Jens Koed Madsen

Fantastic news! Congratulations, both :)

🏆 Congratulations to our 2025 LSE Excellence in Education Award winners! Pictured here are our colleagues Dr Sakshi Ghai and Chris Roberts, together with Prof Emma McCoy & Prof Alex Voorhoeve.

Learn more and see all winners: buff.ly/Dq57XPt

YouTube video by Trades Union Congress (TUC) Well that clears that up then...

In a CogSci paper, we showed that given motivation and insight, deliberate silence can be epistemically relevant and strengthen belief in a hypothesis.

This interview with Farage is an example of that principle www.youtube.com/shorts/2BdHV...

Link to paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/57h4...

Spotted the Tottenham bus before the game in East London - wild to bring it on the pitch and park it there for 90 minutes 😂

YouTube video by Хорошее настроение A bit of Fry & Laurie - The West Indies: A Nation of Cricketers

Now that Trump is telling Republicans to vote for the release of the Epstein files, I fully expect the following to represent the disclosure 😂

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtz...

My article about state resistance to transnational #disinformation is out now in
@ejir.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Taking #Taiwan's resistance to #China's disinformation as its empirical focus, the article offers 4 contributions to #InternationalRelations:
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Congratulations on a great paper!

Fact for the day: paracetamol does not cause autism

This is a brilliant department and sounds like a very exciting position!

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome!

Please reach out if you would like any more details.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

This seems a tremendously sad return to McCarthyist-style patrolling of thought and expression

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The wilful rejection of psychological and behavioural interventions Psychology and behavioural science play a key role in the development, testing, and implementation of interventions aimed at addressing societal chall…

New paper with Jon Roozenbeek and David Young where we present a Bayesian framework for the wilful rejection of interventions, such as inoculation against misinformation

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

Trump orders firing of labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed US president accused of ‘firing the messenger’ as he makes claims without evidence about Erika McEntarfer

He probably also fired his bathroom scale for fake weight figures 😂

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

England 1-1 Spain (England win 3-1 on pens): Women’s Euro 2025 final – live reaction Minute-by-minute report: The Lionesses remain European champions after beating Spain on penalties

Phenomenal result!!! Back-to-back European Champions 🤯🥳

www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X Incident follows the xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questions

Remind me why universities, charities and governments are still using X as a platform for advertising their programmes and sharing their activities? With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3Ig3H3l

Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity The discovery raises serious concerns about the integrity of the research in the papers and highlights flaws in academic publishing.

Amazingly (and worryingly) this works. I tried this on a paper I am currently working on. Un-prompted, Copilot recommended minor revisions; prompted, it parroted inserted phrases (e.g., 'innovative methodology') and said it was a must-read for all scientists.

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07...

it's genuinely worrying to see the democratic backsliding - hopefully, it won't progress, but the pressure on citizens, universities, foreign nations, and international law is a troubling sign.

Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks' This comes after US President Donald Trump said she was

It was clear that an attack was coming when Trump got Tulsi Gabbard to reverse her statement about Iran's nuclear ambitions. In my view, it looks like 2003 pretense all over again.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As the sun sets tonight my thoughts are Iranians and Jews and Palestinians greeting the evening with fear. Like many of us watching from afar i am consumed with worry about those I care about. May this madness stop soon.

🚨 Recruiting now!

We’re looking for a LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies to join the department!

Check out the job listing and apply below!

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It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg In banning a schools debate on Palestinian sovereignty, our leaders have revealed the nation we’re becoming, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Information

This is a point well made by Rune Lykkeberg - it is a failure of Danish politicians' attitudes toward freedom of speech that school kids are not allowed to debate the questions of genocidal actions or the Palestinian right to self-determination.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oxfam GB | Stop arming Israel: sign our petition now

I've called on the UK government to stop ALL arms sales to Israel.

Sign. 👇👇 www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

⚽ New blog by @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social ⬇️

#Football #WisdomOfTheCrowds #Research

A blog on an interesting Wisdom of the Crowds experiment I ran across an entire @plnews.bsky.social football season. It turns out that WoC estimates outperform individual participants :)

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

This was a really fun project to make :)

Football forecasting – harnessing the power of the crowd Can the wisdom of the crowds predict football results? New research finds people's guesses about football matches can produce surprisingly accurate predictions.

💥 New: Football forecasting – harnessing the power of the crowd

✍️ @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social‬ on whether the wisdom of the crowds can predict football results

Fresh attack on Harvard intensifies chaos for international students in US Students will need to move schools to keep legal status, as US universities reel from funding cuts and Trump orders

If I was considering where to study as an international student (with all the innovations, new businesses, and more that international students can bring), I would really think twice about the USA. It's grim to undermine protest and freedom of speech in this way.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

💥 New blog! 👇

The perceived independence of information sources has a powerful impact on polarisation New research shows that disagreements about the independence of information sources can have a powerful impact on political polarisation.

The perceived independence of information sources has a powerful impact on polarisation

New research from @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social (@lsepbs.bsky.social) @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social & @leede-wit.bsky.social

In a blog, @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social, @leede-wit.bsky.social, and I discuss why perceived dependencies are so important to political belief formation - and how they might fuel polarisation.

It points to a broader discussion on how to engage with people politically.

shorturl.at/P2e2M