BREAKING: Donald Trump, on his Truth Social account, claims that the US has captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as part of an operation that involved "large scale strikes" on Caracas

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

🚨 Call for Special Issue Papers for Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, please share widely! @ginavale.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the call for papers for our upcoming special issue on insurgent-run education. Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼

📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Direct casualties in Gaza likely exceed 100,000. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely! www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

⏰ Only 7️⃣ days left to apply for the #PreDoc and #PostDoc positions in the VARICRIS project❗ #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

„Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden“ - @amenzel.bsky.social und ich haben als Friedens- und Konfliktforscherinnen ein Plädoyer für diskursive Mehrgleisigkeit geschrieben debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org/die-begriffe...

Tobias Lenz & Fredrik Söderbaum's article in our latest issue demonstrates the significant changes in comparative realism over the past decade. It's free to read now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/XREtDrU

What a fantastic talk this morning by @enzonussio.bsky.social for our second seminar of the 2025-2026 Civil War Paths Seminar Series, discussing violence against ex-combatants in Colombia!

3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh: edin.ac/4hVNTAL

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

That’s it from us. Happy weekend!

Sari Shrayteh‘s talk deals with predictions as part of popular culture in unstable situations, eg coffee readings, palmistry, or astrology in the news during wartime

The second panel today starts with @roykaradag.bsky.social on "Death by Historical Analogy: The Illegitimate Victimhood of Palestinians in Germany" #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

We start our workshop with the first panel on “Legacies of war and Violence“ with Jan Busse, recounting the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict as a history of political violence

Next is Wolfgang Minatti, with a presentation on legitimacy through violence, drawing on fieldwork in Colombia

Now, @amenzel.bsky.social is offering comments, encouraging as to go back to the “classics“, linking the presentations with work by Ferguson and Kalyvas, and bring out clearer the questions and puzzles that we seek to address in our research. Whom are we writing for? Whom are we writing against?

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴! The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School. 👇 More details in the next posts.

Imitating the results of human creative labour while blackboxing the processes behind (which largely consist of acts of appropriation, extraction, exploitation & waste of energy) is what genAI is all about. Presenting it is a neutral guide means depoliticizing a highly political technology 7/

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

I had the privilege this week of being awarded the title of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences from the @eui-eu.bsky.social after successfully defending my thesis on the EU sanctions policy.

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 big congratulations Dr. Lepeu 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

So wichtig wie #openaccess ist, so schön ist der Tag, an dem das Buch dann gedruckt vor einem liegt. 😀 "Österreichs #Neutralität" ist nun auch über den Buchhandel oder den Verlag (www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...) erhältlich (EUR 50,00). Zur PDF-Version geht es hier: www.neutralitaet.info

Ein paar Zeilen (naja: 🧵, 16) zu den aktuell diskutierten #Abschiebungen nach #Syrien, die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention - #EMRK und den Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte - #EGMR, der über die Einhaltung der EMRK zu wachen hat. Und warum #Karner grade einen Fehler macht: 🧵

📢New #PAG21 Notes from the Field 📝 In their Notes from the Field "Writing Brave Women," @jzulver.bsky.social & @kiranstallone.bsky.social reflect on the process of writing their upcoming book written about and with feminist activists from around the world. 🌟#OpenAccess🌟 gendersky buff.ly/NGzPIo1

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

In the face of Israeli war crimes, Germany has not only a moral and political but also a legal obligation to stop arms deliveries to Israel - now! Summed up clear and concise by @hannapfeifer.bsky.social & @goldmatt.bsky.social.

Obviously this is not a serious foreign policy and it is deeply disappointing once again from Labour and the UK. Recognition should be about Palestine, not about punishing, or rewarding, Israel. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

"B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights on Monday published a report accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, becoming the first major Israeli human rights organizations to join a list of international groups making the charge." www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-two...

Btselem—Israel's leading human rights group—has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.btselem.org/publications...

Yesterday's statement by @spdfraktion.de on Gaza calls for (partial) arms embargo, freeze of EU-Israel association agreement, end of settlements in the Westbank and political perspectives - and calls for Germany to join the recent statement issued by 29 countries. Reactions in Berlin so far? (1/4)

Happy birthday to Frantz Fanon, born #OTD exactly a hundred years ago, in 1925. (Illustration by Johnalynn Holland for @nybooks.com)

At long last, Austria is finding some words of condemnation for for the unbearable actions by Israel in Gaza. Now it would be high time for Germany to follow suit!

This sounds promising (👋🇪🇺...) www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Student Paper winner, Juliette Saetre!

Meinl-Reisinger bezeichnet Ägypten als "Anker der Stabilität". Wenn man repressive Unterdrückung "Stabilität" nennt.

Unsere Regierung sieht d russischen Angriffskrieg gegen d Ukraine zurecht als Völkerrechtsverletzung und sagt d auch öffentlich so. Im Nahen Osten werden v unserer Regierung Gewalthandlungen nur sehr indirekt, wenn überhaupt, als Völkerrechtsverletzungen bezeichnet und d Verletzer bleibt ungenannt.

Ein 🧵: Es ist die Aufgabe von Journalisten, kritisch nachzufragen und nicht die Worte der Mächtigen nachzuplappern. Beim israelischen Angriff auf den Iran habe ich einige Fragen. Netanjahu spricht seit 30 Jahren davon, dass die Iraner kurz vor dem Bau einer Atomwaffe stehen👇🏼