Woodward Ave in the summer. Every weekend folks bring camp chairs, picnic baskets, coolers full of beer, and just sit for hours and watch the vintage cars drive up and down America’s first highway. Every age, race, gender, social class. United by shared love.

Remarkable paper with incredible data, but also World Politics has to be the most beautifully published journal.

The Disability Program at ⁦Grattan Institute⁩ has published its first report. It shows that the NDIS is failing tens of thousands of the most profoundly disabled Australians – and it points to a better way #auspol ⁦Sam Bennett⁩ ⁦Hannah Orban⁩ grattan.edu.au/report/better-…

I'm on the job market! I work on public opinion/political psychology in the US. I study how political processes - policy feedback, exposure to protest action, and experiences of discrimination - shape political cohesion in social minority groups. joshuathorp.github.io

No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics Stefanie Reher Elizabeth Evans outline obstacles disabled people experience in pursuing elected office—and offer recommendations on how to mitigate them onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… #disabilityrepresentation

In preparing for the job market I recently wrote a draft syllabus for a proposed course on the Politics of Disability. Sharing it here in case its of interest to others - would love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hope it helps! dropbox.com/scl/fi/srq5eav…

Some great insights into political perspectives of disabled Americans from National Disability Rights Network

#OpenAccess from JEPS - Vulnerability Appeals in the #COVID19 Pandemic: Insights from a National Survey Experiment - cup.org/3Ax3sgN - Jac Larner & Josh Thorp #FirstView

Interesting challenge to the Brewer model of intergroup attitudes.

I find claims like this bizarre. You may not like evolutionary psychology, but if you accept that human organisms are subject to evolutionary pressures, the onus is on you to explain why the forces that made human brains have no impact on human psychology.

Over last year I've been building a Senedd Election Simulator tool. It gives a useful (I hope!) visual explainer of how the new election system turns votes into seats. 🧵 on some of what it can do below: jaclarner.github.io/senedd_etholia…