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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 3d

🚀 And this marks our launch of the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱!

@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & other actors during the election #tk2025

See here
www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably Queen Latifah bears some indirect responsibility for this outrage.

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · 3d

(Declaration of interest: it’s by the boss.)

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · 4d

A perceptive and wide-ranging analysis of this award that (perhaps not coincidentally) doesn’t even mention Donald Trump.

theconversation.com/nobel-peace-...

Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado: Venezuelan opposition leader forced into hiding after taking on Maduro

The Venezuelan opposition leader was forced to go into hiding in 2024 after being banned form standing in that year’s election.

theconversation.com

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 6d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · 9d

This Olé House sounds even better (if such can be imagined) than the original.

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PSA Political Psychology Specialist Group @psapolpsychology.bsky.social · 12d

This time in two weeks, we will launch our autumn/winter seminar series. We have an exciting line-up of four online talks covering a range of topics in political psychology.

All presentations are on Thursdays at 12:00 UK.

Sign up to attend here!: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

Political Psychology | The Political Studies Association (PSA)

Political Psychology is a multi-disciplinary group established to provide a forum for collaboration, discussion and support for political psychology scholars and practitioners as well as to facilitate...

www.psa.ac.uk

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · 15d

“Sure, I did say that we needed to be less London-centric, but let’s not go mad here.”

Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 15d

Jackie Baillie tells Burnham to shelve leadership positioning, amid concerns it will harm Labour at Holyrood elections, @severincarrell.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute must-read from @profjanegreen.bsky.social and @martamiori.bsky.social. It's hard to imagine how Labour could be getting it more wrong - not least by talking up the replacement of the Conservatives by Reform, which will only accelerate the cannibalisation of the former's vote by the latter!

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 21d

Some lovely polling published by the Policy Inst at KCL today on partial quotations www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22d

If Labour and other parties can't find a way to scrutinise, criticise and condemn a policy like this, they give Reform a free ride and make the future less safe & certain for those who come here, work hard and contribute.

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Vincenzo Emanuele @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social · 25d

📣New #openaccess publication on Western European #party systems within the #Sartori symposium on IPSR.
lc.cx/b_xy8Y
A short 🧵👇

Party system types and the decline of systemness in Western Europe: are party system classifications still useful? | Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica | Cambridge...

Party system types and the decline of systemness in Western Europe: are party system classifications still useful?

lc.cx

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Sep 3

158. AP-GfK, 2009: "If you had to choose, would you prefer to attend a wedding that served champagne and caviar, wine and chicken breasts, or beer and pigs in a blanket?"

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 27d

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

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The British Election Study @britishelectionstudy.com · Sep 12

BES Research Fellow @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social has spoken with The Economist about our Parliamentary Affairs paper on how British voters are volatile, but their choices are now structured by party blocs after the Brexit realignment.

Read here: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

The new battle for Britain

Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps

www.economist.com

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Eva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · Sep 12

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Ben @benpageresearch.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sir Robert Worcester, legendary pollster and founder of MORI (now Ipsos UK) has died at 91. He taught so many people so much about the value and importance of opinion polls in modern democracies - everyone in our industry and politics owes him a debt of gratitude.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Either have to accept co-payment as a built in part, raise broadbased taxes or both. Frankly at this point I no longer have opinions on what the best way to fund healthcare in the UK is, I just want someone to advance one of those three real-world options.

Sky News @news.sky.com · Sep 4

Revealed: Huge shortfall in NHS funding for weight-loss jab

So little money has been set aside by the NHS for the rollout of the Mounjaro weight-loss jab in GP surgeries that as few as one in five people with life-threatening obesity is likely to get treatment, new research shows.

news.sky.com

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

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

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Scottish Election Study @scotvoting.bsky.social · Sep 3

New blog on indyref mandate 🗳️

By our PI @ailsahenderson.bsky.social, this blog investigates attitudes to #indyref2 timing and whether there is a middle ground on the "mandate" question 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Particularly relevant given the FM has set out @snp.org's stall

scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/09/03/i...

Is there a constitutional middle ground in Scotland? Attitudes to indyref mandates

Constitutional preferences (Yes or No to independence) in Scotland invoke polarisation far more than they do consensus. Identifying a middle ground on preferences might be difficult, but more than a d...

scottishelections.ac.uk

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The British Election Study @britishelectionstudy.com · Sep 3

🚨New Research 🚨

Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE.

Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters.

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tinyurl.com/3m62exph

Looking for Labour’s lost voters - The British Election Study

www.britishelectionstudy.com

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · Sep 3

Anyone else on here ever felt a sense of despondency, even despair, at the values and priorities of 52% of fellow citizens?

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · Sep 2

I didn't have the time to seek out and tag in every author included above, which makes me feel pretty ungrateful given how helpful they've been to me and hopefully now to @niceonecombo.bsky.social.

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · Sep 2

And this piece highlights the 'moving target' nature of the problem.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bots and baddies: supporting the integrity of online survey research in the face of a growing challenge - Quality & Quantity

Numerous online surveys are impacted by bot and fraudulent data and the techniques employed are becoming increasingly sophisticated. However, many researchers are unaware of this growing challenge and...

link.springer.com

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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · Sep 2

At least if bots are helping out as interviewers, it'll distract them from doing our surveys as respondents -- the biggest threat to the field and something unavoidable in teaching methods these days. A superb blog by @laurenleek.eu sets out the mess we're in: laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

The quiet collapse of surveys: fewer humans (and more AI agents) are answering survey questions

I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.

laurenleek.substack.com

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