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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 3h

More than a decade of effort went into this magnificent dataset. What an incredible public good. People need to know how hard it is to do rigorous empirical work in political science.

Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social · 6h

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH

@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Screen shot of the title and abstract of the article I am talking about

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 3h

Hague in his 1st conference speech as leader: "I am proud to be British. I believe in the United Kingdom, and so do hundreds of thousands of British blacks and British Asians. I want to see men and women from our ethnic minorities playing their full part in the mainstream of our national life..."

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3h

Annoyingly Hague's full speech text doesn't appear to be online anywhere, so maybe there is something egregiously stupid in it, but it is a much more skilful bit of 'I lead the party that has run the country for 18 years' positioning:

We care too, claims Hague

Key extracts from William Hague 's 1997 conference speech.

www.theguardian.com

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 2d

Meta’s decision to ban ads about politics, elections, and social issues on their platforms like Facebook and Instagram in the EU is now implemented.

This is the new policy. Any ad about fx elections, civil rights, economy, health, climate, immigration, or foreign policy is now (presumably) banned.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21h

🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice

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Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <spa...

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 20h

Congrats, @nilsredeker.bsky.social !

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, she comes close, but on policy some of it is still in the making as you say, while it's pretty clear where Jenrick would end up, to the right of Badenoch, wherever that will be. Let's see if she will be there long enough to announce any policy based on these reviews.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 1d

So if you think you've seen full-on accommodation of the radical right yet, more is still to come.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 1d

It's sufficiently clear by now that if Badenoch is the most rightwing leader the Tories ever had, Jenrick's Conservative Party would be indistinguishable on second dimension politics from Reform.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 1d

He also just isn't very funny, no matter how hard he tries.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 1d

This Jenrick speech could have been given as is at the Reform conference a couple of weeks ago. One of the most striking parts, for a Shadow Justice secretary, are the parts on Northern Ireland. Incredible how far the Tories have moved away from John Major's legacy.

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Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 1d

„Wenn sie erkannt wird, verliert die Provokation ihren dunklen Zauber.
Das, was Russland (in manchen Fällen gesichert, in manchen Fällen mutmaßlich) tut, sind also keine Provokationen.“

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Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen

Und keine Provokationen.

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Len Metson @lenmetson.com · 2d

Could not recommend this highly enough - LSE is a great place to be doing a PhD, and Campaign Lab are a fantastic organisation to collaborate with -

More than happy to talk to anyone thinking of applying!

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool field experiment on political conformity by one of last year's @lsegovernment.bsky.social MSc Political Science Political Behaviour Stream students, Moses Siregar: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/10...

When Cybertroopers Shape the Crowd: Online Conformity in Indonesia - LSE Southeast Asia Blog

Cyber troop operations in Indonesia don’t persuade citizens with facts — they manufacture consensus through visibility, secrecy, and conformity. Drawing on a field experiment with over 900 Instagram u...

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

Is this not how you do lunch with your PhD students @drjennings.bsky.social ?

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing.

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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵

In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan

The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

You need to be eligible for ESRC funding to qualify for this studentship. Please contact me if you have questions. Deadline for applications is 10 December. Please help spread the word.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

This is a collaborative studentship, meaning you'll be spending some research time with our partner organisation, which will provide additional mentoring, access to real-world campaigns and data plus an individual research budget.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

France is again without a government. Lecornu resigned before even meeting his cabinet: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

France’s PM resigns after less than a month amid widespread criticism of new cabinet

Sébastien Lecornu quits after Emmanuel Macron unveiled largely unchanged cabinet lineup

www.theguardian.com

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

There is the feeling you take away from it that Merkel thinks she could have prevented the full scale invasion if East European states would have followed her ideas and if she has still been in power to chat to Putin.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

And this is not even the most controversial passage from the interview she gave Hungarian opposition medium partizan. If the translation is right she blamed Russia‘s full scale invasion on Covid cause it radicalized Putin (sth to that) and prevented face-to-face diplomacy between world leaders (🙄).

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 2d

Merkel is probably one of the people most responsible for the war, as she was one of Putin’s main appeasers. Her leadership was a massive failure

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

On domestic politics, I liked how Merz actually engaged with questions and explained coalition bargaining, deal making and compromise. The questioning on those topics was also much more robust.

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

There are other lines on that topic ("there are still around 1 million people [in Gaza] ... there used to be 2 million"), where I'm just perplexed how a serious journalist can let this go without a basic follow-up.

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