Sarah Ledoux

Delighted to see this paper out in doi print 🎉 In it, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the concept of 'electoral personalism' through the case of Milei in Argentina and identify 3 key elements: self-promotion, ideological rhetoric and moral appeals 👇

Incredible work by @mattsmithetc at @YouGov summing up the most heard news stories of 2025! Check out the whole story here yougov.co.uk/politics/artic… "Cool" only begins to describe how it feels to see outputs from the AI topic quantifier after I developed it at YouGov last year ♥️

How do public perceptions of government spending match with reality? A YouGov experiment put a series of govt spending areas as head to head match-ups and asked Britons to say which they thought more was spent on The resulting public ranking most overstates debt interest, public order, and overseas aid spending, and most understates pensioner, education and transport spending Debt interest: No 1 in implied public ranking (↑4 vs actual spending ranking) NHS: 2 (↓1) Working age benefits: 3 (↓1) Public order/safety: 4 (↑3) Defence: 5 (↑1) Pensioners: 6 (↓3) Education: 7 (↓3) Social care: 8 (↑1) Overseas aid: 9 (↑2) Housing: 10 (=) Transport: 11 (↓3) Results link in replies

💥Upcoming event! 💥 "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT Join us in our discussion w @rgorwa to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content Sign up 👉tickettailor.com/events/technol…

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs 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. royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftpqy…

@CasAndreu @UKRI_News Congrats! This looks super exciting 🎉

🚨Very honored to receive the Future Leaders Fellowship from @UKRI_News ! I’ll use this 2.3 million £ investment to create the London Social Media Observatory, to conduct cutting-edge research on social media and politics, and develop novel computational tools for social research

@CasAndreu Thanks Andreu! 🙏

@SarahLedx Congrats on both fronts! Amazing job, looking forward to what you do next!

𝒟𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉... 🥁 1- Delighted to share I’ve passed my Viva at the University of Manchester! 🥂 2- I’ve just joined the University of Vienna as a Post-Doc in Computational Social Science to research *Representation* 💡 More info👇

@CKWeatherill Thanks Charlotte!

@SarahLedx Lovely news Sarah, congratulations!

@frasmcm Thanks Fraser!

@SarahLedx slaaaay congrats Sarah!! 🎉

2- In Vienna, I am integrating the MULTIREP team, led by Christopher Wratil. Here, I’ll be analysing representatives’ speech patterns to expand our understanding of *dimensions* of representation (wratil.eu/multirep). Very much looking forward to sharing what we find! 🌟

1- Thank you to the brilliant @CasAndreu and @rchlgibson4 for the engaging discussion (time flew by), along with your insight and advice. A huge thanks 🙏 also go to my supervisors, @MartaCuanti and @RosieShorrocks, for all the support and fantastic guidance

🚨 New paper in @ScienceAdvances Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? @THeideJorgensen, @a_rasmussen, and I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments. Thread 🧵1/n

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

🚨 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

🔊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

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…

Excellent insight from @WhoTargetsMe 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…

🚨 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 @zfurnas 1/n

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 🌎