"Are we measuring the right things in the social sciences?" At an LSE Open Research Panel this week @audreyalejandro.bsky.social said "so many of the tools we rely on to assess research quality are really just proxies, yet our methodological standards drop when we evaluate our own profession"

There's still time to catch Professor Sanyu A. Mojola at our final Seminar Series of Autumn Term💡 🌎Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol 🕙2.00pm - 3.00pm 📆 28 Nov Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

💡Seeing the rich makes people favour redistribution, but also increases political division - according to Dr @mtsvetkova.bsky.social Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/news/seeing-...

✍️ Don't forget to sign up for our Autumn Term Special My580 Methods Short Course 💡 🗣️ Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process, with Dr Caroline Roberts and Professor Patrick Sturgis ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 3 Dec Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integratin...

We are a multi-disciplinary community of social scientists - developing and applying cutting-edge qualitative, quantitative and computational methods to address the world’s complex social challenges 🌎 Read more about what our researchers are up to ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

Sign up for this week's Seminar Series with @adeldaoud.bsky.social 💡 21 Nov, 2 - 3pm 🌎Planetary Causal Inference: combining computer vision and earth observation to analyse disparities in health and living conditions among neighbourhoods in Africa, 1990 to date www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

🗣️ We're hosting a one-off special My580 Short Course for Autumn Term 💡 Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process, with Dr Caroline Roberts and Professor Patrick Sturgis ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 3 Dec, online and in person Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integratin...

Tomorrow, Dr Chana Teeger is giving a book talk on her ASA Human Rights Section Book Award winner, Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools👉

💡 Digital policing represents a second wave of depersonalisation… reducing the interpersonal cues that help people feel acknowledged, respected and cared for” – Tyler (CPP, 2025)🚓 New work from Professor Jon Jackson, tests whether this erosion of legitimacy is inevitable ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...

We are thrilled to have Professor Sanyu A. Mojola present our final Autumn Term Seminar Series on 28 November💡 🌎Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol 🕙2.00pm - 3.00pm Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

International workshop bridges computational social science and qualitative research to build new methodological community💡 @audreyalejandro.bsky.social @dandekadt.bsky.social Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

✨ Autumn Term Special: My580 Short Course 💡 🗣️ Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process, with Dr Caroline Roberts and Professor Patrick Sturgis ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 3 Dec, online and in person Sign up to attend 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integratin...

It's your last chance to register for our Demography and Population at LSE Showcase👭 Hear about PhD journeys, research & funding from Pop@LSE at our showcase 📆 18 Nov @ 6.30 - 8.00pm 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lse-phd-in...

Thrilled to be part of this!

Day Two of our Computational Social Science Meets Qualitative Research workshop has begun and we’re in the iconic Shaw Library 📚⚡️ @lsedatascience.bsky.social

It’s Day One of our Computational Social Science Meets Qualitative Research workshop ✍️ We kicked things off with the first paper from @audreyalejandro.bsky.social @dandekadt.bsky.social 💡

Don't forget to sign up for our Seminar Series with Dr Zsófia Boda 📚 "Upward network influence and social integration: Do student friendships stimulate interethnic parental ties?" 📆 Friday 14 Nov 🕐 2.30 - 3.30pm Sign up ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

@mtsvetkova.bsky.social is a panellist at the International Society for Computational Social Science (ISCSS) first-ever "Ask Me Anything" webinar, focused on PhD admissions! 🗓️ Nov 19 3.00pm ET 💻Online Register➡️ umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... 💬 Submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's your last chance to register for our Demography and Population at LSE Showcase👭 Hear about PhD journeys, research & funding from Pop@LSE at our showcase 📆 18 Nov @ 6.30 - 8.00pm 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lse-phd-in...

Reading Week is over and we're ready to get back into things 📚✨ As London gets more festive this week, we can hear Mariah Carey defrosting 👀🎄

We are thrilled to have @adeldaoud.bsky.social join us on 21 November💡 🌎Planetary Causal Inference: combining computer vision and earth observation to analyse disparities in health and living conditions among neighbourhoods in Africa, 1990 to date 🕙 2.00pm - 3.00pm Secure your place➡️

🌎New @lseimpactblog.bsky.social: Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications? Thomas Robinson, @miriamsorace.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social & @fresejoris.bsky.social explore how new tools make targeting individuals at scale with tailored communications possible 👉

💥New: Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications? ✍️ @miriamsorace.bsky.social,Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social & @fresejoris.bsky.social #COP30 #ClimateComms #NanoTargeting

There's still time to join our Seminar Series with Dr Zsófia Boda from University of Essex. 📚 "Upward network influence and social integration: Do student friendships stimulate interethnic parental ties?" 📆 Friday 14 Nov 🕐 2.30 - 3.30pm Sign up ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

Dr @aliyarao.bsky.social has been featured in a recent article from @vox.com 👉 "Who is the "trad husband"? 👫 📚 For more from Aliya's research ➡️ www.ucpress.edu/books/crunch... www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Want to become an expert in social science research at LSE?💡 We're hosting Virtual Graduate Open Events for our MSc programmes👉 1. Intro to MSc in Social Research Methods: 19 Nov @ 12.30 2. Intro to MSc in Applied Social Data Science: 20 Nov @ 11.30 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

👭Studying Demography is vital for understanding how economic development and climate change have affected populations, now and in the future Hear about PhD journeys, research & funding from Pop@LSE at our showcase 📆 18 Nov @ 6.30 - 8.00pm Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lse-phd-in...

If you or any of your students are interested in pursuing an MSc in data social or research methods, please join us online for our annual virtual open day sessions. These are brief but very informative sessions that prospective students tend to greatly enjoy. See you there.

What if machines could match human cognitive abilities not just in narrow tasks, but across the full spectrum of intelligence? Visiting Professor Nello Cristianini @lsedatascience.bsky.social, will present a forward-looking discussion on the current state of AGI research on 17 Nov ⌚ 6.30 – 8.30pm

@audreyalejandro.bsky.social will be presenting her work on "Reflexivity in Practice" tomorrow, by the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Group of the American Political Science Association💡 ➡️ www.interpretivemethods.com/upcoming-eve...

Looking to become an expert in social science research? Wondering how to apply cutting edge data science techniques to real-world problems?💡 Find out about our MSc programmes 1. Intro to MSc in Social Research Methods: 19 Nov @ 12.30 2. Intro to MSc in Applied Social Data Science: 20 Nov @ 11.30

🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social! ➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice. ➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

Join our next Seminar Series, with Dr Zsófia Boda from University of Essex. 📚 "Upward network influence and social integration: Do student friendships stimulate interethnic parental ties?" 📆 Friday 14 Nov 🕐 2.30 - 3.30pm Sign up ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

Don't forget to submit your Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science application this weekend❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Applications close 26 October 🚨

💡Make sure to sign up for our next Seminar Series this Friday, with @lanabi.bsky.social 📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia" 📆 Friday 24 Oct 🕐 2 - 3pm Tickets here➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

Explore Demography and Population at LSE! 👭 Hear about PhD journeys, research & funding from Pop@LSE at our showcase 📆 18 Nov @ 6.30 - 8.00pm Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lse-phd-in...

Come and find us at the Discover LSE Fair and explore everything LSE has to offer beyond the classroom 🎓 📆 Thursday 23 October, 2-4pm 📍 LSE LIFE Workspaces 3 & 4 Book now👉 portal.lse.ac.uk/events/s/vie...

Just a few days left to apply to join us @lsemethodology.bsky.social!

👩‍🏫 Why do we write? Writing (together) in participatory research projects - why, for whom and how? @floracornish.bsky.social is a panellist at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop on 4 Nov, and colleagues and PhD students are invited to join 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-d...

💡 NEW 👉Dr Nancy Breton, former Methodology PhD student and current Visiting Fellow, has had another of her PhD articles published, in collaboration with her Zambia-based colleagues. ➡️ bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This month, Dr @mtsvetkova.bsky.social's HUMANET lab officially launched 🤖 ✔️ The €2-million ERC Consolidator grant-funded HUMANET lab studies networks composed of humans and intelligent machines like bots and algorithms 💡 Read more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

💡 Sign up for our next Seminar Series, with @lanabi.bsky.social 📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia" 📆 Friday 24 Oct 🕐 2 - 3pm Sign up today➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

Not long left to apply for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science vacancy❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Come and find us at the Discover LSE Fair and explore everything LSE has to offer beyond the classroom 🎓 📆 Thursday 23 October, 2-4pm 📍 LSE LIFE Workspaces 3 & 4 Book now👉 portal.lse.ac.uk/events/s/vie...

💡👉 "Artificially intelligent agents in the social and behavioral sciences: A history and outlook" A new paper from @mtsvetkova.bsky.social (@lsedatascience.bsky.social Affiliate) and Professor @pholme.bsky.social traces the evolution of agentic #AI in the social sciences ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2510.05743

Our Seminar Series line-up for Autumn Term is out 🍂✅ In case you haven't already, make sure you sign up for this Friday's session on "Overseas Chinese Engagement in Brazil and Paraguay: Migrants’ Associations, Diaspora Agencies, and Extraterritorial Policies" 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

👉"The compounding effect: how neighbourhood dynamics shape police deployment and use of force" Amal Ali, Jasmine Oware, @jacksojp.bsky.social, @benbradford.bsky.social show that calls for service are concentrated in disadvantaged neighbourhoods- where they're more likely to experience police force🚓

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference! The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field. Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025. www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

📣 Not long left to sign up for our seminar with Dr Douglas de Toledo Piza 📚 "Overseas Chinese Engagement in Brazil and Paraguay: Migrants’ Associations, Diaspora Agencies, and Extraterritorial Policies" 📆 Friday 10 Oct, 2 - 3pm Get your ticket👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

It's your final chance to be a student content creator!📲 You'll gain valuable communication and presentation skills, and expertise in creating inspiring and informative content that reaches thousands of students ➡️Apply before 5 October at 11.45pm (UK time) www.lse.ac.uk/student-life...