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Deadline is 5pm Eastern, Friday, April 17, 2026.
New publication alert! ππ¨
Our new book on news use, political knowledge, and misperceptions is out! (currently open access β link belowπ)
We examine across 18 countries (N = 26K) what we call the "twin challenge of increased media choice."
Too much time on social media? Check out the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication!: "consuming news from newer media sources such as social media & messaging apps is typically associated across countries with less knowledge & more misperceptions about political matters"
π¨ Just a handful of days left, DL March 1!π¨
π₯ Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication (2025)π₯
SELF NOMINATIONS WELCOME & EASY: Just send me email with article
@apsa.bsky.social @polcomm.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social
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βHostile commenters are more likely to cross boundaries by targeting opposing news stories and exhibit weaker echo chamber structures.β Check out this new paper on the cross-cutting nature of hostile news commentary, lead-authored by @shnoh.bsky.social (who's on the market!). doi.org/10.1177/1940...
β° Reminder: Only two weeks left to submit nominations for an APSA Political Communication Section Award!
#APSA #PolComm
New Cambridge Element, Catching Fire in the News, by Amber E. Boydstun, Jill R. Laufer, Dallas Card and Noah A. Smith, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/3Z6zCZs
Also check out a terrific video abstract at vimeo.com/1152181904 and instructional resources at www.amber-boydstun.com/catching-fir...
I'm very excited about the most recent @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication, "Catching Fire in the News
The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....
Our book, Catching Fire in the News, is out!! π
By Amber Boydstun, me, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith!
Will do a longer thread soon, but so over-the-moon excited!!
Thank you to @snsoroka.bsky.social!
Online appendix: www.amber-boydstun.com/catching-fir...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
π¨ Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz π¨
Weβre hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.
4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026
Please share widely π
The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
New paper out! doi.org/10.1177/0894...
With @kthorson.bsky.social @snsoroka.bsky.social @dhrice.bsky.social @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social #SangukLee
How did Twitter users react right after Elon Musk bought the social media site? @macaukfmak.bsky.social @zeningduan.bsky.social Sijia Yang and I used a panel survey (wave 1 before Musk took control of Twitter, wave 2 after) to find out. 1/ urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Top conditions, environment & colleagues.
Candidates welcome across places and disciplines.
ποΈ DL: March 15, 2026
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.
π¨ 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University π¨
Iβm seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project π¬πΈπΌπ°π³π°π©πΉπ°πΌπ΄ on state-citizen interactions.
Link and more information in second post.
Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: βΌοΈ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET βΌοΈ
Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Excited to share my latest work with/ @snsoroka.bsky.social! How are Black Americans depicted in U.S. television news? We examine three decades of television content to answer this question and find for the most part, coverage has remained relatively unchanged.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
For part of what appears in Amplifying Extremism (below), check out Nik Usher's piece for Nieman Lab: www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...
So proud of @nmolinarogers.bsky.social for achieving this milestone! She will be starting her postdoctoral position at UCLA working with the incredible @snsoroka.bsky.social
Screen shot of the title, author list, and abstract of the Political Psychology paper "What Personality Traits do Citizens Want Politicians to Have?"
Now in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: what type of personality do citizens want their leaders to have? In a series of studies conducted in Belgium, Canada, and Israel, we present citizens with profiles of potential leaders with different personality configurations drawn using the Big Five traits /1
Check out this new Element by Nik Usher & Jessica Hagman, which "...provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news." The free download period is extended to June 13th! #politics #commsky #polcom
Trumpβs complete control over policy may be leading to actions the public β and his supporters β donβt want write @jackmaedgen.bsky.social, @snsoroka.bsky.social and @cbwlezien.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
my first solo-authored paper (and the second chapter of my dissertation!) is out now in PLS π₯³ in this paper, using a psychophysiological experiment in a free-choice environment, I investigate whether increased activation leads to attention or avoidance 𧡠doi.org/10.1017/pls....
Check out the most recent Element in Politics and Communication!: Political Representation as Communicative Practice, by Fabio Wolkenstein and @chriswratil.bsky.social Free to download for the next two weeks (see Christopher's post below). #polcomm
@aecoppock.bsky.social , my work on attentiveness has mostly focused on physiology, e.g., tinyurl.com/3j8vud9b or tinyurl.com/nerz6dd2 . Also see tinyurl.com/yc4r2mst in which @miacarbone.bsky.social + JD and I reconsider whether activation indicates durable (or temporary) attentiveness.
Job Alert π¨ GWβs School of Media & Public Affairs is hiring an asst prof of political communication, focused on digital platforms and tech. The new hire will get to work closely with amazing colleagues in the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics.
#commsky #polisky
www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...
Many thanks to @siennanordquist.bsky.social for this nice summary of my recent article in the APSR with @zachdickson.bsky.social - on how Trump's social media messages can influence the behavior of his supporters.
You can read about it here:
politicalsciencenow.com/partisanship...
