Jana Belschner
@janabelschner.bsky.social
Researcher Comparative Politics at UiB, Norway |Political behavior & representation | TMF StG «Representing the Future» | Berliner in Norway 😳
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Gen-Z Turnout in a Compulsory System: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social examine what drives Gen-Z electoral behaviour by surveying them about their '22 AU federal election choices. Read OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/3CAvTvp
@uoypolitics.bsky.social
@uoypolitics.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gen-Z Turnout in a Compulsory System: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social examine what drives Gen-Z electoral behaviour by surveying them about their '22 AU federal election choices. Read OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/3CAvTvp
@uoypolitics.bsky.social
@uoypolitics.bsky.social
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Our article on Gen-Z turnout in Australia (w/ Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social) is now out (open access) in Political Studies 🎉
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A quick thread 🧵:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A quick thread 🧵:
Young Voters, Abstainers and Unregistered: Generation Z Turnout in a Compulsory System - Sofia Ammassari, Ferran Martinez i Coma, Duncan McDonnell, 2025
While young people’s electoral behaviour in voluntary voting systems has been extensively studied, we know little about this in compulsory systems. To investiga...
journals.sagepub.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our article on Gen-Z turnout in Australia (w/ Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social) is now out (open access) in Political Studies 🎉
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A quick thread 🧵:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A quick thread 🧵:
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Our first publication from the @g-epicproject.bsky.social project is now available online, open access. Co-authored with a great team :) www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
Beyond Gender: Exploring the Intersectional Dynamics in Political Interest Among Youth | Article | Politics and Governance
Gema García-Albacete, Lidia Núñez, David Sánchez, Simone Abendschön, Philipp Kleer
www.cogitatiopress.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Our first publication from the @g-epicproject.bsky.social project is now available online, open access. Co-authored with a great team :) www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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Høyrebølgen blant unge gutter har kommet for å bli sier Sampols @janabelschner.bsky.social til TV 2. Utviklingen er viktig, fordi de politiske grunnholdningene vi utvikler sent i tenårene, ofte varer livet ut. Høyredreiningen kan derfor få varig effekt for norsk politikk.
www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...
www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...
- Dette er kommet for å bli
Høyrebølgen blant norsk ungdom er viktig, sier forsker. Hun spår varig effekt for norsk politikk.
www.tv2.no
January 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Høyrebølgen blant unge gutter har kommet for å bli sier Sampols @janabelschner.bsky.social til TV 2. Utviklingen er viktig, fordi de politiske grunnholdningene vi utvikler sent i tenårene, ofte varer livet ut. Høyredreiningen kan derfor få varig effekt for norsk politikk.
www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...
www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...
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We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour
Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.
www.nature.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Representerer vi fremtiden? Generasjonskløfter i politisk deltakelse og representasjon" @janabelschner.bsky.social (@sampol.bsky.social) er gjest på #AkademiskMorgenkaffe på onsdag. Les mer og sjekk ut programmet for #AkademiskMorgenkaffe i ukene som kommer her: www.uib.no/svf/175014/a...
January 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Representerer vi fremtiden? Generasjonskløfter i politisk deltakelse og representasjon" @janabelschner.bsky.social (@sampol.bsky.social) er gjest på #AkademiskMorgenkaffe på onsdag. Les mer og sjekk ut programmet for #AkademiskMorgenkaffe i ukene som kommer her: www.uib.no/svf/175014/a...
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Why is the belief in meritocracy so pervasive?
New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in:
"More effort = more success!"
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪
New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in:
"More effort = more success!"
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪
January 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Why is the belief in meritocracy so pervasive?
New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in:
"More effort = more success!"
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪
New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in:
"More effort = more success!"
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪
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People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions.
See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al:
—PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2...
—Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al:
—PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2...
—Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
January 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions.
See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al:
—PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2...
—Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al:
—PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2...
—Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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While ‘Good’ wealth contributes to the common good, ‘Bad’ wealth occurs when disproportionate and unmerited power is used to seize a larger slice of the economic pie at the expense of others.
Stewart Lansley explores the impact of wealth accumulation.
Stewart Lansley explores the impact of wealth accumulation.
Wealth Accumulation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Has the wealth boom been good or bad news for economies and the rest of society?
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January 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
While ‘Good’ wealth contributes to the common good, ‘Bad’ wealth occurs when disproportionate and unmerited power is used to seize a larger slice of the economic pie at the expense of others.
Stewart Lansley explores the impact of wealth accumulation.
Stewart Lansley explores the impact of wealth accumulation.
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♀️Do citizens evaluate quota and non-quota politicians similarly?
➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
January 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
♀️Do citizens evaluate quota and non-quota politicians similarly?
➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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Sociologists working on inequality:
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
January 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Sociologists working on inequality:
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
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Kärnten stimmt gegen Windräder, Weidel will sie alle abreißen... Warum soviel Ablehnung, obwohl Windkraft für die Klimaziele wichtig wäre? Eine kürzliche Studie zeigt: Dahinter steckt oft ein Mix aus Falschinformationen und Verschwörungsmentalität: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms - Nature Communications
Six surveys show substantial public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Agreement with diverse contrarian claims is best predicted by participants’ worldviews, most notably the tendency to...
www.nature.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Kärnten stimmt gegen Windräder, Weidel will sie alle abreißen... Warum soviel Ablehnung, obwohl Windkraft für die Klimaziele wichtig wäre? Eine kürzliche Studie zeigt: Dahinter steckt oft ein Mix aus Falschinformationen und Verschwörungsmentalität: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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5. Promovieren braucht Zeit. Erstverträge für Promovierende müssen deshalb eine Laufzeit von mindestens vier Jahren haben.
Und bitte: Schluss mit der Vollzeitarbeit auf Teilzeitstellen wegen "Wettbewerbssituation"! #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025
@amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social
Und bitte: Schluss mit der Vollzeitarbeit auf Teilzeitstellen wegen "Wettbewerbssituation"! #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025
@amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
5. Promovieren braucht Zeit. Erstverträge für Promovierende müssen deshalb eine Laufzeit von mindestens vier Jahren haben.
Und bitte: Schluss mit der Vollzeitarbeit auf Teilzeitstellen wegen "Wettbewerbssituation"! #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025
@amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social
Und bitte: Schluss mit der Vollzeitarbeit auf Teilzeitstellen wegen "Wettbewerbssituation"! #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025
@amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social
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Glad to learn of this, & to see it refer to the classic Cook & Farewell paper on multiplicity in #ClinicalTrials. People need to know that corrections are sometimes appropriate for testing a union (H1 OR H2) but not for testing H1 just because you test H2 a minute later. #StatsSky #rct #Statistics
Not every analysis of multiple () requires multiplicity adjustments (correcting p-values for multiple testing):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Inconsistent multiple testing corrections: The fallacy of using family-based error rates to make inferences about individual hypotheses
During multiple testing, researchers often adjust their alpha level to control the familywise error rate for a statistical inference about a joint uni…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Glad to learn of this, & to see it refer to the classic Cook & Farewell paper on multiplicity in #ClinicalTrials. People need to know that corrections are sometimes appropriate for testing a union (H1 OR H2) but not for testing H1 just because you test H2 a minute later. #StatsSky #rct #Statistics
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Are you an early-career social scientist exploring the impacts of conflict, insecurity, or war? Apply to the WarEffects Global Fellows Network:
✨ Research grants
✨ Workshop opportunities
✨ Publication support
📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25
🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...
✨ Research grants
✨ Workshop opportunities
✨ Publication support
📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25
🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...
January 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Are you an early-career social scientist exploring the impacts of conflict, insecurity, or war? Apply to the WarEffects Global Fellows Network:
✨ Research grants
✨ Workshop opportunities
✨ Publication support
📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25
🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...
✨ Research grants
✨ Workshop opportunities
✨ Publication support
📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25
🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...
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It's fair to expect that places with more older people need more adult social care services to support them.
However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.
However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.
January 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It's fair to expect that places with more older people need more adult social care services to support them.
However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.
However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.
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My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...
January 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Great upcoming seminar on gender inequalities in Academia organised by @geypog.bsky.social !!
GenderSky Polisky
GenderSky Polisky
🌟 Save the date of our @geypog.bsky.social seminar 12th February on Gender Inequalities in Academia! 🌟 h 2 pm online. Registration needed here: geypo.es/event/geypo-...
January 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Great upcoming seminar on gender inequalities in Academia organised by @geypog.bsky.social !!
GenderSky Polisky
GenderSky Polisky
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We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies!
Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf
Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Here's one application . . . (1/2)
Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf
Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Here's one application . . . (1/2)
www.noamlupu.com
October 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies!
Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf
Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Here's one application . . . (1/2)
Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf
Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Here's one application . . . (1/2)
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Daily Caller says that BlueSky “has already devolved into a deranged playground for the terminally online, the kind of liberals who might actually be insane. The kind who identify as autistic, transgender, polyamorous allies to pedophiles.”
November 23, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Daily Caller says that BlueSky “has already devolved into a deranged playground for the terminally online, the kind of liberals who might actually be insane. The kind who identify as autistic, transgender, polyamorous allies to pedophiles.”
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Cool stuff.
Btw: most CT children are in childcare deserts. Stay tuned as we (ie UConn group) finish up this paper.
Btw: most CT children are in childcare deserts. Stay tuned as we (ie UConn group) finish up this paper.
Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.
blog.dol.gov
November 20, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Cool stuff.
Btw: most CT children are in childcare deserts. Stay tuned as we (ie UConn group) finish up this paper.
Btw: most CT children are in childcare deserts. Stay tuned as we (ie UConn group) finish up this paper.
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Follow me here for a more centre-left friendly version of my Twitter takes, the AJ+ to my Twitter account's Al Jazeera Arabic. My substack - sadly suppressed by King Elon - can be found at www.edwest.co.uk
Wrong Side of History | Ed West | Substack
It's Ed West's sub stack. Click to read Wrong Side of History, by Ed West, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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November 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Follow me here for a more centre-left friendly version of my Twitter takes, the AJ+ to my Twitter account's Al Jazeera Arabic. My substack - sadly suppressed by King Elon - can be found at www.edwest.co.uk
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Hi. We’re on Bluesky! Neil and Chris xx
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Hi. We’re on Bluesky! Neil and Chris xx
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You probably already know that question wording matters a lot in polling. But this chart from @aedwardslevy.bsky.social at @cnn.com underscores the point: Public support for mass deportation varies from 62% to 33%, depending on how the question is asked. www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/p...
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
You probably already know that question wording matters a lot in polling. But this chart from @aedwardslevy.bsky.social at @cnn.com underscores the point: Public support for mass deportation varies from 62% to 33%, depending on how the question is asked. www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/p...