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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Jun 10

DSI #PhDAffiliate Chuyao Wang’s new co-authored paper examines how conspiracy theories are governed on Chinese social media, showing how governments spread, allow, or argue against conspiracy theories. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · May 27

Unlike the AI-generated Chicago Sun-Times reading list – which included fake books – LSE’s new Research for the World magazine, out today, features a (human-curated) AI reading list with picks from researchers across the School, including DSI Director Martin Anthony.

www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

This reading list, compiled in collaboration with the LSE Review of Books blog, offers recommendations from LSE researchers of key books covering AI and tech.

www.lse.ac.uk

LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · May 21

Last week DSI Affiliate Siân Brooke, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam spoke on BBC Radio London about the rise in incel culture & her research into how online spaces reinforce inequality.

🎧 Listen (from 2:20): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
📖 Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

BBC Radio London - Shay Kaur Grewal, 13/05/2025

Celebrating Londoners and a recap of the day's news.

www.bbc.co.uk

LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · May 20

Upcoming event: AI’s rise reveals big flaws in education, which hasn’t adapted to tech’s role in society. @conradwolfram.bsky.social outlines the fix: a new, AI-age-ready curriculum built for computational literacy.
3 June | 6:30–8pm | lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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LSE School of Public Policy @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social · May 19

💼 We're #HIRING an LSE Fellow in Data Science for Public Policy!

Join us to deliver world-class teaching by facilitating seminars on empirical #datascience and its application to #policymaking.

🗓️ Closing: Sunday 8 June (23.59 BST)

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · May 20

🎟️ Tickets are now live for this year’s #LSEFestival: Visions for the Future! Join us 16–21 June at LSE (on campus or online) for a week of talks, panels & workshops on #AI, data, democracy & more.

👁️ Programme: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F...

LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · May 15

Last week, DSI and the Department of Media and Communications (@lsemedia.bsky.social) hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest – from access to info to democracy.

Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.

Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...

The power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest | LSE Event

YouTube video by LSE

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · May 13

AI isn’t just software — it’s hardware, geopolitics, rare earth mining, and an energy-hungry race for dominance.

This film is an essential watch. Dr Nils Peters of
@lsesociology.bsky.social talks about the fragile and often invisible supply chain behind #AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxo...

AI's hidden supply chain explained: why it's more fragile than you think | LSE Research

YouTube video by LSE

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Global School of Sustainability at LSE @gsos-lse.bsky.social · May 13

🖥️ "'Building the Data Infrastructure to Help Us Achieve Net Zero"
🗓️ Thursday, 22 May 2025 1-2pm
📍 KCL Strand Campus, London

LSE's @lsedatascience.bsky.social is collaborating with @aiatkings.bsky.social for this in-person event - #climatechange #sustainablepolicy #datascience

Building the Data Infrastructure to Help Us Achieve Net Zero

Join this in-conversation style event about data infrastructure that can help us achieve net zero.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · Feb 25

We're hosting #PolMethEurope2025

📆 7 - 8 April
📍 The London School of Economics and Political Science campus

This year's conference is the largest yet, with over 50 presentations focused on innovative research methods and their applications.

Register to attend👉 https://buff.ly/43bLVa6

a poster reading 'Polmeth Europe 2025, 7-8 april 2025, the london school of economics and politicial science. www.lse.ac.uk/methodology'

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · Feb 20

👉Call for papers!

@audreyalejandro.bsky.social and @dandekadt.bsky.social are hosting a two-day "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" workshop this November

Potential contributors should send a 250-word abstract by 26 March ➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY

@lsedatascience.bsky.social

AI generated photograph featuring a group of people sat around a table and code overlayed

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Feb 20

Innovation is increasingly monopolised by a small entrepreneurial elite that is not representative of the population at all.

Join us for the inaugural lecture of Xavier Jaravel, Professor of Economics at #LSE and #DSIAffiliate.

27 Feb, 6.30 to 8.00pm
Hybrid

More⤵️
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

The lost Marie Curies

6.30pm Thurs 27 Feb | Xavier Jaravel | Free public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Feb 19

📢Call for papers📢

We are cohosting a two-day workshop with #LSE Department of Methodology on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" organised by Dr Daniel de Kadt and audreyalejandro.bsky.social

✳️Submit 250-Word abstract by 26 March

Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Feb 18

📢 New Research Paper 📢

#DSIAffiliate @krpd.bsky.social from LSE's Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science has co-authored a new paper "Beyond WEIRD: Can Synthetic Survey Participants Substitute for Humans in Global Policy Research?"

Read it now🔻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Feb 17

If we are concerned about increasing loneliness and social fragmentation, we need to reckon with how technologies enable or impede human connection.

Join this @lsemedia.bsky.social #LSEEvents with Allison Pugh and Sonia Livingstone.

Wednesday 19 Feb, 6.30–8.00pm

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www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

The last human job: AI, depersonalisation and the industrial clock

6.30pm Weds 19 Feb | Allison Pugh | Free public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Jan 17

Interesting new @lseimpactblog.bsky.social that considers whether large language models, such as #ChatGPT, can be applied to assess the quality of #REF impact case studies.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

What happens when you let ChatGPT assess impact case studies?

The potential benefits of AI to different parts of the research cycle are currently a matter of significant study. In this post, Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall consider whether large language mode…

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Jan 7

This new @lseimpactblog.bsky.social by Daan Kolkman and Gijs van Maanen argues that rather than transparency and explainability, responsiveness is key to accountability in AI decision making.

#AIPolicy #DecisionMaking #Policymaking

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

AI decision making doesn’t need to be explainable, but it should be responsive

Public policies are increasingly being underpinned by automatic algorithmic decision making processes that have in some instances spectacularly failed. Daan Kolkmanand Gijs van Maanen ar…

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Jan 6

Did you know that any #LSE undergraduate, in any year of study can choose one of our Data Science Modules no matter what course you are studying❓

Watch the full video, find out more about the modules and learn how #DataScience can equip you with valuable new skills‼️
👉 www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/study/un...

LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Jan 3

As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflict.

📅 Thursday 30 January
🕡 6.30–8.00pm
📌 Hybrid

More info and registration👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

#LSE #LSEEvents #AI

Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit

6.30pm Thurs 30 Jan | AI, hope, and the human spirit | Craig Mundie, Mairéad Pratschke | Registration Required | Free public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · Jan 2

🧵The second brings together research on the continuing impact of generative AI on research and higher education 💻

#AcademicSky #AIResearch #HigherEducation

2024 In review – Working with generative AI

In the second of our annual reviews we turn our focus to the emerging role of AI across research and higher education. Across the research cycle from research methods to administration and teaching…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Jan 2

Join us for our 1st #LSEEvents of 2025. Discussing his new book, David Spiegelhalter will explain 3️⃣ types of luck and talk about how we can put numbers on our ignorance, then measure how good those numbers are.

📅22 Jan
🕡6.30–7.30pm
📌Hybrid

www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Dec 30

What does it mean to be human in a world changed by AI?

In March Madhumita Murgia #AI Editor @financialtimes.com discussed her new book "Code Dependent" at a DSI public event.

Download the podcast from the #LSE Player🔽
www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...

#LSEDSI2024 | #LSEEvents

What it means to be human in a world changed by AI

Author Madhumita Murgia discusses her new book Code Dependent, which sets out just how profoundly automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, and how AI is changing our relationships...

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Dec 30

#Africa’s #tech unicorns have captured the world’s attention with billion-dollar valuations, but their global ambitions remain stunted.

Behind the hype lies a deeper story of systemic hurdles, strategic blind spots, and untapped potential, writes Jennifer D. Daniel on the LSE Africa Blog.

Africa has tech unicorns, but they aren’t scaling globally

Africa's tech unicorns have captured the world's attention with billion-dollar valuations, but their global ambitions remain stunted

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Dec 27

LSE encourages the responsible and ethical use of Generative AI to support and enhance research. During 2024 Lee Mager put together an extensive resource for researchers from #LSE (and others) offering #AI research guidance.

Explore this amazing resource🔽
www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/AI/AI-Re...

#LSEDSI2024

AI Research Guidance

Landing page for guidance on use of generative AI in research

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Data Science Institute @lsedatascience.bsky.social · Dec 20

How students actually use AI❓

To improve courses, educators must try to answer this question. Our GENIAL research does just that!

Find out more about the project and learn how its findings can be integrated into teaching and assessment plans ⬇

www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/Research...

#LSEDSI2024

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