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Conor Gaughan

@conorgaughan.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Research Associate | University of Manchester | Digital Research and Quantitative Politics | PhD from University of Southampton | #PUSB

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚨New publication out in Social Science Computer Review! Non-response in linked survey-to-Twitter/X data differs systematically across several sociodemographic, behavioural, and attitudinal characteristics, and these effects can vary between countries and over time: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Really cool work by @chanret.bsky.social and @vlazarov.bsky.social! Speaking of left-right positions of UK MPs, it turns out that their social media followership is also an extremely effective way of generating ideology estimates too 👇👀👇 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Left-right positions of UK MPs in the last parliament (2019-24)

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

🚨Happy to share that my first academic paper has been published by @bjpols.bsky.social! Using work from my PhD thesis, this research provides estimates of left/right position of UK MPs (2019-2024) using their Twitter/X follower networks. Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #288,456!

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

After a lull for most of the year since Bluesky dropped its invite-only system in Feburary, the number of new posts and profiles containing the words Twitter/X and 'refugee' or 'asylum' has spiked again over the last three weeks.

A line graph that shows the number of weekly new posts and profiles on Bluesky that combine the words 'refugee' or 'asylum' with Twitter/X since February 2023. The graph shows a notable spike over the last three weeks.

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

The political science network on Bluesky is now at just under 1,600 users with almost 74,000 unique connections! I've also published this network as an interactive graph so if anybody wants to find themselves, follow the link: conorgaughan2.github.io/polisky_netw... (*Not mobile-friendly)

A network graph of political scientists on Bluesky, connected by followers and coloured by community groups.

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Testing out Blue Sky's API and mapped out the Polisky network using members of @profmusgrave.bsky.social's Political Science feed! The nodes are connected by which users follow each other in the network, coloured by modularity class and sized by their in-degree (i.e: number of followers).

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