Two post-doc positions! Join the project "Multilingualism, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution in Africa" at the University of Essex. Funding for fieldwork and conferences. The team includes Hannah Gibson, Kristian Gleditsch (lead PI), Florian Kern, Nancy Kula, and me. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGN222/p...

Join us at LSE! 👇

This is a really, really good workshop for PhD students and ECRs working on conflict - highly recommended!

Halloween update 🎃👻: NEW PAPER ALERT 👻🎃: want to learn about how recent findings in HPE are challenging our priors about the origins of state capacity? Here is my Annual Reviews on *Endogenous State Capacity*: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I keep trying to convince people to come over here from the dark place because here is better and nicer and not owned by Musk, but let's be honest, the real joy of logging in to Bluesky is the chance that one of @carlbergstrom.com's crows will make an appearance somewhere in the feed!

If you're working on issues of diversity (any kind) and military effectiveness, including adjacent fields like peacekeeping or policing, but haven't published it yet, please drop me a note. I'm working on something now & would like to have the most up-to-date work cited. Thanks! Please re-skeet

🚨Job alert 🚨 The @data.ft.com team is looking for a political data scientist to join us in London and help take our quantitative coverage of polling and election results to the next level in 2024. Details here: boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)

The great escape continues! @oscarn.bsky.social and @mealkhowaiter.bsky.social from LSE Government have joined us at Polisky

Introducing Conflictsky, a new feed for political conflict and violence! Like and pin the feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... To post, tag with 'conflictsky' or 'violencesky' It's a polisky sub-feed, so request to join that list if you haven't already: www.paulmusgrave.info/how-to-use-p...

Honest question: Was I the only one who logged on to this thing yesterday and took embarrassing long to realise that people talking about Polisky and Dictatorsky wasn't just some inside joke about drunken Russian accents?

Since we are all doing introductions: Hi Polisky, I'm Rune. I study how the varieties of civil war onsets have different causes and dynamics using mixed methods - mostly with focus on Southeast Asia. I'm a PhD candidate at LSE Government and will likely be on the job market within a year or so

@profmusgrave.bsky.social could I, too, be added to Polisky before you get overwhelmed, please?

So in an effort to concentrate on finishing my dissertation, I decided that another feed was the solution! It looks great so far!