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.

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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...

Really interesting paper from @davidlagnado.bsky.social and Greta Sanna - the updating on reliability in particular is something that I am very interested in. I believe this is an essential trait in dealing with understanding and reducing misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And now we've got a hiring freeze at... Stanford. That's as close as you get to the fall of Rome. 🤯😱

www.bbc.com/news/article... It might be time to check on the Titans #Hercules #Disney :)

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New paper out - a funny and interesting one :) I show that Wisdom of the Crowds outperform individual participants when they guess the results of Premier League over an entire season (@plnews.bsky.social) #football #predictions journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and siegs heil like a duck

Rug pull from their own base in 3... 2... 1... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Back on the grind tomorrow

“awkward gesture” is going on my list of worst euphemisms for 2025 word of the year for SURE

Happy new year to everyone! Looking back at 2024, here are the papers that I published at @lsepbs.bsky.social with colleagues from a wide range of institutions, including @ox.ac.uk , @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social , and more.

New paper in Culture and Psychology W Jeanie So, we interviewed people from the Hong Kong protest movement about information and trust. Along social cues, we find the use of 'sentinels': anonymous and independent sources (shows a care of informational dependency structures). shorturl.at/3nzxF

Proud of this work I did with @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social Read the blog post to find out more:)

Is there a fundamental flaw in behavioural science? @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social (@lsepbs.bsky.social) and Lee de Wit argue that assumptions of irrationality lead to poor interventions. #BehaviouralScience #SocialScience

My stupid hypothesis: what if the assumptions of irrationality and the criticism of the homo economicus were also a communication strategy (compare &contrast) to generate the desired effect? Anyway, great article by @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social and Lee de Wit

Have a look at the LSE USAPP blog at the LSE United States Centre that I have written about a new paper I published with Alexandra Johnson. We discuss inoculation hesitancy, which considers practical limitations to misinformation inoculation. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

We have a new paper out all about the use of data to guide our interpretations of data uncertainty in agent-based models. Check it out 😀 It's called 'Rejection sampling and agent-based models for data limited fisheries' and can be found here: shorturl.at/dvOU1 This is part of the POSEIDON project