🤳The UK is pushing for device controls to filter nudity: but why is it problematic? Our research brief by @cynthiang.bsky.social discuses the technology behind device controls to stop young people sharing explicit content, problems, & possible future scenarios. psatip.uk/research/the...

Research Brief - The UK is pushing for device controls to filter nudity: but why is it problematic?

The Government has called for tech companies to prevent children from sharing sexually explicit images. But what exactly is the technology behind device controls, and what changes to the law are being...

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Talk about polarisation 😯

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NEW Economist/YouGov Jul 25-27 % who approve | disapprove of Trump U.S. adult citizens 34% | 62% (-28: new low for Trump) Last week 36% | 60% (-24) Start of term 49% | 43% (+6) Dem 3% | 95% Ind 19% | 72% Rep 81% | 17% 18-29: 31% | 63% 65+: 41% | 56% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026

How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...

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Our June newsletter is out 📩 so grab a cuppa ☕ and check out our top story on *which* AI politicians use, and what implications this might have out their work! Plus, find out all the top tech & policy stories we're reading this month 👀

The TIP Newsletter: AGM, Your News, and Politicians using AI

Good morning TIPers,

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New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇 technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...

Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety

With the United Kingdom moving towards banning under 16s from accessing social media, Dr. Maia Almeida-Amir & Prof. Ariadne Vromen provide a rights-based perspective following the Australian ban.

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Super insightful paper 👀👀 exposing the (unsurprising) asymmetries in politics research and policymaking.

Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz@seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

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!

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🌍📊 From survey data quality to research infrastructures: The #CSDIWorkshop 2026 in Vienna brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss current challenges and innovations in comparative survey design and implementation. Read more in our latest #MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/csdi-worksho...

New blog post ✒️ Who gets emotional about politics and what impact do knowledge, interest, and confidence-in-knowledge have? Find out more about the sophistication-emotion link in our latest blogpost:

BLOG: Who gets emotional about politics?

Fear of migrants, national pride, and anger at elites are just some examples of the ways in which emotions play an important part in today’s political culture. It is a long standing assumption that em...

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🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26

Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association

Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...

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Con @dielujan77.bsky.social y @sarahledoux.bsky.social analizamos el ascenso de #Milei como una variedad de personalismo electoral ➡️ Milei no se explica solo como #populismo ℹ️ Su campaña puede abordarse desde un concepto + preciso: personalismo electoral 🔓Open access: doi.org/10.1017/gov....

Government and Opposition@govandopp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New on #FirstView - "Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier Milei in Argentina" - cup.org/4ue3tNI by @dielujan77.bsky.social, @gonzapuig89.bsky.social & @sarahledoux.bsky.social

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

Delighted to see our collaboration out in doi print 🎉 In this paper, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the concept of 'electoral personalism' through the case of Milei in Argentina and identify 3 key elements: self-promotion, ideological rhetoric and moral appeals. See link for more 👇

Diego Luján@dielujan77.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy that our article with @gonzapuig89.bsky.social & @sarahledoux.bsky.social is finally out in @govandopp.bsky.social ! Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier Milei in Argentina. It's open access 👇

🚨 Upcoming TIP EVENT! 🚨 with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 25 FEB 3-4pm GMT (on Zoom!) to discuss Cecilia's book "Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" in conversation 💬 with our very own @danweiss.bsky.social More info & sign-ups here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨 I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions. The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️

Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments? @cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered. Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS: doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5

Decoding German Politics with StateParl—A Text Corpus of Plenary Protocols in the 16 German Länder Parliaments - Politische Vierteljahresschrift

The availability of large amounts of machine-readable text data has enabled political scientists to explore a variety of novel and innovative research questions. In this context, parliamentary documen...

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🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

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📢 PhD Scholarship at QUT to join my DECRA project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" @qutdmrc.bsky.social 📅 Applications close: 13/03/2026 More info here: www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-a... Please share and reach out if you have questions!

QUT - Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats (PhD scholarship)

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The MPG x TIP conference in Bournemouth is a go! We've already had a fantastic keynote by Susan Banaducci and now we're onto the first wave of panels! @psampg.bsky.social

👨‍💻 In a piece based on @polbehavior.bsky.social research, @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social reports on his survey of politicians. 💡 He finds that while politicians do have reasonable understanding of which issues matter, they often make mistakes that have consequences for representation 👇 bit.ly/3KZhugI

How well do politicians understand what matters to voters?

Politicians need to have a good understanding of which issues matters most to voters. Chris Butler reports from a recent survey of politicians that

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🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

Incredible work by Matt Smith at @yougov.co.uk summing up the most heard news stories of 2025! Check out the whole story & breakdown here yougov.co.uk/politics/art... "Cool" only begins to describe how it feels to see outputs from the AI topic quantifier after I developed it at YouGov last year ♥️

Patrick English@patrick-pme.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our @yougov.co.uk data journalism extraordinaire Matt Smith has compiled all news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Reminder about this political text analysis postdoc job: deadline is on Monday! 🕒

Sarah Ledoux@sarahledoux.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Another job with MULTIREP! 👉 Deadline 15 Dec Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions/interest, I'd be happy to have a chat 😄

Key paper for those using proprietary models for ideological stance annotation and text generation. Walker & @joantimoneda.bsky.social not only show a clear conservative/liberal split between languages prompted, but also changes in outputs from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 (see graphs)

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 8mo ago

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Is ChatGPT conservative or liberal? A novel approach to assess ideological stances and biases in generative LLMs - https://cup.org/48Oh8Co - Christina P. Walker & @joantimoneda.bsky.social #FirstView #ChatGPT

📣 Join us 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 📣 (2 Dec) to discuss "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 📖 with Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca 3:00-4:15pm GMT! Looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion on how govs shape content moderation & strategies to combat harmful content Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

Call for papers: IJPOR has a call for a special issue on AI, public opinion and democratic resilience. 1000 word initial abstract submission 🗓️: deadline February 15, 2026 @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @algosoc.org @polcomm.bsky.social #commsky academic.oup.com/ijpor/pages/...

Call for Papers: AI, Public Opinion, and Democratic Resilience

Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zuñiga and Hugo Marcos-Marne Editor-In-Chief: Porismita Bora

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Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4