I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to support an externally funded, international project on the instrumentalization of anticolonial discourse in Asia and beyond. remote work OK but needs to be UK based. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

The wild thing is that this *could* actually work in Berlin

OUR BOSTON IMMIGRATION LAW OFFICE NEEDS A SUMMER LAW INTERN Our 5-attorney Boston office is looking for a summer legal intern. Passion for immigrant justice, strong writing skills, & conversational Spanish preferred. Perks include a monthly stipend, T pass, weekly lunch, & ongoing mentorship

#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

Olympia ja oder nein? Auch ich darf darüber abstimmen, ob Köln sich für die Ausrichtung von Sommerspielen bewerben soll. Von Freunden wurde ich öfter gefragt, was von einer Bewerbung zu halten ist. Ich habe dann immer dagelegt, warum ich mit NEIN stimme werde. Das mache ich jetzt auch mal hier. ⬇️

Absolutely crazy story that ties together many aspects related to cybersecurity, specifically about Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and how defectors have helped the U.S. keeping Iran away from the bomb, including through Stuxnet www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ich arbeite gerade daran, dass es zu allen Todesopfern rechter Gewalt in Deutschland eine eigene Wikipedia-Seite gibt und würde mich sehr über Unterstützung freuen! Hier ist die Liste: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todesop... Hier einer der daraus entstandenen Artikel: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ze...

And back in 2022, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” gave us this brief shot of the USS Enterprise above a “futuristic” city we all know…

It's such a privilege to return as a judge for the Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabooksreview.com, after serving on its inaugural cohort last year. The shortlist for the 2025 Nonfiction Award is out. Find out more about the five fabulous titles: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/02/s...

The APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section is partnering with @apsgworkshop.bsky.social to launch a new series of public-facing panels. Our first event on April 9 (12:30 to 1:30 PM EST) will focus on attacks on media freedoms. You can register here: tinyurl.com/3ds284p6. Please join us!

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Final Call: Your last chance to apply to the Sovereign Tech Fellowship — deadline is Monday April 6. ➡️ More information and updates about the program: www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fe... #DigitalInfrastructure #FOSS #Maintainers #Hiring #FOSSJobs

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Vier Bücher, die du, als Mann, jetzt bestellen und lesen kannst, falls dir die Worte fehlen: - Stille Gewalt ( @frauasha.bsky.social ) - Gegen Frauenhass ( @clemm.bsky.social ) - und wegen angeblichem Fetisch: Porno ( @maditaoeming.bsky.social) - Sei kein Mann (JJ Bola) Und dann handeln.

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites! It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov. You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

I'm unironically so excited for this panel! There's gonna be some very cool papers (& then there's gonna be me being a nerd about government computing projects in 1980s China)

FELLOWSHIP ALERT: If you are faculty at an HBCU working on race, indigeneity, and/or transnational migration and you want to spend a semester at Yale next year (in a research center with me!) please apply! I cannot recommend RITM highly enough.

AAS Vancouver 2026: Will be presenting at the panel "People's Republic of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Classification and Personnel in the Chinese State" Saturday 10:30-12 at VCC Room 220. With @mt-b.bsky.social @ktai.bsky.social Yi Lu, Juan Wang and Daniel Leese as discussants. See you there!

I'm unironically so excited for this panel! There's gonna be some very cool papers (& then there's gonna be me being a nerd about government computing projects in 1980s China)

I’ve been looking at National Parks material flagged for review and flipping through my collection of historical brochures and textbooks. I’m trying to transform my frustration into an article. We cannot go backwards. 🗃️

byte, magazine, cover (1979) archive.org/details/byte...

if you're in taipei, come join @thinkpanzer.bsky.social and me for a chat on how to improve journalist safety. it's the first event im organising as a newly minted prof at the graduate institute of journalism at national taiwan university. register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dylan Lopez Contreras, a student at Ellis Prep academy, was kidnapped by ICE in May and has been detained since. "The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Neue Studie: Linke sind die stabilsten Demokrat*innen die das Land hat. Bei Rechten aber auch in der "bürgerlichen Mitte" finden sich hingegen neben antidemokratischen auch ein höherer Antisemitismus. Wow, ist ja wirklich ganz was anderes als seit Jahren in Zeitungen steht. 1/ taz.de/Ergebnisse-d...

This is such a fascinating point and I decided to see if the data exists, and apparently the USDA has tracked equine populations on farms since the 1850s. The US equine population peaked at 25 million in the 1920s then fell to a low of 2.1 million in 1992 (it’s since rebounded to ~4 million).

Ich würde sagen, dass das relevante Informationen für aktuelle Debatten in Deutschland wären - aber das würde natürlich voraussetzen, dass Gesetze hier mit Blick auf empirische Grundlagen gemacht werden, und na ja 🤷🏻

Despite all the chatter, social media bans for teens lack evidence! New paper out in Nature Health. (1) Harms from social media are real & serious. (2) We need regulatory action but bans are not nuanced, do not empower youth, & are not supported by evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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**CALL FOR PAPERS** LSE–NYU Conference 2026 Making States Work: Capacity, Accountability and Economic Foundations. If you are interested in presenting a paper related to these themes 🗓 Deadline: 6 March More details and how to submit your paper 🔽 sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

thrilled to announce i’m doing a mini-crossword residency at @puzzmo.com all month! 28 tiny crosswords, one each day of february. i’ll thread them here, first up is CROSSOVER EVENT www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

Folks! Tell your (cis) friends to drop the NYT and why. These collective actions *do* matter. Cancel that subscription, today (if you haven't yet), make clear why. This is a boycott. The point is: Punish this evil behavior, this committed fanning of the flames of the genocide against trans people.

here's a helpful thread if you're wondering why, even in this bleached media environment, i'm pushing for the NYT's starvation OR AT LEAST near-starvation moral transcendence bsky.app/profile/sand...

Wenn das ein "Angriff" ist, wie nennt man dann diejenigen, die sich derart angreifbar machen? Das kommt dabei heraus, wenn man "Technologieoffenheit" zum Mantra macht. Wie wäre es mit einer eigenen strategischen Ausrichtung Europas, statt sich über industriepolitische Initiativen Chinas aufzuregen?

Berührender Nachruf von @yagmurekimcay.bsky.social auf Ibrahim Akkuş, der zuletzt an den Folgen des #Hanau Attentats starb. "Ich bin in meinem Leben nur dem Schmerz begegnet", sagte der 70-Jährige vor seinem Tod. "Ich wünsche mir, dass Menschen einander nicht töten." taz.de/Hanau-Ueberl...

Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

so I got Final Draft running on the Macintosh SE I picked up at this weekend’s SoCal Vintage Computer Festival. I can now write a screenplay on the SE and save it to my modern Mac with the floppy disk adapter I have, open the file in modern final draft, and submit it for work

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

I see a lot of people saying "I hope she sues" and she can do whatever she wants and most of all, I hope she lives her life. I hope she finds plenty of moments of beauty. I hope she gets to snuggle her cat in the mornings and breathe.

We have launched a new fundraiser to support The Washington Post's courageous international employees and local staff who were laid off, who are not eligible for Guild protections, and who face additional logistical challenges and security risks. Please give & share widely: gofund.me/e765aab9f

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The interface of the Taiwan cross-database archival search website got a full revamp in the wake of the opening of the new National Archives -nice! Now if so could fix the zillion 國家寶藏基金會 results that have been coming up for years no matter the keyword that would be amazing 😅 across.archives.gov.tw

Today's XKCD is a good way to explain to anglophone/US folks how the meaning of a chengyu works.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

You only have until Sunday left to get your abstracts in 👇

🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...