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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 20h
How do history, race and identity continue to shape society today? Join Reni Eddo-Lodge, bestselling author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, in conversation with Larry Kramer for a special Black History Month event at LSE. 📅 8 October 🎟️ Register: buff.ly/ob6qOhj
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In conversation with Reni Eddo-Lodge
6:30pm Thu 8 Oct | Reni Eddo-Lodge | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 20h
Did you know there was an attempted burglary of anti-fascist documents held here? That classic book "On Liberty" has 2 authors, not one? That a piece of LSE art was stolen? “Stolen! Theft in the archives” is coming soon! An exhibition exploring theft in different forms. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Exhibition: Stolen! Theft in the archives
Explore diverse stories from our archives related to different forms of theft.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Higher Ed has traditionally seen itself as delivering knowledge under conditions of scarcity. If AI tools are the latest in a trend of growing access to abundant knowledge, how might universities adapt and transform their purpose? Anupama Saini for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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Universities need to adapt to a world in which knowledge is no longer scarce - LSE Impact
If AI is making access to knowledge is less scarce, what role to do universities have in delivering it?
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💥New | Practitioner-researchers in social care and social work – hope for the future or promises unfulfilled? ✍️ @hannahkendrick87.bsky.social @sharonpaul333.bsky.social & @juliettemalley.bsky.social (@cpeclse.bsky.social) #Care #SocialCare #Expertise #ResearchImpact
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Practitioner-researchers in social care and social work – hope for the future or promises unfulfilled? - LSE Impact
As investment in research capacity building for those who work in social care and social work increases, Hannah Kendrick, Sharon Paul and Juliette Malley discuss areas of potential, whilst setting out...
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🗣️"I chose to study at LSE because I’d heard it was one of the best places in the world to study social sciences" We're sharing our alumni stories every month, and next up is @aarcarons.bsky.social, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research Read more👉 www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A Fair Bargain by Charles N.C. Sherwood is out now! 🎉 "Accessible, timely and deeply engaging" — Benjamin Ferguson, Professor of Philosophy, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Available to read and download for free via #OpenAccess publishing: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lsephilosophy.bsky.social
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LSE Eden Centre @edenlse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The LSE HE Blog returns, ahead of the start of the 2026/27 year! Get 5 classroom conversation starters here:
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is there a spiral of silence in your classroom? What's the real cost of cancel culture? Is 'Global South' still fit for purpose? Who sounds like you in academia? Is the essay dead? Five conversation starters for topics to explore this term. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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LSE Department of Statistics @lsedepofstatistics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measur…
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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🤳 Do social media platforms make people happier? We're excited to have Prof Cass Sunstein discuss this topic at our first public event of the academic year, chaired by Prof Liam Delaney. 📅 Wednesday 30 September 🕡 6.30pm-8pm 📍 LSE campus and online buff.ly/6Ejgxyg
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Do social media platforms make people happier? | Cass R Sunstein
6:30pm Wed 30 Sept 2026 | Cass R Sunstein | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At Reform UK’s 2026 party conference Edward de Quay found louder rejection of the science of anthropogenic climate change but real concern about nature, agriculture and food production.
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Beyond climate change denial? Engaging Reform UK on nature and adaptation - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
At Reform UK’s 2026 party conference Edward de Quay found louder rejection of the science of anthropogenic climate change but real concern about nature, agriculture and food production.
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lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We're pleased to share that Professor Almudena Sevilla will be speaking at two upcoming events: Behavioral Policy for Family (BPF) www.kcl.ac.uk/events/behav... Gender roles and parental time allocation: A paradigm shift for addressing gender inequality in the labor market tinyurl.com/2s4zm8nf
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Gender roles and parental time allocation: A paradigm shift for addressing gender inequality in the labor market | Crawford School of Public Policy
Professor Sevilla will present a new framework for understanding the persistence of gender inequality, moving beyond traditional childcare time-use measures.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Qualitative data archives are increasingly produced with AI. Using an experiment to show how AI draws on and shapes qualitative data through its structural biases, Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant consider how qualitative secondary analysis methods can preserve the ethical use of this data.
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Is AI influencing qualitative data histories and futures? - LSE Impact
As qualitative data is increasingly produced & analysed by AI, do secondary data analysis methods provide a way of maintaining ethical standards of data reuse?
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🗣️"We tend to picture publishing as something done by large commercial companies, big learned societies or a handful of famous university presses. But universities also publish at scale, across disciplines and in many languages." #AcademicPublishing
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University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact
Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
When prisons become overcrowded, early release of prisoners comes onto the agenda. But what guiding principles should governments use to decide which prisoners should be released? Paul Dolan @lsepbs.bsky.social makes the case for a negative utilitarian approach on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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Prioritising early release from prison should minimise overall suffering | LSE British Politics
When it comes to early release from prison, the Government should not decide based on the type of crime committed, but on what will cause the least suffering.
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🤔 Are Philosophers Absurd? Read the latest paper by #LSEPhilosophy Associate Professor and CPNSS Director Lewis Ross 👇 academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
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VII—Are Philosophers Absurd? Progress, Testimony and Division of Labour
Abstract. Philosophy now resembles, in many ways, a mature scientific discipline. There is extensive division of increasingly specialised cognitive labour.
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LSE Health Policy @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🎉Join us in congratulating Jannis Stockel on successfully completing the PGCertHE programme. Jannis valued the PGCertHE’s reflective approach, which helped him develop and test innovative teaching alongside colleagues & students. The course was offered by the LSE Eden Centre @edenlse.bsky.social.
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"This is an important book for anyone who believes that ethical negotiation is not a constraint on success, but its greatest enabler.” – David De Cremer, Distinguished Research Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals ⬇️
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How is Open Access expanding the public reach of humanistic scholarship? 🔎 @acls1919.bsky.social Prize finalist, Professor Naila Kabeer, discussed her experiences of publishing and the benefits of OA for expanding research reach with represented global communities. ➡️ www.acls.org/news/how-ope...
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and biodiversity loss – but they are also leading the way when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, writes Zainab Salbi on @lseinequalities.bsky.social
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How women are healing the planet from the ground up
Women are leading when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, based on a relationship with nature grounded in care and stewardship
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew reflect on their upcoming edited collection, Geography and a Geographer for the LSE Press blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202... @rgs.org
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Ron Johnston: Geography, Scholarship and Legacy
Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew share how they developed Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline After Ron Johnston.
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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In his forthcoming book 'Inequality: The View from Manywheres', @seamusapower.bsky.social draws on psychology, anthropology, sociology and philosophy to understand why, despite historically high living standards, many people feel left behind. Learn more in this Research for the World article 👇
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Why people feel poor in an age of plenty | LSE Research
Why do people feel poor in increasingly affluent societies? Séamus Power explores how perceptions of inequality, fairness and social status influence politics, protest and the future of capitalism
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tech billionaires increasingly control our digital spaces, infrastructure, and society. How can we fight surveillance capitalism? Read @davvkamp.bsky.social's recent article in Tribune Magazine 👇
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The Age of Founder Control
Tech billionaires increasingly control our digital spaces, infrastructure, and society. How can we fight surveillance capitalism?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thanks to the LSE for appointing me Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Data Science Institute. I'm really looking forward to working with colleagues there to think about the human interface with AI and data! www.lse.ac.uk/dsi/news/202...
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Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of the British Academy, joins DSI as Visiting Professor in Practice
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🗣️"much of the counsel offered to academics has become psychological in tone. We are taught to endure rejection with composure, to build resilience, and to use the disappointment to shape disciplined habits of revision and reapplication" #Academia #AcWri
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Rejection in academia is structural not personal - LSE Impact
Unlike other high-profile professions, academia treats rejection as personal judgement, can it create ways of talking about rejection that are more realistic?
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🗣️"What appears as serendipity is often due to applying a powerful new tool for the first time" #MetaScience #Discoveries
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From microscopes to AI? New tools spark scientific discovery - LSE Impact
What drives scientific discovery? Alexander Krauss makes the case for the central role of new tools and scientific infrastructures.
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LSE Eden Centre @edenlse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
100 followers! It's a good start 😀 Thank you all fellow Blueskyers, at LSE and far far beyond! This is who we are, and what we do: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisi...
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About us
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🔊 @mtsvetkova.bsky.social has been selected for the prestigious 2026-27 Fellowship at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Read more➡️ casbs.stanford.edu/news/casbs-a...
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CASBS Announces 2026-27 Fellows
The class is comprised of 36 scholars representing 19 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Andy Burnham is set to become the next UK Prime Minister. The track record of takeover Prime Ministers suggests he's in for a difficult and brief period in office unless he can create a clear sense of change and offer new policy quickly, argues @benworthy.bsky.social on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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Can Andy Burnham end the curse of the Prime Minister takeover? | LSE British Politics
Andy Burnham is set to become Prime Minister. The track record of takeover Prime Ministers suggests he is in for a difficult time and a brief period in office.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Extreme wealth is threatening our democracy. Those with extreme wealth control essential resources and communication networks. 40 years of reimagining the economy: eminent economist @jayatighosh.bsky.social kicks off our 40th anniversary event with a speech on global economic inequality. 1/
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LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For our very final Brexit episode, Dr Mareike Kleine @mkleine.bsky.social reflects on the #international dimensions of #Brexit. 🇬🇧🤝 👉 To catch up on our full series, visit our Brexit hub: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social youtu.be/AQarNRq6vAc
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Episode 10: Mareike Kleine on how Brexit has repositioned the UK on the world stage
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Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa @africaatlse.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is our final post on this platform. We invite you to stay connected with FLIA through our website, where you will find the latest news on our research, upcoming events, and publications. Visit us at ⤵️ www.lse.ac.uk/africa
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Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
For refugees at the economic margins, is AI a threat or an opportunity? Michelle T. Lee finds that, in East Africa, refugees are surprisingly optimistic about it, & companies may be funnelling work their way while reducing their permanent workforces @lseinequalities.bsky.social
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For refugee digital workers, is AI a threat or an opportunity?
Concerns about AI-driven job displacement tend to focus on workers in the Global North. What about the perceptions of refugee digital workers in East Africa?
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LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Democracy is not just about elections, it's about democratic values. Making a journey with the London Underground is a great way to remind us of that, argues @mukulika.bsky.social of @lseanthropology.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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The London Underground is a source of democratic values | LSE British Politics
Democracy is not just about elections, it's about democratic values. Making a journey with the London Underground is a great way to remind us of that.
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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🎙️ What kinds of academics enable transformative research? Diana Mitlin reflects on five personas—from superstar to shapeshifter—in this @globaldevinst.bsky.social podcast, with responses from @oumaoti.bsky.social & @drelisagambino.bsky.social on today’s academic system. 🎧 Listen: buff.ly/VqxhEdf
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Teaching scholarship moves us from individual concerns to collective significance. Four editors and educators discuss why interviews matter as sites of academic inquiry, why the canon comes first, and how solidarity reshapes what we think about teaching. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
💥New | The UN is advocating for a GDP alternative, can social science provide one? ✍️Megha Sud, Calder Tsuyuki-Tomlinson & @anna-abraham.bsky.social #GDP #SocialScience #EconSky @sciencecouncil.bsky.social
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The UN is advocating for a GDP alternative, can social science provide one? - LSE Impact
The UN is considering the future of GDP. Could a new metric encompass a far wider range of social scientific indicators?
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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As Europe battles yet another heatwave, the case for investing in climate adaptation is becoming increasingly clear. ✍ Maria Paula Gutierrez Hurtado & Nick Godfrey @granthamlse.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Beating the heat – why Europe must invest in climate adaptation
As Europe battles yet another heatwave, the economic case for investing in climate adaptation is becoming increasingly clear.
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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years on from the EU referendum, what impact has Brexit had on UK universities? ✍ Anne Corbett @lseconsulting.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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What impact has Brexit had on UK universities? - LSE European Politics
To reset UK-EU higher education relations, it is important to disentangle the consequences of Brexit from the wider problems of the UK university sector.
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
​What if a game could do what a campaign poster can't? 🎮 Join Climate Arcade: Gamified Simulations for Pro-Climate Behaviours, an interactive workshop exploring how game-based approaches can help tackle climate challenges. 📅 Tuesday 23 June 🕙 10am-12pm 📍LSE Campus luma.com/gk1zyxg4
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Climate Arcade: Gamified Simulations for Pro Climate Behaviours · Luma
What if a game could do what a campaign poster can't? The success of climate technology and policy lies in civic acceptance and participation.  However, most…
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: Posts linked to #LSEFestival 2026 (15-20 June): How to save the planet 🌎🧵 1️⃣ Peter Hill introduces a framework for managing Europe's energy transition where national security, energy resilience and growth objectives converge @lsebr.bsky.social @lseideas.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social
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Managing the geopolitics of Europe’s energy transition - LSE Business Review
Ahead of an event at the LSE Festival Peter Hill introduces the Clean Technology Partnership Initiative.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
👀ICYMI | "Following motherhood, one in three women leave academia as a result of motherhood, compared to one in six men" #AcademicSky #GreedyJobs
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The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
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LSE Department of Mathematics @lsemaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It was a pleasure to host Benny Sudakov (ETH Zurich) at our CGO seminar yesterday. He discussed an analogue of the Helly theorem for Hamming balls, establishing a dimension-independent Helly number. Thanks for this brilliant talk! 💫 #LSEMathematics
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🗣️"A 50 per cent replication rate only reads as a failure when we assume that replication is the only benchmark of credibility" #SocialScience #OpenResearch #Reproducibility
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Is it really bad that only 50% of social science papers are reproducible? - LSE Impact
Three papers in Nature find that around half of social science studies hold up under replication, reproducibility, and robustness tests. Is this a bad thing
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LSE Eden Centre @edenlse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The LSE Education Symposium for 2026 is underway again following lunch! We've got so much more to come in the afternoon, starting with a keynote from Prof Camille Kandiko Howson (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social) and many more LSE colleagues presenting their practice. On with the show!
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Peking University @pku1898.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
From April 28 to 29, Peking University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and King’s College London jointly hosted the symposium “Global Approaches to Generative AI in Education” in London. newsen.pku.edu.cn/news_events/... #PekingUniversity #LSE @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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LSE Eden Centre @edenlse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just about to begin the LSE Education Symposium 2026 in MAR! We have a fantastic line-up of colleagues and guest keynotes this year. We can't wait! info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisi...
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Government threats to defund DEI look like defeat. But view them simply as bad pedagogy: top-down, ineffective, impossible to control, and Ijeoma Njaka finds hope in subversion. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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LSE Department of Statistics @lsedepofstatistics.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
✈️ 🇺🇲 🍏 Dr Giulia Livieri visited the Big Apple last week to present ‘Testing for endogeneity of irregular sampling schemes’ at the MPSS Conference on Financial Econometrics that took place at Princeton University. Giulia's associated paper 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4307336
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There's still time to join our final MY580 session of the year⏰️ 📚 Measuring policy positions of political agents by Emeritus Professor Michael Laver ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆16 June ➡️In-person only at CON.1.01 Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1984127318...
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