Sarah Ledoux

Postdoc in CSS @univienna researching representation. Interested in legislator & voter behaviour, tech & politics. Comms @psa_TIP
@sarahledoux.bsky.social

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

Delighted to see this paper out in doi print 🎉
In it, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the concept of 'electoral personalism' through the case of Milei in Argentina and identify 3 key elements: self-promotion, ideological rhetoric and moral appeals 👇

[Diego Luján @dielujan77]

Nuevo artículo con @GonzaPuig89 y @SarahLedx “Campaigning against the Casta: Electoral Personalism and the Rise of Javier #Milei in Argentina”. Open access: https://t.co/jNApTRduVI @govandopp @CUP_PoliSci

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

Incredible work by @mattsmithetc at @YouGov summing up the most heard news stories of 2025! Check out the whole story here https://t.co/5KumASrrDv

"Cool" only begins to describe how it feels to see outputs from the AI topic quantifier after I developed it at YouGov last year ♥️

[Patrick English @PME_Politics]

Our @YouGov data journalism extraordinaire @mattsmithetc has compiled all of our news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic.

This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories.

[YouGov @YouGov]

How do public perceptions of government spending match with reality?

A YouGov experiment put a series of govt spending areas as head to head match-ups and asked Britons to say which they thought more was spent on

The resulting public ranking most overstates debt interest, public order, and overseas aid spending, and most understates pensioner, education and transport spending

Debt interest: No 1 in implied public ranking (↑4 vs actual spending ranking)
NHS: 2 (↓1)
Working age benefits: 3 (↓1)
Public order/safety: 4 (↑3)
Defence: 5 (↑1)
Pensioners: 6 (↓3)
Education: 7 (↓3)
Social care: 8 (↑1)
Overseas aid: 9 (↑2)
Housing: 10 (=)
Transport: 11 (↓3)

Results link in replies

[PSA Technology, Internet, and Policy (TIP) @psa_TIP]

💥Upcoming event! 💥 "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT

Join us in our discussion w @rgorwa to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content

Sign up 👉https://t.co/PF3HMfcoEd

[Andreu Casas @CasAndreu]

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs
to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. https://t.co/SMqw0ZRsVh

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

@CasAndreu @UKRI_News Congrats! This looks super exciting 🎉

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

@CasAndreu Thanks Andreu! 🙏

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

𝒟𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉... 🥁

1- Delighted to share I’ve passed my Viva at the University of Manchester! 🥂

2- I’ve just joined the University of Vienna as a Post-Doc in Computational Social Science to research *Representation* 💡

More info👇

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

@CKWeatherill Thanks Charlotte!

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

@frasmcm Thanks Fraser!

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

2- In Vienna, I am integrating the MULTIREP team, led by
Christopher Wratil. Here, I’ll be analysing representatives’ speech patterns to expand our understanding of *dimensions* of representation (https://t.co/gtLSAMJt9U). Very much looking forward to sharing what we find! 🌟

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

1- Thank you to the brilliant @CasAndreu and @rchlgibson4 for the engaging discussion (time flew by), along with your insight and advice. A huge thanks 🙏 also go to my supervisors, @MartaCuanti and @RosieShorrocks, for all the support and fantastic guidance

[Gregory Eady @GregoryEady]

🚨 New paper in @ScienceAdvances

Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get?

@THeideJorgensen, @a_rasmussen, and I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments.

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[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

This is happening today! 📆 We're very much looking forward to welcoming such an excellent panel of experts 🎓 to discuss current developments in digital regulation in the EU and UK

[PSA Technology, Internet, and Policy (TIP) @psa_TIP]

🔥Last chance to sign up to our round table on Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK!
🕑 When? Tomorrow 2-3pm (BST)
🌐 Where? Online! - there's only a few tickets left, so make sure you get one - https://t.co/K5dw05lNx1

[PSA Technology, Internet, and Policy (TIP) @psa_TIP]

🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST
We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU & the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures & policy measures are shaping digital autonomy

[Seulki Lee-Geiller, PhD @LeeGeiller]

🔊When Tech Meets Governance💡In this series, I’ll be sharing selected highlights from my published research on how technology shapes — and is shaped by — governance. I am hoping to connect with researchers studying in this field. #TechAndGovernance #Digital #AcademicLife

[Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg]

From Elon Musk's DOGE to the UK's AI Action Plan, states are adopting AI as key tool of governance

But what happens when states see their populations through AI? How is AI changing the nature of the state?

Our new OA paper sets out a research agenda
https://t.co/lXMUohoV2H

[Sarah Ledoux @SarahLedx]

Excellent insight from @WhoTargetsMe on UK party spending on Meta ads during the recent local elections, it's pretty clear when the penny dropped for Labour 💷
🔗 link to full graph: https://t.co/hcSoJ2JCCj

[Who Targets Me @WhoTargetsMe]

Reform are the biggest UK party for Meta ads in the last three months (though their spend is very spiky, whereas Labour's is more "always on"). This recent spike isn't quite of the scale of their spending over Christmas.

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science!

We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science.

Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas

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[LSE Methodology @LSEMethodology]

We're hiring two LSE Fellows❗

💡 LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods ➡️ https://t.co/zNP1b25gCZ

💼 LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods ➡️ https://t.co/AAifcjZM3S

Apply before 27 April and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎