its pretty funny its a survey about harassment

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

I am excited to announce that Lisa Hultman and I have been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) grant for a three-year project to study why publics support war crimes. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

🚨The Graduate Student Support Grant is now open 🚨 If you are a graduate student in political science with an urgent financial need-please apply today! Awards are given to applicants on a lottery basis. It doesn't hurt to apply. connect.apsanet.org/graduate/gra...

What should we expect from President Trump’s new executive order on “wrongful detention”? My latest, on @goodauth.bsky.social, explains👇 goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

📢 New publication! 📢 Why do ordinary citizens participate in election violence in democracies? Kathleen Klaus and @meganturnbull.bsky.social argue that such violence is often jointly produced by elites and citizens, enabled by threat-based narratives and social networks that legitimize violence.

Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer: -Join your campus AAUP chapter. -If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont

I'm teaching intro to IR (last minute substitute teacher right here) and today a student asked for great IR podcasts. Can someone point me to the place where this has already been discussed and decided? I do not listen except for special occasions because of my schedule.

🎙️In this episode, Karen Brounéus, one of our professors and clinical psychologist, takes us on a journey there and back again. Her research helps us think more deeply about the intrinsic link between #MentalHealth and #ConflictReduction. Listen: 🎧 Podbean: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i2jm6-...

🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... A thread 🧵:

for scholars using LLMs to classify/analyze/do anything with news sources - does uploading news to commercial LLMs somehow not violate the newspapers' terms of service? what am I missing here?

These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...

Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6. How will the next legally required transition of power go?

Wondering about submitting your proposal to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference? See 👇🏻 and its exciting new panel formats.

its pretty funny how consistently AI thinks I should be using more emojis in this response memo

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Job alert! Please apply and/or share with your networks! GLOBIS is hiring a Research Professional to work with us on our Human Rights Programs, especially the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). (1/3) www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...

A Cal State faculty member was arrested for protesting ICE. The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:

Letting down important coauthors 🫠

hats off to whoever required the EU to update the rules of this grant application to specify "The individual researcher and the supervisor must be two different people."

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

I’m at NEPS! Come say hi!!

Have to say, who ever had the idea - what about Peace Science, but make it in Barcelona; that was a good idea

okay, you have to admit, a correction that reads "The name of the author Amy N. Arndt was incorrectly omitted from the author list in the original article" is pretty funny for an article titled "I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap."

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With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim? @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social‬ and @abbeyst.bsky.social‬ for @lseusablog.bsky.social‬

Important message from @ethanvporter.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @emmaspiro.bsky.social “NSF has accepted a dangerous myth that misinformation research (and research more generally) is really just partisan activism […] Nothing could be further from the truth” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When the Napalm Girl photo showed a child fleeing napalm in Vietnam, it fueled outrage and changed history. Today, the world watches Palestinian children burn on live stream as Israel’s final solution unfolds in Gaza, yet the west remains silent, inept, and indifferent.

The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

Music lets share our most banal experiences--first kisses, awkward breakups, the endemic embarrassments of being 13--and helps to reveal our shared humanity in the process (inspired by a wonderful @personalbeatles.com conversation with @davebazan.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/topkomme...

My article with @hannefjelde.bsky.social & U Daxecker is now published in V87(2) of @thejop.bsky.social. Here is 🧵summarizing our findings: We argue that misinformation can induce affective shifts that increase out-group animosity and fuel polarization. doi.org/10.1086/732979

Because international students help underwrite and expand opportunities for American students, the collateral damage from their decline or exit would be catastrophic.

For researchers / #polisky folks: if you’re dealing with online harassment because of your research, here is a useful set of resources (potentially relevant to others too):

A new study by Doctoral Candidate @jkotajoki.bsky.social examines how UN peacekeepers perceive local civilian actors and non-state armed groups. The article in International Peacekeeping is available open access on the publisher’s website. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #UN #Peacekeepers

The immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP

We are now receiving applications for one fully funded PhD position in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Applications are also open for our general PhD position👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Democracy

I want to take this opportunity to say: Research is hard, especially when studying complex systems like politics that are constantly changing. None of us are immune to missing something or drawing a bad inference. Not everything that’s true now will still be in the future. Show each other grace.

Look forward to seeing many friends at this 3-7 event

We are thrilled to co-host the annual conference of the Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network (SWEMENA) on 28-29 August. The call for papers is now open! The deadline for submitting your abstract is 25 March. Read more. 👉 www.swemena.se/news/swemena...

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

@mirya.bsky.social could you point me towards the person who made the MHAWS logo? I remember reading about it but can't find the email !

We at @uupeace.bsky.social we’re honored to have Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social present her new book project on Return without Refoulement - I learned SO MUCH

The best* book ever written on the Caucasus Emirate’s ideology is now available for pre-order. The Caucasus Emirate: Ideology, identity and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus (Manchester University Press) amzn.eu/d/6QrSQ3h * and only

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

Musical discovery naturally stagnates once people hit their mid-20s, and the streaming companies have every incentive to support that tendency. But it's worth resisting. New music is great! topkomment.substack.com/p/dont-give-...

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.