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The recordings of our virtual graduate open day are now available. For all MSc programmes in @lsegovernment.bsky.social and for the MSc Political Theory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=My__...
LSE Virtual Graduate Open Events - Master's study in Government at LSE
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November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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

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November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨 We're hiring!

The LSE Department of Government is searching for a new #Assistant #Professor in #Political #Science.

Could it be you? 👀

🗓️ Closing date: 4 January 2026

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Assistant Professor in Political Science
Assistant Professor in Political Science, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-ali...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚨 New article alert!

Congratulations to our LSE Fellow, Dr @bogatyrev.bsky.social and his co-authors for the publication of their latest article, 'The Electoral Effects of State-Sponsored Anti-LGBTQ Measures' in @thejop.bsky.social.

Read the article 👇🏽

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The Electoral Effects of State-Sponsored Anti-LGBTQ Measures | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨 New article alert!

Congratulations to Jan H Wasserziehr on the publication of his new article, 'Don't blame AI for its mistakes' for the Institute of Arts and Ideas.

The piece discusses the trend to anthropomorphise artificial systems.

Read the article 👇🏽
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Don't blame AI for its mistakes
<p><em>As AI systems are increasingly used to inform major decisions, from AI ministers to the Swedish prime minister admitting to using it for a second opinion, some public figures have begun to impl...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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NEW✨ For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people

#UKDHM #DisabilityHistoryMonth 👇📚
Eight books to read for UK Disability History Month - LSE Review of Books
For UK Disability History Month the LSE community recommends eight books about disability & neurodiversity and the experiences of disabled & neurodiverse people
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November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Congratulations to Moses Siregar who received the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia (SEAC) Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for exceptional postgraduate research on Southeast Asia and the MSc Political Science (Political Behaviour) Dissertation Prize for the highest mark.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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📢 Upcoming event | “The politics of hunger in Sudan” with @nisrinelamin.bsky.social. We'll look at how war, foreign investment & extractivism are deepening famine in a country rich in resources.

🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online

#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com, whose book #Citizen #Marx has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize which is given "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition".

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The Deutscher Memorial Prize
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November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Next LSE Political Theory research seminar is with Agnes Tam (Calgary & Frankfurt). The paper is called “The Social Normativity of Social Norms: A Pluralist Account”. All welcome. Thursday 4pm in OLD.4.10. @lsegovernment.bsky.social Please register if LSE-external: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
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November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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We're holding a Graduate Open Day for all MSc degrees in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social , including political theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social . Please join us to hear about the programme and ask any questions you might have. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Master's study in the Department of Government at LSE - Virtual Graduate Open Events
Attend our LSE Virtual Graduate Open Events to find out more about graduate study at LSE.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Tony Travers...said one lesson Mamdani might take from Khan is to pick "a limited number of fights that you can win."

Read Professor Tony Travers' commentary about the similarities and differences between Zohran Mamdani and Sadiq Khan.

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Zohran Mamdani and London's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, have much in...
LONDON (AP) - He´s the left-leaning Muslim mayor of the country´s biggest city, and U.S. President Donald Trump is one of his biggest critics.London´s Sadiq...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com for securing a Synergy Grant from @erc.europa.eu! 👏🏽

Bruno will collaborate on a 6-year project titled the Popular Government in Global Perspective project, which seeks to challenge the way we think about #democracy.

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Research | ERC Synergy Grant | Democracy | Government
Dr Bruno Leipold is one of four principal investigators on the Popular Government in Global Perspective project, an ambitious six-year research endeavour which argues that the world's dominant form of...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"The intellectual environment at #LSE encouraged me not only to question assumptions but also to develop pragmatic #solutions grounded in #justice."

This month's #alumni in the spotlight is James Caspell (BSc Government/MSc Political Sociology).

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James Caspell
James Caspell talks about his journey since graduation.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Have you ever wondered how the Earth’s #geopolitics are reflected in space, and whether those star-buying kits are value for money?

Listen to @drjillstuart.bsky.social in conversation with Professor Brian Cox providing answers to the question, 'Who #Owns #Space?'.

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Who owns space?
Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel tackle the technology, politics and ethics of space exploration.   From space tourism to the search for life on Mars, space is a rapidly expanding, multi-trill...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The Political Behaviour Stream of the MSc in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social is welcoming applications for entry in 2026/27: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse... Benefit from teaching and supervision from world-leading scholars, weekly research seminars & an active alumni network:
MSc Political Science (Political Behaviour)
Study political opinions and behaviours with the MSc Political Science (Political Behaviour), offering rigorous training and diverse career paths.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Join us for the launch of the highly anticipated new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social 📖

He reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world, with global neoliberalism on its last legs. As the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles, he asks what remains in its wake?

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October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Congratulations to Amara Otero-Salgado (alumna, BSc Politics and Data Science) and her team who won the #JP #Morgan Chase Data for Good #Hackathon competition on Friday 17 October.

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October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We are excited to begin @lsegovernment.bsky.social 2025/6 APEG seminar series with Jamie Hintson (Harvard University) on Thursday, 30th October (12:00-1:30 PM GMT). Please join us. @carlmc.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Post-liberalism has distinctive British and US sources but increasingly the US elements are driving changes in British politics - see my new book Against Post Liberalism to find out why and to see why that might be a problem… @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social #Postliberalism
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Very cool experiment on how different fact-checking labels on social media affect on-platform behaviours amongst a sample prone to encounter political misinformation, with important results by @lsegovernment.bsky.social PhD candidate @isoldehegemann.bsky.social 👇
I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions.

AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.
AI fact-checks may be the best way to reduce Republicans’ engagement with online political misinformation finds Isolde Hegemann of @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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October 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social!

➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.

➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social

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October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We were delighted to host the launch of Professor John Chalcraft's book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization (University of California Press, 2025).

👂🏿 If you missed the event, you can now listen to the recording on YouTube.
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Thinking Popular Mobilization With Gramsci | John Chalcraft | Book Launch
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October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We were delighted to be joined by Professor @casssunstein.bsky.social on Friday 17 October to discuss his latest book: On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom. This event was chaired by Professor @pjthinker.bsky.social.

👂Missed the event? Listen to the podcast. 👇🏿

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On liberalism on defence in freedom
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October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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As today was a Liberalism day @lsegovernment.bsky.social it worth posting this as a reminder that the argument is never finished…
October 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM