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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 2d

Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 7d

Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 13d

Deleting because of Musk is certainly an improvement on the Darren Grimes approach. Stir up a bit of controversy as a masquerade to deleting all the embarrassing tweets people kept digging up...

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 16d

GO AMY GO

(Note: TIP generally supports safe and responsible driving)

a tire sits on the side of a road in the woods

ALT: a tire sits on the side of a road in the woods

media.tenor.com

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 16d

Deadline is Friday 26 Sept! So stop what you're doing and get that abstract in.

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 16d

🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth.

The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract.

Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome.

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

Navigating Digital Democracy Conference – BU’s Media School

You are warmly invited to submit papers for presentation at the joint annual conference of the Political Studies Association’s Media and Politics Group (MPG) & Technology, Information and Policy Group (TIP).

www.bournemouth.ac.uk

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 20d

Case study 512 on why Armando Iannucci couldn't write a funnier political drama than the current state of British Politics.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Corbyn clashes with Sultana over membership portal as split emerges in new party

Ex-Labour leader says ‘legal advice being taken’ over issue, while Sultana also claims ‘sexist boys’ club’ is running party

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · 26d

I would love to be a fly on the wall of the Nepalese Protest Discord. It seems like a really good mix of deliberative democracy, but in the hell-scape of a Discord server with 130,000 people.

Engaged active citizens ✔️
Zero trust in the systems ❌

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room

www.nytimes.com

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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · 29d

🎉 We’re SO HAPPY to have wrapped up our 3-year SNF-funded project “Do Citizens Distrust Politicians? The Role of the Representative Function” with a 2-day workshop “Citizens’ Preferences for Representation and Their Consequences for Political Behaviour” — it was a huge success! 🙌🤯

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Sep 7

Happy Beep day to those of you in the UK celebrating 🥳 📱

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Sep 4

Funnest point? @danjdevine.bsky.social getting a response of actual thunder when mentioning Meta in the Q&A...

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Sep 4

Day one of the Representation and Their Consequences for Political Behavior workshop in Basel was 👌. Many *amazing* papers and fruitful discussion!

I presented mine and @lawrencemckay.bsky.social's work titled on if Individual platforms influence political trust in the UK 24GE. (it kinda does).

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Sep 3

I started my new post at Edge Hill on Monday, and today I'm off to Basel for a workshop on political representation! One hell of a start I'd say.

Very unhappy about having to pay £4 for a Sprite through...

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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al.

doi.org/10.1177/2053...

AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign.

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · Aug 27

Labour MP Mike Reader told me his team play “ChatGPT Bingo” to spot when they think an MP has used it to write their speech

Apparently ChatGPT likes to use phrases like ‘I rise to speak…’

And look! Hansard shows a bit of a spike in the use of that phrase this year 😂

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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · Aug 21

This story of a fictional journalist writing made up AI stories is WILD. Combining the reported fees in the piece and what I know of what the others pay, it's also a very low-paying trick - maybe £1,500 max over four months pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles

Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 20

How can TV news speak to audiences on social media?

Our Journalist Fellow Nevena Madžarević explores how TV journalists are adapting to social video in her fellowship project:

Bilingual broadcasting: How TV news is learning to speak to vertical social video audiences

As TV's polished broadcasts meet social video's raw immediacy, journalists face a new fluency test: speak the language of vertical video, or risk being silenced in the scroll.

buff.ly

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Aug 20

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

For scientists who use social media to encourage followers to visit external links (websites, papers, etc.,) here’s some data from this blog. For nearly a decade, Twitter was the #1 or #2 source of traffic to the blog almost every day. It hasn’t been in the top 10 sources of traffic to the blog in years, and a single SheetMusicPlus.com article from 2016 generates more traffic here than all of Twitter. So far this year, Bluesky is responsible for about 100x as much traffic as Twitter. AltMetric reports that despite Twitter having 10x the user base as BlueSky, BlueSky users share almost as many scholarly publications as Twitter users- and Twitter’s numbers are declining as Bluesky’s rise.

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Aug 13

Me writing a paper, with about 2,500 words to go:

"You know what would be really productive right now, just type setting the whole document again for 30-mins"

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cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · Aug 8

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Aug 7

There is a certain logic in giving the Homelessness portfolio to somebody with the most amount of homes.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Aug 7

BREAKING: Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali resigns after it was revealed she had moved out tenants in her rented home and then raised the rent.

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Jul 24

We've launched a political party without a name by mistake.

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Jul 24

I cannot wait for what name their membership ends up voting on, and subsequent 10-years of in-fighting on the voting system used.

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Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social · Jul 24

Polling companies when they ask about yet unknown/uncreated parties vs current ones.

Holborn & St Pancras projection

JCP: 33.4% (+14.5)*
LAB: 28.0% (-20.9)
RFM: 16.9% (+10.8)
GRN: 8.1% (-2.3)
CON: 6.4% (-0.8)
LDM: 5.2% (-0.6)
+/- vs. GE2024

FindoutnowUK polling (16/07/2025)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 24

South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

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