Paolo Spada
@pspada.bsky.social
Lecturer at Southampton University, Centre for Behavioral Experimental Action and Research (C-BEAR).
⏳ 10 days left to join the C-BEAR Intro to Experiments Summer School! It’s all about learning by doing, hands-on, practice-focused, and designed to get you experimenting fast (in an ethically responsible way) #experiments #interdisciplinary #research store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
⏳ 10 days left to join the C-BEAR Intro to Experiments Summer School! It’s all about learning by doing, hands-on, practice-focused, and designed to get you experimenting fast (in an ethically responsible way) #experiments #interdisciplinary #research store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
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LIVE: Lander for Mayor Press Availability
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Scary images multiply from the US. Brad was one of the initiators of PBNYC in 2011 when we were all there to help. Eons ago, another America.
“Where is it? Where is the warrant?”
Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️
Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️
June 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Scary images multiply from the US. Brad was one of the initiators of PBNYC in 2011 when we were all there to help. Eons ago, another America.
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#checkthisout #impressive
My @sotonpolitics.bsky.social collegue and friend Liz Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social gave an evidence-based talk on disability and accessibility of the parliament at the Modernisation Committee of the UK Parliament yesterday!
share.google/thvHTqgqpwvj...
My @sotonpolitics.bsky.social collegue and friend Liz Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social gave an evidence-based talk on disability and accessibility of the parliament at the Modernisation Committee of the UK Parliament yesterday!
share.google/thvHTqgqpwvj...
Parliamentlive.tv
Modernisation Committee
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June 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#checkthisout #impressive
My @sotonpolitics.bsky.social collegue and friend Liz Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social gave an evidence-based talk on disability and accessibility of the parliament at the Modernisation Committee of the UK Parliament yesterday!
share.google/thvHTqgqpwvj...
My @sotonpolitics.bsky.social collegue and friend Liz Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social gave an evidence-based talk on disability and accessibility of the parliament at the Modernisation Committee of the UK Parliament yesterday!
share.google/thvHTqgqpwvj...
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Several colleagues are going to be in Madrid next week for the European Political Science Association, presenting research on party decision-making, attitudes towards minorities, populism, gender, social media, acccents and class, urban-rural divides, the politics of dating, and more! #EPSA2025
June 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Several colleagues are going to be in Madrid next week for the European Political Science Association, presenting research on party decision-making, attitudes towards minorities, populism, gender, social media, acccents and class, urban-rural divides, the politics of dating, and more! #EPSA2025
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Wow!
"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"
@egenpolisci.bsky.social
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"
@egenpolisci.bsky.social
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Closing the publishing gender gap in economics and political science: Does a critical mass matter?
Using novel data on publications and citations by researchers in economics and political science in top 50 universities globally, we analyze the relationship between female representation and the gend...
dx.plos.org
June 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Wow!
"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"
@egenpolisci.bsky.social
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"
@egenpolisci.bsky.social
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Returning from Turin after a very nice experience with the civil servants, students and facilitators attending their school of participation. And I devised a new teaching flow for classes on delibtech and my students survived! serenoregis.org/2024/07/19/s...
Il potere diffuso | Scuola di Politica - Centro Studi Sereno Regis
Il Potere Diffuso è un progetto formativo che promuove fra politici e operatori di sviluppo di comunità la democrazia partecipativa
serenoregis.org
May 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Returning from Turin after a very nice experience with the civil servants, students and facilitators attending their school of participation. And I devised a new teaching flow for classes on delibtech and my students survived! serenoregis.org/2024/07/19/s...
Details+slides of the event organized by ISWE+Participedia on organizing recruitment of the next Global CA ⬇️ The striking change is that the primacy of the ideal of using sortition to create a representative sample of "something" has finally gone. Sortition is now recommended for fairness.
Slide Deck_Iswe x Participedia Workshop | Reema Patel
Yesterday colleagues at Iswe Foundation convened, with Participedia over 100 researchers, practitioners and policymakers on the question of recruitment and sortition methodologies at a global level. I...
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April 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Details+slides of the event organized by ISWE+Participedia on organizing recruitment of the next Global CA ⬇️ The striking change is that the primacy of the ideal of using sortition to create a representative sample of "something" has finally gone. Sortition is now recommended for fairness.
An interesting and very operational reply to our article on the representativeness of minipublics sortition-agora.com/sortition/so...
Sortition and Sociopathy: Commentary on Spada and Peixoto’s Critical Analysis of Democratic Minipublics – Sortition Agora
sortition-agora.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
An interesting and very operational reply to our article on the representativeness of minipublics sortition-agora.com/sortition/so...
Would you like to learn how to run a lab experiment? A conjoint experiment? An email experiment? But you do not know where to start? The interdisciplinary C-BEAR summer school is specifically designed for you. Join us in July. store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
C-BEAR Summer School - Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences | University of Southampton Online Store
This five-day workshop introduces participants to the theory and practice of experimental methods in the Social Sciences. It provides an overview of preval
store.southampton.ac.uk
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Would you like to learn how to run a lab experiment? A conjoint experiment? An email experiment? But you do not know where to start? The interdisciplinary C-BEAR summer school is specifically designed for you. Join us in July. store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
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Inspirational collaborative event 2day hosted by @cdfuos.bsky.social on AI and Democracy with Simon Wallace #suffrago Nick Almond #Londonvoice Huge congrats esp @unisouthampton.bsky.social anniversary fellow Dr Yu Shan Tseng for organising 😍👏🙏 🎉
@r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social
@r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Inspirational collaborative event 2day hosted by @cdfuos.bsky.social on AI and Democracy with Simon Wallace #suffrago Nick Almond #Londonvoice Huge congrats esp @unisouthampton.bsky.social anniversary fellow Dr Yu Shan Tseng for organising 😍👏🙏 🎉
@r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social
@r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social
Are you a qualitative researcher that always wanted to try to do an RCT? Do you know well one type of RCTs and are looking for an intro to another (survey? lab? field?). The C-BEAR summer school is designed for you and subsidized by NCRM! When? 30/06-4/7 How much? 300 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Training course: C-BEAR SUMMER SCHOOL - Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments
This five-day workshop introduces participants to the theory and practice of experimental methods in the Social Sciences. It provides an overview of prevalent approaches—specifically lab, field, an
www.ncrm.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Are you a qualitative researcher that always wanted to try to do an RCT? Do you know well one type of RCTs and are looking for an intro to another (survey? lab? field?). The C-BEAR summer school is designed for you and subsidized by NCRM! When? 30/06-4/7 How much? 300 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
SWEETS and C-BEAR have just launched a new training short course (9->11 June) on evaluating pedagogic innovations in the classroom using RCT and mixed methods targeted to teaching fellows and those that are curious about implementing clustered RCTs www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Training course: SWEETS/CBEAR: Experimental Methods for Scholarship Research
This three-day workshop introduces participants to the theory and practice of experimental methods in application to scholarship research in higher education (HE). It delivers an overview of prevalen
www.ncrm.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
SWEETS and C-BEAR have just launched a new training short course (9->11 June) on evaluating pedagogic innovations in the classroom using RCT and mixed methods targeted to teaching fellows and those that are curious about implementing clustered RCTs www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
I am starting to see encouraging steps toward phasing out the narrative of the ability of minipublics to statistically represent the population. This is the second advert I saw this month with softer language. malta.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/recruit...
Recruitment for the next Citizens’ Panel on a new European budget is underway
You could be one of those 150 European Citizens!
malta.representation.ec.europa.eu
February 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I am starting to see encouraging steps toward phasing out the narrative of the ability of minipublics to statistically represent the population. This is the second advert I saw this month with softer language. malta.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/recruit...
Level-up, just finished a complete draft of a big 19 partners' Horizon bid 6 hours before submission instead of 6 minutes. This one has even 8 RCTs disguised as engagement in collaboration with Sortition Foundation maybe it will break the RCT curse that never let's me win when I add an experiment.
February 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Level-up, just finished a complete draft of a big 19 partners' Horizon bid 6 hours before submission instead of 6 minutes. This one has even 8 RCTs disguised as engagement in collaboration with Sortition Foundation maybe it will break the RCT curse that never let's me win when I add an experiment.
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Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.
February 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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zerocarboncumbria.co.uk/news/cumbria... Cumbria 10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly 2025. The Climate Assembly will bring people with diverse views together to discuss climate change and explore what can be done about it.
Cumbria Climate Assembly - invite letters arriving soon! - Zero Carbon Cumbria - Carbon reduction action across the county.
10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly. The Assembly will bring people with diverse views, from all walks of life together to discuss clim...
zerocarboncumbria.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
zerocarboncumbria.co.uk/news/cumbria... Cumbria 10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly 2025. The Climate Assembly will bring people with diverse views together to discuss climate change and explore what can be done about it.
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First day at the #IASFM20 #IASFM2025 in Yogyakarta is now wrapped up with the presentation of this amazing line up of speakers in the two panels organised by @patnabuco.bsky.social and I about critical perspectives on border externalisation
January 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
First day at the #IASFM20 #IASFM2025 in Yogyakarta is now wrapped up with the presentation of this amazing line up of speakers in the two panels organised by @patnabuco.bsky.social and I about critical perspectives on border externalisation
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📣 Save the date!
☕️ Join us for our next interactive #TeachingCafé, all about interracial communication pedagogy within instruction and training in public participation.
📆 February 25
⏰ 11am-12pm EST
📍Virtual via Zoom
Click the 🔗 to register! 😊
www.eventbrite.ca/e/teaching-c...
☕️ Join us for our next interactive #TeachingCafé, all about interracial communication pedagogy within instruction and training in public participation.
📆 February 25
⏰ 11am-12pm EST
📍Virtual via Zoom
Click the 🔗 to register! 😊
www.eventbrite.ca/e/teaching-c...
January 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
📣 Save the date!
☕️ Join us for our next interactive #TeachingCafé, all about interracial communication pedagogy within instruction and training in public participation.
📆 February 25
⏰ 11am-12pm EST
📍Virtual via Zoom
Click the 🔗 to register! 😊
www.eventbrite.ca/e/teaching-c...
☕️ Join us for our next interactive #TeachingCafé, all about interracial communication pedagogy within instruction and training in public participation.
📆 February 25
⏰ 11am-12pm EST
📍Virtual via Zoom
Click the 🔗 to register! 😊
www.eventbrite.ca/e/teaching-c...
And here is the first deployment of the new game simulating Citizens Assemblies developed for CESE Morocco training. Pre/post survey+Carousel of Experts + Deliberatorium enhanced session. Simple but effective.
January 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
And here is the first deployment of the new game simulating Citizens Assemblies developed for CESE Morocco training. Pre/post survey+Carousel of Experts + Deliberatorium enhanced session. Simple but effective.
First Empaville of the year with the great students of the masters in Collective Intelligence at UM6P
January 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
First Empaville of the year with the great students of the masters in Collective Intelligence at UM6P
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New opportunity to join us 👇
If all you want for Christmas is a new job, then I have just the thing.
Come work with me on the Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact project. Join a great dept at Southampton, and an international team researching the European wave of climate assemblies.
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Come work with me on the Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact project. Join a great dept at Southampton, and an international team researching the European wave of climate assemblies.
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow, Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact (i4i)
We are delighted to welcome applications for the position of Research Fellow within the Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact (i4i) project, an international collaboration to examine the variety...
jobs.soton.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New opportunity to join us 👇
🚨 New Article Alert! 📰
🎯 The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies
🔎Dive into the limits of the current generation of civic lotteries and our ideas on how to fix them.
Authored in collaboration with Tiago Peixoto
👉 tinyurl.com/mt4mk4u2
🎯 The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies
🔎Dive into the limits of the current generation of civic lotteries and our ideas on how to fix them.
Authored in collaboration with Tiago Peixoto
👉 tinyurl.com/mt4mk4u2
Journal of Sortition - Imprint Academic
SIGN UP HERE FOR THE JOURNAL OF SORTITION NEWSLETTER FOR A FREE PRINTED AND BOUND COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE! Launching in Spring 2025 Call for papers Little more than a decade ago the word ‘sortition...
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January 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨 New Article Alert! 📰
🎯 The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies
🔎Dive into the limits of the current generation of civic lotteries and our ideas on how to fix them.
Authored in collaboration with Tiago Peixoto
👉 tinyurl.com/mt4mk4u2
🎯 The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies
🔎Dive into the limits of the current generation of civic lotteries and our ideas on how to fix them.
Authored in collaboration with Tiago Peixoto
👉 tinyurl.com/mt4mk4u2