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💥New: Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications?

✍️ @miriamsorace.bsky.social,Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social & @fresejoris.bsky.social

#COP30 #ClimateComms #NanoTargeting
Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications? - Impact of Social Sciences
Are nano-targeting tools capable of creating more persuasive climate communications, or broad appeal messages still the best way to move audiences on climate?
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🌎New @lseimpactblog.bsky.social: Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications?

Thomas Robinson, @miriamsorace.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social & @fresejoris.bsky.social explore how new tools make targeting individuals at scale with tailored communications possible

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Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications? - Impact of Social Sciences
Are nano-targeting tools capable of creating more persuasive climate communications, or broad appeal messages still the best way to move audiences on climate?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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👀ICYMI: "the design of an approach to assess the societal impact of research requires more than an expert understanding of bibliometrics"

#ResearchManagement #ResearchImpact #Bibliometrics @lizziegadd.bsky.social @tanjastrom.bsky.social
How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences
How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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💥New: Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications?

✍️ @miriamsorace.bsky.social,Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social & @fresejoris.bsky.social

#COP30 #ClimateComms #NanoTargeting
Nano-targeting or mass appeal, what makes persuasive climate communications? - Impact of Social Sciences
Are nano-targeting tools capable of creating more persuasive climate communications, or broad appeal messages still the best way to move audiences on climate?
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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💥New: Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning

✍️ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social

#PolSci #AcademicSky #QuantitativeMethods
Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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NEW✨ Three lessons from a climate diplomat going into #COP30 in Brazil.

Alejandra Padín-Dujon @carbonpulse.bsky.social reviews The Climate Diplomat: A Personal History of the COP Conferences by Peter Betts @profilebooks.bsky.social.

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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.

Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.

Put the tools to the use of theory.

Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
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Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
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November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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💥New: Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning

✍️ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social

#PolSci #AcademicSky #QuantitativeMethods
Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates"

#Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch
Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences
Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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“The term “responsible” in research assessment cannot be co-opted and marketed, it must be earned—through transparency, context sensitivity, authentic engagement, mixed-methods evidence, & ongoing evaluation & reform."

Using @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE we test Clarivate’s responsibility claim.👇🏻
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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🗃️ "As one panel demurred: “this impact is crazy” leading to a downgrading of the application."

#ResearchImpact #ResearchEvaluation
Does hype really sell claims of research impact? - Impact of Social Sciences
Gemma Derrick finds the use of ‘hype’ in impact statements has significantly less impact than feared.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework?

✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social

#ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social
How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences
How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?
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November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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👀ICYMI: "Part of the tyranny of economic thinking about Africa stems from the sense that every piece of data, every story that comes out of the continent has to be tinged with a sense of tragedy."

#EconSky #Africa #EconomicHistory
Can economics shake off its misconceptions about Africa? - Impact of Social Sciences
Economic interventions in Africa come loaded with assumptions about the continent's history and the transferability of Western Economic ideas, can this change?
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November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🗃️"these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment a standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD."

#AcWri #PhDchat
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD - Impact of Social Sciences
The IMRaD format may make research writing more efficient, but does this come at the cost of clarity and novelty?
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November 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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💥New: How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework?

✍️ @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Erica Conte, Reingis Hauck Giovanna Lima, Racquel Salviati, Esther De Smet, & @tanjastrom.bsky.social

#ResearchImpact #Metrics #AcademicSky @inorms-reg.bsky.social
How responsible is Clarivate’s “responsible” impact assessment framework? - Impact of Social Sciences
How responsible is Clarivate’s Responsible Framework for Evaluating the Societal Impact of Research according to the INORMS SCOPE framework?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
lseimpactblog.bsky.social
👀ICYMI: "As funding cuts squeeze arts programs across universities, research councils double down on ‘evidence-based’ approaches that often cannot capture the nuanced realities art illuminates"

#Arts #Evidence #QualitativeResearch
Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences
Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."

#AcademicFreedom
Less academic freedom leads to less innovation - Impact of Social Sciences
Drawing on data showing a decline in academic freedom over the past decade, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara, analyse the relation of academic freed...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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💥New: Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education?

✍️ @proftjcurry.bsky.social

#HigherEd #AcademicSky #BlackHistoryMonth
Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education? - Impact of Social Sciences
Professor Tommy J. Curry advocates for how this evidence-based approach to the university’s colonial legacies can be a model for institutional renewal.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
lseimpactblog.bsky.social
🗃️"these pressures to produce efficient and risk averse research compliment a standardised and unsurprising style of writing fostered by IMRaD."

#AcWri #PhDchat
If we want better academic writing, we should rethink IMRaD - Impact of Social Sciences
The IMRaD format may make research writing more efficient, but does this come at the cost of clarity and novelty?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
lseimpactblog.bsky.social
🗃️ "As one panel demurred: “this impact is crazy” leading to a downgrading of the application."

#ResearchImpact #ResearchEvaluation
Does hype really sell claims of research impact? - Impact of Social Sciences
Gemma Derrick finds the use of ‘hype’ in impact statements has significantly less impact than feared.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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👀ICYMI: "Moore leads the reader through these developments with an argument focused on how the concept of the commons could lead to more equitable, less market-driven academic publishing."

@thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market

#OA #ScholarlyCommons #AcademicPublishing
Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences
Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Grateful for the opportunity to discuss the methodological approach and research findings of the Edinburgh Race Review with the LSE Impact Blog.
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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💥New: Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education?

✍️ @proftjcurry.bsky.social

#HigherEd #AcademicSky #BlackHistoryMonth
Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education? - Impact of Social Sciences
Professor Tommy J. Curry advocates for how this evidence-based approach to the university’s colonial legacies can be a model for institutional renewal.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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👀ICYMI: "Wikibooks’s readership is considerable and genuinely international – 469 million page views worldwide in the last year alone, from more than 11 million devices."

@heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why academics should take another look at Wikibooks

#AcWri #OABooks #ScholComms
Does academia need a wakeup call on Wikibooks? - Impact of Social Sciences
Wikibooks has nearly half a billion annual page views, but has hardly featured in academic OA debates. Could it be a solution to providing open academic books?
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October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Can economics shake off its misconceptions about Africa?

Drawing on her British Academy Book Prize–shortlisted Africonomics, Bronwen Everill makes the case for how new economic histories can reframe our understanding of African economies for the better.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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👀ICYMI: "When members of Reddit’s r/schizophrenia discovered their posts had been analysed in a published paper ~ the backlash was swift."

@drsbrooke.bsky.social & Nick Oh, on doing ethical AI research.

#AIResearch #PublicData #ResearchEthics blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research - Impact of Social Sciences
To use public data researchers must navigate legal regulations & platform norms. The PETLP framework shows how privacy-by-design can be built in at the outset.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM