Planning to design and analyse a survey despite not having taken a class like mine below on Designing & Analysing Surveys? You’re the social science equivalent of those people who need rescuing by helicopter from Snowdon having gone up in flip flops with only a light sweater and a bag of Maltesers.
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
"The degree did not fully insulate [graduates] from a bad jobs market. It reduced their exposure by about a third — which is remarkable, and the key lesson to hold on to in this discussion. A degree is often worth most when the market is worst: it helps you most exactly when you need it most."
The key takeaway: accommodating the radical right raised the salience of immigration and shifted perceptions of Labour's position, but had *no* positive effect on its electoral standing.
Is it the phones?
New NBER WP this morning with Zeke Hooper: we estimate the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in US births from 2007–2011. #econsky🧵
www.nber.org/papers/w35310
🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language?
New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot
Jobs!
Rob Johns
No such thing as the graveyard slot at @epssnet.bsky.social -- relentlessly high quality from start to finish -- so do come along to our panel at 3.20 on Saturday. It's all about attitudes to minority groups. (Well, our paper isn't really, but it is pivotal to the survival of liberal democracy.)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
How does the level of sophistication in political messages affect citizens? While
research has examined how politicians use this element to distinguish themselves,
little is known about how it resonat...
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
One week until @epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026! We have 12 colleagues attending and sharing new work in areas including democratic innovations, class, urban/rural divides, gender, political behaviour, redistribution and spending, and more. We're also a friendly and social bunch, so come and say hi!
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Aaron Rupar
Politics at Southampton
Check out the sequence of courses for survey research at @essexsummerschool.bsky.social, from questionnaire design and measurement to survey experiments and advanced scaling methods.
More information ➡️ essexsummerschool.com/course/ess-2... and individual descriptions in the comments to the post ⬇️
MORE JOBS! The Dept of Politics is looking to recruit up to SEVEN new lecturers, with five as T&S and two as T&R. Any field is great, but we have gaps in British Politics, Theory, Public Pol, Comparative. The ad for the T&S can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... @livunipol.bsky.social
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
Apply now for the Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
