The Scottish Election Analysis 2026 brings 55 contributions on topics such as campaigning, news, voters, pools, representation and policy. Published 10 days after the election, it provides immediate and accessible analysis of the contest. Full report here: www.electionanalysis.uk 3/3

Drawing on sentiment analysis of 4,385 tweets by parties and party leaders, we show how negativity shifts depending on electoral context, political positioning, and whether parties compete as incumbents, challengers, front-runners, or insurgents. Here: www.electionanalysis.uk/scottish-ele... 2/3

Very happy to contribute to the FIRST EVER Scottish Election Analysis Report, organised by Ana Langer, Christopher Carman, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, and @maia-aa.bsky.social . Focusing on negative campaigning, @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and I analysed how parties adapted their tone on X. 🧵1/3

This is now out in journalqd.org/article/view.... Please be in touch with any questions if you intend to use! Great to work with @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com on this! Watch out for them

📄NEW PAPER + 📈DATASET + 🌐WEBSITE Please to be able to share our dataset paper: "An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign." The paper builds off the crowd-sourced publication of candidate lists in advance of the last UK General Election...

📄NEW PAPER📄 Ever wondered content people actually pay *attention* to online? Our new research reveals that you likely pay attention to far more varied political content than your likes and shares suggest

👇I am very pleased to announce the next in the Social Data Science Hub Seminar Series where we'll welcome Eddie Ungless to speak on approaches to the measurement of social bias in NLP! You can sign up here to come in person or join online: bit.ly/SDS-Eddie polisky mlsky cssky