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Omkar Poojari
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PhDing at Temple University. MA: Sciences Po, Paris.
Interested in Political Communication, Partisanship, Polarization and Voting.
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joenoonan.se
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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jamesrdennison.bsky.social
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
That’s the second empirical study I’ve seen this week that does an excellent job w/ right-wing radicalizing discourse. The other is this study on anti-immigration in France which is fantastic (and I’m not only saying that b/c they cited my and @dkreiss.bsky.social’s work on “defensive publics”)
Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics
What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
“Experimental data from largest online survey of Irish Americans reveal learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry reduces prejudice among white Irish Americans who identify with Irish American identity, and effects are mostly driven by Republicans…” www.jasmineenglish.net/uploads/1/4/...
Title page) Title page with centered serif text reading “Close Race: Harnessing Multiracialism to Reduce Racial Prejudice*”. Below is the author name “Jasmine English†” and below that the date “October 31, 2025”, all centered with white background. Screenshot of the paper’s abstract in serif font. The text explains that multiracial populations are the fastest growing in the U.S., and the paper examines how learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry influences racial attitudes among white Irish Americans. It reports experimental findings showing that such information reduces racial prejudice, especially among Republicans and those with higher baseline prejudice, and suggests multiracialism may reduce perceived racial distance. Figure 1: Racial Resentment) Coefficient plot titled “Treatment Effects: Racial Resentment.” The x-axis is Coefficient Estimate with a dashed vertical zero line. Four rows correspond to Treat, TreatLinked, TreatClose, and Treat*Important. The interaction terms show larger negative estimates (around −0.05 to −0.18) than in Figure 2, indicating stronger reductions in racial resentment. Model estimates are color-coded and labeled in a legend at bottom left. Table 7: Reduced Racial Essentialism “I was actually very surprised, it’s a much larger percentage than I realized. I guess I’ve been raised that white people are much more likely to be Irish.” “I was really surprised. I honestly had no idea and just thought, like me, Irish is basically white.” “I am surprised, as I think of typical Irish Americans to be very white.” “I was surprised - I had no idea. Usually when I think “Irish” I think of very fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes (like my mom)” “I was surprised! The term African American makes me think their lineage would be purely African, but I suppose no one really has ancestry tied to one place and one place only.” “I was surprised as I believed that Irish people were overwhelmingly White. It makes me more course to know about how such a high percentage of African Americans came to have Irish ancestry.” “That is surprising to me. I always picture people with more fair skin being Irish.” “I was surprised, but once I thought about it made sense. Eventually all of us will have a little bit of all ancestries in us.” Notes: Open-ended responses that illustrate a shift away from racial essentialism among treated respondents.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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danjdevine.bsky.social
V happy to see this paper out with @chrisclaassen.bsky.social at @bjpols.bsky.social .

We argue that nostalgia for Britain's past is an important, distinct opinion dimension which has meaningful consequences for party evaluations and vote choice.
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Nov 24
NEWS -

The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia - https://cup.org/4p1QbRA

"right-wing opposition to criticism of the imperial past is stronger than left-wing support"

- Christopher Claassen & @danjdevine.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the nostalgia for empire in post-imperial European contexts, examining public opinion and attitudes towards imperial history.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Probably the only time you can't wait for a weekend to end is when you are waiting to hear back on the outcome of an application you put everything into. 🤞🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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jatucker.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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eliaskoch.bsky.social
New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:
August 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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p-hunermund.com
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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jacksantucci.bsky.social
“personal crises are likely to dampen participation by squeezing scarce resources and sapping motivation, except when the political act offers the potential for relief or when there is high political saliency, clarity of responsibility or perceived responsibility”
April 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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lalamur.bsky.social
"women's higher level of affective polarization in Western Europe is [...] explained by their stronger disapproval of populist radical right‐wing parties as well as their greater concern for issues around gender and the natural environment."
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gender and affective polarization
Though many empirical analyses on affective polarization demonstrate that women hold a higher level of affective polarization than men in industrialized democracies, a theoretical explanation for the...
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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kai-arzheimer.com
When I've finally drafted that conference abstract #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
April 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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jack-bailey.co.uk
📊🚨 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦?

@chanret.bsky.social & I have a panel at @psaepop.bsky.social on 𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 and have space for 2 papers. Topics might include fragmentation, disproportionality, measurement, etc. DM for more info and we especially welcome interest from ECRs!
April 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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courtneymilan.com
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.

nymag.com/intelligence...
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
nymag.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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sgadarian.bsky.social
International students will stop coming to American universities if their visas are going to be at risk. This will make our intellectual community poorer and also make tuition more expensive for domestic students.
jaweedkaleem.bsky.social Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Apr 8
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
jaweedkaleem.bsky.social Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Apr 7
LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
April 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Who is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it).

Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
April 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Last few weeks of the semester. Peak academic ̶p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶i̶v̶i̶t̶y̶ anxiety season is here.🙂
April 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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dziblatt.bsky.social
-How Democracies Die (2018)
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.

The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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bcastanho.bsky.social
So many political scientists tried accessing the data to look themselves up that we broke dataverse??
Screenshot of Harvard's dataverse landing page with an error message saying the service is interrupted due to ongoing maintenance
March 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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favstats.eu
I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky.

I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast.

Short 🧵 1/n
March 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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rossdahlke.bsky.social
Attitudinal sorting (symbolic ideology, policy attitudes, group sentiments), not demographic sorting, is the primary contributor to affective polarization, finds Konicki using data from 1952-2020 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
The Rise of Affective Polarization: Is It What We Think, or Who We Are? Image description Figure 2: Partisan Sorting Over Time 1952-2020 ANES, and Table 2 Are over time, increases in Partisan Sorting are significant? Image description Figure 4: Social Group Importance Over Time, ANES Image description Figure 5, Change Over Time, Attitudinal Sorting, and Affective Polarization.
March 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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rossdahlke.bsky.social
The most successful person-to-person politically persuasive messages are those that bridge identity divides, use perspective taking, and incorporate personal narratives, finds @naunovmartin.bsky.social Ruedo-Cañòn @tjryan02.bsky.social in @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Who's Persuasive? Understanding Citizen-to-Citizen Efforts to Change Minds. Figure 1: Receiver Persuasion by Issue and Argument Exposure. Table 3: Persuasion by Issue Side
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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uaphilly.bsky.social
HUNDREDS of Higher Ed faculty, staff, grad workers, postdocs, researchers and students showed up in the cold today outside the office of @davemccormick.bsky.social to say HANDS OFF our research, our healthcare, and our jobs! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM