Eleonora Alabrese
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eleala.bsky.social
Eleonora Alabrese
@eleala.bsky.social
AP in Economics @BathUni • Previously: @SAFE_Frankfurt • @WarwickUni • @UniBocconi • Politics, Media & Science

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I use data from lawmakers’ Twitter from countries across the Americas and Europe with a novel database of 410,000 academic researchers on the platform (paired with information about their academic profiles).

*This is the largest study of its kind on politician-academic interactions online.
June 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reposted by Eleonora Alabrese
10/ If you found this paper useful, check our follow-up work with @eleala.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social, where we ask what happens to public's trust in scientists when they become political? Full thread below bsky.app/profile/pras...
Public trust in science is more important than ever. But what happens when scientists openly share their political opinions on social media?

Our updated paper with @eleala.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social shows how academics’ political expression affects their credibility
June 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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-- @eleala.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com, and S. Wang - document in the case of Brexit. @beimwort.bsky.social had a nice summary of one of the paper's bottom lines: right-wing populists can thrive on conditions that they themselves can help create. These papers
beimwort.substack.com/p/der-kampf-...
Der Kampf um die Demokratie wird lang und zäh
Keine hektische Panik nach den Landtagswahlen, aber erst recht keine Illusionen. Wie Berichterstattung die Wahrnehmung von Migration als Problem beeinflusst. Tucholsky erklärt die Berliner.
beimwort.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Not at all. Especially in the current climate, though, it is worth documenting the influence of audience perceptions. These reputational costs are non negligible and can lead to information loss in political discourse or, on the other hand, contributing to polarization
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Eleonora Alabrese
Second to last for the day we have @eleala.bsky.social presenting "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" exploring the causal effect of political signaling on the credibility of academics active on social media.
March 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM