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/...

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

💥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...

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.

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 😄

🆕 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

🚨 The MULTIREP team is hiring! Please share with MAs based in Vienna with a keen interest in pol behaviour and survey experiments 🙏

🚨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.

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. 👇

🚨 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...

🚨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...

🔥 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-...

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...

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👇

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!  🧵:

📣 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... 🧵👇

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

Coming up on 25 June 2-3pm BST, we have our @techpolicy.bsky.social roundtable on 'Digital Sovereignty in the EU and UK' Tickets now live!

🛎️ New Publication 🛎️ How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m 🧵

Did you know about the hidden way that parties in the UK receive political donations? @politicalquarterly.bsky.social have just published @markpackuk.bsky.social & mine's research into donations made directly to candidates at election time. Details of these donors are not publicly published....

No te vas, Pepe. Todo está guardado en la memoria. 👇🖤

UK has a comparatively difficult registration process. Our comparative analysis of registration difficulty in 62 countries is timely as Labour consider introducing automatic voter registration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

Excellent insight from @whotargets.me on UK party spending on Meta ads during the recent local elections, it's pretty clear when the penny dropped for Labour 💷 🔗 link to full graph: trends.whotargets.me/dashboard/co...

Tried to take stock (with the amazing @profjanegreen.bsky.social) of what we do & don't know about what these local results mean for Reform, and the challenges the party would still face in a general election These challenges have implications for the Cons., but also Labour defending their seats...

Are you a researcher or journalist looking for the latest example of deepfakes in the wild? Bookmark our Deepfakes Tracker Dashboard, a database that tracks fact-checks involving deepfakes and manipulated or out-of-context media and narratives. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/f8...

Excited to chair some of our @techpolicy.bsky.social panels tomorrow at #PSA25 ! Swing by and say hi if you're around 👋

🗞️ Our March newsletter is out! 🗞️ Get the latest updates & exclusive insights: 🗒️ TIP AGM in July + Committee vacancies (get involved!) ✍️ Write a blog, snag a £50 gift voucher! 💷 🎩 TIP panels #PSA25 big ideas, sharp debates and hats! ✅ Stay informed w our top Tech News bytes 🚀 Jobs & Opportunities!

Les promesses électorales n'engagent-elles que ceux qui les écoutent ? La délégation @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social m'a invitée à présenter mes recherches dans une petite vidéo 😊 Featuring @egrossman.bsky.social et @selmasarenkapa.bsky.social, et c'est par ici 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84O...

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📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣 Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes? @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪: 🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map. 🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East. 🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%! Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇

📨 Our Feb newsletter is out! 🗞️ In it, you'll find... ✏️ A recap from our AI Regulation Roundtable (and YT link!) 🗣️ Summary of our new blog post on conspiracy meme sharing 🏫 TIP panels @ #PSA2025 to watch out for 👀 🧃 Juicy tech & policy roundup 👥 Member highlights and publications 🎓 CfPs and jobs!

Come and work with us! We have a part-time RA post on Computational Social Science / Journalism looking at data on abuse against journalists. Please share widely. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU035/r... @sheffieldnlp.bsky.social

🚀 New blog post up on the @techpolicy.bsky.social webpage 🔥 this is part of a new TIP initiative 💡 to make tech and policy research more accessible to practitioners and advocates! Please like, share, bump 👍 (and DM if interested in writing for us!)

Desde GIPSAL (Grupo de Investigación sobre Partidos y Sistemas de Partidos en América Latina) de ALACIP convocamos a colegas a presentar ponencias para integrar paneles temáticos en el XVII Congreso @RedSAAP (Rosario 23-26 julio). Para postular una ponencia: forms.gle/bZKrLzB2ActE...

Cool research showing how advanced text analysis can help analyse open-ended questions to complement (not replace!) closed questions. Open questions "provide respondents with greater flexibility to express [themselves] in their own words" A powerful tool for deeper insights! 👇

More reasons for us CSS nerds to seriously work on image-as-data methods... 🙃👀

🚨Reminder!🚨 This Weds 18th of Dec at 2pm BST join us at our online roundtable on "AI Regulation in Practice" for a rich and cutting-edge discussion on AI compliance and governance in the EU and UK 👀 see you there! (sign ups in repost🫰)

📌Pin your calendars📌 Our *online* Roundtable is coming up in less than a week! ⏰ Our excellent panel of experts will discuss "AI Regulation in Practice: Compliance and Governance in the EU and UK" at 2pm BST

New analysis of census and election data: the marginals Labour must hold in 2024 are more 'Middle England' than 'Red Wall'. Do Labour have a strategy for this? I argue they are sending mixed signals at best:

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Does disability affect support for political parties?" Just published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with Melanie Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 👇

Are German politicians migrating to Bluesky? Maybe, if you are a Green or Die Linke MdB. Others are likely still more active elsewhere, but worth keeping track of with German elections early next year. Apparently no AfD or BSW accounts yet, see below for caveats.

Another brilliant @techpolicy.bsky.social event coming right up! AI policy roundtable organised by @giuliasandri.bsky.social digging into what AI regulation in the EU and the UK really means in this day and age. You won't want to miss it 🎯

Our November Newsletter 📰 is out this morning, and it's the election one! We discuss what the U.S. election & Tech policy, Musk, and more. Alongside your regular member's news. #commsky Read here 👇 technologypolicy.substack.com/p/tips-novem...

Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers

Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe

Election fraud claims go silent after Trump win. "As soon as the vote came in swinging their way, Republicans stopped making claims of election fraud late Tuesday, proving yet again it was all a grift," says our @philipmai.com www.yahoo.com/news/electio...

Hi to new followers! Who Targets Me has been fighting for better political ad transparency since 2017. We maintain a tool that tracks over 100,000 political advertisers in 50+ countries and a browser extension that helps you learn more about the political ads you see. All at whotargets.me