How do public perceptions of government spending match with reality? A YouGov experiment put a series of govt spending areas as head to head match-ups and asked Britons to say which they thought more was spent on The resulting public ranking most overstates debt interest,

💥Upcoming event! 💥 "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT Join us in our discussion w @rgorwa to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content Sign up 👉 https://t.co/PF3HMfcoEd

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately.

2- In Vienna, I am integrating the MULTIREP team, led by Christopher Wratil. Here, I’ll be analysing representatives’ speech patterns to expand our understanding of *dimensions* of representation ( https://t.co/gtLSAMJt9U). Very much looking forward to sharing what we find! 🌟

1- Thank you to the brilliant @CasAndreu and @rchlgibson4 for the engaging discussion (time flew by), along with your insight and advice. A huge thanks 🙏 also go to my supervisors, @MartaCuanti and @RosieShorrocks, for all the support and fantastic guidance

𝒟𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉... 🥁 1- Delighted to share I’ve passed my Viva at the University of Manchester! 🥂 2- I’ve just joined the University of Vienna as a Post-Doc in Computational Social Science to research *Representation* 💡 More info👇

🚨 New paper in @ScienceAdvances Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? @THeideJorgensen, @a_rasmussen, and I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments. Thread 🧵1/n

This is happening today! 📆 We're very much looking forward to welcoming such an excellent panel of experts 🎓 to discuss current developments in digital regulation in the EU and UK

🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU & the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures & policy measures are shaping digital autonomy

🔊When Tech Meets Governance💡In this series, I’ll be sharing selected highlights from my published research on how technology shapes — and is shaped by — governance. I am hoping to connect with researchers studying in this field. #TechAndGovernance #Digital #AcademicLife

From Elon Musk's DOGE to the UK's AI Action Plan, states are adopting AI as key tool of governance But what happens when states see their populations through AI? How is AI changing the nature of the state? Our new OA paper sets out a research agenda https://t.co/lXMUohoV2H

Excellent insight from @WhoTargetsMe on UK party spending on Meta ads during the recent local elections, it's pretty clear when the penny dropped for Labour 💷 🔗 link to full graph: https://t.co/hcSoJ2JCCj

🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas 1/n

We're hiring two LSE Fellows❗ 💡 LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods ➡️ https://t.co/zNP1b25gCZ 💼 LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods ➡️ https://t.co/AAifcjZM3S Apply before 27 April and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Why not call it a 'digital pause' like in France? We've got to stop associating tech regulation with 'banning'... https://t.co/AkxVgRiMMo

Excited to be chairing some of @psa_TIP's panels at #PSA25 tomorrow - we've got some great papers lined up! If you're about, do come say hi 👋

🗞️ Our March newsletter is out! 🗞️ In it, you'll find: 🗒️ TIP AGM in July + Committee vacancies (get involved!) ✍️ Write a blog, snag a £50 gift voucher! 💷 🎩 TIP panels #PSA25 big ideas, sharp debates & hats! ✅ Stay informed w our top Tech News bytes 🚀 Jobs & Opportunities!

While ideology predicts the type of content you engage with (as in, you like and share stuff you agree with); the association with what you pay attention to is far far weaker:

Out in Nature Human Behaviour 🔥 Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32).

🚨EPIR THESIS PRIZE 2025 Nominations are OPEN for @BISAWG_Emotions + @Brill_Social Thesis Prize 2025 to be awarded for the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR. Send the thesis with a short biography (150 words) and a CV to epir.group@bisa.ac.uk Deadline: 28 March