Last week, I defended my PhD dissertation at Trinity College Dublin. I am happy to say that I have joined the esteemed ranks of Dr. Dre, Dr. Pepper, and Dr. Seuss! 😁🎉 Thanks so much to family, friends, colleagues, and especially my PhD supervisors, @cboussalis.bsky.social and @janberz.bsky.social!

Can a football tragedy reveal the true power of media influence? Discover how Liverpool reshaped politics when it turned away from a powerful tabloid. By Lucas Paulo da Silva, University of Zurich @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social Article: thesciencematters.org/how-liverpoo... @tcddublin.bsky.social

I'm delighted to start a new job as a research scientist at the University of Zurich! 😃🇨🇭 I am joining a really cool SNSF-funded project (see below) led by @annisch.bsky.social. I'll also work on other computational research about online media and public opinion. 💻📰📺📻📱 @ikmz.bsky.social #Zurich

Thrilled to say that I submitted my PhD dissertation! 😀 It measures the ideological structure of 324 online news outlets and tests the effects of this structure on voting. I find large ideological gaps in media markets and powerful effects of these gaps over public opinion and how we vote. 📺💻📱📠

Enjoyed my first APSA conference in beautiful #Vancouver! We're all very interested in media effects. But my paper uses original #survey #experiments and panel data to study how cross-pressured audiences select political #media in the first place. 📺📻💻📱📰 #APSA2025 @polcomm.bsky.social #APSA

🎙️ Exciting news! Lucas Da Silva, one of our PhD students in the Political Science Department joined @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social to discuss his research. Tune in to the interview here: link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGnJ3uW3vxTA #TCD #PoliticalScience #Newstalk #AcademicResearch

Check out my radio interview with @newstalkfm.bsky.social yesterday!🎙️ We discussed my #research on how #media influences #voting, including my natural experiment based on the Sun boycott in #Liverpool. It was a cool experience, thanks Newstalk! 😀 @lfcr.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3LjB...

Tune in to @newstalkfm.bsky.social today around 2:45pm to hear my interview about how media influences elections. 🎙️ 📺 📻 💻 📱 📰 You can listen in Ireland on Newstalk radio (106-108FM) or from anywhere in the 🌍 on Newstalk's website (live), Spotify, and other platforms: www.newstalk.com/shows/moncri...

My article was published on The Converation and Yahoo News! 🙌 It talks about the longlasting political effects of the boycott of The Sun newspaper in Liverpool (based on results from my recent Political Behavior study). 📰👕 Check it out! #LFC #politics theconversation.com/did-the-sun-...

My favorite quote from my upcoming study (which maps the ideology of global media) has gotta be: "My eventual dataset represents 26 countries from all continents except Antarctica." Sorry, penguins!🐧

Thanks @comptext.bsky.social for a great conference in #Vienna! I presented (1) a new method -- "MQ-Class" -- for LLM-classifying the full spectrum of media ideology and (2) my project mapping the 2D structure of global media ideology. Great people, panels, and most importantly food! #COMPTEXT2025

🧐New Research 🧐 How does the media affect the way we vote? PhD Researcher @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social explores this in a new article published by @polbehavior.bsky.social 👏 🔗Read the article here: tinyurl.com/yc622vhu #politics #polscisky #politicalscience

Thrilled that my paper is now published by @polbehavior.bsky.social! Using a natural experiment—the Sun boycott—I show how media may shape our voting mostly by changing our perceptions of party positions. Media matters! 🗳️ Read here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... @tcddublin.bsky.social #mediabias #vote

📝 New Research 📝 PhD Research @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social has published an article with The Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 👏 Read the article 👉 tinyurl.com/45npvhma @tcdssp.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social #polscisky #politicalscience

Curious about how media influences voting behaviour? 🤔🗳️ This month on PhD Perspectives we chat to Lucas Da Silva, who tells us about his research on how media affects cross-pressured voters- those with conflicting economic & cultural views. Read about his research here 🔽 www.tcd.ie/Political_Sc...