Burnham already lost one leadership campaign when he was too timid, quick to compromise & lacking deeper thinking on policy. From what I have seen so far, this might not have changed markedly. Where is the break with Starmer on policy or broader political orientation many will have hoped for?

Latest piece for @thehousemag.bsky.social, in which I look at Mo Salah and the parasocial contact hypothesis. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

Millions of people(including me) turn to LLMs for information and advice. But who shapes their output? A @nature.com paper shows the influence of state controlled media on LLM output. Read all the details in the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My post on tactical voting at the local and devolved elections 2026: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... No evidence of effective anti-Reform tactical switching by the left, so 50% of Reform gains were in places were most votes were for parties of the left....

📣 New publication 📣 Delighted to see my article with the brilliant Teresa Bejan and James Tilley now out in the BJPolS We develop and test the concept of 'partisan intolerance' - and find high levels of intolerance in Britain, associated with affective polarisation 👇

🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop is back for its 12th edition! Join us on Nov. 13–14, 2026 @UofT! We welcome paper/poster proposals on any topic in political behaviour, broadly defined! 📅 Submission Deadline: July 11. Apply here: utorontops.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Chapter on AI and Democracy with Bailey Flanigan, @politicsprof.bsky.social and Charles Stewart 👇

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

The Department of Government is recruiting one fellow to teach 5 seminar groups for our Intro to Political Science course (GV101). The successful applicant will be a full member of our exciting research community. More info: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The School of Politics and International Relations is hiring an Assistant Professor (fixed-term, 3 years) in European Comparative Politics. Deadline: 19 May 2026 Job ad and details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Exciting news here at the LSE School of Public Policy -- our new Dean is Anne-Marie Slaughter! Very proud to be a part of the SPP, and looking forward to what’s ahead. www.lse.ac.uk/news/anne-ma...

🚨 The APSA Experimental Research section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its 2nd Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship. The program prrovides a mentor and some funding. (1/2) Apply by June 15 forms.gle/fXHaqYK3TEL3...

✍️ Apply to our ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship! The European Institute is looking to support a Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2026/27 academic year. 🗓️ Deadline: Monday 1 June, 23.59 (UK time) 👉 Find out more: https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/research/postdoctoral-fellowship-opportunity

Just over 2 weeks to go until the deadline for #EPOP2026 abstract submissions. We are pleased to announce that there'll be limited: - fee waivers for PhD/ECR (within 3 years of PhD) members - fee discounts for members whose universities do not provide conference funding. Submit via the link below!

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open! We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties. Deadline: 26 April Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

A rare good news story about our MPs!

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

Very happy to have this null finding conditionally accepted in @bjpols.bsky.social. Check out Daniel’s 🧵👇 The project is also an attempt to find design-based answers to some of the ethical Qs raised about political audit experiments. Thoughts on ethics are here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

Today at 4pm BST: @simonhix.bsky.social (EUI) presents his new work on the Méline Tariff and the Rise of Socialism in 🇫🇷 at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar (hybrid), co-organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us!

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

This is an unusually interesting profile/interview: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

🔺We're #hiring. We are recruiting four #research #officers who will be part of the research project “Popular Government in Global Perspective” (POPGOV) co-led by Assistant Professor @brunoleipold.com. The positions are full time for a period of four years.👇🏾 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ727/r...

10 Things to Know About Pilot Studies buff.ly/wBH0Gtw #EGAPMethodsGuide

🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

End of an era in Rhineland-Palatinate today. Since I can think, the state has been governed by social democrats. It’s the way things were. It runs in my family, too. My grandad was the social democratic mayor of the little village I grew up in.

RHEINLAND-PFALZ | 18 Uhr Prognose Landtagswahl Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/ZDF CDU: 30,5% (+2,8) SPD: 26,5% (-9,2) AfD: 20,0% (+11,7) GRÜNE: 8,5% (-0,8) LINKE: 4,5% (+2,0) FW: 3,5% (-1,9) FDP: 2,0% (-3,5) Sonstige: 4,5% (-1,2) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2021 #ltwrp #ltwrlp

Re ideal conditions for strategic voting: 1) Clear 2 horse race for state PM between centre-left and centre-right 2) one centre-left party is much larger than the other 3) the second party has no chance to govern = I expect to see a canibalisation of the Green vote in RLP today.

Today there are state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, one of the last electoral bastions of the German Social Democratic Party (and which also happens to be my home state). The social democrats have governed here for more than 3 decades, dating back to Rudolph Scharping and Kurt Beck.

Today at 4pm GMT: Anna Clemente (@lsegovernment.bsky.social) is presenting “World War II Memories and Authoritarian Attitudes in Germany” at the Political Behaviour Seminar, organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social, & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London & online!

Looking forward to talking about how we can strengthen democracies and the role that citizens, journalists, and politicians can play in that. You can still sign up to the symposium. 👇

Today at 4pm GMT: @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social is presenting “The Political Consequences of AI‑driven Employment Threats” at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar (hybrid), organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us!

Pary Baban has her first cook book out. Hers is an incredible story. From fleeing Sadam in 1988, to coming to London as a refugee, running a kiosk & starting Nandine 10 yrs ago. Her food is delicious & I always look fwd to new dishes from the ever changing menu www.waterstones.com/book/nandine...

Overhearing job interviews in the cafe I'm working at is like "although our business is incredibly AI driven, we really believe in that special human connection" ... 🤷‍♂️

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation? We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The effects of Facebook and Instagram political advertisements on the 2020 US election

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

Science communication has never been more important. In this animation, @yamilrvelez.bsky.social, Donald Green and I break down our research exploring whether AI chatbots can increase political engagement among young, politically unaligned voters. Link to animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCuX...

YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

For colleagues in the London area: next week (6-7 March), we're hosting the annual LSE Behavioural Political Economy Workshop at @lsegovernment.bsky.social together with @florianfoos.bsky.social and @thchau.bsky.social. If you'd like to come, please sign up here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/uxaAx17DHq

"Extremes of the left" ... Spencer didn't sound extreme to me (and I doubt she sounded extreme to most observers). Instead of insulting her and her party, Labour would do well asking themselves, why someone as talented and interesting as Spencer isn't standing for Labour.

Great new paper in The Review of Economic Studies using randomized incentives to detect non-response bias, using administrative data to provide ground truth for comparison. While incentives increased participation, they didn't reliably reduce NR bias academic.oup.com/restud/advan...