The report from our EPSS 2026 roundtable, Protecting Democracy in the Age of AI, is now available! The discussion covered the latest on how generative and agentic AI impact democratic processes, and the risks and opportunities for representation and policymaking Read here: www.poal.co.uk/events/

Labour is losing far more voters to the left than to the right

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

🧵/ Two years since the general election, a new YouGov study of nearly 20,000 Britons breaks down how voting preferences look today by a range of demographic factors and how they evolved over Keir Starmer's premiership yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Heading to Belfast for #EPSS2026 and presenting two new papers I'm excited about. Say hi if you're around, or drop me an email if you'd like to chat over coffee ☕

What happens when you ask an AI chatbot for political information? In experiments with ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek, we show that even implicit demographic and ideological cues embedded in AI chats shape the news and frames users receive. Study here: osf.io/preprints/so... @zachdickson.bsky.social

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Position GREENLOSS Project

2 Years - Postdoctoral Position Starting January 2027

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Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

New project 👇 I'll be combining causal evidence on driving restrictions with an experiment on how communicating co-benefits -- in terms of health, education and safety -- shapes public support for climate policies in the UK Big thanks to @gsos-lse.bsky.social for supporting 🙏

LSE Methodology@lsemethodology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@zachdickson.bsky.social has been awarded the @gsos-lse.bsky.social Grant for his project "From Evidence to Support: Communicating the Co-Benefits of Driving Restrictions"🚗 🚦Exploring driving restriction policies like ULEZ, it will run until April 2027 👉️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

A reminder that applications for this 3-year fully funded PhD position close at the end of next week (May 17). This is a great opportunity to work on climate politics comparative politics in a vibrant environment, with loads of freedom to develop your own project. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract

For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026

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Next week (12–13 May), we at LSE are hosting a @civica.bsky.social workshop on Exclusionary Politics, organised by yours truly with @isoldehegemann.bsky.social, @miguelpereira.bsky.social and @zachdickson.bsky.social. For attendance, please sign up here in advance: us.list-manage.com/SpeGlF3Rh5M

Thrilled to have contributed to the 2026 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change We (w/Cornelius Erfort) collected over 500k party press releases and used LLMs to document party engagement with climate and public health across Europe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The 2026 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: narrowing window for decisive health action

This third iteration of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Europe report systematically tracks the health effects of climate change adaptation and mitigation action, economics and fi...

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Great opportunity for recent PhD grads looking for a postdoc with solid support for research + teaching development This is my current role, so I'm happy to answer questions if you're interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW831/l...

LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods at London School of Economics and Political Science

An academic position as a LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

Really enjoyed co-hosting (w/ the great @zachdickson.bsky.social ) last week’s ECR workshop on Climate & Political Behaviour at LSE. Big thanks to everyone who came and for making such a great workshop! Thank you also to @gsos-lse.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social for the generous support!

1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎: "An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang

Looking forward to this - if you’re in Oxford, please do join if it’s of interest!

Oxford Social Policy and Intervention@dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣Upcoming seminar: 'Green Backlash and the Political Consequences of Politicized Energy Prices', Dr Zach Dickson, London School of Economics. 🗓 5 Feb, 4-5:30pm 🎤 @zachdickson.bsky.social 🔗https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/963c17fc-3ba9-4ac6-88ee-4e61be651adb/

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

LSE Department of Government@lsegovernment.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨We're #hiring! We're looking for a #Research #Fellow to join our team. The successful candidate will be part of the research project "Political #Finance in #Africa" led by Associate Professor @sarahbrierley.bsky.social for 2 years. 🗓️Apply by Monday 12 January 👇🏽 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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Great postdoc opportunity to work with one of the best and brightest out there

Carl Müller-Crepon@carlmc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Looking forward to presenting my research on energy prices and backlash to climate policies tomorrow at @granthamlse.bsky.social If you’re at LSE and have some free time from 1-2:30, come join! www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We actually have a paper that finds exactly that! osf.io/preprints/so...

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 9mo ago

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

🚨 New working paper 🚨 We often see populist parties like Reform UK blame higher energy bills on climate change policies. What are the political consequences of this strategy? Very early draft; comments and criticisms are welcomed! full draft: z-dickson.github.io/assets/dicks...

Do people in the Labour party think that you can recover from this? Is there any historic precedent for turning something like this around? Starmer has tied himself to a strategy, that strategy has failed. The consequence should be quite clear.

Ipsos in the UK@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW from Ipsos Satisfaction with the PM remains unchanged since September, continuing to be the worst ever recorded by Ipsos for a Prime Minister, going back to 1977…

Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays

Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

"While testing one dimension at a time can yield simple results, those effects may not generalise to richer, real-world contexts." Read our new POAL Methods Briefs on Conjoint Experiments from Thomas Robinson! Link: www.poal.co.uk/research/met...

great analysis!

Julius Kölzer@juliusk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵

🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨 We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️

Florian Foos@florianfoos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...