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Be sure to join us today for the first presentation of our new programme! 👀

Happening next week! 👀 📆 Be sure to mark your calendars for our first presentation of the programme

😯 Today we got exciting news! 🌈 Next month we kick off our 2026-2027 programme with @turnbulldugarte.com! He will present his quasi-experimental evidence on Islamophobic backlash in queer citizens after the Berlin Pride attack. 📆 Be sure to join us on October 8!

How do race and queerness jointly shape mass politics? @mfroman.bsky.social and I take up this question in new work I’ll present at @apsa.bsky.social, examining whether their associations with partisanship, ideology, and vote choice accumulate or partially substitute for one another. Friday at 8!

😯 Join us today for our last webinar of the season!

🌈 Join us next week for our last presentation of the season with the brilliant Jeff Feng! 👉 As we see the consequences of climate change each year, Jeff will discuss how climate justice intersects with queer liberation. 📆 Next Thursday July 2nd!

Today marks the beginning of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Here is a graph on why we still need pride.

🌈 We're excited to announce our June session! 😯 Join us next Thursday, June 4, to see @urquijo.bsky.social amazing presentation about elite's effects on reducing AIDS stigma. 📆 Mark your calendars!

New paper w/ @lstoetze.bsky.social "Estimating Treatment Effects on Proportions with Synthetic Controls" out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 👀 When your outcomes are compositional (such as vote shares), applying synthetic controls separately to each part can break the math. We show how to fix it: 🧵

Asking for a little help with one of the articles of my thesis. Does anyone know a guide or paper discussing the use of survey weights in multilevel models with panel data? I’m struggling a bit with understanding which is the best way to include them in my model. Or if not include them altogether.

I really, really do not want Britain's first (openly) LGBTQ+ prime minister to be Wes - just throw trans folks under the bus- Streeting.

🌈 Today we are very excited to announce @pepinneff.bsky.social as our next speaker! 😯 They will present their work studying the factors behind the moral panic agenda-setting on anti-trans issues in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. 📆 Be sure to join us next Thursday April 2nd!

😯 Join us today for @seangivnish.bsky.social presentation! 🧑‍💻 Send us a DM if you don't have the Zoom link.

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🌈 We are happy to announce our next webinar! @seangivnish.bsky.social will present his super interesting work on the HIV/AIDS movement in Africa on March 5th. 📆 Be sure to join us!

Be sure to submit to proposal if you have any upcoming work you would like to present, especially in a safe and queer space 😎

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🌈 We are very happy to announce the first session of 2026! Next week, on February 5, @angeliawagner.bsky.social and @joannaeveritt.bsky.social will present their amazing work on queer Canadian candidates and social media. 📆 Be sure to join us!

Homophobia alive and well in adoption decision-making 😱

Yet to surpass the (professional) fun we had in writing this piece now out in latest issue of @psrm.bsky.social We know political identities share the valence we assign to others. Here we asked, do valence signals also shape the partisanship we assign to others? doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus. We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.

Do homophobia and sexual prejudice still exist in tolerant societies? In POQ, Ortega & Bosco's new study reveals how non-traditional relationships continue to be stigmatised in parenting contexts, even in seemingly liberal societies. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Europe. Is moving military assets. To deter an invasion. By the United States of America.

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

Saying goodbye to the @queerseminar.bsky.social, today! Massive thanks to @bertous.bsky.social, co-organizing with you was the best part! 💖 We’re so happy to leave this important space in the hands of @alsogwenny.bsky.social & @blancobosco.bsky.social. Can't wait to see it grow! ✨

X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.

Christmas has come early for those interested in sexual orientation data! 🎅📊 The Office for National Statistics has just released new sexual orientation data from the 2024 Annual Population Survey – and the story is one where the proportion of queer people in the UK continues to grow! 🧵

Out now with @adamsharris.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social : We test “rooted” activist frames for LGBTQI tolerance—grounded in local history & national narratives—in Zimbabwe. Biggest thanks to the many people who helped get this off the ground. (1/3) Read here:

I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too: "There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done." All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.

This is a terrible move that will hurt the trans community as well as the Labour Party in the long term.

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

Curious about LGBTQ+ politics and protest movements? 🌈✊ Join us today! Francesca Ammaturo will be talking about her brilliant new book exploring Pride events between local fights and global dynamics. See you there!

For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy! dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/ #polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky

Anti-LGBTQ resolutions aka "LGBT-free zones" in Poland have increased residents’ intentions to migrate, both within the country and abroad. Together with @paweladrjan.bsky.social, we use unique data on all clicks on the global job site Indeed. Link: docs.iza.org/dp18217.pdf Main findings ⬇️ 1/7

🧑‍💻 Join us for our second webinar of the 2025-2026 programme next Thursday! 😯 @frammaturo.bsky.social will present her amazing work on the politics of Pride events. 📆 Mark your calendars for November 6!

And it may seem like not a big deal. But while *you* are great people who accept queer kids, that's not as common as you'd hope. New research shows only half of gay or lesbian people have parents who accept them. Only 31% of trans people have parents that do. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Far-right grifters are determining the “reality”’of the most powerful man in the world. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration. Please share! www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...