Voters (especially younger ones) don’t like politicians using AI 🖋️ @tbalogh.bsky.social, @louiseluxton.bsky.social, @elisefrelin.bsky.social and @zdgreene.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Voters don’t like politicians using AI | LSE British Politics

Politicians are using AI as part of their campaigns. But while voters are OK with AI use for data analysis, they disapprove of it for image and video creation.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

NEW - Andy Burnham has written a long letter to all Labour MPs tonight - promising a major overhaul of whipping and engagement on legislation, as well as a “broad church” cabinet where ministers routinely engage MPs & select committees. Comes as nominations open for leadership. Letter here 👇

The Trump administration will reverse a hastily applied export ban on AI company Anthropic’s latest technology, allowing the company to once again offer its top AI models to customers around the world.

White House drops restrictions on Anthropic AI models after two-week ban

The company can once again provide its powerful Mythos and Fable AI models to customers after the Trump administration lifted export controls that were applied earlier in June.

washingtonpost.com

🤩One more day to apply! Come to beautiful Freiburg with the INCONEX team! #postdoc #hiring #academicjobs #polisci #EU #CSS

Lucy Kinski@lucykinski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

My latest with Christina Zuber and Edina Szöcsik, finally out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We outline an emerging new paradigm in the study of parties and elections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come work with me! 12 days left to apply! 👇 And if you are at #EPSS, go see the presentations by @clint0475.bsky.social to get a taste of what we do.

Lucy Kinski@lucykinski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

Happy to be at #EPSS2026 in Belfast today. I'm chairing panel PP03 — four papers on youth wings as recruitment grounds and early arenas where patterns of political representation take shape. Drop by if you're around! 🕞 15:20–17:00 · Meeting Room 3a (ICC).

Europeans need tech sovereignty now

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2mo ago

"The Trump administration is banning foreign governments, companies and individuals from using Anthropic’s most powerful artificial-intelligence tools, prompting the company to shut off access to everyone to comply with the new rule." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

Happening Today!

Christopher Klamm 🏔️@cklamm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

Please join us for a very timely topic! 🚨

Christopher Klamm 🏔️@cklamm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

Super cool paper today! Join us! 👇

Verena Kunz@verenakunz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're excited that @nschwitter.bsky.social will join us for the next session of the TADA Spring Speaker Series to present work on AI-generated images as experimental treatments. When? **Thursday**, April 30, 17:00 (Berlin time) Sign up for our newsletter at tada.cool for the Zoom link!

That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!

We're excited that @nschwitter.bsky.social will join us for the next session of the TADA Spring Speaker Series to present work on AI-generated images as experimental treatments. When? **Thursday**, April 30, 17:00 (Berlin time) Sign up for our newsletter at tada.cool for the Zoom link!

Happening Today!

Clint Claessen@clint0475.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 We are very happy to have Jana Jung for our third session of the TADA Spring Speaker Series. Jana will present recently published work on whether psychometric tests work for LLMs. When? 15th of April, 5pm (Berlin time) Where? Online (Sign up for the newsletter at tada.cool) See you there!

📃Read now: Zwischen Wien und Brüssel: Wer Europäer:innen wirklich repräsentiert (Between Vienna and Brussels: Who truly represents Europeans?) by @lucykinski.bsky.social 👉https://buff.ly/EtrduZi @ya-oeaw.bsky.social @clint0475.bsky.social

Zwischen Wien und Brüssel: Wer Europäer:innen wirklich repräsentiert

Von transnationalen Interessen und unsichtbaren Gruppen: Was uns die Forschung über demokratische Repräsentation in der EU verrät

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📢 We are very happy to have Jana Jung for our third session of the TADA Spring Speaker Series. Jana will present recently published work on whether psychometric tests work for LLMs. When? 15th of April, 5pm (Berlin time) Where? Online (Sign up for the newsletter at tada.cool) See you there!

Demokratische Repräsentationen auf nationalstaatlicher sowie europäischer Ebene – @lucykinski.bsky.social gibt Einblick in die vielschichtigen Aushandlungsprozesse von nationalen und transnationalen Interessen. 🌍 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Zwischen Wien und Brüssel: Wer Europäer:innen wirklich repräsentiert

Von transnationalen Interessen und unsichtbaren Gruppen: Was uns die Forschung über demokratische Repräsentation in der EU verrät

derstandard.at

Second session of this term's TADA coming up! Christopher Klamm will explain the use of Multimodal Conversational AI for survey research to us! Tuesday, 1 April 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online Signup for the newsletter & survey link at tada.cool

Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️

Nicolai Berk@nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very excited for the first session of our TADA spring speaker series on LLMs in survey research! **Telephone Surveys Meet Conversational AI** With Max Lang Tuesday, 18 March 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online Sign up to our newsletter for more info or send me a DM: tada.cool

Very excited for the first session of our TADA spring speaker series on LLMs in survey research! **Telephone Surveys Meet Conversational AI** With Max Lang Tuesday, 18 March 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online Sign up to our newsletter for more info or send me a DM: tada.cool

Please join us this spring for this exciting series of talks!👇

Nicolai Berk@nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨 We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs. Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us! More info & signup: tada.cool

🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨 We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs. Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us! More info & signup: tada.cool

Now in print (and open access): What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them? I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

Attitude Manipulation and Voting Intentions - Political Behavior

A large body of research documents the substantial effects of persuasive communication on political attitudes. However, opinion manipulation often represents merely an intermediate goal in a greater e...

link.springer.com

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms

Journalists are regularly accused of being strongly left leaning, which critics claim leads to biased reporting. Previous research suggests this assumption may be over-simplistic, but direct empiri...

tandfonline.com

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners? ➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro.bsky.social finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️ - 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social – 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo – 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat – 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social – 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social – 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social

🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in @epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tom Louwerse@tomlouwerse.nl · 7mo ago

Seven MPs of Geert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) quit the party and start their own parliamentary party group in the Dutch House of Representatives. They refer to the fact that Wilders is the only party member of the PVV and the lack of results. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/dutc...