Conor Gaughan
@conorgaughan.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate | University of Manchester | Digital Research and Quantitative Politics | PhD from University of Southampton | #PUSB
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🚨Happy to share that my first academic paper has been published by @bjpols.bsky.social!
Using work from my PhD thesis, this research provides estimates of left/right position of UK MPs (2019-2024) using their Twitter/X follower networks.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…
Using work from my PhD thesis, this research provides estimates of left/right position of UK MPs (2019-2024) using their Twitter/X follower networks.
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…
🚨There's a really cool funded PhD opportunity at the University of Manchester to work on measuring political rhetoric and influence on social media!
If anyone knows of any students in social and/or computer science who might be interested:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If anyone knows of any students in social and/or computer science who might be interested:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Conceptualising and Measuring Political Rhetoric and Influence on Social Media at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Conceptualising and Measuring Political Rhetoric and Influence on Social Media at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🚨There's a really cool funded PhD opportunity at the University of Manchester to work on measuring political rhetoric and influence on social media!
If anyone knows of any students in social and/or computer science who might be interested:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If anyone knows of any students in social and/or computer science who might be interested:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Today I’m excited to launch Nation, State and Politics - a Substack exploring the powerful role that ideas of nations and nationhood play in shaping the political forces swirling around us today nationstateandpolitics.substack.com/p/nation-sta...
Nation, State and Politics - An Introduction
Progressive politics cannot afford to ignore the importance of nation, nationhood and state.
nationstateandpolitics.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today I’m excited to launch Nation, State and Politics - a Substack exploring the powerful role that ideas of nations and nationhood play in shaping the political forces swirling around us today nationstateandpolitics.substack.com/p/nation-sta...
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My story revealing that MP Rupert Lowe has been paid £40k from posting on X is in Playbook PM
Graph below shows how Lowe has massively overtaken the Reform MPs with his X earnings throughout this year
Graph below shows how Lowe has massively overtaken the Reform MPs with his X earnings throughout this year
September 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My story revealing that MP Rupert Lowe has been paid £40k from posting on X is in Playbook PM
Graph below shows how Lowe has massively overtaken the Reform MPs with his X earnings throughout this year
Graph below shows how Lowe has massively overtaken the Reform MPs with his X earnings throughout this year
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Here's a slightly crazy diagram illustrating today's major Cabinet reshuffle
You're welcome
You're welcome
September 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Here's a slightly crazy diagram illustrating today's major Cabinet reshuffle
You're welcome
You're welcome
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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...
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...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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...
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...
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Latest @thehousemag.bsky.social piece - on how to rank MPs, inc one of my fave academic studies, which put Diane Abbott to the right of Giles Radice.
Also includes Rush reference.
Also includes Rush reference.
The Professor Will See You Now: Ranking MPs' politics
Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House’s readers. This week: ranking the politics of MPs
www.politicshome.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Latest @thehousemag.bsky.social piece - on how to rank MPs, inc one of my fave academic studies, which put Diane Abbott to the right of Giles Radice.
Also includes Rush reference.
Also includes Rush reference.
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Any great PhD or postdoctoral researchers out there who fulfil the attached criteria and who are interested in:
1) Formal logical models of electoral systems
2) Multilevel regression + poststratification
3) Digitising comparative elections data
Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!
1) Formal logical models of electoral systems
2) Multilevel regression + poststratification
3) Digitising comparative elections data
Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!
April 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Any great PhD or postdoctoral researchers out there who fulfil the attached criteria and who are interested in:
1) Formal logical models of electoral systems
2) Multilevel regression + poststratification
3) Digitising comparative elections data
Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!
1) Formal logical models of electoral systems
2) Multilevel regression + poststratification
3) Digitising comparative elections data
Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!
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Mega presence for @sotonpolitics.bsky.social at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social! #PSA25
@dbonansinga.bsky.social and @profannikawerner.bsky.social on populism
@rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic resilience
@elizabethjevans.bsky.social on feminism
Myself on urban-rural divides in trust
(1/2)
@dbonansinga.bsky.social and @profannikawerner.bsky.social on populism
@rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic resilience
@elizabethjevans.bsky.social on feminism
Myself on urban-rural divides in trust
(1/2)
April 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Mega presence for @sotonpolitics.bsky.social at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social! #PSA25
@dbonansinga.bsky.social and @profannikawerner.bsky.social on populism
@rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic resilience
@elizabethjevans.bsky.social on feminism
Myself on urban-rural divides in trust
(1/2)
@dbonansinga.bsky.social and @profannikawerner.bsky.social on populism
@rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic resilience
@elizabethjevans.bsky.social on feminism
Myself on urban-rural divides in trust
(1/2)
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Just a couple more days left to apply for this one day PhD/ECR event in Manchester next month - travel and accommodation covered!
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢
🚨 Just over a week left to apply for this amazing opportunity with UKICE's @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @uniofmanchester.bsky.social 👇
🚨 Just over a week left to apply for this amazing opportunity with UKICE's @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @uniofmanchester.bsky.social 👇
March 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Just a couple more days left to apply for this one day PhD/ECR event in Manchester next month - travel and accommodation covered!
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📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣
Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes?
@elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!
Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes?
@elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!
March 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣
Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes?
@elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!
Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes?
@elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!
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Join Dr Alexandru Cernat & Dr @conorgaughan.bsky.social sky.social for a session on Open Data & digital footprints.
Learn about anonymizing and linking digital data to surveys, the DIGSURV project, and an online MSc in Data Analytics and Social Statistics.
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Learn about anonymizing and linking digital data to surveys, the DIGSURV project, and an online MSc in Data Analytics and Social Statistics.
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
March 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Join Dr Alexandru Cernat & Dr @conorgaughan.bsky.social sky.social for a session on Open Data & digital footprints.
Learn about anonymizing and linking digital data to surveys, the DIGSURV project, and an online MSc in Data Analytics and Social Statistics.
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Learn about anonymizing and linking digital data to surveys, the DIGSURV project, and an online MSc in Data Analytics and Social Statistics.
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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You can also see a short summary & discussion of our @psrm.bsky.social paper @bbcmaryam.bsky.social’s excellent The World Today show from Monday 🦸♀️
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
March 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
You can also see a short summary & discussion of our @psrm.bsky.social paper @bbcmaryam.bsky.social’s excellent The World Today show from Monday 🦸♀️
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
Join us for our 2025 Annual Conference hosted by @gain-centre.bsky.social
📅 17-18 June 2025
📍 Southampton
💡 Theme: Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century
Submit abstracts by Friday 11 April. Full details: tinyurl.com/ycyusm2v
#polisky #gendersky
Join us for our 2025 Annual Conference hosted by @gain-centre.bsky.social
📅 17-18 June 2025
📍 Southampton
💡 Theme: Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century
Submit abstracts by Friday 11 April. Full details: tinyurl.com/ycyusm2v
#polisky #gendersky
Call for Papers: Women & Politics Annual Conference
Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century PSA Women and Politics Conference, June 17th/18th 2025 Hosted by the Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at the University of Southamp…
tinyurl.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.
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UK’s poorest households now worse off than poorest households in Slovenia
Analysis shows if wage growth continued in line with the pre-2008 trend, the average worker in the UK would be earning £12,000 more per year today, Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
Analysis shows if wage growth continued in line with the pre-2008 trend, the average worker in the UK would be earning £12,000 more per year today, Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
March 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
UK’s poorest households now worse off than poorest households in Slovenia
Analysis shows if wage growth continued in line with the pre-2008 trend, the average worker in the UK would be earning £12,000 more per year today, Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
Analysis shows if wage growth continued in line with the pre-2008 trend, the average worker in the UK would be earning £12,000 more per year today, Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
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Just over two weeks to go to apply for this exciting PhD and ECR event here in Manchester at the end of April - with funding to cover travel and accommodation. Get your abstracts in now! Get the word out to your colleagues and PhD students!
🤩 Amazing opportunity with @officialuom.bsky.social and UKICE's @robfordmancs.bsky.social 👇
March 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Just over two weeks to go to apply for this exciting PhD and ECR event here in Manchester at the end of April - with funding to cover travel and accommodation. Get your abstracts in now! Get the word out to your colleagues and PhD students!
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Helpful NYT article showing 30 exclusion restriction violations for studies claiming covid is an instrument for their preferred x variable
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Helpful NYT article showing 30 exclusion restriction violations for studies claiming covid is an instrument for their preferred x variable
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html
Still a real lack of right-wing presence among UK politicians so far, but overall is looking good 🇬🇧🦋
For everyone nerdy enough to care, this is @politicshome.bsky.social’s latest estimate of the percentage of each party’s MPs who have accounts on Bluesky
Shows clearly what we know already - in terms of MP presence, Bluesky is massively tilted towards the left
Shows clearly what we know already - in terms of MP presence, Bluesky is massively tilted towards the left
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Still a real lack of right-wing presence among UK politicians so far, but overall is looking good 🇬🇧🦋
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The majority of Labour, Lib Dem and Green MPs are now on Bluesky
And many of these MPs appear to be regularly posting on this platform
And many of these MPs appear to be regularly posting on this platform
🚨 NEW 🚨 Updated list of all the UK MPs on Bluesky 👇
Labour – 248
Liberal Democrats – 40
Conservative – 4
Green – 4
Independent – 3
SNP – 2
Alliance, Plaid Cymru, SDLP – 1 each
And Commons Speaker @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
Labour – 248
Liberal Democrats – 40
Conservative – 4
Green – 4
Independent – 3
SNP – 2
Alliance, Plaid Cymru, SDLP – 1 each
And Commons Speaker @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
February 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The majority of Labour, Lib Dem and Green MPs are now on Bluesky
And many of these MPs appear to be regularly posting on this platform
And many of these MPs appear to be regularly posting on this platform
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Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Happy to share that my paper (w/ James Tilley) is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
We show that expenses misconduct by British MPs was not associated with political distrust among their constituents.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
We show that expenses misconduct by British MPs was not associated with political distrust among their constituents.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -
Misconduct by Voters' Own Representatives Does Not Affect Voters' Generalized Political Trust - cup.org/40ZhYsp
- Edmund Kelly & James Tilley
Misconduct by Voters' Own Representatives Does Not Affect Voters' Generalized Political Trust - cup.org/40ZhYsp
- Edmund Kelly & James Tilley
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy to share that my paper (w/ James Tilley) is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
We show that expenses misconduct by British MPs was not associated with political distrust among their constituents.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
We show that expenses misconduct by British MPs was not associated with political distrust among their constituents.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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I'm assisting @robfordmancs.bsky.social in organising this ECR event for UK in a Changing Europe.
Get your papers in, come to Manchester, enjoy the rain, have a drink, go home, tell your mates how good it was.
Get your papers in, come to Manchester, enjoy the rain, have a drink, go home, tell your mates how good it was.
January 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm assisting @robfordmancs.bsky.social in organising this ECR event for UK in a Changing Europe.
Get your papers in, come to Manchester, enjoy the rain, have a drink, go home, tell your mates how good it was.
Get your papers in, come to Manchester, enjoy the rain, have a drink, go home, tell your mates how good it was.
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Another great paper from @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in BJPOLS.
This is from one of our great PhD candidates
This is from one of our great PhD candidates
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -
Estimating Ideal Points of British MPs Through Their Social Media Followership - cup.org/3Cekdyr
- @conorgaughan.bsky.social
Estimating Ideal Points of British MPs Through Their Social Media Followership - cup.org/3Cekdyr
- @conorgaughan.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Another great paper from @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in BJPOLS.
This is from one of our great PhD candidates
This is from one of our great PhD candidates
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First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Tools of the Trade – When Are Software Tools Mentioned in Computational Text Analysis Research? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
The use of computational methods for text analysis has been rapidly gaining a foothold in computational social science.
Yet, little is known about the reporting practices of the software tools utilise...
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Check it out if you haven't already! 👇🏻🚨👇🏻
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -
Estimating Ideal Points of British MPs Through Their Social Media Followership - cup.org/3Cekdyr
- @conorgaughan.bsky.social
Estimating Ideal Points of British MPs Through Their Social Media Followership - cup.org/3Cekdyr
- @conorgaughan.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Check it out if you haven't already! 👇🏻🚨👇🏻
Really cool work by @chanret.bsky.social and @vlazarov.bsky.social!
Speaking of left-right positions of UK MPs, it turns out that their social media followership is also an extremely effective way of generating ideology estimates too 👇👀👇
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Speaking of left-right positions of UK MPs, it turns out that their social media followership is also an extremely effective way of generating ideology estimates too 👇👀👇
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
January 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Really cool work by @chanret.bsky.social and @vlazarov.bsky.social!
Speaking of left-right positions of UK MPs, it turns out that their social media followership is also an extremely effective way of generating ideology estimates too 👇👀👇
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Speaking of left-right positions of UK MPs, it turns out that their social media followership is also an extremely effective way of generating ideology estimates too 👇👀👇
doi.org/10.1017/S000...