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Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

A quarter of terror attacks in Britain over the past decade have targeted Muslims, but some have gone largely unnoticed because of delays formally declaring them terrorism Most jihadist attacks, by contrast, have been declared within hours of taking place inews.co.uk/news/uk-terr...

A counterintuitive aspect of the Mali junta's security strategy has been its rejection of willing allies in the face of its escalating militant threats: The junta expelled roughly 20,000 regional & international troops in favor of 1,000-2,500 Russian paramilitary forces. africacenter.org/spo...

A Tunis court today sentenced Sihem Bensedrine, 75, a prominent human rights defender to 25 years in prison in apparent retaliation for her work. The sentence reflects the cruelty of the governments attempt to strangle human rights in Tunisia. www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

Du willst die Arbeit der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora aktiv mitgestalten? Dann haben wir etwas für dich: Zum 1. September ist in der Gedenkstätte ein zweijähriges Wiss. Volontariat ausgeschrieben. Mehr Infos: https://bewerbung.buchenwald.de/jobposting/7f910bab92a9c96383ac8ed43246c90ecbe922b80?

Associate Professorship in Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Oslo. The position is linked to the Middle Eastern Studies group, with 12 permanent faculty with expertise in Persian, Turkish and Arabic, politics, anthropology, literature, media, and history. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Just two weeks left to apply for our new Human Rights Scholarship scheme⏳ Find full details and apply here 👇 www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

„France's domestic intelligence service is ending its contract with U.S. surveillance technology giant #Palantir (…)DGSI picked French firm #ChapsVision to "replace the American giant Palantir,” Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said“ www.politico.eu/article/fren...

One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Special Investigation: The Manchester Bomb. We can reveal the real story of the IRA attack that destroyed the city centre - and why nobody was ever brought to justice. manchestermill.co.uk/the-ira-men-...

Why is the Egyptian military a mediocre institution?

Herzliche Einladung zum coreNRW Netzwerktreffen am 2.7.26 in Düsseldorf. Wir befassen uns mit Genderaspekten in der Radikalisierungsforschung und Prävention. Es gibt spannende Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Anmeldung an [email protected] mit institutioneller Anbindung und Session-Wunsch.

Wer sich für die Studie interessiert, hier ist der Link: doi.org/10.1080/0963... Der Artikel ist Open Access. Für die unter euch, die Podcasts mögen: youtu.be/VbPVzZXYUd0?...

Very cool case study on public-private partnerships for removal of extremist online content from Spain. The model "privileges prevention and cooperation over coercive regulatory enforcement." 🇪🇸 @rielcano.bsky.social

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

New @hrw.org report exhaustively details how an Emirati private security company with close ties to the highest levels of the UAE government recruited Colombian mercenaries, trained them at a UAE military base, and deployed them for the siege and capture of El Fasher, Sudan.

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“During the revolution, millions prophetically chanted: Yasquṭ yasquṭ ḥukm al-ʿaskar! Maṣr dawla miš muʿaskar! (Down with military rule! Egypt is a state, not a [military] camp!)” “Today, Sisi is turning the country literally into one large military camp,” @barracks.substack.com writes.

Back in 2023, when @focaldata.bsky.social produced an MRP poll on Brexit, Makerfield was estimated as 51% agree (vs 31% disagree) that the UK was wrong to have left the EU.

For the benefit of Labour leadership hopefuls and anyone else with an interest in the issue, I have removed the paywall on my post on the overwhelming case for Rejoin. The public deserves an honest debate about the options and trade-offs, not delusions and wishful thinking

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Excellent resource for MENA scholars! New set of articles on political movements in North Africa and the Sahel from @pomeps.bsky.social. Come for @abuaardvark.bsky.social's intro piece. Stay for deep expert insights on topics ranging from Amazigh to Gen Z mobilization. pomeps.org/political-mo...

Die VAE zählen zu den aggressivsten externen Akteuren in afrikanischen Konflikten. @gerritkurtz.bsky.social, @wlacher.bsky.social & Stephan Roll analysieren im neuen SWP-Aktuell diesen emiratischen Interventionismus & fordern einen deutlich kritischeren Umgang. 👇👇 www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

😧 Hungarian public opinion is consumed by last night’s interview with this oligarch, who broke down in tears multiple times. We watched in disbelief as one of the richest men in the country, collapsing on live TV, tried to defend the indefensible… 3/1

Bewerbungsschluss morgen: Im Projekt "Knowledge, Epistemic Marginalization, and the Politics of Resentment" (Co-PI: Joachim Blatter) gibt es eine Postdocstelle an der Uni Bremen. Vertragsdauer: 3,5 Jahre Stelle: 100% Bewerbung: Bis 05.05. Stellenausschreibung: www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet...

New paper out with @antonialang.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 📣 Why is support for the Alternative for Germany often high in low-diversity rural areas, while ethnically diverse cities show mixed patterns? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Not long left to apply for our LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods position We are seeking an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in advanced quantitative methods and computational social science‼️ Apply before 26 April👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The School of Politics and International Relations is hiring an Assistant Professor (fixed-term, 3 years) in European Comparative Politics. Deadline: 19 May 2026 Job ad and details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:

Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...

🚨 Job Alert: AsstProf International Peace & Security in Amsterdam (VUA)🚨 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

👀 We're looking for a full-time, permanent Assistant Professor in Political Science to join us @ School of Politics and IR. We're fairly open on specialism (DM if interested in security), applicants must have experience teaching and using "R" for our quants work. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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The untold story of Niger is that, despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, the country had made real progress under its democratically elected presidents in the decade before the 2023 military coup.

Du hast deine Identität bei LinkedIn verifizieren lassen für ein blaues Häkchen? Tut mir leid für dich. Dein Pass, ID und biometrische Daten schlummern jetzt bei Peter Thiels finanziertem "Persona Identitites". And you're screwed. Here is why: www.golem.de/news/linkedi...

The US war with Iran has now reached what scholars call the worst-case scenario for Gulf states. Energy infrastructure that built regional power over three decades is now a battlefield, according to a scholar who studies the Gulf. theconversation.com/targeting-of...

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...

Schande mit fataler Signalwirkung: #CDU und #Weimarwerk stimmen im Stadtrat von Weimar zusammen mit dem extrem rechten #AfD-Ableger FBW gegen die Förderung des Bündnisses gegen Rechtsextremismus. Und das in der Stadt der Weimarer Demokratie und am Tag der Demokratiegeschichte. Bin fassungslos.

In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence. To be considered, note this in your submission. If already applied, email to confirm candidacy. Submit to [email protected] by March 23 @kcsi.uk

Russia Is Sharing Satellite Imagery and Drone Technology With Iran www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Two possible terrorist attacks in the United States today, at Old Dominion University in Virginia and Temple Israel in Michigan. It’s fair to say, as is so often the case, that “The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again.” @foreignaffairs.com

PhD Studentship Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs 📅 Four-year doctoral programme 🏫 @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social ⌛ Wed 1 April buff.ly/E1PBbuT #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

📢 CfA: #MegatrendsAfrika Fellowship 2026 3 fully funded 3-month research stays (fall 2026) in Berlin, Bonn or Kiel for scholars from African countries. Topics include peace & security, democracy, economic prospects, global order & science diplomacy. Deadline is 25/03/2026. 🔎 Apply now: t1p.de/3tt3s

Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...