Chris Prosser
Political scientist | Co-director British Election Study | Election number crunching for ITV | Trustee McDougall Trust
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- An 'archaic' procedure such as one of the central planks of the British constitution, which establishes the supremacy of the Commons over the Lords...
- I bet the author is a British person living in Australia, because my petty gripe is that in Australia you can get a flat white in many sizes (and could 20 years ago when I started drinking coffee there) whereas in Britain people insist it can only be one size. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- 'Immediate reject' is a new peer review option to me... does it mean 'wow this is bad, don't even read my report just hit the reject button'?!?
- Procrastinating from writing something by analysing the number of peer reviews I do. Not sure if my new website made me more visible, or getting something into APSR made me look like a serious person, but 2025 was apparently the year journal editors remembered who I was again.
- The main thing I'm taking away from this is that more of you should listen to Olivia Chaney, so if you like indie folk, give her a listen!
- Lately, I have been reading lots of early 20th century literature; now I want to use semi-colons in everything I write; I feel sad they have fallen into disuse.
- Adversarial Poetry sounds like a great research genre. Would definitely read studies of the effect of adversarial poetry on political persuasion, adversarial poetry and affective polarisation, adversarial poetry and misinformation. So many possibilities 😆
- Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
- Never mind twitter and chat gpt, the cloudflare outage seems to have taken down doi.org!
- Not at all relevant to the actual discussion about this, but I remember being really impressed by the Boix paper when I read it as a grad student, whereas now every time I see it I can't get past the fact that in the 1990s you could get an N=22 OLS into the APSR.
- Well with this news I'm almost certainly never going to get round to doing a proper version of the 'there's no relationship between change in crime and PCC voting' paper that's been on the back burner for nine years...
- Currently in the early stages of a global 'please remove me from this mailing list' reply-all catastrophe 😱
- I mention the Hall, Ariss and Todorov study of basketball betting (more information -> worse performance) in the slides for one of my pol psych lectures, and now the powerpoint designer wants to illustrate the slide with some basketballs, which certainly creates an interesting juxtaposition... 😂
- I fell down a typographical rabbit hole last week and made my own R Markdown template. Quite pleased with how it looks, so take a look, and if you like it too, feel free to use it! Package here: github.com/drcaprosser/... Full explanation/example here: github.com/drcaprosser/...
- Does it though...
- Nothing says 'boost productivity' like policies designed to make people more tired and hungover. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- This is great - had always wondered if the telephone call thing was *actually* how they found out they'd won. In the unlikely event that I won a Nobel prize I'd probably see an unknown international number, assume it was scam, and block it.
- Judging by the number of review request I've had lately, I see you all had a more productive summer than I did 😐
- A conclusion reached by a well justified causal research design no doubt, and not just seeing there's a correlation and asserting the causality runs in one direction... 🤔
- Reposted by Chris Prosser🚨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...
- Just spotted this excellently ironic typo in the acknowledgements of a paper I was reading 😂
