Florian Foos
Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
- Reposted by Florian FoosToday at 4pm GMT: Elisa Wirsching (@lsegovernment.bsky.social) is presenting "The Political Consequences of Police Slowdowns" at our Political Behaviour Seminar, organised together with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom!
- The @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar Series will be back for the '25/26 academic year, as usually on Thursdays, 4-5pm, in CBG 4.17. Let us know if you are external and want to attend in-person, or join remotely on Zoom. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...
- Reposted by Florian FoosThe latest episode, hosted by Sarina Sharma-Welsh in conversation with @miguelpereira.bsky.social, is about how politicians learn what voters want, why elite blind spots persist, and how representation can get distorted. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...
- Reposted by Florian FoosThe third episode features @sarahobolt.bsky.social in a discussion of political entrepreneurs such as Farage and Trump and how they are disrupting traditional party system. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...
- Reposted by Florian FoosThe second episode is with Dr Elisa Wirsching, discussing power struggles between politicians and public servants and explore how everyday decisions — and even elections — can be shaped by the clash between them. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...
- Reposted by Florian FoosThe first episode is a discussion on the effect of campaigns with @florianfoos.bsky.social. They discuss how the relationship between political elites and citizens is evolving, whether persuasion still happens, and how it might happen. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...
- Reposted by Florian FoosWe’re delighted to announce that the Politically In/Sane podcast is now part of POAL! Hosted by Marc Bokobza, the podcast dives into Political Behaviour, exploring how people think, feel, and act politically with insights from prominent experts. Find it here: www.poal.co.uk/events/
- Reposted by Florian FoosAfter a short hiatus, Respect the Marble is back: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin... Introducing a new series The Long Carve: about how to decide which ideas deserves our long-term writing attention, & how we learn to keep writing when the outcome is unknown and uncertain. 🧵
- Reposted by Florian Foos⬇️ Please repost in your networks, thank you! @csmapnyu.org @jatucker.bsky.social @solmg.bsky.social @henryhenryhenry.com @benansell.bsky.social @nachristakis.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @fil.bsky.social
- 🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
- Reposted by Florian FoosI am chairing the Emerging Scholar Award committee for the APSA EPOVB section this year. Send in your submissions (self-nominations welcomed!) with a cv to me and the committee (@wzcmarsh.bsky.social and Holli Semetko) by March 1 for consideration! More info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
- Reposted by Florian Foos#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social - Potential and Pitfalls of Audio as Data for Political Research: Alignment, Features, and Classification Models - cup.org/4t9JG1r - @r-mestre.bsky.social & Matt Ryan #FirstView
- Reposted by Florian FoosPEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...
- Excited about chairing @bogatyrev.bsky.social in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar at 4pm today. Konstantin will present his paper "Shifting Ground". Come along if you are in London, or join us on Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...
- Reposted by Florian FoosExcited to welcome Kenneth F. Greene at the LSE Latin American Politics Seminar series today *12:00 - 1:30 pm UK time* (in-person and online). He will present parts of his new book “Against the Machine: Why Party Competition Disrupts Vote Buying” @lsegovernment.bsky.social
- Reposted by Florian FoosIf someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more? And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways? This new paper ran an experiment to find out.
- Reposted by Florian FoosNew Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
- This is just ridiculous. There is no political space for a party that has the same positions as Reform. This space is taken. There is a space for a centre-right political party in the UK, but it’s currently vacant: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- This sets the party up for abysmal failure. “We are Reform with fever opportunistic careerists” isn’t quite the pitch when many of those opportunistic careerists were in the Conservative Party before.
- If I were Ed Davey and struggling a bit with my own MPs and their expectations, I’d be absolutely delighted.
- Reposted by Florian Foos📢 JOB ALERT! Postdoc opportunity in Political Behaviour & Political Economy (UKRI‑funded) - Please do share with anyone who might be a great fit. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please feel free to get in touch!! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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- Oh what blissful ignorance not checking the news for half a day can entail.
- Reposted by Florian FoosWe’re excited to invite researchers, postdocs, PhD students, and professors to the Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop at LSE, taking place this Friday afternoon (30th January). Full details can be found in the programme below. We would be delighted to see you there!
- RLP, schon wieder? 😂
- RHEINLAND-PFALZ | Sonntagsfrage Landtagswahl Infratest dimap/SWR CDU: 29% SPD: 26% (+3) AfD: 18% (-1) GRÜNE: 10% LINKE: 6% FW: 4% Sonstige: 7% (-2) Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 09. Oktober 2025 Verlauf: whln.eu/UmfragenRLP #ltwrp #ltwrlp
- Geht noch was. Schon geil, wie die CDU einfach jemanden aufstellt, den hier irgendwie niemand kennt.
- Thanks a lot for the useful comments on our paper yesterday. Really enjoyed being back and meeting everyone! Thanks, @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social for a very engaging day across Aldwych.
- This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Florian Foos (@florianfoos.bsky.social, LSE) on "Differential Mobilization and Turnout Inequality". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
- I get the impression that press conference in Downing Street could have been a press release. What's new? Just more of the same balancing act.
- Reposted by Florian FoosHow to analyse audio, text, and video data for more than 15,000h of German parliamentary speech? For our #DFG project, we spent last year building compute infrastructure. Pushing ▶️ on the server soon. First results in summer #PoliticalScience #ComputationalSocialScience #sciencerocks #watchthisspace
- Reposted by Florian Foos🔍 Can you help? Looking for everyday examples of misinformation We’re working on an experimental project on media literacy and civic reasoning with @shoutoutuk.bsky.social and are looking for real-world examples of misinformation to use in a training intervention.
- Reposted by Florian FoosWe’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)
- Reposted by Florian FoosInterested in the intersection between policymaking, especially in the UK, and academic research? Come work with us! The @mileendinstitute.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social is advertising for a new Policy Partnerships Officer. Details and application here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
- To be fair, Badenoch's move against her rival has almost Merklian qualities in its ruthlessness and execution. Maybe she will be around for a little bit longer than everyone here expected.
- Under-appreciated: If this continues and all the worst Tories defect to Reform, maybe there is a small chance, we can have a smaller, but more "normal" Conservative party back? Reverse 2016-19 when many centrist Tories left/were kicked out, wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to British politics.
- There is still a space for a centre-right party in most party systems, even if that space has gotten smaller over the last decade. Too many defections might also make it harder for them to work together after the next election.
- Think of this plan what you want, but with a majority this large, a government needs to get its central element through the Commons: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... What‘s the point of having national digital id if it’s not compulsory?
- Reposted by Florian FoosDelighted to have had the opportunity to discuss challenger parties, political entrepreneurs and populism with Marc Bokobza in the latest episode of the 📻 podcast Politically In/sane 📻 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1pf4...
- Reposted by Florian Foos🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.
- Very good news that the UK and France have jointly committed to deploying ground troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal. In theory, that's what's needed. But isn't there a huge potential problem: France has a Presidential election in May next year ...
- ... and there is a good chance that the President will be Bardella. What would stop him withdrawing French troops given the predominant role that the French President plays in foreign affairs? That would leave the UK alone. That's not even to speak of any UK elections in 3-4 years.
- Surely what is needed would be a force of 4 or 5 countries, so one country leaving for domestic reasons does not destabilise the entire framework. Very poor that the German CDU-SPD coalition couldn't muster the courage to join forces.
- If there is any learning from the US election disaster in 2024 it must surely be that Ukraine cannot, de facto, be dependent on 1 or 2 countries for its survival?
- Reposted by Florian Foos🧵 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
- Reposted by Florian Foos🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science ⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026 🙋♀️ Any questions, please reach out 👇
- 🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Florian Foos✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech? ➡️ @gloriagennaro.bsky.social et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- Reposted by Florian FoosOur 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social
- NEW - Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - cup.org/49auQPf - @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Florian FoosNot exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
- Reposted by Florian FoosWhy do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)
- Reposted by Florian Foos🚨 Excited to share that my job market paper is now online at @thejop.bsky.social! "When Do Citizens Resist the Use of AI Algorithms in Public Policy? Theory and Evidence" shorturl.at/hHoxw 1/6
- Reposted by Florian Foos🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14
- Reposted by Florian FoosI am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.
- 🚨We're #hiring! We're looking for a #Research #Fellow to join our team. The successful candidate will be part of the research project "Political #Finance in #Africa" led by Associate Professor @sarahbrierley.bsky.social for 2 years. 🗓️Apply by Monday 12 January 👇🏽 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Florian Foos📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
- Reposted by Florian Foos🎧 New on Politically In/Sane: Ep.1 - Do campaigns actually change minds? With Dr. Florian Foos (NYC & Dutch elections). @florianfoos.bsky.social (LSE) Ep.2 -Political games inside bureaucracy, with Dr. Elisa Wirsching (LSE). @lsegovernment.bsky.social Listen 👉 linktr.ee/Politically....
- Just went to the uni library for the first time in ... years. I couldn't find the book I wanted to read online. When was the last time you went? Went in looking for 1 book and came back with ... 6. Made me realise I really missed walking through those aisles browsing adjacent books in a collection.
- Reposted by Florian FoosCan Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) extract features of urban neighborhoods from street-view images? New with Paige Bollen (OSU) and @joehigton.bsky.social (NYU): Sometimes, but the models better recover national assessments that local ones, even w/additional prompting (which can make things worse!)
- Currently in FirstView: In “Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception,” Paige Bollen, @joehigton.bsky.social, and @msands.bsky.social test which populations Generative AI is most representative of.
- Reposted by Florian Foos🚨New article🎉 ➡️Could you please repeat it? The effect of language, and language variety on trust in multinational settings @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... co-authored with @bernatpuertas.bsky.social @aflorsmas.bsky.social @nufranco.bsky.social S Morales (1/n)
- Reposted by Florian FoosOver the moon 😍. My paper "Renewing Democracy: How Exposure to Electoral Turnovers Reinforces Citizens’ Democratic Support" is accepted in World Politics. LINK: osf.io/preprints/os.... First paper fully conceived since my second child was born 4 years ago. For those who know, big milestone. 🧵 1/
- Reposted by Florian Foos🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️
- Carl is a fantastic researcher & knowing him well as a colleague, he will be an amazing mentor. Plus those look like very good postdoc positions. Please apply.
- 🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Florian Foos🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Florian FoosHad a great time presenting my findings at @campaign-lab.bsky.social! Key takeaway: AI fact-checking effectively reduces Republican engagement with pro-Trump misinformation on social media. You can read more about last week's presentation and discussion in this blog post:
- Isolde Hegemann at LSE recently delivered our tenth Academic Series on using AI to fight misinformation Her research compared different attempts to label false posts on social media and found that the strongest effect was produced by AI fact checking 🔗 campaignlab.uk/project/camp...
- Reposted by Florian Foos📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...
- Reposted by Florian FoosWhat the heck. Why is NL so low (and declining) with so much effort on national statistics? Any idea @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social?
- The statistical performance indicators data from the World Bank for 2024 has been released today, and I've been working on a little interactive explainer 📊 Check it out here: nrennie.rbind.io/statistical-... #DataViz #ggplot2
- Reposted by Florian Foos📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT
- Reposted by Florian Foos❄️ December is here, so it's a good time to plan methods training for 2026! I’ve been asked about methods schools recently, so here’s a non-authoritative list. I did my PhD in Europe, and focus on quantitative political science, so this is inevitably biased and may be outdated. Additions welcome! 🧵👇
- Reposted by Florian Foos💡New! With the creation of Your Party and the Greens’ soaring popularity, @lauraserra.bsky.social and Jenevieve Treadwell trace the movement of voters to the left, and argue that Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
- Reposted by Florian Foos‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.
- 🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵
- If you don’t like what you are seeing in the US, unfortunately, my fear has been for a long time that the leaders of UK institutions, and that includes universities, will fold more quickly when the pressure rises. This confirms those expectations. Let’s don’t let them.
- 🚨 Please send in your application by 10 December to be considered for this ESRC studentship in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. Both home and international students are eligible for funding. Some advice on how to apply below 👇
- 🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
- 1) Please indicate as part of your personal statement that you'd like to be considered for the collaborative studentship and why you'd be a good fit. 2) If possible, it would be great if your research proposal would fit within the broad remit of the studentship.
- 3) If you apply by the 10 December deadline you'll also be automatically considered for the "standard" MRes/PhD programme and the other studentships available to MRes/PhD applicants.
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View full threadOr you can also get in touch with some of our current PhD students who work on related questions (and are on BlueSky) @lenmetson.com @isoldehegemann.bsky.social @antonkoenneke.de @benghix.bsky.social
- Reposted by Florian FoosNot a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
- Reposted by Florian FoosToday at 4pm London/UK time: Dominik Hangartner (@ethz.ch) presents at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar, organised together with @sarahobolt.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom!
- The @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar Series will be back for the '25/26 academic year, as usually on Thursdays, 4-5pm, in CBG 4.17. Let us know if you are external and want to attend in-person, or join remotely on Zoom. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...
- Reposted by Florian FoosI think this is probably good news for the sector since for most international masters courses at least this will be substantially less than the six percent that was advertised.
- International student fee levy details confirmed in Budget document: flat fee charged on institutions "of £925 per student per year of study, starting in August 2028 academic year 2028-29". No charge for first 220 students per year. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6926eb...
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