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Looking for non-english training data for your NLP or ML projects? Check out “Multilanguage Word Embeddings for Social Scientists: Estimation, Inference, and Validation Resources for 157 Languages” by Elisa Wirsching, Pedro L. Rodríguez, Arthur Spirling, and Brandon Stewart.

Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender? Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world! A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a download link:

Today More in Common releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.

🚨EPIR THESIS PRIZE 2025 Nominations are OPEN for BISAWG Emotions in Politics and IR + Brill Social Sciences ➡️ Facebook Thesis Prize 2025 to be awarded for the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR. Send the thesis with a short biography (150 words) and a CV to [email protected] Deadline: 28 March

Out in Nature Human Behaviour 🔥 Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32).

While ideology predicts the type of content you engage with (as in, you like and share stuff you agree with); the association with what you pay attention to is far far weaker:

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

Excited to be chairing some of PSA Technology, Internet, and Policy (TIP)'s panels at #PSA25 tomorrow - we've got some great papers lined up! If you're about, do come say hi 👋

Why not call it a 'digital pause' like in France? We've got to stop associating tech regulation with 'banning'... france24.com/en/live-news/2…

We're hiring two LSE Fellows❗ 💡 LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/17… 💼 LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/67… Apply before 27 April and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas 1/n

Excellent insight from Who Targets 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/coun…

From Elon Musk's DOGE to the UK's AI Action Plan, states are adopting AI as key tool of governance But what happens when states see their populations through AI? How is AI changing the nature of the state? Our new OA paper sets out a research agenda journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

🔊When Tech Meets Governance💡In this series, I’ll be sharing selected highlights from my published research on how technology shapes — and is shaped by — governance. I am hoping to connect with researchers studying in this field. #TechAndGovernance #Digital #AcademicLife

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

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

🚨 New paper in Science Advances Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? Tobias Heide-Jørgensen, Anne Rasmussen - @annerasmussen.bsky.social, and I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments. Thread 🧵1/n