Is it ok for politicians to use AI? That's what my colleagues Martin Ejnar Hansen, Yosuke Sunahara and I aimed to find out in our latest research! theconversation.com/is-it-ok-for...

Would you trust politicians to use AI to help them with their work? What about a robot making decisions for them? My colleagues Martin Ejnar Hansen, Yosuke Sunahara and I find out in Parliamentary Affairs! doi.org/10.1093/pa/g... @hansardsociety.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk

The BBC is a partisan battleground, but Japan's NHK isn't. My colleagues Marting Ejnar Hansen, Yosuke Sunahara and I find out why in this piece for The Conversation. doi.org/10.64628/AB....

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Our new paper on who trusts the BBC vs NHK finds that while UK Conservatives really don't trust the BBC, there is no partisan divide in trust for NHK in Japan. doi.org/10.1515/comm... #MediaTrust #BBC #NHK #UK #Japan

New in JEMS! 🚨 Led by Riku Kawakami & part of the TrustTracker.org project: Who gets in? Immigration preferences in England & Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵 Finding: Labour demand matters as much as skills — even low-skill jobs in shortage areas get strong support. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

japantoday.com/category/fea...? Seaweed is one of the few foods that can credibly claim to be good for both people and the planet. So why don’t Westerners eat more of it? From an environmental and nutritional standpoint, seaweed seems like an obvious choice for a sustainable diet.

Seaweed is good for you, and good for the environment, as my students and Samuel L. Jackson explain in this piece for The Conversation. theconversation.com/why-are-west...

Seaweed is good for your health, and great for the environment. But westerners hardly eat it. My fantastic students find out why in their new publication in Food Quality and Preference! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Fascinating piece by m'colleague Stuart Fox on religion in British politics: Reform is winning Christian support. theconversation.com/new-polling-...

Who trusts the police, and who doesn’t? In England, young, non-White, low-income Londoners are among the least trusting. At the other end: older, White, working-class women outside London. Open access: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1043... 👥 With @ferhattura19.bsky.social, Martin Ejnar Hansen & James Hunter

Very honoured to present our work comparing Japan and the UK to the House of Lords Select Committee on Home-Based Working. This is a brief clip; the full session is available at t.co/MdkU4njbuB

Bike ride home from Scouts in Amsterdam.

We know that ChatGPT is good at making Ghibli images, but it can also turn you into a Beano character! #MakeMeAMenace

Highlighting some of our trust research #1. Trust, the police and gender: London, you have a problem with women. doi.org/10.1080/1043...

Excited to launch "A taste for deprivation" in Geoforum by myself and Seiki Tanaka. We find a strong link between fish and chips and the Brexit vote. I'd like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the whole editorial board of Geoforum for their commitment to rigorous research. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Fish and chips and the Brexit vote. Brilliant work by @stevepickering.bsky.social and Seiki Tanaka in Geoforum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Contour lines at Christmas. Been a while. Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

There's a strong link between Brexit and: fish and chip shops; high blood pressure; obesity; epilepsy; arthritis; heart disease; COPD; diabetes; kidney disease; stroke; and asthma. More Japanese restaurants means the opposite. Early results, but I will try to publish!

⭐️Really looking forward to editing PSR w/h @jameswilldennis.bsky.social David Norman & Daffyd Tonwley, following the excellent work of Brunel colleagues. We hope to assist @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social specialist groups for special issues &symposia. More to follow 👀 journals.sagepub.com/home/psw

📖 6 years, 24 issues and over 1300 submissions processed: Presenting the final issue from our editorial team. 👉 Read the summary of our editorial journey: tiny.cc/d0dwzz 👉Browse the issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/PSW/current @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Great news for scholars working on political trust. The next @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference in Thessaloniki (August 26-29, 2025) will host a section with 8 (!) panels on political trust. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Please share and sign up with a paper proposal before January 6th 2025.

Waiting times for healthcare in the UK are at an all time high. Does this affect people's trust in the NHS? Our survey says: no. Even controlling for waiting times in A&E or referral to cancer specialists, people still trust the NHS. Unless they're rightwing or Conservative: doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

People in England are hugely supportive of strikes by nurses and junior doctors. But support varies: - non-Conservative - left-leaning - trusting people are more likely to support strikes. See the new piece in Nursing Inquiry by m'colleague Martin Ejnar Hansen and I: doi.org/10.1111/nin....

It would have been me mam's 75th birthday today, so here's one of the last photos I took of her in 2005, with me dad being a daft 'apeth (which he was: like father, like son). Just noticed you can see Black Combe reflected in the back kitchen window. Ooh, it were cold up there.

The UK Home Secretary has recently made some inflammatory comments regarding the police. My colleagues and I have spent the last 16 months looking at how much the public trust the police and the government. Bottom line: they trust the police more. Source: YouGov, N= 9013.

Super proud of our Computational Social Science students at the University of Amsterdam today. These are first year undergrads, just two months into the programme, working on 16 different environment-related projects with partners in the city. They are tomorrow's change-makers!

The variance in levels of trust in the BBC are interesting, if unsurprising. Percentage who trust the BBC: - Voted Con: 23% - Voted Lab: 39% - Voted Remain: 45% - Votes Leave: 20% - Live in London: 38% - Live outside London: 32% - Uni degree: 39% - No degree: 27% YouGov surveys 2023. N=5632

A cold, wet and windy Amsterdam Marathon today! Super proud of David and Lizzy for winning their second Amsterdam medals!

Much ink has been spilled lately in whether people trust UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. While trust levels are low, it's worth noting that they are still mostly north of his predecessors. Weighted YouGov data, N=8105

Apparently, cargo-bike mums are 'career-focused mothers who are assertive and self-confident', while cargo-bike dads are 'portrayed as "soft" yet also emancipated' (Boterman 2020). In possibly related news, we just bought a cargo bike.

One of those nights when the Sluishuis and the Enneüs Heermabrug serve up an IJburg sunset treat.

It just doesn’t pass the sniff test that scraping all of a sudden created such dramatic performance problems that Twitter had no choice but to put everything behind a login. Scraping was the open secret of Twitter data access. We knew about it. It was fine.

So I'm still working on this, but the more Citroën cars in your area, the more disease. On the flip side, more Mercedes means fewer incidences of disease. The scatters here are just correlations, but the models hold up very well...