I felt bad for never having been to Peru before, having lived so close by. But I can confirm that Peruvian food is indisputably the best cuisine in the world (I will not accept any arguments on this matter).

A few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

Somehow, it's already time for #APSA2025! Presenting the newest version of my paper w @jenny-oser.bsky.social + @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social on political participation and politicians' perceptions of public opinion. Happy to meet during the conference, so please reach out! @apsa.bsky.social

Today is election day in Bolivia! I've been closely following the country since the start of my PhD and honestly this could be one of the most consequential elections the country has ever faced. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

We're hiring a junior researcher at @isdcberlin.bsky.social! isdc.org/work-with-us...

these past few days between EPSA and Madrid’s ~36°C and then coming back to Berlin to vote for Chile’s presidential primaries have been really fun but now I’m tireddd

Reception with the best view award

Second day at #NEPS2025! Just presented some ongoing work with @isdcberlin.bsky.social colleagues on political polarization in Kyrgyzstan.

Do you work on gender and peacebuilding broadly defined (including everything from ceasefires to transitional justice)? I’m looking for pitches to contribute to a special issue, especially interested in quantitative research by scholars outside of Europe/US/Canada. Email/DM me!

In Helsinki for the UNU-WIDER conference where I’ll present @isdcberlin.bsky.social work on the long term impacts of conflict on Syrian refugees in Jordan.

Visiting another country during an electoral campaign is always an interesting experience.

it’s so amazing to have this summer school back, cannot recommend enough that PhD female students apply!

📣The Call for Papers and Sessions of the 2nd international expert conference Fragile Lives on 30 September and 1 October 2025 at Humboldt-University of Berlin in Germany is about to close. 1/6 #callforpapers #Berlin #HiCN #FragileLives @isdcberlin.bsky.social

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩 Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social! 📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

NEW - Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - cup.org/4clGHLw - @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters #OpenAccess

Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop 📆30 September – 1 October 2025 Fragile Lives 2025 & the 21st HiCN Annual Workshop will review the role of gender & institutions in the formation, functioning & impacts of fragility, insecurity, conflict & emergency.

Done with my defense, finally #PhDone!!

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗ Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

Next week (March 27, 1pm CET) we will present the results of our new study on the long-term impacts of conflict exposure on the well-being of Syrian refugees in Jordan. You can register for the online webinar here 👇 isdc.org/webinar-unde... @isdcberlin.bsky.social

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Fragile Lives is returning this year and will once again host the Households in Conflict Network (hashtag#HiCN) Annual Workshop. Join us on 30 September - 1 October 2025 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the heart of Berlin for Fragile Lives 2025! hicn.org/call-for-pap...

🚨 Important update on our partnership with USAID. Read our full announcement below. ⬇️

8 March - many challenges remain and increase. We created a network for scholars examining gender and violence across Latin America. Check out eGAL (estudios de género y violencia en América Latina). www.egalpolsci.com. and please join our newsletter for updates on publications & networking events.

Okay that was fast

One of the fundamental aspects of the American far right (and by American I mean the whole continent) is their obsession against women's rights www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

📢 Call for Papers! Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2 co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social More details below 👇

This month I turned 5 years living in Germany and today I was granted the citizenship, and apparently I’m still on time to vote for the February elections!! (I wasn’t sure if the registration period was closed or not). Got a little too excited about it not gonna lie 🥨.

My paper on the effect of emigration on presidential approval in El Salvador is out on RLOP. I want to give thanks to Óscar Picardo and El Centro de Estudios Ciudadanos.

We're hiring! 👇

Well no more work for today I guess

📢Excited to invite you to our new interactive ERC webinar series on Participation & Representation! 1st up: Anne Rasmussen ‪@annerasmussen.bsky.social‬ Wed Dec 4 (16:30 Israel, 15:30 CET, 14:30 London, 9:30 ET), an in-press APSR article✨ Zoom link & additional info: prd-erc.eu/events

Some good news to overcome the fact that I’ve had two papers rejected in the last few months 😅

Creado el starter pack de la Red de Politólogas. Colegas, ayudenmé a incorporar a las que se van sumando a Bluesky go.bsky.app/UgrseZF

Our paper on how the 2019 protests in Chile and Bolivia affected subsequent electoral behavior in the 2020 elections is now published (open access). doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Join us to hear about Noam Lupu's innovative new research on political participation! Our 2nd interactive webinar in the ERC series: Participation & Representation in the Digital Age Wed Feb 21, 16:30 Israel time (15:30 CET & 9:30 ET) prd-erc.eu/events @noamlupu.bsky.social @fcastrog.bsky.social

Finished the first version of the syllabus for the course I will be teaching next semester (for the first time) on Conflict in Latin America francisca-castro.com/Syllabus_LAT... I still have room to add a bit more literature, better if written by female scholars, so please send me your suggestions!

Our chair at Humboldt University (Berlin) is hiring a Pre-Doc/PhD researcher! Application closes on Feb 21. Feel free to reach out if you have questions haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

A state of emergency was just declared in Ecuador for the next 60 days www.bbc.com/news/world-l...

@cmparreira.bsky.social & I are putting together an APSA panel on the relationship between protest & electoral behavior/outcomes in authoritarian regimes. If you have a paper that fits this theme, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

Ok but hypothetically speaking how likely can it be to stumble onto a location where the series is being filmed in the first week of April during MPSA in Chicago.

Check out my new article with @krausewe.bsky.social! We explore the impact of displaying margins of error in opinion polls on citizens' voting intentions. 📊👀🗳️ Thread 👇 polisky commsky polcom

yikes

Is there a German word for electoral anxiety towards foreign countries or something because Argentina’s second round has me feeling all the feels. open.spotify.com/episode/3RIT...

The call for abstracts for the 6th Conflict & Change PhD Workshop on 11-12 March, 2024 is out! We invite early career researchers working on IR, conflict, contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to welcoming you to UCL in London! 🙂 conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

Polisky! I'm looking for volunters for chair/discussant for a panel on fieldwork and qualitative methods for the next MPSA conference. Ping or email me if interested👀

In Argentina, children who've rejected their parents' criminal participation in mass repression during dictatorship have called on voters to reject Milei and Villaruel, who seek to whitewash the dictatorship's human rights violations

MAS (Movement towards Socialism) has loomed large in Bolivian politics for close to 2 decades. This great analysis by Huáscar Salazar Lohman looks at a growing, violent rift in MAS, between former president (and MAS "owner") Evo Morales & current president Luis Arce. www.ojala.mx/en/ojala-en/...

Honestly puzzled by this question of a postdoc application. Why is it mandatory and why there's no "none of the above" option. Been stuck here for the last 10 minutes trying to figure out if "I do not want to answer" is the way to go.

As people are starting to celebrate Massa’s first place and Milei not winning on the first round—as previously feared—in the Argentinian general election, some pics of these days.

Less than 24 hours in Buenos Aires and I’ve already seen two cellphones getting stolen on the street welcome to fieldwork in South America I guess!!