📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

Bear with as I connect this API to my WhatsApp naas.isalman.dev/no

Live scenes from the England Cricket Board meeting on Monday

Online political discussions are characterized by a minority of users dominate the discussion, while most remain silent. Those who perceived a discussion as toxic/polarized tend to remain silent: But toxicity engages power users (namely men interested in politics) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is very cool, and amazing data! Looking forward to reading the report in full later

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

🚪Research suggests that the idea that voters are more persuaded by people who look or sound like them is a myth. In our new blog post we break down the evidence that demographics matter much less than the content of the conversation. campaignlab.uk/project/do-s...

🚨Data Update 🚨 We have released an updated version of our panel data. This version includes a correction to our p_ethnicity variables, which affected 7.8% of our respondents. There is also a very small correction to our geographic variables. More ⬇️ www.britishelectionstudy.com/uncategorize...

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

Also the reply then should not be: let's do observational. No, the reply then should be: let's do field experiments. ;)

I don't read the criticism as saying "survey experiments are bad", more, "this is an unbalanced diet"

Whilst survey experiments are useful (and clearly popular), their proliferation is a bit troubling in light of papers like Carnes and Henderson (2025) - especially when studying questions where results (should) directly inform practice in "the field" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Only a few days left to apply for this fully-funded collaborative PhD with @lsegovernment.bsky.social and @campaign-lab.bsky.social! It's a pretty unique position sat right between academia and "real world" campaigns - please share with someone who might be interested (and/or apply)!

Could not recommend this highly enough - LSE is a great place to be doing a PhD, and Campaign Lab are a fantastic organisation to collaborate with - More than happy to talk to anyone thinking of applying!

Political scientists love their survey experiments.

Or you can also get in touch with some of our current PhD students who work on related questions (and are on BlueSky) @lenmetson.com @isoldehegemann.bsky.social @antonkoenneke.de @benghix.bsky.social

🚨 Please send in your application by 10 December to be considered for this ESRC studentship in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. Both home and international students are eligible for funding. Some advice on how to apply below 👇

New report: What should we do about mayoral scrutiny? www.mysociety.org/2025/11/18/m...

The UK outright engaged in stationary banditry, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, all in order to appease the most petty xenophobe bigots on earth. And I feel sure it won't even work on the Home Secretary's terms, ultimately all this will strengthen not weaken Reform.

It becomes overly clear why #MeToo was considered such a threat by powerful men and why they have done everything to mock and discredit it.

🚨 NEW in @bjpols.bsky.social : When Partygate hit Westminster, trust in Scottish politicians increased. Our experiments reveal a "contrast effect" - scandals at one level can make the other look better by comparison. Who lost most trust in Westminster? Scottish unionists. Read now #OpenAccess 👇

"While testing one dimension at a time can yield simple results, those effects may not generalise to richer, real-world contexts." Read our new POAL Methods Briefs on Conjoint Experiments from Thomas Robinson! Link: www.poal.co.uk/research/met...

📄 New WP version out - full overhaul! The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social ) Comments welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

The crucial bit of this tactical 'only Labour or Reform can win here' VI poll, though, is that Labour and Reform would be tied. Not enough Lib Dem or Green voters are (right now) prepared to tactically vote for Labour to offset the number of Tories willing to tactically vote for Reform.

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Sticking it to the man by only taking treatment when assigned to control and vice versa

This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.

If Greens start consistently leading Labour in polls, and beating them in local elections then the logic of tactical voting which Labour has been relying on could flip savagely on them. As Caerphilly by-election shows, "Only Labour can beat Reform" doesn't work if voters know it isn't true.

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

There were emotional scenes at the Cardiff City Stadium as Jess Fishlock played her final game for Wales

THE END OF AN ERA Welsh footballing legend Jess Fishlock has played her final match for her country. She leaves the pitch as Wales’ most capped player with 166 caps & 48 goals. Congrats on an incredible career Jess 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 👏

Oh England 🥲 #ENGBRA

I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions. AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.

Matching designs be like... @antonkoenneke.de

"AI fact-checks may be the best way to reduce Republicans’ engagement with online political misinformation" by @isoldehegemann.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

📰 "The Two Psychological Biases to Avoid to Understand Voting Behaviour in 2025" open.substack.com/pub/jamesbre...

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Nano-targeting is not a persuasive weapon: it is a dissuasion and polarization weapon. New paper out osf.io/preprints/so... with the brilliant Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social and @fresejoris.bsky.social – the first to quantify the perverse incentives/inherent democratic dangers of this tech.

New office art dropped

Going through some history of climate politics notes from last week, I realize we dont appreciate enough the climate mobilization of mid2010s and subsequent electoral green wave of late 2010s. That moment was never really meant to be in the cards and we need to better study how we got there 🪡 1/n

📽 Thought I'd share some YouTube channels that are nice for people teaching or learning stats in social science research ⬇ Would also be really interested to hear what others watch/recommend!

I did some quick analysis of who has been signing the e-petition against digital ID and the results are interesting. Nothing very surprising when comparing signatures per constituency with share voting Reform in 2024. The picture for Labour is a bit more troubling…

Maybe those 3% are responding to 30 surveys at the same time 😉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Equally cool and informative from a substantive and methodological perspective!

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social