Excited to share our latest blog post (with Hatem Zayed and @susannacampbell.bsky.social) highlighting our ongoing work at @ripilab.bsky.social. www.ripilab.com/blog/whosepe...

HUGE: In federal court today, Judge Howell found that the Trump Administration and DOGE illegally removed USIP Board members, thereby nullifying ensuing actions including: - replacement of Board members with DOGE officials, - USIP staff purge, and - transfer of USIP property to GSA.

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

Informative piece that covers a number of important points about humanitarian aid. The links show the human consequences of the US' drastic cuts as well as the broader context, which includes many European donors also cutting aid.

US Citizens: NOW is the time to reach out to your Representatives and Senators. They need to know how you feel about the Administration's actions. This is the only way for them to know what matters to you. www.house.gov/representati... www.senate.gov/senators/sen... www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

🚨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.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

Here's a TERRIFIC step-by-step on how to reach out to your senators to oppose RFK Jr's nomination with his hearings coming up this week via @matthewcort.land. At this point there are three Trump nominees max we can conceivably beat. RFK Jr is one of them. Let's fucking go.

Come work with us! Internship application deadline is December 30th.

Apply now! Internship for MA student in the DMV: RIPIL & the Wilson Center are seeking a highly organized individual interested in peacebuilding or related field to assist on our Research-Policy-Practice Partnership project in spring 2025. Deadline for apps: Dec. 30th. Details: www.ripilab.com/about

It was a joy to review Rebecca Tapscott’s @ox.ac.uk book, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I would love to hear your recommendations! I am teaching a new MA class on humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, and aid in conflict-affected countries. What would you like to see on the syllabus? What articles, books, or reports do you recommend?

My new article with Sarah Zukerman Daly was just published: "Whose Side Are You On? Balancing Impartiality and Proximity in the Study of Civil Wars" More details below, 50 free copies available here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HNVJR...

Want to understand what is happening with Taiwan? See this interview with my amazing friend, Vanessa Hope.

Political Wire is now posting on Bluesky as @politicalwire.bsky.social Please help me build a following by reposting this for your friends. Thanks!

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

How much of the post 2020 gap between perception and reality on the economy is long covid malaise and how much is disinformation, and how much do the covid malaise and the disinformation drive each other?

Really excited about this research partnership with the US Department of State! Read more about it here: www.evaluation.gov/evidence-par....

Want to understand how post-conflict states control international statebuilding operations? Read our new piece!

For the Polisky crowd, there's a new issue of Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, w/a symposium on how to apply reflexivity in practice including pieces by @elinbja.bsky.social, @susannacampbell.bsky.social, Kristine Eck, Amanda Lanigan, Chiara Ruffa, & me www.qmmrpublication.com/_files/ugd/7...

BTG and the Research on International Policy Implementation Lab announce a joint call for our Co-Creation Fellowship, which will create online training modules to teach early career researchers how to engage in co-creation research partnerships between scholars and policymakers. lnkd.in/gkec7RyC

Folks who study race, ethnicity, and immigration -- we at CGU and UCR are partnering to host a PRIEC meeting in Claremont on Feb 16. Call for proposals deadline is Jan 16. Find more info here: bit.ly/CGU-UCR_PRIE... And please reach out to me, @tylerreny.bsky.social, or any of the other hosts w/?s!

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Please add me to Polisky. Thank you!