Florian Foos
florianfoos.bsky.social
Florian Foos
@florianfoos.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
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🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science

⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026

🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out

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🚨 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/...
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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✖️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
December 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Our 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 - https://cup.org/49auQPf

- @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Not 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...
December 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Why 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)
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🚨 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

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May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🇪🇺🇩🇪 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
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I 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.
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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📣📣📣 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
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🎧 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
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December 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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.
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Can 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.
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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🚨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)
Could you please repeat it? The effect of language, and language variety on trust in multinational settings
Does the language or dialect used in political messages affect people’s trust? While previous research has considered the question, little is known ab…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Over 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.

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December 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🚨 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 ‼️
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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/...
Research Officer
Research Officer, , <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</s...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🚨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/...
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Had 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:
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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📢 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
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LSE - Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop
We invite submissions for the LSE Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop. This workshop is designed to support the development of early-career scholars’ research, including PhD,...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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What the heck. Why is NL so low (and declining) with so much effort on national statistics? Any idea @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social?
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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📢 📢 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
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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❄️ 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! 🧵👇
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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💡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...
The Greens, Your Party and Labour’s left challenge | British Politics and Policy at LSE
With the creation of Your Party and the Green's soaring popularity, Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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‼️ 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...

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December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM