Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

Sarah Ledoux

@sarahledoux.bsky.social

410 followers 390 following 21 posts

Postdoc in CSS @univie.ac.at‬ researching representation. Interested in legislator & voter behaviour, technology & politics. Comms Officer @techpolicy.bsky.social I occasionally do sportives 🏊🚵🏃

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social · 17d

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

www.royalholloway.ac.uk

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 23d

🔥 Our September newsletter is out! 🔥 it includes

⚠️ Reminder for our Jan Conference on Digital Democracy w @psampg.bsky.social
📆 Upcoming Engagement Event with Ofcom
🇪🇺 Caveats in DSA researcher access
📝 Member News & Research
🎓 Opportunities/Grants
💼 & Jobs!

#Commsky

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The TIP Newsletter: MPGxTIP conference CfP, Ofcom event, DSA & EU researchers, your news, and more.

In this newsletter, we remind you of our MPGxTIP conference CfP (deadline soon!), share some details on an exciting event we've got brewing, and discuss the launch of the DSA for politics research.

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

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...

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks Steph!! 🙏

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks Matthew! :)

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks Alex! 🙏

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks Brian!!

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks so much Stuart!

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 15

2- In Vienna, I am integrating the MULTIREP team, led by @chriswratil.bsky.social. In this role, I’ll be analysing representatives’ speech patterns to expand our understanding of *dimensions* of representation (wratil.eu/multirep). Very much looking forward to sharing what we find! 🌟

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 15

1- Thank you to the brilliant @andreucasas.bsky.social and Rachel Gibson for the engaging discussion (time flew by), along with your insight and advice. A huge thanks 🙏 also go to my supervisors, @mcuanti.bsky.social and @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social, for all the support and fantastic guidance

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Aug 15

𝒟𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉... 🥁

1- Delighted to share I’ve passed my Viva at the University of Manchester! 🥂

2- I’ve just joined the University of Vienna as a Post-Doc in Computational Social Science to research *Representation* 💡

More info👇

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!

🧵:

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · Jul 14

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"

Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🧵👇

Article abstract, which says:

The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is happening today! 📆 We're very much looking forward to welcoming such an excellent panel of experts 🎓 to discuss current developments in digital regulation in the EU and UK

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 Just one week to go! 🚨
Our Roundtable on "Digital Sovereignty in the EU and UK" is on next Weds 25 June 2-3pm - It's looking to be a fascinating discussion! Sign up to get the link 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Jun 2

Coming up on 25 June 2-3pm BST, we have our @techpolicy.bsky.social roundtable on 'Digital Sovereignty in the EU and UK' Tickets now live!

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST
We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy
👇 Sign up link in comments👇

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Alex Hartland @alexhartland.bsky.social · May 26

🛎️ New Publication 🛎️

How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections?

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections

tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m

🧵

The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign

International crises and Euroscepticism have made European issues prominent in citizens’ lives. This article studies the role of three key European issues – migration, the environment, and EU integ...

www.tandfonline.com

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Chris Butler @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social · May 19

Did you know about the hidden way that parties in the UK receive political donations? @politicalquarterly.bsky.social have just published @markpackuk.bsky.social & mine's research into donations made directly to candidates at election time. Details of these donors are not publicly published....

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Javier Bardón 🤸 @javierbardon.com · May 14

No te vas, Pepe. Todo está guardado en la memoria. 👇🖤

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Kenn Rushworth @kennrushworth.bsky.social · May 12

UK has a comparatively difficult registration process.

Our comparative analysis of registration difficulty in 62 countries is timely as Labour consider introducing automatic voter registration.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Britain has one of most difficult voter registration processes, report finds

UK system makes it a ‘real outlier’ among liberal democracies, according to study examining 62 countries

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Apr 25

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅

Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers.

And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · May 5

Excellent insight from @whotargets.me on UK party spending on Meta ads during the recent local elections, it's pretty clear when the penny dropped for Labour 💷
🔗 link to full graph: trends.whotargets.me/dashboard/co...

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Marta Miori @martamiori.bsky.social · May 5

Tried to take stock (with the amazing @profjanegreen.bsky.social) of what we do & don't know about what these local results mean for Reform, and the challenges the party would still face in a general election

These challenges have implications for the Cons., but also Labour defending their seats...

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · May 5

New post just out

A fascinating guest post from @profjanegreen.bsky.social and @martamiori.bsky.social looking at Reform's performance last week.

Are we seeing an end to two-party politics or its reinvention?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

The Reform Revolution

And end to two-party politics or its reinvention?

open.substack.com

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Apr 13

Are you a researcher or journalist looking for the latest example of deepfakes in the wild? Bookmark our Deepfakes Tracker Dashboard, a database that tracks fact-checks involving deepfakes and manipulated or out-of-context media and narratives. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/f8...

Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social · Apr 13

Excited to chair some of our @techpolicy.bsky.social panels tomorrow at #PSA25 ! Swing by and say hi if you're around 👋

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · Apr 11

Next week is #PSA25, and we're very excited to be hosting 5️⃣ panels across the conference!

Check out the thread below for what you should be adding to your schedules! 🧵

And tag us in all your photos and posts so we can share them! (yes, even the travel selfies!)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Reposted by Sarah Ledoux

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · Mar 31

🗞️ Our March newsletter is out! 🗞️
Get the latest updates & exclusive insights:
🗒️ TIP AGM in July + Committee vacancies (get involved!)
✍️ Write a blog, snag a £50 gift voucher! 💷
🎩 TIP panels #PSA25 big ideas, sharp debates and hats!
✅ Stay informed w our top Tech News bytes
🚀 Jobs & Opportunities!