Friendly reminder before the holidays to send in nominations for our Council! Please send to colleagues who may be interested in nominating or self-nominating by the January 30th deadline.

The APLS is announcing its 2024 winter grant competition. APLS will fund $4000 of two proposals. Details are here: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4V…  Deadline: May 8th, 2024 - 2000-word proposals due. Learn more about APLS by visiting our website: aplsnet.org

News! We have elected new Council members: Krissy Lunz Trujillo (@klunztrujillo), Melissa Baker (Melissa Baker), Gigi Gronvall (Gigi Gronvall), & Laurie Liesen. Thank you to outgoing Council members Erik Bucy, Amanda Friesen, Matthew Hibbing, Aleks Ksiazkiewicz, & Christopher Larimer!

Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals. All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses "they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Out in PLS: "Introduction to the Special Issue—COVID-19, international relations, and security studies: Has the pandemic altered the study and practice of international security?" by guest editor @DrCraigDAlbert. FREE ACCESS to April 30 at buff.ly/3U3xsI9.

Had a blast at our Association for Politics and the Life Sciences mini-conference-within-a-conference. Thanks so much to our panelists -- Salil Talbot M Andrews Dr. Sedona Chinn & @klunztrujillo -- our discussant Kathryn Haglin, and our keynote Julie Pacheco for making this all possible!

Looking for a social emotion recognition task (aka an emotion perspective-taking task) that doesn't involve faces? Check out Dr. Elise M Cardinale's Emotionally Evocative Statements task (EEST), validated in clinical, lesion, and fMRI samples and available here: abigailmarsh.com/research-measu…

New article out in Personality and Individual Difference. Change is social.stighebbelstrup Aaron Weinschenk Aleks Ksiazkiewicz Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I’ll be doing a radio interview on WCPT820 AM in Chicago with @JoanEspositoCHI from 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm central time today. Looking forward to chatting about political psychology and the Presidential Election! heartlandsignal.com

Congratulations to Jair Moreira who just successfully defended his UI Political Science dissertation "Does the Caged Bird Sing? Outgroup Empathy and the Politics of Cooperation"! Cara Wong chaired the dissertation, and Brian Gaines, Aleks Ksiazkiewicz, and I served as committee members.

UNL Poli Sci is hiring an assistant prof in Race & Ethnic Politics! employment.unl.edu/postings/92973 "The position is open with respect to particular subfields, though candidates with an interest in or research focus in public policy are especially encouraged to apply."

My coauthors and I are pleased to announce the publication of our new book tracing U.S. presidential campaign strategies from 1952 to 2020 using never seen details from internal campaign memos, ad buy data, and candidate visit records. a.co/d/gvIpgTx

APLS membership drive is open! We're an interdisciplinary group focused scientific knowledge of human nature & political behavior, public policy, & ethics. Please use this form to join us (it's free!): share.hsforms.com/1VWny32gaS8S3C… Our website with more info: aplsnet.org

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring! The Department of Political Science is hiring for an open-rank faculty position in Quantitative Methods. Deadline: September 16th. Apply and join an amazing and vibrant community! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

OK, well I guess it's as good a time as any to announce I'm looking for a postdoc at Princeton -- areas are politics, machine learning and statistics. Please share widely! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

🎀Announcing Ares & Van Ditmars #3 💃💃 In our latest WEP Journal article, Macarena Ares & I use a life course approach to study political differences by social class.🗃️We observe respondents during youth and later employment trajectories, accounting for family origin. (1/5)

I case folks are making the switch, I’m also aleksks.bsky.social

Read (or wrote) a great book on mass politics published in 2024? Please (self-)nominate for the ISPP Sears Best Book award! The deadline is December 15. Details here: ispp.org/awards/sears/ We are looking forward to reading your work!