📢 CfA: #MegatrendsAfrika Fellowship 2026
3 fully funded 3-month research stays (fall 2026) in Berlin, Bonn or Kiel for scholars from African countries. Topics include peace & security, democracy, economic prospects, global order & science diplomacy. Deadline is 25/03/2026.
🔎 Apply now: t1p.de/3tt3s
Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.
🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
🚨 Please share widely! 🚨
I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame.
Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.
🗓Am 22. März 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Profile für alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. ⬇️ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...
State failure and collapse into civil war is a more likely outcome than either democracy or a monarchical restoration in a postwar Iran, writes Marc Lynch.
Help APSA recognize new scholars and dissertations!
Submit information about any #dissertations defended in your department in the 2025 calendar year by March 9, 2026. Scholars will be recognized in our Political Science Today Spring issue! #polisky
"The report found that the Rapid Support Forces had engaged in a widespread and co-ordinated pattern of violence that ranged from targeted mass executions, rape and deliberate starvation during the siege and in their takeover of the city in late October."
📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations!
If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see.
🗓 Deadline: 29 April
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#Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Happy to share our new paper in Comparative Migration Studies, with @hcebolla.bsky.social , @borchgrevink.bsky.social , and Inmaculada Serrano, within @equalstrength.bsky.social, where we show that #Radical-Right electoral gains increase anti-Muslim #HateCrime across Europe.
shorturl.at/UDGh9
Check out this new paper by @ucdpolitics.bsky.social PhD candidate @linettelim.bsky.social on how and why Chinese authorities portray foreign media as a threat, and why it matters.
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
How do democracies weigh intelligence and counterterrorism cooperation with autocracies? My study with Stephan Lau of German views on ties with Egypt shows that reports of rights abuses and meddling reduce public support. First fifty copies free! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PublicOpinion
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
Really excellent point. A lot of political/influencer grift stems from blocked ambition. They couldn’t make it via the normie route, but feel they deserve more.
So they grift.
🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Plagiarism detection on 500k publicized Chinese dissertations uncovers widespread hidden misconduct that predicts adverse political selection and poorer civil service performance, from Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, and Shaoda Wang www.nber.org/papers/w34747
Ever scrolled through a social media debate and felt like someone was pulling the strings? Dozens of different profiles, different tones, different identities — all converging on the same narrative, as if it were self-evident.
Some of this noise can now be generated by AI swarms.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Authoritarian regimes have increased their share of global CO2 emissions and now account for >60%, with implications for climate governance
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Im Sommer werden wieder zwei Gedenkstättenfahrten angeboten. Alle Infos und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung findet ihr hier: www.bvb.de/de/de/aktuel...
📢 We’re hiring: Research Fellow – Financial Crime Policy
RUSI is seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead our work on financial crime policy, tackling issues from money laundering and fraud to terrorist and proliferation financing.
Apply by 9 February: https://bit.ly/4odf9fA
Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University!
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
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“Figures compiled by staff in 8 major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across [Iran] reveal that at least 16,500-18,000 people have been killed and 330,000 to 360,000 injured…At least 700 to 1,000 people have lost an eye.”
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf Christian Gläßel Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science
⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026
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