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Sarah Ledoux

@sarahledoux.bsky.social
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Computational Social Scientist at the University of Vienna Representation | Political Communication | Voter behaviour | Tech Policy Committee Member @techpolicy.bsky.social

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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology Workshop started this morning with a fantastic room of experts 😍! We've already heard interesting perspectives including that political vibes, and not evidence-led approaches, are driving current policy.
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Super happy to see this project with @techpolicy.bsky.social come into action! This workshop will provide space for practitioners & academics to discuss policies relating to Online Safety and tech use among young people in the UK. Keep your eyes peeled for the workshop report 👀
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On the train 🚂 to Kraków to #ecprgc26 with @christinagahn.bsky.social @robert-a-huber.bsky.social and Jakob Meinel. Looking forward to all the great panels lined up👥 ! A bit of self-promo: come to my panel at 16:15 tomorrow and say hi 👋 I'll be talking about a new measure to spot group claims!
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🥳 New Paper with @jadevrielink.bsky.social and @skruikemeier.bsky.social: on how voters perceive the political ads they receive, and why that tailoring perception matters more than we usually assume. 🧵 1/3 📄 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Hand-drawn doodle illustration in three steps. On the left, a large smartphone with "VOTE for me" on the screen, surrounded by small icons such as animals and speech bubbles. An arrow points to a smiling person looking thoughtful, with thought bubbles above showing the same motifs (pets, music, people). Another arrow points to the same person, now beaming, holding up the smartphone with the "VOTE for me" ad and giving a thumbs up. The illustration shows how political advertising that feels personally relevant is evaluated more positively.
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🤳The UK is pushing for device controls to filter nudity: but why is it problematic? Our research brief by @cynthiang.bsky.social discuses the technology behind device controls to stop young people sharing explicit content, problems, & possible future scenarios. psatip.uk/research/the...
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Research Brief - The UK is pushing for device controls to filter nudity: but why is it problematic?
The Government has called for tech companies to prevent children from sharing sexually explicit images. But what exactly is the technology behind device controls, and what changes to the law are being...
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Talk about polarisation 😯
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Koichi Osamura @koichiosamura.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026
How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our June newsletter is out 📩 so grab a cuppa ☕ and check out our top story on *which* AI politicians use, and what implications this might have out their work! Plus, find out all the top tech & policy stories we're reading this month 👀
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The TIP Newsletter: AGM, Your News, and Politicians using AI
Good morning TIPers,
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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Image showing the abstract of the paper "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies at the Voting Booth" by Werner Krause and Christina Gahn, published in the Journal of Politics. The abstract describes a quasi-experimental study across 25 countries finding that parties polling just below electoral thresholds are approximately 45 percentage points less likely to clear them, and that this effect diminishes when voters are informed about polling uncertainty.
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇 technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...
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Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety
With the United Kingdom moving towards banning under 16s from accessing social media, Dr. Maia Almeida-Amir & Prof. Ariadne Vromen provide a rights-based perspective following the Australian ban.
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Super insightful paper 👀👀 exposing the (unsurprising) asymmetries in politics research and policymaking.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 22/04/2026
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.
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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🌍📊 From survey data quality to research infrastructures: The #CSDIWorkshop 2026 in Vienna brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss current challenges and innovations in comparative survey design and implementation. Read more in our latest #MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/csdi-worksho...
Workshop graphic for the CSDI Workshop 2026 in Vienna featuring the logos of CSDI, MEDem, the Generations & Gender Programme, and Meeting Destination Vienna above three event photos showing speakers presenting at the University of Vienna.
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Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New blog post ✒️ Who gets emotional about politics and what impact do knowledge, interest, and confidence-in-knowledge have? Find out more about the sophistication-emotion link in our latest blogpost:
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BLOG: Who gets emotional about politics?
Fear of migrants, national pride, and anger at elites are just some examples of the ways in which emotions play an important part in today’s political culture. It is a long standing assumption that em...
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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26
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Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association
Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...
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Gonzalo Puig @gonzapuig89.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Con @dielujan77.bsky.social y @sarahledoux.bsky.social analizamos el ascenso de #Milei como una variedad de personalismo electoral ➡️ Milei no se explica solo como #populismo ℹ️ Su campaña puede abordarse desde un concepto + preciso: personalismo electoral 🔓Open access: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
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Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier Milei in Argentina | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier Milei in Argentina - Volume 61
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Jule Kegel @julekgl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Delighted to see our collaboration out in doi print 🎉 In this paper, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the concept of 'electoral personalism' through the case of Milei in Argentina and identify 3 key elements: self-promotion, ideological rhetoric and moral appeals. See link for more 👇
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Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier Milei in Argentina | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier Milei in Argentina - Volume 61
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨 Upcoming TIP EVENT! 🚨 with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 25 FEB 3-4pm GMT (on Zoom!) to discuss Cecilia's book "Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" in conversation 💬 with our very own @danweiss.bsky.social More info & sign-ups here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨 I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions. The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️
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Politische Vierteljahresschrift @pvs-journal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments? @cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered. Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS: doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
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Decoding German Politics with StateParl—A Text Corpus of Plenary Protocols in the 16 German Länder Parliaments - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The availability of large amounts of machine-readable text data has enabled political scientists to explore a variety of novel and innovative research questions. In this context, parliamentary documen...
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Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
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Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
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Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
📢 PhD Scholarship at QUT to join my DECRA project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" @qutdmrc.bsky.social 📅 Applications close: 13/03/2026 More info here: www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-a... Please share and reach out if you have questions!
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QUT - Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats (PhD scholarship)
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The MPG x TIP conference in Bournemouth is a go! We've already had a fantastic keynote by Susan Banaducci and now we're onto the first wave of panels! @psampg.bsky.social
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
👨‍💻 In a piece based on @polbehavior.bsky.social research, @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social reports on his survey of politicians. 💡 He finds that while politicians do have reasonable understanding of which issues matter, they often make mistakes that have consequences for representation 👇 bit.ly/3KZhugI
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How well do politicians understand what matters to voters?
Politicians need to have a good understanding of which issues matters most to voters. Chris Butler reports from a recent survey of politicians that
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Incredible work by Matt Smith at @yougov.co.uk summing up the most heard news stories of 2025! Check out the whole story & breakdown here yougov.co.uk/politics/art... "Cool" only begins to describe how it feels to see outputs from the AI topic quantifier after I developed it at YouGov last year ♥️
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Reminder about this political text analysis postdoc job: deadline is on Monday! 🕒
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Key paper for those using proprietary models for ideological stance annotation and text generation. Walker & @joantimoneda.bsky.social not only show a clear conservative/liberal split between languages prompted, but also changes in outputs from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 (see graphs)
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📣 Join us 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 📣 (2 Dec) to discuss "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 📖 with Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca 3:00-4:15pm GMT! Looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion on how govs shape content moderation & strategies to combat harmful content Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Call for papers: IJPOR has a call for a special issue on AI, public opinion and democratic resilience. 1000 word initial abstract submission 🗓️: deadline February 15, 2026 @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @algosoc.org @polcomm.bsky.social #commsky academic.oup.com/ijpor/pages/...
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Call for Papers: AI, Public Opinion, and Democratic Resilience
Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zuñiga and Hugo Marcos-Marne Editor-In-Chief: Porismita Bora
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Chris Butler @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4
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How Politicians (mis)Perceive Policy Salience
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation" 🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
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Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press
Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Another job with MULTIREP! 👉 Deadline 15 Dec Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions/interest, I'd be happy to have a chat 😄
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🆕 What kind of personalities are drawn to politics? 🗳️ This cross-national study across 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱🇳🇱🇨🇭 explores #Representation and how honesty-humility and other HEXACO personality traits shape people’s ambition to run for office 🧵1/2 buff.ly/xk4qMa3
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Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🚨 The MULTIREP team is hiring! Please share with MAs based in Vienna with a keen interest in pol behaviour and survey experiments 🙏
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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🚨 Deadline today! 🚨 Join us on 19 Nov at our OfcomxTIP in-person workshop on 'Future Directions of Academic Research in Online Safety, Tech & Policy' in London. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity for networking and future collaborations! Link w info 🔗 ofcom.eventogy.com/c/technology...
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Technology, Internet and Policy and Ofcom: future directions for academic research
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Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social 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. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🔥 Our September newsletter is out! 🔥 it includes ⚠️ Reminder for our Jan Conference on Digital Democracy w @psampg.bsky.social 📆 Upcoming Engagement Event with Ofcom 🇪🇺 Caveats in DSA researcher access 📝 Member News & Research 🎓 Opportunities/Grants 💼 & Jobs! #Commsky substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The TIP Newsletter: MPGxTIP conference CfP, Ofcom event, DSA & EU researchers, your news, and more.
In this newsletter, we remind you of our MPGxTIP conference CfP (deadline soon!), share some details on an exciting event we've got brewing, and discuss the launch of the DSA for politics research.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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👇
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Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:
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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0140... 🧵👇
Article abstract, which says:

The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.
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Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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
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