The war in Iran will directly help fund Russia's war efforts, as they can sell their oil much more expensively. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

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This is a constitutional nightmare for the US - Monday morning, some worker in a dock has to decide whose word is the law of the land: the president (apply a tariff) or the Supreme Court (do not). This is way beyond tariffs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Great example of the Streisand effect: The FCC intervened to block James Talarico's interview with the brilliant @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. The result is a classic effect of highlighting what you want to hide and instead increasing its exposure. See USA Google Trends for Talarico below

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Great paper, @scondes.bsky.social! Congrats :)

Excited to share our new paper in Memory & Cognition! Consensus isn’t always what it seems. Repeated claims can create an illusion of consensus-making people feel as persuaded by a single echoed source as by independent corroboration.

so... in his mind the morality of a worthy winner of the Nobel is 'unless you give me a peace prize, I'll attack'? Maybe he cheated on his partners because he didn't get a 'dad of the year' mug one year? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Greenlanders would much rather join the EU than the US. This fact deserves a broad global audience, useful correction of the idea that Europe is a decaying museum.

This one is resonating today. #Andor

Regardless of what you may think of Maduro, by-passing congress and international law/community to attempt regime change and extract oil/resources may embolden Russia and encourage China to do the same to Taiwan. Classic spheres of influence and 'might is right' www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSH7...

This is brilliant news! Congrats, @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social! I'm really proud of our paper and absolutely delighted that you won the Anne Treismann award for this!

Congrats, Nils :)

🎉 Congratulations to Nils Mallock, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! The thesis, "Pathways to Political Violence and Peaceful Protest in Conflict-Affected Environments," explores why some individuals choose violence for political purposes, despite high personal risks and costs.

🏆 Congratulations to our 2025 LSE Excellence in Education Award winners! Pictured here are our colleagues Dr Sakshi Ghai and Chris Roberts, together with Prof Emma McCoy & Prof Alex Voorhoeve. Learn more and see all winners: buff.ly/Dq57XPt

In a CogSci paper, we showed that given motivation and insight, deliberate silence can be epistemically relevant and strengthen belief in a hypothesis. This interview with Farage is an example of that principle www.youtube.com/shorts/2BdHV... Link to paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/57h4...

Spotted the Tottenham bus before the game in East London - wild to bring it on the pitch and park it there for 90 minutes 😂

Now that Trump is telling Republicans to vote for the release of the Epstein files, I fully expect the following to represent the disclosure 😂 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtz...

My article about state resistance to transnational #disinformation is out now in @ejir.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/1354... Taking #Taiwan's resistance to #China's disinformation as its empirical focus, the article offers 4 contributions to #InternationalRelations: (1/5)

Fact for the day: paracetamol does not cause autism

This is a brilliant department and sounds like a very exciting position!

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

This seems a tremendously sad return to McCarthyist-style patrolling of thought and expression www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New paper with Jon Roozenbeek and David Young where we present a Bayesian framework for the wilful rejection of interventions, such as inoculation against misinformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

He probably also fired his bathroom scale for fake weight figures 😂 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Phenomenal result!!! Back-to-back European Champions 🤯🥳 www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

Remind me why universities, charities and governments are still using X as a platform for advertising their programmes and sharing their activities? With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3Ig3H3l

Amazingly (and worryingly) this works. I tried this on a paper I am currently working on. Un-prompted, Copilot recommended minor revisions; prompted, it parroted inserted phrases (e.g., 'innovative methodology') and said it was a must-read for all scientists. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07...

It was clear that an attack was coming when Trump got Tulsi Gabbard to reverse her statement about Iran's nuclear ambitions. In my view, it looks like 2003 pretense all over again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As the sun sets tonight my thoughts are Iranians and Jews and Palestinians greeting the evening with fear. Like many of us watching from afar i am consumed with worry about those I care about. May this madness stop soon.

🚨 Recruiting now! We’re looking for a LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies to join the department! Check out the job listing and apply below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

This is a point well made by Rune Lykkeberg - it is a failure of Danish politicians' attitudes toward freedom of speech that school kids are not allowed to debate the questions of genocidal actions or the Palestinian right to self-determination. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've called on the UK government to stop ALL arms sales to Israel. Sign. 👇👇 www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

⚽ New blog by @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social ⬇️ #Football #WisdomOfTheCrowds #Research

A blog on an interesting Wisdom of the Crowds experiment I ran across an entire @plnews.bsky.social football season. It turns out that WoC estimates outperform individual participants :) blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

💥 New: Football forecasting – harnessing the power of the crowd ✍️ @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social‬ on whether the wisdom of the crowds can predict football results

If I was considering where to study as an international student (with all the innovations, new businesses, and more that international students can bring), I would really think twice about the USA. It's grim to undermine protest and freedom of speech in this way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

💥 New blog! 👇

The perceived independence of information sources has a powerful impact on polarisation New research from @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social (@lsepbs.bsky.social) @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social & @leede-wit.bsky.social

In a blog, @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social, @leede-wit.bsky.social, and I discuss why perceived dependencies are so important to political belief formation - and how they might fuel polarisation. It points to a broader discussion on how to engage with people politically. shorturl.at/P2e2M

It's a hilarious sign of continued incompetence that the post from The White House where they wanted to paint Trump as a Jedi for the 4th of May didn't realise that red lightsabers are classically Sith weapons 😂

A fantastic discussion on misinformation, AI and democracy by our panellists @lewan.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, Jonathan Bright and @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social, and moderator Matteo Bergamini MBE @shoutoutuk.bsky.social. Thanks to Club Alpbach London for hosting this event!

Link to study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In a new paper in Cognition w. @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social and @leede-wit.bsky.social, we explore perceived dependencies as a possible cause for issue polarisation. We show that this is possible experimentally where high dependency depresses updating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking forward to hosting this event with Club Alpbach London! Featuring a great panel: @lewan.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social, and Jonathan Bright, with Matteo Bergamini MBE from @shoutoutuk.bsky.social as moderator!

We have a lovely new video on the MSc Social and Public Communication at @lsepbs.bsky.social :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJU...

Now that Amazon has bought the IP for 007, can we expect that Bond in the next film tracks down an eeeevil journalist who writes an opinion piece about the exploitation of workers and zero-hour contracts?

Mette Frederiksen Prime Minister of Denmark👏

I think the shameful display by Trump illustrates where his allegiance lies. I suspect this public show was meant to cast Trump as a tough guy who cannot negotiate with Zelensky and therefore will withdraw support, which would please Putin to no end. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...