First born children have higher IQ than their siblings. 🧵1/9

How does women's marginality in parliament impact their advocacy for gender-related issues? Our new British Jnl Poli Sci article examines this dynamic using data on Israeli legislators from 1977–2015, revealing insights into the interplay between individual & group marginalization.

This is an incredibly painful read. I hope that those who find this hard to believe will be the ones to read it. Stop trying to score points for "your side" and instead read the words of Israeli army commanders who are telling you what is really happening. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 📷 1/7

Our book is now published! You can find here diverse perspectives on the 2022 Israeli elections by leading scholars of Israeli politics. Some chapters deal with issues such as polarization and personalization, while others focus on specific parties. ⬇️ routledge.com/The-Elections-…

The advance copy of my book, Safe Havens for Hate, is here! It offers a deep dive into the moderation of harmful content on social media and explains why efforts to combat online extremism keep failing. Official release March 4! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

New Research: The crises of Israeli democracy: political-ideological framings by members of Israel’s 24th Knesset frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #PoliticalScience

Arguing on social media

Very happy to see my "Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity" published in American Political Science Review

בשעה טובה, הספר שלנו על בחירות 2022 מתפרסם גם בעברית. פרקי הספר מציעים מגוון נקודות מבט תיאורטיות ומתודולוגיות על הבחירות האחרונות. שמחתי להצטרף לפרוייקט החשוב הזה, שמיכל שמיר וגידי רהט מובילים. הספר זמין להורדה בחינם באתר המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה (לינק בהמשך). קצת על הפרקים בספר:

גם הפרק של Michael Freedman ונדב שלף מתמקד בציונות הדתית, הפעם עם דגש על ניתוח סקרי דעת קהל.

MIT University just released free online courses. No payment required. Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:

Three Blind Spots in Politics -Leftists see the world as a battle between victims and oppressors. -Conservatives see the world as a battle between civilization and barbarism. -Libertarians see the world as a battle between freedom and coercion. [Link below.]

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. [Link below.]

A study I'm particularly excited about and have been working on a long time is finally live: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… We follow people from adolescence into adulthood and show why they are leaving *organized* religion. Press release summarizing it: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/0…

Mellissa Meisels Interestingly, yes I have! First, thanks to collegeofcardinalsreport.com for the raw data. Second, I ran and Ordinal IRT model first for all cardinals included:

Wow! Check out this cool working paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans. They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

Feels like an opportune time to repost this: washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-ca…

🚨 We are excited that the Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition! 📍Nov 7–8, 2025 Political Science Munk School University of Toronto Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11 More info & app: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50… Daniel Rubenson Eric Merkley Sophie Borwein #MichaelDonnelly

בפגיעה בפתח תקווה נהרגו שני אנשים ששהו בממ״ד. רבים פנו אלי בשאלה האם הדברים שכתבתי על רמת הביטחון בממ״ד משתנים לאור האירוע הזה. התשובה היא לא, אפילו להיפך, הם מתחדדים. ההגנה בממ״ד מעולה וזו עדיין החלופה הנכונה להתמגן. הסבר מפורט בשרשור 🧵⬇️