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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 10/06/2025DSI #PhDAffiliate Chuyao Wang’s new co-authored paper examines how conspiracy theories are governed on Chinese social media, showing how governments spread, allow, or argue against conspiracy theories. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 000
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Unlike the AI-generated Chicago Sun-Times reading list – which included fake books – LSE’s new Research for the World magazine, out today, features a (human-curated) AI reading list with picks from researchers across the School, including DSI Director Martin Anthony. www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...lse.ac.ukRecommended reading on AI and technology | LSE ResearchThis reading list, compiled in collaboration with the LSE Review of Books blog, offers recommendations from LSE researchers of key books covering AI and tech. 000
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Last week DSI Affiliate Siân Brooke, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam spoke on BBC Radio London about the rise in incel culture & her research into how online spaces reinforce inequality. 🎧 Listen (from 2:20): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📖 Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio London - Shay Kaur Grewal, 13/05/2025Celebrating Londoners and a recap of the day's news. 000
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Upcoming event: AI’s rise reveals big flaws in education, which hasn’t adapted to tech’s role in society. @conradwolfram.bsky.social outlines the fix: a new, AI-age-ready curriculum built for computational literacy. 3 June | 6:30–8pm | lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/... 000
Reposted by LSE Data Science InstituteLSE School of Public Policy @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025💼 We're #HIRING an LSE Fellow in Data Science for Public Policy! Join us to deliver world-class teaching by facilitating seminars on empirical #datascience and its application to #policymaking. 🗓️ Closing: Sunday 8 June (23.59 BST) jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social 013
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 20/05/2025🎟️ Tickets are now live for this year’s #LSEFestival: Visions for the Future! Join us 16–21 June at LSE (on campus or online) for a week of talks, panels & workshops on #AI, data, democracy & more. 👁️ Programme: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F... 000
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Last week, DSI and the Department of Media and Communications (@lsemedia.bsky.social) hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest – from access to info to democracy. Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young. Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...youtube.comThe power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest | LSE EventYouTube video by LSE 033
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 13/05/2025AI isn’t just software — it’s hardware, geopolitics, rare earth mining, and an energy-hungry race for dominance. This film is an essential watch. Dr Nils Peters of @lsesociology.bsky.social talks about the fragile and often invisible supply chain behind #AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxo...youtube.comAI's hidden supply chain explained: why it's more fragile than you think | LSE ResearchYouTube video by LSE 041
Reposted by LSE Data Science InstituteGlobal School of Sustainability at LSE @gsos-lse.bsky.social · 13/05/2025🖥️ "'Building the Data Infrastructure to Help Us Achieve Net Zero" 🗓️ Thursday, 22 May 2025 1-2pm 📍 KCL Strand Campus, London LSE's @lsedatascience.bsky.social is collaborating with @aiatkings.bsky.social for this in-person event - #climatechange #sustainablepolicy #datascienceeventbrite.co.ukBuilding the Data Infrastructure to Help Us Achieve Net ZeroJoin this in-conversation style event about data infrastructure that can help us achieve net zero. 023
Reposted by LSE Data Science InstituteLSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 25/02/2025We're hosting #PolMethEurope2025 📆 7 - 8 April 📍 The London School of Economics and Political Science campus This year's conference is the largest yet, with over 50 presentations focused on innovative research methods and their applications. Register to attend👉 buff.ly/43bLVa6 043
Reposted by LSE Data Science InstituteLSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 20/02/2025👉Call for papers! @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and @dandekadt.bsky.social are hosting a two-day "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" workshop this November Potential contributors should send a 250-word abstract by 26 March ➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsedatascience.bsky.social 044
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Innovation is increasingly monopolised by a small entrepreneurial elite that is not representative of the population at all. Join us for the inaugural lecture of Xavier Jaravel, Professor of Economics at #LSE and #DSIAffiliate. 27 Feb, 6.30 to 8.00pm Hybrid More⤵️ www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...lse.ac.ukThe lost Marie Curies6.30pm Thurs 27 Feb | Xavier Jaravel | Free public event at LSE 020
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 19/02/2025📢Call for papers📢 We are cohosting a two-day workshop with #LSE Department of Methodology on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" organised by Dr Daniel de Kadt and audreyalejandro.bsky.social ✳️Submit 250-Word abstract by 26 March Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... 051
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 18/02/2025📢 New Research Paper 📢 #DSIAffiliate @krpd.bsky.social from LSE's Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science has co-authored a new paper "Beyond WEIRD: Can Synthetic Survey Participants Substitute for Humans in Global Policy Research?" Read it now🔻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 011
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 17/02/2025If we are concerned about increasing loneliness and social fragmentation, we need to reckon with how technologies enable or impede human connection. Join this @lsemedia.bsky.social #LSEEvents with Allison Pugh and Sonia Livingstone. Wednesday 19 Feb, 6.30–8.00pm ⤵️ www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...lse.ac.ukThe last human job: AI, depersonalisation and the industrial clock6.30pm Weds 19 Feb | Allison Pugh | Free public event at LSE 011
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Interesting new @lseimpactblog.bsky.social that considers whether large language models, such as #ChatGPT, can be applied to assess the quality of #REF impact case studies. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...blogs.lse.ac.ukWhat happens when you let ChatGPT assess impact case studies?The potential benefits of AI to different parts of the research cycle are currently a matter of significant study. In this post, Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall consider whether large language mode… 010
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 07/01/2025This new @lseimpactblog.bsky.social by Daan Kolkman and Gijs van Maanen argues that rather than transparency and explainability, responsiveness is key to accountability in AI decision making. #AIPolicy #DecisionMaking #Policymaking blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...blogs.lse.ac.ukAI decision making doesn’t need to be explainable, but it should be responsivePublic policies are increasingly being underpinned by automatic algorithmic decision making processes that have in some instances spectacularly failed. Daan Kolkmanand Gijs van Maanen ar… 010
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Did you know that any #LSE undergraduate, in any year of study can choose one of our Data Science Modules no matter what course you are studying❓ Watch the full video, find out more about the modules and learn how #DataScience can equip you with valuable new skills‼️ 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/study/un... 000
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 03/01/2025As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflict. 📅 Thursday 30 January 🕡 6.30–8.00pm 📌 Hybrid More info and registration👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/... #LSE #LSEEvents #AIlse.ac.ukGenesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit6.30pm Thurs 30 Jan | AI, hope, and the human spirit | Craig Mundie, Mairéad Pratschke | Registration Required | Free public event at LSE 010
Reposted by LSE Data Science Institute LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 02/01/2025🧵The second brings together research on the continuing impact of generative AI on research and higher education 💻 #AcademicSky #AIResearch #HigherEducationblogs.lse.ac.uk2024 In review – Working with generative AIIn the second of our annual reviews we turn our focus to the emerging role of AI across research and higher education. Across the research cycle from research methods to administration and teaching… 142
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Join us for our 1st #LSEEvents of 2025. Discussing his new book, David Spiegelhalter will explain 3️⃣ types of luck and talk about how we can put numbers on our ignorance, then measure how good those numbers are. 📅22 Jan 🕡6.30–7.30pm 📌Hybrid www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/... 000
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 30/12/2024What does it mean to be human in a world changed by AI? In March Madhumita Murgia #AI Editor @financialtimes.com discussed her new book "Code Dependent" at a DSI public event. Download the podcast from the #LSE Player🔽 www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i... #LSEDSI2024 | #LSEEventslse.ac.ukWhat it means to be human in a world changed by AIAuthor Madhumita Murgia discusses her new book Code Dependent, which sets out just how profoundly automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, and how AI is changing our relationships... 010
Reposted by LSE Data Science InstituteLSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024#Africa’s #tech unicorns have captured the world’s attention with billion-dollar valuations, but their global ambitions remain stunted. Behind the hype lies a deeper story of systemic hurdles, strategic blind spots, and untapped potential, writes Jennifer D. Daniel on the LSE Africa Blog.buff.lyAfrica has tech unicorns, but they aren’t scaling globallyAfrica's tech unicorns have captured the world's attention with billion-dollar valuations, but their global ambitions remain stunted 002
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 27/12/2024LSE encourages the responsible and ethical use of Generative AI to support and enhance research. During 2024 Lee Mager put together an extensive resource for researchers from #LSE (and others) offering #AI research guidance. Explore this amazing resource🔽 www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/AI/AI-Re... #LSEDSI2024lse.ac.ukAI Research GuidanceLanding page for guidance on use of generative AI in research 020
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 20/12/2024How students actually use AI❓ To improve courses, educators must try to answer this question. Our GENIAL research does just that! Find out more about the project and learn how its findings can be integrated into teaching and assessment plans ⬇ www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/Research... #LSEDSI2024 010
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 19/12/2024In 2024 we invited data scientist from industry to speak at 5️⃣fantastic #CareersinDataScience events to help undergraduate and postgraduate students from across #LSE navigate their next steps into the world of work. Learn more about our student events www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/Events/s... #LSEDSI2024 020
Reposted by LSE Data Science Institute LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 16/12/2024💥New: Where to start with AI in research management 👩💻Anna Aston #AcademicSky #ResearchManagementblogs.lse.ac.ukWhere to start with AI in research managementGenerative AI is having a transformative effect on academic work, but it is also reshaping the professional services and research management sectors that support it. Here Anna Aston discusses where… 0115
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 18/12/2024In 2024 the work of DSI Affiliates has been recognised with significant awards🔻 🔴UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship 🔴Philip Leverhulme Prize 2024 🔴European Research Council Consolidator Grant Find out more🔻 lse.ac.uk/DSI/Research #LSEDSI2024 @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social 062
LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Join us for our first two public events of 2025. David Spiegelhalter launches his new book, an essential guide to navigating uncertainty. Co-author Craig Mundie explains how his new book outlines a strategy for navigating the age of AI. Find out more🔻 www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/Events/u... 010