Will Allen

A Jack Russell terrier rests her face under her human’s arm. She starts to fall asleep as she dreams of dancing roast chickens.

Cold wintry evenings in Oxfordshire #dogdad #jackrussell

A city skyline with mountains and dramatic clouds

Nice, they’re ending this leg in Medellín, the in-laws’ hometown! I wonder how long until the first mention of Pab—oh. #CelebrityRaceAcrossTheWorld

And more in #polcom, check out @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social who uses mixed methods to study infographics. I use this one, for example, to illustrate how to build concepts and theory from visual materials: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

@kevinsmets.bsky.social wrote a chapter on visual methods for a methods handbook I recently co-edited: it's open-access and has a super useful table that summarizes major approaches while also putting them in their longer ans wider disciplinary contexts. doi.org/10.4337/9781...

'Visual Methodologies' (now in its fifth edition apparently!) by
@profgillian.bsky.social: us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/vi.... Or were you looking for more article-based case studies that use interpretive designs to study visuals?

My go-tos for more interpretive modes include: 'Visual Communication' by @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social and @katyjparry.bsky.social. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/vi....

Congrats Stu and well deserved!

Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...

Thanks for the shout-out! Katharina, @piotram.bsky.social and I learned a lot by engaging with your's and @dkreiss.bsky.social ideas about defensive publics. We made it open access so that students and practitioners can hopefully use it, too. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

A Jack Russell terrier sleeps soundly under the morning sun rays, with her paws and belly turned upwards. She dreams of her favourite snacks: chicken, and chicken.

Midweek mornings #dogdad

Noted!

Ah, shoot, went way off piste on this one judging by the others but I promise there was some logic to my guess!

Star Wars: A New Hope

You’ll get dogs and baked goods from me, have to keep on brand 😉

Charts, riddles, films: what’s not to love!?

Glad it has intrigued you! Watch this space, and more generally I believe the whole cohort will be hosting various @ddc-sdu.bsky.social sponsored events throughout 2026 associated with our projects.

Looking forward to making new connections across research, policy, and practice. I'll be doing a few in-person stints, so if you're Denmark-based or happen to be coming through and want to talk, let me know. Plus, I promise I'm just as keen to talk about dogs and baking in real life as I am on here!

Very excited to start working with the brilliant crew at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social over the coming year! I'll be exploring whether and how data visualization can enhance public knowledge about political issues, and the prospects for using visualization to help build stronger democracies.

Not sure if #poliskypressups will take off, but I've donated to this great effort by @robfordmancs.bsky.social in the hope that it does!

Congratulations and great news!

A selection of traditional thanksgiving dishes arranged on a table and taken from above

A plate of thanksgiving food with roast veg and dark red cranberry sauce

Celebrating Thanksgiving / Friendsgiving with rosemary turkey, goose fat roasties, honey spiced carrots, cumin parsnips, broccoli cheese, cranberry orange sauce #poliskycooks

Sadly baked goods don’t travel well digitally. Alas no #poliskybakes for these attendees!

Tune in to episode 103 of me *waving wildly at charts about charts* At least I aspire to never be accused of being boring!

#poliskybakes

Imagined Immigration - Ella Krispel - UAL Showcase 'Imagined Immigration' is a collection of experiments exploring the tension between British public perception of immigration and concrete immigration data. These experiments focus on the media’s impac...

A highlight of the conference was showcasing the work of Ella Krispel @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social, who uses woven textiles to convey information about immigration. Her argument that data and media are part of the 'fabric' of public opinion was inspiring: ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/4509...

Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.

Four dark brown squares of custardy pumpkin filling on a grey plate, taken from above.

A single square of a dark brown pumpkin pie bar, showing the layers of crispy crust and soft filing.

Pumpkin pie bars (vegan and gluten free) to bring a bit of US Thanksgiving to the @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar today

Friends don’t let friends go uncited 😉 Hope your semester is going well!

Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:

This chimes with our new open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social study of French-language immigration posts, which shows how far-right users flood feeds with hyper-partisan sources for political purposes: doi.org/10.1080/1058...

A Jack Russell stands on a tree stump with the sun on her back. She thinks about her impending lunch: chicken perhaps?

A park with morning sun streaming through tree branches, with a layer of orange leaves on the ground

Paseos por la mañana en Oxfordshire

A dimly lit choir sings from below tall arches in a chapel

Evening, @exeter.ox.ac.uk