Natalie Lau
@natalielau.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Politics @ The University of Edinburgh | Political Communication, Authoritarianism, Nationalism, East Asian Politics (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Territorial Politics, Public Opinion | She/ They🏳️🌈
Had so much fun cycling around London with my bike and friends to celebrate #pride and #prideride2025 ! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Had so much fun cycling around London with my bike and friends to celebrate #pride and #prideride2025 ! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Actually the hardest hit group would be Americans who want to live in a democracy instead of a dictatorship. The next group will be those who value our system of education; this is going to undermine everybody at Harvard & every other university in the US as well.
If the Trump administration succeeds in blocking Harvard from enrolling international students, the hardest-hit group would be students from China, who make up the school’s biggest share of current students from overseas.
In Attacks on Harvard, Chinese See Yet Another Reason to Write Off the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Actually the hardest hit group would be Americans who want to live in a democracy instead of a dictatorship. The next group will be those who value our system of education; this is going to undermine everybody at Harvard & every other university in the US as well.
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Island of strangers? On our floor there are 4 flats. We're Scottish, French, Swedish, American, German, & Iraqi. We're young & old. We work in education, health & the private sector. We water each other's plants, & sometimes have dinner together. We're a lot of things. Strangers we're not.
May 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Island of strangers? On our floor there are 4 flats. We're Scottish, French, Swedish, American, German, & Iraqi. We're young & old. We work in education, health & the private sector. We water each other's plants, & sometimes have dinner together. We're a lot of things. Strangers we're not.
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Why were “evil cults” able to thrive in China during the reform era despite the CCP’s repressive policies?
Read about it in the March issue:
State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China
by Xi Chen & Jing Xu
Free to access for one week!
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Read about it in the March issue:
State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China
by Xi Chen & Jing Xu
Free to access for one week!
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China
As a high-capacity authoritarian regime, China has made immense efforts to exterminate the Falun Gong and other “evil cults.” However, cult activities persist throughout the country. This article seek...
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Why were “evil cults” able to thrive in China during the reform era despite the CCP’s repressive policies?
Read about it in the March issue:
State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China
by Xi Chen & Jing Xu
Free to access for one week!
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Read about it in the March issue:
State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China
by Xi Chen & Jing Xu
Free to access for one week!
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
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The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪:
🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!
Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!
Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
February 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪:
🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!
Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!
Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
Reposted by Natalie Lau
Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
December 18, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Two of my abstracts are accepted at #PSA25🎉 My solo paper analyses China’s media frames that construct state-wide nationalism, and my co-authored paper with @drsarahliu.bsky.social looks into the Taiwanese legislators’ framing strategies when they introduce new bills to combat sexual violence!
December 6, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Two of my abstracts are accepted at #PSA25🎉 My solo paper analyses China’s media frames that construct state-wide nationalism, and my co-authored paper with @drsarahliu.bsky.social looks into the Taiwanese legislators’ framing strategies when they introduce new bills to combat sexual violence!
Me being Victoria during PhD supervision meetings
December 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Me being Victoria during PhD supervision meetings
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New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
academic.oup.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.
It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.
A thread:
I’ve been learning how to throw and turn some pots over the last couple of months. I feel like throwing a perfect pot is harder than doing research🙈, but I had so much fun and it’s absolutely therapeutic!
November 23, 2024 at 11:14 AM
I’ve been learning how to throw and turn some pots over the last couple of months. I feel like throwing a perfect pot is harder than doing research🙈, but I had so much fun and it’s absolutely therapeutic!
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**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY**
A just-published, all-open-access special issue of Computational Communication Research (@CCR_OpenJournal) provides various highly timely perspectives on “Multilingual Text Analysis” 🧵⤵️
www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
A just-published, all-open-access special issue of Computational Communication Research (@CCR_OpenJournal) provides various highly timely perspectives on “Multilingual Text Analysis” 🧵⤵️
www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
Volume 5, Issue 2 | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, ...
www.aup-online.com
October 13, 2023 at 9:14 AM
**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY**
A just-published, all-open-access special issue of Computational Communication Research (@CCR_OpenJournal) provides various highly timely perspectives on “Multilingual Text Analysis” 🧵⤵️
www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
A just-published, all-open-access special issue of Computational Communication Research (@CCR_OpenJournal) provides various highly timely perspectives on “Multilingual Text Analysis” 🧵⤵️
www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
Finally landed at BlueSky! Thank you @redatamtam.bsky.social for the invitation;)
October 12, 2023 at 9:53 AM
Finally landed at BlueSky! Thank you @redatamtam.bsky.social for the invitation;)