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Pete Eckersley

@peckersley.bsky.social

Associate Prof in Public Policy & Management, Nottingham Trent University. Managing Editor, Local Government Studies. Own views on climate change, local governance and public policy in the UK & Germany. Plus, occasionally, cricket

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Pete Eckersley@peckersley.bsky.social · last mo.

I reckon Burnham will be the UK's first PM with a Northern English accent since Robert Peel. I'm not sure Harold Wilson counts: he was from the West Riding but sounded distinctly RP when he was in office

Pete Eckersley@peckersley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great to chair this roundtable at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference in Oxford-and thank you to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social for filing and promoting our discussion on English devolution! 👇

Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*New Resource* 'English #devolution and the future of subnational #government' As part of @acadsocsciences.bsky.social campaign for Social Science’s series on #devolution, a recorded session took place at PSA26. ➡️ Learn more

Pete Eckersley@peckersley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

👇 this looks fascinating. But it's also not surprising, given the enshittification of more established social media platforms and the increasing dominance of influencers, celebs and downright unpleasant people. Social media is just getting less *social*

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4mo ago

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

Pete Eckersley@peckersley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nice to see my latest paper, co-authored with Bernard Kofi Dom, come out in Public Money & Management. We trace how a lack of agreement about what local government should be *for* - its role in the UK state - have characterised central-local relations since the 1970s. doi.org/10.1080/0954...

Independence and dependence in central–local relations: Multilevel governance and state capacity in England since the 1970s

The authors draw on secondary analyses of central–local relations in England over recent decades to suggest that conflicting perspectives on what local government should be for—its role in the UK s...

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Pete Eckersley@peckersley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

👇Thread below summarising the sessions that we in @psalocalpol.bsky.social will run at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Oxford next week. Delighted to chair our opening roundtable, another panel, and present my paper on "Understanding the power of place in local climate policymaking"

PSA Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group@psalocalpol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're very excited about next week's #PSA26 conference @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Our specialist group have an amazing line-up of panels and events. Details below 👇👇👇 Please do share widely! 👍🔃 See you there!

Pete Eckersley@peckersley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

👇 Brilliant take on the societal risks on relying on LLMs and their hallucinations, particularly in under-researched fields. Also great that @leahbroad.bsky.social refrains from using the term 'AI'. These models are, of course, *not intelligent* in any genuine way.

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 5mo ago

**NEW POST** LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap. This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT. leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...