Josh Thorp

Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @UArkansas as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues at @UARKplsc in beautiful Fayetteville!

There's a big difference between identifying as disabled - i.e., embrace of disability as pary of my self-concept - and accessing disability accomms. The latter does not require the former. The definition of disability hasn't changed - most don't socially identify as disabled.

@JohnHolbein1 @apsrjournal Seems like an obvious robustness check would be to show that erecting monuments had no impact on lynching of whites (of which there are many hundreds of cases during similar period). I might need to read the appendices but he doesn't appear to do this.

This new @apsrjournal article is sure to cause a stir. It provides evidence that historical confederate monuments in the south actually reduced violence against black people. Why? The author argues that confederate monuments "act[ed] as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order." The paper also finds that modern-day removals of confederate monuments increased the likelihood of anti-Black hate crimes.

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… We need to make the same thing happen this time.

The narrative that political violence has broad support from either party is factually wrong and dangerous. It risks giving isolated actors the false mandate they crave. The American public overwhelmingly rejects violence. We must not amplify the fringe by misrepresenting them as a movement.

@BrantleyVosler @BrandonLukeMc 🤣

@BrandonLukeMc @JoshuaThorp One solution I have for sociology departments is that you have to gut a deer properly as part of the entry exam. That should do it, eh?

I’m not even religious but I went to church with some family recently and I am really starting to appreciate Christians and just how much undeserved crap they catch. They catch all the criticism that, of all religious groups, they deserve the least.

@BrandonLukeMc @BrantleyVosler Yeah man definitely enjoy your writing and hope you keep at it. The academy could do with more guys who like deer hunting in their spare time 😂 I’m an Aussie (I live in the US) so if I find myself in NZ in the near future I’ll be sure to reach out.

Nope I don't mind at all. In fact, though I myself don't have the faith currently, the idea a kind stranger would send heartfelt goodwill, and appeal to the heavens for me, is really nice. I need all the help I can get these days. Wow, thanks @JoshuaThorp, its crazy to hear people find enough value in my little essays to send them to each other! Glad you liked it.

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…

@adamrpanish @AndyDelton Bit late to the party here but just read the paper and it is fantastic. Congrats, both.

A new paper by @AndyDelton and I looks at the link between anxiety (a facet of neuroticism) and politics. We find that anxious people prefer left-wing economic policies, and that this link is better explained by worries about social exclusion than by socioeconomic status.

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.

@WoeToChorazin @darkwater4213 I like a lot of your recs, but two Qs. Is human psychology at least partly a function of biology? Is biology subject to evolutionary forces? If so, in what sense is evolutionary psychology illegitimate and fake?

@RaqCenteno @CaltechLCSSP Congrats Raquel!!

Now that things are official, I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining @CaltechLCSSP this fall as a postdoc! ✨🔶 Looking forward to continuing my research on polarization, elections & identity politics as part of a very cool center doing work on pressing policy issues 😊

Interesting challenge to the Brewer model of intergroup attitudes.

@BrantleyVosler So silly. There is so much straw-man stuff going on here it’s hard to know where to start.

This is very silly and it saddens me to see people fall for it. This claim that “There is no evidence that the worship movement of the last 20 years has created Christ like people. The evidence is that we’ve created the opposite” is really a very prideful claim. From where does

@DorfmanDoron @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks so much, Doron!

@JoshuaThorp @UArkansas @UARKplsc Hearty congratulations! 🥳

Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @UArkansas as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues at @UARKplsc in beautiful Fayetteville!

@PolisciMonica @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Monica!!

@JoshuaThorp @UArkansas @UARKplsc Congratulations 🍾🎊🎉

@hakeemjefferson @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Hakeem!!

@wzcmarsh @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Wayde!!

@JoshuaThorp @UArkansas @UARKplsc Huge congratulations, Josh!! Arkansas is so lucky to have you joining them! 🎉🙌🏼

@SlaterPolitics @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Dan!!

@JoshuaThorp @UArkansas @UARKplsc Amazing news Josh!

@gbsong @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks so much, Geoboo! Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

@JoshuaThorp @UArkansas @UARKplsc Congratulations!!! We are all very excited and looking forward to seeing you soon!