a member of the legislative opposition, after declaring it would 'liberate' that senator's province from opposition control using the armed forces"
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PIZZABALLA ROLLED BY CHICAGO DEEP-DISH CARDINAL
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
PIZZABALLA ROLLED BY CHICAGO DEEP-DISH CARDINAL
A display of force designed to send a chill through the judiciary. We are heading into very dangerous waters.
April 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A display of force designed to send a chill through the judiciary. We are heading into very dangerous waters.
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If you're at #MPSA2025 and interested in AI as a tool for persuasion, I will be presenting our paper comparing effects of AI and human source cues in reducing certainty in false beliefs on Saturday at 5:10pm (Political Knowledge, Palmer House 7th floor)
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...
April 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If you're at #MPSA2025 and interested in AI as a tool for persuasion, I will be presenting our paper comparing effects of AI and human source cues in reducing certainty in false beliefs on Saturday at 5:10pm (Political Knowledge, Palmer House 7th floor)
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...
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MPSA attendees! Join us this Friday for a great panel + wine and snacks!
If you’re interested in joining APLS, please sign up for the newsletter here: aplsnet.org
If you’re interested in joining APLS, please sign up for the newsletter here: aplsnet.org
Mark your calendars #MPSA2025!
APLS' "conference-within-a-conference" is on Friday 4/4. We've got wine, snacks, and lots of great discussion about emerging issues in politics & the life sciences.
Keynote: Dr. Jennifer Hochshield
Featuring talks from . . . 🧵
CC: @melissabaker.bsky.social
APLS' "conference-within-a-conference" is on Friday 4/4. We've got wine, snacks, and lots of great discussion about emerging issues in politics & the life sciences.
Keynote: Dr. Jennifer Hochshield
Featuring talks from . . . 🧵
CC: @melissabaker.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
MPSA attendees! Join us this Friday for a great panel + wine and snacks!
If you’re interested in joining APLS, please sign up for the newsletter here: aplsnet.org
If you’re interested in joining APLS, please sign up for the newsletter here: aplsnet.org
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If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
March 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
New article forthcoming in @CJPS_RCSP "Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada." Here I measure the prevalence, and test the correlates of domestic/US partisan news exposure in Canada using data that tracks online behaviour 🧵👇1/
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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March 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New article forthcoming in @CJPS_RCSP "Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada." Here I measure the prevalence, and test the correlates of domestic/US partisan news exposure in Canada using data that tracks online behaviour 🧵👇1/
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
UofT facilities worker: "I have to apologize, I saw you walking down the hall and thought to myself 'why is J.D. Vance at UofT?'"
To whom do I report this grievous assault? 😑
To whom do I report this grievous assault? 😑
March 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
UofT facilities worker: "I have to apologize, I saw you walking down the hall and thought to myself 'why is J.D. Vance at UofT?'"
To whom do I report this grievous assault? 😑
To whom do I report this grievous assault? 😑
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