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James Dennison
@jamesrdennison.bsky.social
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Political and social scientist
Prof @mpc-eui.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social & Pierre Keller Prof @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
Interests: attitudes, behaviour, comms, migration, quant, 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 politics
www.jamesdennison.eu
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ienesatac.bsky.social
🚨 New publication: “The Wages of Ethnic Power: Socioeconomic Status, Group Threat, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Western Europe” 🚨

Just published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with Charles Seguin and Brandon Gorman.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025
Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...
journals.sagepub.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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leonardocarella.bsky.social
It’s very revealing how the techno-futurist crowd assumes that the rest of us also treat other people as props and gadgets in our lives, as opposed to valuing the fact that there’s a thinking, feeling person there.
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19h
New insult to life itself just dropped
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
jamesrdennison.bsky.social
This is an absolutely fantastic video by @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social : "Could Britain rejoin Europe?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKk...
Could Britain Rejoin Europe?
YouTube video by Prof James Ker-Lindsay
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
📢 @jamesrdennison.bsky.social, @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & Mariana Carmo Duarte: Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2419550
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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sophieehill.bsky.social
Even in the era of zero-cost LLMs, some scientists are still crafting data for their clinical trials by hand... and getting published in the @bmj.com!

Inspiring.

pubpeer.com/publications...
screenshot of Pubpeer comment. Out of the 396 rows in the dataset, 131 rows have non-missing values for cholesterol. All of these 131 rows are "clones", meaning that they have an identical match in the data across all of these lab panel variables: WBC, Hb, Plt, BUN, Cr, Na, BS, TOTALCHO, LDL, HDL, TG. For example, one clone group looks like this: <table> Looking at the observation ids for each clone group reveals a clear pattern: they are in groups of 4 (except for one), and follow a clear pattern (n, n+101, n+202, n+303). <table>
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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euobserver.com
EU repeats request for Israel to let in media into Gaza
EU repeats request for Israel to let in media into Gaza
The EU has again called on Israel to let foreign journalists into Gaza, but has no say on their access via Rafah.
euobserver.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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zibaldoni.bsky.social
Kemi made me do it.
Version of the Simpsons 'bus driver taps the sign' meme in which the tapped text reads 'Your reminder that the UK book industry is worth over £7bn, more than four times the steel industry (1.7bn) and six times the fishing industry (£1.1bn) so maybe English degrees do have a point after all.'
October 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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euobserver.com
EU states have provisionally agreed to curb Russian diplomats' travel and ban imports of liquid gas, but Austria and Slovakia still have objections to the next round of sanctions.
Austria isolated, as EU edges toward Russia sanctions deal
EU states have provisionally agreed to curb Russian diplomats' travel and ban imports of liquid gas, but Austria and Slovakia still have objections to the next round of sanctions.
euobserver.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈

But is this really the case?

doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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snmorgenstern.bsky.social
⚠️New publication @ssreditorial.bsky.social

📖 #ethics in the practical implementation of #migration information campaigns

➡️ Sender credibility and Anxiety-trigger both impactful for information provision
➡️ but via distinct paths: No double-down-effect

🛄 Multi-treatment RCT, N=2612 in Nigeria
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
reminded today of the incredible Summerhill parody in The Day Today, which is both *extremely* specific and very funny even if you have no idea what Summerhill was.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tebh...
BRASS EYE - The Drumlake Experiment (E02 - Drugs)
YouTube video by dysfunksjon
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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polstudies.bsky.social
IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com
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September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza
Cartoon. Image shows NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Gaza’s ruins, talking to a gaunt woman, huddled with her two children. He’s saying, “New Zealand is a very principled nation. We won’t be rushed”
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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davidpmolina.com
The light of dawn hits cirrus clouds just right for a beautiful palette of cool and warm colors. Photo taken at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. August 2025.

#Stunday #CratersoftheMoon #Idaho #NationalParks #photography #travel #camping #dawn #clouds
The light of dawn hits cirrus clouds just right for a beautiful palette of cool and warm colors. Photo taken at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. Nearby there are green bushes and grass, with a few pines farther away.
September 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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evakrejcova.bsky.social
1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
Another problem is that UK politics has a serious "pipeline problem".

If Starmer keeled over tomorrow, I've no idea who would replace him.

I don't even know who the frontrunners would be.

There are no experienced, tested candidates in either main party, because UK politics no longer develops that
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Sep 11
I suspect Starmer would be in more peril if MPs still picked the leader.

Under the present rules, Labour MPs can fell a prime minister but they can't replace him. And right now, no one can predict who the membership would choose.

That will make many MPs nervous.
www.ft.com/content/1487...
Extract from article by Stephen Bush: "Badenoch may not be the only leader not to make it all the way to the next general election. Starmer’s government increasingly resembles Boris Johnson’s in the early autumn of 2021: struggling with inflation, hit by scandals and developing a reputation among its own MPs for a nightmare combination of bullheaded stubbornness and brittleness under pressure. There is a significant appetite among Labour MPs to believe that the government can still be turned around without a change of leader and all the instability that would bring. But a moment of crisis or panic could very swiftly make this government resemble Johnson’s in 2022: undone by panicking, unhappy backbenchers, blundering from landslide to disaster in a single term. "
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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shakespeare.lol
The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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ryancbriggs.net
The pretty draft is now online.

Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow- ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the statistical power of political science research.
September 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
Donald Trump, Peter Mandelson & Jeffrey Epstein. From Matt.
September 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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nickanstead.bsky.social
Remembering my childhood in Camberley, Surrey (at a later date, Michael Gove’s seat) where the Conservative controlled council proudly flew the 🇪🇺 flag outside their offices, at about that period of time.
polstudies.bsky.social Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Sep 3
IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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polstudies.bsky.social
IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
jamesrdennison.bsky.social
Excellent article on the rapid and generally positive changes across the South of England right now
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
In some ways, rural Britain is changing faster than its cities
More people, more homes, more solar farms
www.economist.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM