Sarah Ledoux

🚨 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. ⬇️

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...

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

🚨 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 Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

🚨 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...

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

📢 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!

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

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

👨‍💻 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

🧵 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 ♥️

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

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)

📣 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: 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

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/...

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

💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation"
🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT

Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content

Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...

Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.

Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.

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 😄

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment

🆕 What kind of personalities are drawn to politics? 🗳️
This cross-national study across 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱🇳🇱🇨🇭 explores #Representation and how honesty-humility and other HEXACO personality traits shape people’s ambition to run for office 🧵1/2

buff.ly/xk4qMa3

🚨 The MULTIREP team is hiring! Please share with MAs based in Vienna with a keen interest in pol behaviour and survey experiments 🙏

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

🚨 Deadline today! 🚨

Join us on 19 Nov at our OfcomxTIP in-person workshop on 'Future Directions of Academic Research in Online Safety, Tech & Policy' in London.

Don't miss out on this unique opportunity for networking and future collaborations!

Link w info 🔗 ofcom.eventogy.com/c/technology...

🚨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...

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.

🔥 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

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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...

Thanks Steph!! 🙏

Thanks Matthew! :)

Thanks Alex! 🙏