🚨 The Czech Journal of International Relations has just published a new article that provides a dataset of all instances when diplomatic missions raised rainbow flags 🏳️🌈. May seem unlikely now, but the US leads the pack. Full access here: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
The Czech Journal of International Relations invites proposals for special issues to be considered for publication in upcoming volumes!
Please send your proposal and a brief CV of the editor(s) to the CJIR editor-in-chief at michal.kolmas@mup.cz by February 28, 2026.
cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
New issue of the Czech Journal of International Relations is out and feautres, inter alia, this wonderful book forum on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Much recommended, and as usual, Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026.
Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026.
CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social
@sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'.
👉Deadline 31.12.2025
Congratulations, that´s something!
Looking forward to a new colleague at the University of Vienna!:) New post doc position in Political Text Analyses with @chriswratil.bsky.social 👇
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Youve got to love Vienna
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Our new article is out - we conducted experimental Citizen-Expert Panels to find out, how mini-publics on climate change work. And we've come up with a neat typology of mini-publics mechanisms. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📚 Want to publish a guest-edited Special Issue or Special Collection with us?
📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025!
👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...
Well played, new chemistry Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa: "I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol" www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/people/14...
Otevřený dopis ANO ohledně výběru nového ministra životního prostředí - kde žádáme, aby nebombardovali dlouho budovanou politiku ochrany prostředí. sites.google.com/view/dopis-k...
I got a chapter in this book that has 5.069 pages and costs 1.999 USD. will give it to my students as compulsory reading. wth. link.springer.com/referencewor...
New in CJIR! Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020 by Jan Karlas and Jan Mazač, both at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
A little difficult to get into, but definitely worth it - a debut book by young South African poet Rešoketšwe Manenzhe. Brings a sad, poetic story of multiracial couple in early 20th century budding-apartheid SA. Recommended. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!
Finally.
New article alert 🚨
With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal.
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lunch
View of the Czech side from Decinsky sneznik
Since 1990s, we started planting deciduous forests like birches to get rid of susceptible spruce monocultures. Looks much better now
Borders look way more friendly than a few decades ago. Germany to the left, Czechia to the right
Much of the ecological reconstruction here has been financed by the EU
Cottages have somewhat been reconstructed
Forest cover has expanded significantly here in the last few decades, esp. after the communists stopped cutting it down for whatever bs industrial reasons in 1970s and 1980s
Border between Czechia and Germany
As expected
On my way to journey Czech mountains for a few days, 25km/day, mostly via Stezka Ceskem - a thousands km long path circeling the country.
