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stevepickering.bsky.social
University of Amsterdam political scientist 'with too much time on his hands' - The Times. Hon. Professor, Brunel. Editor, Political Studies Review. Prev: 神戸大学.
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Highlighting some of our trust research #1. Trust, the police and gender: London, you have a problem with women. doi.org/10.1080/1043...

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Excited to launch "A taste for deprivation" in Geoforum by myself and Seiki Tanaka. We find a strong link between fish and chips and the Brexit vote. I'd like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the whole editorial board of Geoforum for their commitment to rigorous research. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Fish and chips and the Brexit vote. Brilliant work by @stevepickering.bsky.social and Seiki Tanaka in Geoforum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Contour lines at Christmas. Been a while. Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

There's a strong link between Brexit and: fish and chip shops; high blood pressure; obesity; epilepsy; arthritis; heart disease; COPD; diabetes; kidney disease; stroke; and asthma. More Japanese restaurants means the opposite. Early results, but I will try to publish!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

⭐️Really looking forward to editing PSR w/h @jameswilldennis.bsky.social David Norman & Daffyd Tonwley, following the excellent work of Brunel colleagues. We hope to assist @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social specialist groups for special issues &symposia. More to follow 👀 journals.sagepub.com/home/psw

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📖 6 years, 24 issues and over 1300 submissions processed: Presenting the final issue from our editorial team. 👉 Read the summary of our editorial journey: tiny.cc/d0dwzz 👉Browse the issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/PSW/current @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Great news for scholars working on political trust. The next @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference in Thessaloniki (August 26-29, 2025) will host a section with 8 (!) panels on political trust. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Please share and sign up with a paper proposal before January 6th 2025.

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

Waiting times for healthcare in the UK are at an all time high. Does this affect people's trust in the NHS? Our survey says: no. Even controlling for waiting times in A&E or referral to cancer specialists, people still trust the NHS. Unless they're rightwing or Conservative: doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

submitted 347 days ago • 0 comments

People in England are hugely supportive of strikes by nurses and junior doctors. But support varies: - non-Conservative - left-leaning - trusting people are more likely to support strikes. See the new piece in Nursing Inquiry by m'colleague Martin Ejnar Hansen and I: doi.org/10.1111/nin....

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It would have been me mam's 75th birthday today, so here's one of the last photos I took of her in 2005, with me dad being a daft 'apeth (which he was: like father, like son). Just noticed you can see Black Combe reflected in the back kitchen window. Ooh, it were cold up there.

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The UK Home Secretary has recently made some inflammatory comments regarding the police. My colleagues and I have spent the last 16 months looking at how much the public trust the police and the government. Bottom line: they trust the police more. Source: YouGov, N= 9013.

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Super proud of our Computational Social Science students at the University of Amsterdam today. These are first year undergrads, just two months into the programme, working on 16 different environment-related projects with partners in the city. They are tomorrow's change-makers!

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The variance in levels of trust in the BBC are interesting, if unsurprising. Percentage who trust the BBC: - Voted Con: 23% - Voted Lab: 39% - Voted Remain: 45% - Votes Leave: 20% - Live in London: 38% - Live outside London: 32% - Uni degree: 39% - No degree: 27% YouGov surveys 2023. N=5632

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A cold, wet and windy Amsterdam Marathon today! Super proud of David and Lizzy for winning their second Amsterdam medals!

submitted 512 days ago • 0 comments

Much ink has been spilled lately in whether people trust UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. While trust levels are low, it's worth noting that they are still mostly north of his predecessors. Weighted YouGov data, N=8105

submitted 534 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently, cargo-bike mums are 'career-focused mothers who are assertive and self-confident', while cargo-bike dads are 'portrayed as "soft" yet also emancipated' (Boterman 2020). In possibly related news, we just bought a cargo bike.

submitted 589 days ago • 1 comment

One of those nights when the Sluishuis and the Enneüs Heermabrug serve up an IJburg sunset treat.

submitted 612 days ago • 0 comments

It just doesn’t pass the sniff test that scraping all of a sudden created such dramatic performance problems that Twitter had no choice but to put everything behind a login. Scraping was the open secret of Twitter data access. We knew about it. It was fine.

submitted 618 days ago • 8 comments