Francisca Castro

Dear authors submitting an r&r response: please include all the reviewers' comments in the response memo and not only your responses. I don't want to go back to my report to be able to read your responses or go to the submission site and open/download all the other reviewers' reports. Thanks 😭👍.

Day 1 of @madridempiricalsoc.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to discuss some cool papers today, and presenting ongoing work tomorrow (francisca-castro.com/research/wor...).

Had a great time visiting @cunef.bsky.social for the first time to present at the Dept. of Social Sciences seminar. Thanks to @kkrakows.bsky.social for the invitation!

🚨 Madrid people, mark your calendars: the permanent seminar of the Instituto Juan Linz is back! We have a great series of speakers from across the social sciences this year. First talk this Friday with @llschenoni.bsky.social Here is the program for this Fall:

Looking forward to participate at the APSG fall series! I had a productive summer forced by the Madrid 37°C weather and finished a new version of the manuscript I'll be presenting francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

The secret to productivity is having cats waking you up at 5am and being unable to fall back asleep so you just start working on a manuscript out of boredom.

Excited to see this paper from my PhD published in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social Drawing on original experimental evidence from Poland, I examine whether protests over a deeply entrenched issue, namely abortion, induce polarization, not only ideologically but also affectively doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

My paper "Exodus and vote: Mass emigration and voter turnout in Honduras" is out in Electoral Studies doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Thrilled 2 share this co-authored article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications w/ @jenny-oser.bsky.social & @ashoshan.bsky.social where we trace the evolution of scholarship at the intersection of social media and social movements in the age of datafication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💼 Oportunidad de empleo en la @uc3m.es Los grupos EPIC y ESPO, con apoyo del IJL, buscan un/a Gestor/a de Apoyo a la Investigación. 🔹 Contrato indefinido (inicio en agosto) 🔹 Jornada completa 🔹 2.025€ brutos/mes ⏳ Solicitudes hasta: 30/6/2026 Detalles aquí: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/publi...

I know teaching evals tend to penalize women and POC (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) as well as methods courses (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), so I'm letting myself be pretty happy about the congratulatory letter I just got for my teaching evals this semester 🥳.

UC3M crew at #EPSS2026!

Excited to be in Belfast for the first time for #EPSS. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting at two panels. One at 9am on citizens' evaluation of political representatives, and the second at 3.20pm on climate and security. Looking forward to connecting with old friends and meeting new colleagues!

💐 💐💐 Great to celebrate the creation of the Instituto with so many old and new friends from Madrid, Spain, and the world last week. Here are some photos! Stay tuned for more events in the coming academic year. We already have a great line-up for next year´s permanent seminar.

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Next week I'll be traveling to the UK to present some ongoing work at @uniofreading.bsky.social on the relationship of memory sites and far-right vote in Chile. I just uploaded the WP here, comments are welcome :-) francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

Join us for the UC3M Summer Course... "Amenazas, desafíos y resiliencia democrática" Deep dive into polarization, far-right, and AI with top experts. 📍 June 29 - July 3 / Madrid - Puerta de Toledo 🗣️ English Info & registration 👇 cursosverano.uc3m.es/cursos-de-ve...

Explaining this research in detail next time I have to teach quant methods to reluctant undergrads who don't want to learn statistics cddrl-impactoelectoral.com

Please join us for this!

🚨 In less than 1 month (JUNE 10-12), the Instituto Juan Linz will hold its inaugural conference at the UC3M Puerta de Toledo campus ! Program here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Details and highlights to follow 1/n

Disclosing the use of cats for writing my paper

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

Really happy that our paper with @profejacevedo.bsky.social , "The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras" received its final acceptance at the Journal of Politics 🎉 . You can check the accepted version here francisca-castro.com/research/art...

📢 Funding opportunity for a top MA in Social Sciences (UC3M – IJL) 🏛️ Rigorous training, strong methods, and a direct path to top PhD programs • 3 full scholarships (Deadline: April 30) • 3 tuition grants (Deadline: May 31) Apply for full scholarships and tuition grants 👇 ijlinz.es/en/postgradu...

New paper out in IJPOR! 🎉 We study how cues from political elites and close friends shape policy preferences using a survey experiment. Trump cues move opinions even after his first term ended, but friend cues can backfire. 📄 academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/38/1/edaf066/8472064

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid! We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”). ijlinz.es The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more. thread 1/12

We recently got some seed funding to expand this project a little further. You can read about it here www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/news/seed-mo...

The paper should be open access soon but in the meantime you can find it here francisca-castro.com/research/art...

Started the year with an R&R and the publication of my first PhD paper 🥳 mobilization.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

📢 Exciting news! The Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Annual Conference (MESS 2025) takes place next week @ieuniversity.bsky.social (October 24-25) A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience

Currently in FirstView: In “Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design,” @gustavodiaz.org and Erin Rossiter study how experimental design choices can increase precision when estimating treatment effects. Specifically, they examine block-randomized and pre-post designs.

The call for the 2026 Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference is now open and we're hosting it in Berlin! Please submit your abstracts by December 31st www.europeanpeacescientists.org/jan-tinberge...

I am very excited that Fragile Lives 2025 is about to start at @humboldtuni.bsky.social! The programme is at zerohunger.de/fragile-live...

Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.

I felt bad for never having been to Peru before, having lived so close by. But I can confirm that Peruvian food is indisputably the best cuisine in the world (I will not accept any arguments on this matter).

A few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

Somehow, it's already time for #APSA2025! Presenting the newest version of my paper w @jenny-oser.bsky.social + @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social on political participation and politicians' perceptions of public opinion. Happy to meet during the conference, so please reach out! @apsa.bsky.social

We're hiring a junior researcher at @isdcberlin.bsky.social! isdc.org/work-with-us...

these past few days between EPSA and Madrid’s ~36°C and then coming back to Berlin to vote for Chile’s presidential primaries have been really fun but now I’m tireddd

Reception with the best view award

Second day at #NEPS2025! Just presented some ongoing work with @isdcberlin.bsky.social colleagues on political polarization in Kyrgyzstan.

In Helsinki for the UNU-WIDER conference where I’ll present @isdcberlin.bsky.social work on the long term impacts of conflict on Syrian refugees in Jordan.

Visiting another country during an electoral campaign is always an interesting experience.

it’s so amazing to have this summer school back, cannot recommend enough that PhD female students apply!