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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Public attitudes to electoral reform can be fluid + cross-pressured. See this BSA trend on Keep vs Change over 3 decades Change the system was 60-36 (+24) in 2024: ahead 2021-24 Keep the system we have peaked 66-27 (+39) 2011, the year a referendum held on the Alternative Vote (which lost 68-32)

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John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Significant comments from @profbriancox.bsky.social at Labour conference fringe, criticising the economic growth remit UKRI has been given as the cause of "serious problems" in science. He also got into the philosophy of how research contributes to growth...

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Hilma Lindskog @hilmal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do educational networks at workplaces shape political attitudes? 👬 Happy to share that the latest paper in my dissertation is now published in @bjpols.bsky.social.

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having a job in a workplace with a considerable proportion of university-educated coworkers is associated with an increase in culturally liberal attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes - Volume 56

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Marta Miori @martamiori.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New opinion piece with @profjanegreen.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com ⬇️📊 We argue that five parties in the polls doesn't mean five-way races. What's really going on is a scramble within each bloc over who can win, fought out seat by seat.

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is very interesting - but mostly left me wondering how Pangram works...

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Another thought on this: we’re going to end up with PR-like electoral fragmentation, but without any of the predictability. Worst of both worlds.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New YouGov MRP is dreadful for Labour in Wales yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Alex Hartland @alexhartland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📄 New Publication 📄 When AI Talks Politics: How reliable is ChatGPT? Co-authored with Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social and @rosanavarrete.bsky.social Now available Open Access @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 23/09/2026

This is something that I'm interested in but don't have the time to work out. The variation around the Green's vote share is much larger than the Lib Dem's, who they're neck-and-neck with.

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interesting new paper in @wepsocial.bsky.social by Yoda&Atsumi showing that "the positive association between pro-redistribution and pro-immigration attitudes is weaker among earlier cohorts." In other words: the number of left-authoritarian voters decreases across generations.

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Time dilation: the temporal structure of elite–voter incongruence on redistribution and immigration

While immigration and redistribution issues have increasingly converged at the elite level in Western Europe, they remain less correlated among voters, leading to significant elite–voter incongruen...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think this is pretty hard to justify. The education reporters might I suppose argue that the Orr story is a politics one and hence goes to that desk. But we also have the student complaints, mentioned in the FT long read and apparently reopened this week.

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Lotte Hargrave @lottehargrave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨New paper🚨 Very pleased that “Using Gender to Choose: Voter Decision-Making in Low-Information Elections”, coauthored with Ellie Woodhouse, is now out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. In it, we ask: when voters know very little about candidates, how do they use gender when deciding who to vote for? 🧵👇

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.

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Joelle Tasker @joelletasker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Exciting to see my first thesis paper in @polstudies.bsky.social! In this article I explore how economic versus cultural values predict left-right self-placement in the UK over the last 10 years, and how this looks different for those identifying on the left versus right. doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 11/09/2026

glad this follow-up study was published in @pspolisci.bsky.social - this takeaway is what I think most folks would agree is the current state of play for the political science academic job market www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Taken together, these findings present a more nuanced picture of the relationship between departmental ranking and candidate outcomes. Overall, placement rates for candidates were similar across higher- and lower-ranked departments, with about 25% of candidates finding permanent academic positions in the 2023–2024 job-market cycle. However, higher-ranked departments had an advantage in placing candidates into postdoctoral positions that may improve their prospects in multiyear searches. In addition, candidates from higher-ranked departments were more likely to secure positions in PhD-granting and higher-ranked institutions, whereas candidates from lower-ranked schools were more likely to find employment at MA-/BA-granting departments.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 1930s, famously a time of depoliticisation

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak.

A copy of the book "Hyperpolitics" by Anton Jäger on a pub table next to a pint of lager.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If this faction existed, you'd imagine that they'd be intensely critical of a Home Secretary who tolerates disorder on the streets, and masked gangs roaming unchallenged

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First they came for the sociologists...

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James Dennison @jamesrdennison.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New #openaccess in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social "From Protest to Pluralist? The Green Party of England and Wales after a Decade of Political Upheaval" Thanks @pjsloman.bsky.social & editors of PQ for the invitation to reflect on 10+ years of research on this single, evolving case! t.ly/qwui6 🔗

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very weird experience of AI attempting to scam itself this morning - with me caught in the middle.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

God have mercy, an old friend of mine was one of Orr’s students who had quit his PhD and can only speak about it now

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026

Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.

Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have written to the Market Research Society and the British Polling Council asking them to launch a full investigation into the conduct of JL Partners, following the story covered on Channel 4 news. Full letter below.

I will post a full copy of the letter on my website later with link in follow up tweet as too many characters for here.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the interesting aspects of all this footage is it reveals that parties/strategists firmly believe that opinion polls can be used for significant political advantage.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Electoral Commission appears to be straightforwardly wrong about its role and responsibilities in law as the regulator when it says publicly "Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider". It is the core job of the Electoral Commission

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: Reform UK’s James Orr and Dan Jukes have ‘stepped down’ from their roles following last night’s undercover filming on Channel 4 News. Nigel Farage remains in post.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nice to see that Reform’s war against the establishment happens in Claridges and Rules. Classic man of the people stuff from the Spode-u-Like guys.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/09/2026

This scandal also reflects very badly on JL Partners -- who are supposed to be British Polling Council members -- but who ran a poll for Reform paid for by a third party, then did not reveal who their client was.

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Chris Butler @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New publication: I've been interested in how male and female politicians differ in their attitudes towards whether parties should emphasise their differences or try to work collaboratively having picked up such a gendered difference among politicians I interviewed for a project on political trust

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the more interesting graphs I've seen, something that seems really counter-intuitive until you think about it. England only having about 15 percent forest coverage at the time of the Doomsday book (about half of what France and Germany have today) is wild, isn't it?

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British Voter @britishvoter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hi, this is the British Voter Bot. We're really proud of this latest update, which will give insight into the biggest political social survey in Britain - revealing the breadth of perspective and opinion across our country. Let us know what you think!

Introduction poster for British Voter Bot. Headline: Real British voters, one at a time. Every card on this account is one real, anonymous respondent to the British Election Study, Britain's largest survey of voters. Each card says who they are, what they think and how they'd vote, in their own answers to questions written by the BES. The views are the respondent's own, not ours. How to read a card, five rows: 1. A map of Wales with a magenta dot. The dot is where they live: each voter is drawn over their home nation, marked at their constituency. 2. A lilac speech bubble. The bubbles are their views: favourite and least favourite leader, the issues they care about, how they see their nation - each one the respondent's own answer to a BES question, not the opinion of this account, its authors or the BES. 3. A slider with a magenta dot left of centre, a black tick at the centre and a lilac band around it. The scales show where they sit: two BES 0 to 10 scales, economic left to right and social liberal to authoritarian. The tick is the centre of the scale (5); the lilac band is the voters' interquartile range. 4. A magenta block reading 2024 to today. The band is their vote: how they voted in 2024 and who they'd vote for now, coloured by the party they're backing today, grey if they're undecided or wouldn't vote. 5. 24 lilac dots, one magenta. Together, they are Britain in miniature: voters are drawn from the wave's 31,392 real respondents in proportion to BES survey weights, so the feed reflects the British adult population by age, gender, region, past vote and more. One voter, four times a day. BES Wave 31, YouGov, May-June 2026. Closing band, magenta: No one is the average voter. Taken one at a time, voters are messier - and more interesting - than any stereotype. Credits: Jacob Weinbren, @jacobweinbren.bsky.social; Lawrence McKay, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social; Chris Terry-Enescu, @cjterry.bsky.social.

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Given everything we know about the UK HE system I'd be very surprised if the same wasn't true here - with the divide being Oxbridge vs the rest.

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pretty sure the Greens would be quite happy with the 40% - FORTY PER CENT - UK vote share Labour managed in 2017

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In 2025 trade unions gave £4.9 million to Labour. Individual donors gave £16 million to Reform & £9 million to the Tories. In total Labour raised £10 mill, Reform £19 mill & the Tories £21 mill. If the *unions* are blocking a donor cap, they've lost their minds www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham has dropped his support for capping political donations, causing anger among activists and Labour MPs who have long campaigned for change to the way parties are funded.

The prime minister has decided not to back amendments to the elections bill, which would cap the amount a person or an organisation can give in a single donation, according to government sources.

The decision comes after a lobbying campaign from Labour’s trade union backers, who said amendments to the bill, which returns to parliament for its remaining stages next week, could undermine their ability to donate to the party. It is also a retreat from the support Burnham gave to the idea just a few weeks ago, when he emailed a campaigner for electoral reform to say he would support a donations cap of £500,000.

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