Sarah Ledoux

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

The TIP Newsletter: MPGxTIP conference CfP, Ofcom event, DSA & EU researchers, your news, and more. In this newsletter, we remind you of our MPGxTIP conference CfP (deadline soon!), share some details on an exciting event we've got brewing, and discuss the launch of the DSA for politics research.

🔥 Our September newsletter is out! 🔥 it includes

⚠️ Reminder for our Jan Conference on Digital Democracy w @psampg.bsky.social
📆 Upcoming Engagement Event with Ofcom
🇪🇺 Caveats in DSA researcher access
📝 Member News & Research
🎓 Opportunities/Grants
💼 & Jobs!

#Commsky

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Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Thanks Steph!! 🙏

Thanks Matthew! :)

Thanks Alex! 🙏

Thanks Brian!!

Thanks so much Stuart!

2- In Vienna, I am integrating the MULTIREP team, led by @chriswratil.bsky.social. In this role, I’ll be analysing representatives’ speech patterns to expand our understanding of *dimensions* of representation (wratil.eu/multirep). Very much looking forward to sharing what we find! 🌟

1- Thank you to the brilliant @andreucasas.bsky.social and Rachel Gibson for the engaging discussion (time flew by), along with your insight and advice. A huge thanks 🙏 also go to my supervisors, @mcuanti.bsky.social and @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social, for all the support and fantastic guidance

𝒟𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉... 🥁

1- Delighted to share I’ve passed my Viva at the University of Manchester! 🥂

2- I’ve just joined the University of Vienna as a Post-Doc in Computational Social Science to research *Representation* 💡

More info👇

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 

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Article abstract, which says: The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"

Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.

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This is happening today! 📆 We're very much looking forward to welcoming such an excellent panel of experts 🎓 to discuss current developments in digital regulation in the EU and UK

Coming up on 25 June 2-3pm BST, we have our @techpolicy.bsky.social roundtable on 'Digital Sovereignty in the EU and UK' Tickets now live!

The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign International crises and Euroscepticism have made European issues prominent in citizens’ lives. This article studies the role of three key European issues – migration, the environment, and EU integ...

🛎️ New Publication 🛎️

How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections?

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections

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Did you know about the hidden way that parties in the UK receive political donations? @politicalquarterly.bsky.social have just published @markpackuk.bsky.social & mine's research into donations made directly to candidates at election time. Details of these donors are not publicly published....

No te vas, Pepe. Todo está guardado en la memoria. 👇🖤

Britain has one of most difficult voter registration processes, report finds UK system makes it a ‘real outlier’ among liberal democracies, according to study examining 62 countries

UK has a comparatively difficult registration process.

Our comparative analysis of registration difficulty in 62 countries is timely as Labour consider introducing automatic voter registration.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅

Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers.

And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

Excellent insight from @whotargets.me on UK party spending on Meta ads during the recent local elections, it's pretty clear when the penny dropped for Labour 💷
🔗 link to full graph: trends.whotargets.me/dashboard/co...

Tried to take stock (with the amazing @profjanegreen.bsky.social) of what we do & don't know about what these local results mean for Reform, and the challenges the party would still face in a general election

These challenges have implications for the Cons., but also Labour defending their seats...

Are you a researcher or journalist looking for the latest example of deepfakes in the wild? Bookmark our Deepfakes Tracker Dashboard, a database that tracks fact-checks involving deepfakes and manipulated or out-of-context media and narratives. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/f8...

Excited to chair some of our @techpolicy.bsky.social panels tomorrow at #PSA25 ! Swing by and say hi if you're around 👋

🗞️ Our March newsletter is out! 🗞️
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🎩 TIP panels #PSA25 big ideas, sharp debates and hats!
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YouTube video by CNRS Isabelle Guinaudeau, les élections au prisme des promesses politiques | Talents CNRS

Les promesses électorales n'engagent-elles que ceux qui les écoutent ? La délégation @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social m'a invitée à présenter mes recherches dans une petite vidéo 😊 Featuring @egrossman.bsky.social et @selmasarenkapa.bsky.social, et c'est par ici 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84O...

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📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣

Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes?

@elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪:

🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!

Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇

📨 Our Feb newsletter is out! 🗞️
In it, you'll find...
✏️ A recap from our AI Regulation Roundtable (and YT link!)
🗣️ Summary of our new blog post on conspiracy meme sharing
🏫 TIP panels @ #PSA2025 to watch out for 👀
🧃 Juicy tech & policy roundup
👥 Member highlights and publications
🎓 CfPs and jobs!