Lanabi
@lanabi.bsky.social
Computational political scientist
Fellow at LSE Methodology and teaching at LSE IR Dept
Political Communication, Dictators, Gender, War, Transitional Justice
Russia, Ukraine, the Balkans
lanabilalova.com
Fellow at LSE Methodology and teaching at LSE IR Dept
Political Communication, Dictators, Gender, War, Transitional Justice
Russia, Ukraine, the Balkans
lanabilalova.com
If you’re at #ASEEES, please come by our panel “The International Spread and Influence of Russia’s War Propaganda” on Thu, Nov 20, 1:00–2:45pm EST. I’ll be talking about anti-war activism on Russian Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If you’re at #ASEEES, please come by our panel “The International Spread and Influence of Russia’s War Propaganda” on Thu, Nov 20, 1:00–2:45pm EST. I’ll be talking about anti-war activism on Russian Twitter.
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Not hard to make profit margins over 30% if you don't pay people who produce the content you sell, and their employers pay you for access
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Not hard to make profit margins over 30% if you don't pay people who produce the content you sell, and their employers pay you for access
Our article, "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia", co-authored w @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy William Waters, is now available in Serbian 🇷🇸. Published by Forum za bezbednost i demokratiju (FBD) in its “Vidici i Putokazi” series: fbd.org.rs/images/pdfs/...
fbd.org.rs
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Our article, "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia", co-authored w @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy William Waters, is now available in Serbian 🇷🇸. Published by Forum za bezbednost i demokratiju (FBD) in its “Vidici i Putokazi” series: fbd.org.rs/images/pdfs/...
If you are interested in Political Comms in autocracies: New piece by Nikita Khokhlov and Alexander Baturo: elites simplify speech in protest-prone, low-support regions—often richer & more educated—and dial complexity down when contexts shift. Clear communicators are likelier to be promoted.
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you are interested in Political Comms in autocracies: New piece by Nikita Khokhlov and Alexander Baturo: elites simplify speech in protest-prone, low-support regions—often richer & more educated—and dial complexity down when contexts shift. Clear communicators are likelier to be promoted.
tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...
Next Friday (24 Oct) at 2pm I’ll present work from my PhD + new research at LSE’s Department of Methodology — in person 📍
Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design.
🎟️ Few tickets left
Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design.
🎟️ Few tickets left
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...
Next Friday (24 Oct) at 2pm I’ll present work from my PhD + new research at LSE’s Department of Methodology — in person 📍
Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design.
🎟️ Few tickets left
Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design.
🎟️ Few tickets left
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Next Friday (24 Oct) at 2pm I’ll present work from my PhD + new research at LSE’s Department of Methodology — in person 📍
Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design.
🎟️ Few tickets left
Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design.
🎟️ Few tickets left
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🇷🇸🇺🇦 @denisakost.bsky.social and @lanabi.bsky.social have published a new JUSTINT paper in East European Politics, which analyses cross border dynamics of war crimes denial between Serbia and Ukraine.
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine
www.lse.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🇷🇸🇺🇦 @denisakost.bsky.social and @lanabi.bsky.social have published a new JUSTINT paper in East European Politics, which analyses cross border dynamics of war crimes denial between Serbia and Ukraine.
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Discover it below👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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💡 Sign up for our next Seminar Series, with @lanabi.bsky.social
📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia"
📆 Friday 24 Oct
🕐 2 - 3pm
Sign up today➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia"
📆 Friday 24 Oct
🕐 2 - 3pm
Sign up today➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
October 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
💡 Sign up for our next Seminar Series, with @lanabi.bsky.social
📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia"
📆 Friday 24 Oct
🕐 2 - 3pm
Sign up today➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia"
📆 Friday 24 Oct
🕐 2 - 3pm
Sign up today➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
free access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
free access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
If you’re at #APSA2025 and interested in Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and/or the Balkans, I’m presenting two chapters from our book project with
@denisakost.bsky.social
and
Ivor Sokolic.
Come by!
@apsa.bsky.social
#APSA2025
@denisakost.bsky.social
and
Ivor Sokolic.
Come by!
@apsa.bsky.social
#APSA2025
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If you’re at #APSA2025 and interested in Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and/or the Balkans, I’m presenting two chapters from our book project with
@denisakost.bsky.social
and
Ivor Sokolic.
Come by!
@apsa.bsky.social
#APSA2025
@denisakost.bsky.social
and
Ivor Sokolic.
Come by!
@apsa.bsky.social
#APSA2025
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NEW ARTICLE📢 We show how redactions in war crimes judgements obstruct transparency, prevent reckoning with past violence & highlight limits of digital data for quant analysis in TJ w/ @lanabi.bsky.social T.W.Waters @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social @journalgenocide.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2h2b6x79
tinyurl.com/2h2b6x79
Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia
Secrecy is an essential element in war crimes trials, as it protects vulnerable individuals and sensitive information, ensuring trials can proceed effectively. However, secrecy often conflicts with...
www.tandfonline.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
NEW ARTICLE📢 We show how redactions in war crimes judgements obstruct transparency, prevent reckoning with past violence & highlight limits of digital data for quant analysis in TJ w/ @lanabi.bsky.social T.W.Waters @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social @journalgenocide.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2h2b6x79
tinyurl.com/2h2b6x79
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On Aug. 28, we published open access research article "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia" by @lanabi.bsky.social, @denisakost.bsky.social and Timothy William Waters. Read the full article: tinyurl.com/h27fecv2
August 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
On Aug. 28, we published open access research article "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia" by @lanabi.bsky.social, @denisakost.bsky.social and Timothy William Waters. Read the full article: tinyurl.com/h27fecv2
Today is my last day at
@lse-ei.bsky.social 🌍✨
Grateful to all collaborators and the amazing team at LSE EI and beyond for this journey 🙏🤝💡
From next week, I’ll be an Advanced Quant Fellow at
@lsemethodology.bsky.social 📊🔍 and teaching at
@lseir.bsky.social 🎓📚
So excited! 🚀
@lse-ei.bsky.social 🌍✨
Grateful to all collaborators and the amazing team at LSE EI and beyond for this journey 🙏🤝💡
From next week, I’ll be an Advanced Quant Fellow at
@lsemethodology.bsky.social 📊🔍 and teaching at
@lseir.bsky.social 🎓📚
So excited! 🚀
August 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is my last day at
@lse-ei.bsky.social 🌍✨
Grateful to all collaborators and the amazing team at LSE EI and beyond for this journey 🙏🤝💡
From next week, I’ll be an Advanced Quant Fellow at
@lsemethodology.bsky.social 📊🔍 and teaching at
@lseir.bsky.social 🎓📚
So excited! 🚀
@lse-ei.bsky.social 🌍✨
Grateful to all collaborators and the amazing team at LSE EI and beyond for this journey 🙏🤝💡
From next week, I’ll be an Advanced Quant Fellow at
@lsemethodology.bsky.social 📊🔍 and teaching at
@lseir.bsky.social 🎓📚
So excited! 🚀
🙏 Thanks for feedback & support to Carles Torne,
@tenaprelec.bsky.social ,
@grabaranowska.bsky.social, Jelena Grujic Zindovic, anonymous reviewers & @dirkmoses.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1462...
@tenaprelec.bsky.social ,
@grabaranowska.bsky.social, Jelena Grujic Zindovic, anonymous reviewers & @dirkmoses.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1462...
August 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🙏 Thanks for feedback & support to Carles Torne,
@tenaprelec.bsky.social ,
@grabaranowska.bsky.social, Jelena Grujic Zindovic, anonymous reviewers & @dirkmoses.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1462...
@tenaprelec.bsky.social ,
@grabaranowska.bsky.social, Jelena Grujic Zindovic, anonymous reviewers & @dirkmoses.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1462...
🚨⚖️🔍 New paper in Journal of Genocide Research with @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy Waters we studied secrecy in Serbia’s war crimes trials.
📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper
📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper
August 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🚨⚖️🔍 New paper in Journal of Genocide Research with @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy Waters we studied secrecy in Serbia’s war crimes trials.
📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper
📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper
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New in Advance Articles:
Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies
by Lanabi La Lova (@lanabi.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies
by Lanabi La Lova (@lanabi.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies
This article explores how text-as-data methodologies can be used to reveal patterns of mass-media manipulation strategies employed in modern autocracies. First, it explains the importance of studying ...
doi.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New in Advance Articles:
Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies
by Lanabi La Lova (@lanabi.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies
by Lanabi La Lova (@lanabi.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
🚨📢 New article out!
"Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies"
(AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :)
Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏
"Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies"
(AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :)
Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🚨📢 New article out!
"Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies"
(AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :)
Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏
"Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies"
(AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :)
Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏
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We thank colleagues for their interest in & comments on our JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu research on online memorialisation of Srebrenica genocide w/ @lanabi.bsky.social & Ivor Sokolic
at a special 'Why Remember?' conference in Sarajevo in memory of Paul Lowe @lse-ei.bsky.social
at a special 'Why Remember?' conference in Sarajevo in memory of Paul Lowe @lse-ei.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We thank colleagues for their interest in & comments on our JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu research on online memorialisation of Srebrenica genocide w/ @lanabi.bsky.social & Ivor Sokolic
at a special 'Why Remember?' conference in Sarajevo in memory of Paul Lowe @lse-ei.bsky.social
at a special 'Why Remember?' conference in Sarajevo in memory of Paul Lowe @lse-ei.bsky.social
Mearsheimer's logic on great power war “makes sense” in a vacuum — a clean theory built in safe offices. But it erases people. Russia is not just a state actor; it's a repressive system. Who is this power for? IR theory that ignores domestic politics explains everything and nothing.
Mearsheimer has now taken the stance that states go to war because it’s the central feature of political life — except Russia, which goes to war because of american liberals.
May 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Mearsheimer's logic on great power war “makes sense” in a vacuum — a clean theory built in safe offices. But it erases people. Russia is not just a state actor; it's a repressive system. Who is this power for? IR theory that ignores domestic politics explains everything and nothing.
📢 If you're at #ISA2025, don't miss our panel WD20: Methods and Marginalization in Transitional Justice and Beyond 🕓 Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM. Join us for a critical discussion on methodology, justice, and inclusion!
March 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📢 If you're at #ISA2025, don't miss our panel WD20: Methods and Marginalization in Transitional Justice and Beyond 🕓 Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM. Join us for a critical discussion on methodology, justice, and inclusion!
📢 Excited to share our new policy paper with AspenGermany: Legislative Debates and Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans 🇦🇱🇧🇦🇭🇷🇽🇰🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸
NEW POLICY PAPER with ASPEN Germany: How parliaments model divisive discourses and what to do to advance transitional justice policy-making in the Balkans? W/ @lanabi.bsky.social & Ivor Sokolic, we draw on our @erc.europa.eu JUSTINT research to inform policy www.aspeninstitute.de/wp-content/u...
www.aspeninstitute.de
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢 Excited to share our new policy paper with AspenGermany: Legislative Debates and Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans 🇦🇱🇧🇦🇭🇷🇽🇰🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸
This lexical strategy helps downplay state responsibility and influence public perceptions of past events.
📊 Are domestic war crimes trials biased? We use Text as Data methods, using LIWC to look at judicial decisions from Serbia (1999–2019). We find conflict actor bias—paramilitary crimes are described in longer, more graphic detail, while state actors' crimes receive shorter, more neutral accounts.
NEW ARTICLE: Analysing the verdicts and the texts of judgements, we find that the state shifts responsibility away from state forces to paramilitaries in Serbian war crimes trials, with Ivor Sokolic @lanabi.bsky.social @sanjavico.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
February 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This lexical strategy helps downplay state responsibility and influence public perceptions of past events.
📊 Are domestic war crimes trials biased? We use Text as Data methods, using LIWC to look at judicial decisions from Serbia (1999–2019). We find conflict actor bias—paramilitary crimes are described in longer, more graphic detail, while state actors' crimes receive shorter, more neutral accounts.
NEW ARTICLE: Analysing the verdicts and the texts of judgements, we find that the state shifts responsibility away from state forces to paramilitaries in Serbian war crimes trials, with Ivor Sokolic @lanabi.bsky.social @sanjavico.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
Are domestic war crimes trials biased? - Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova, Sanja Vico, 2024
Fairness of domestic war crimes trials matters for promoting justice and peace. Scholars have studied public perceptions of war crimes trials to assess their fa...
tinyurl.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📊 Are domestic war crimes trials biased? We use Text as Data methods, using LIWC to look at judicial decisions from Serbia (1999–2019). We find conflict actor bias—paramilitary crimes are described in longer, more graphic detail, while state actors' crimes receive shorter, more neutral accounts.