Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

I am looking for a researcher (pre-doc) in my DFG-funded project "Violence Against Political Actors at the Grassroots Level" 👇

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

Congratulations to the new Civil War Paths Fellows cohort!

To mark International Day of Women in Diplomacy, Torunn Tryggestad, Asha Ali and I reflected on increases in women’s representation at the UNSC & changes in the practice of diplomacy. Check out our blog based on our co-authored book chapter www.prio.org/comments/1789 @prioresearch.bsky.social

Looking forward #NEPS2025 in Barcelona next week and chatting all things ceasefires, gender, peace agreements, and negotiations!

New UCDP data release! In the 2024 update from the @ucdp.bsky.social, organised violence remained alarmingly high, with 61 state-based conflicts and nearly 160,000 recorded fatalities.

New data from UCDP shows the highest number of active conflicts ever recorded, press release found here: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

New Conflict Trends Report from @prioresearch.bsky.social using @ucdp.bsky.social data. "2024 marked a historic peak in state-based conflicts, with 61 active conflicts across 36 countries – the highest number recorded since 1946" www.prio.org/publications...

Have you heard of Taylor and Francis' STAR initiative? It stands for Special Terms for Authors & Researchers (STAR) and provides eligible individual authors and researchers based in many resource-constrained countries with free access to articles from their leading journals.

Do you work on gender and peacebuilding broadly defined (including everything from ceasefires to transitional justice)? I’m looking for pitches to contribute to a special issue, especially interested in quantitative research by scholars outside of Europe/US/Canada. Email/DM me!

Reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is illegal to deploy in warfare, yet cops are allowed to blanket civilians in clouds of the stuff.

Seeing lots of discussion about whether the U.S. military will go along or push back against orders to confront mass protests. Here’s my take on what other cases and prior research tell us about what might happen. 1/

Lots of discourse around ICE abductions à la "ppl did nothing wrong & that's why it's unjust" & I can't underscore enough that *no one* deserves to be ripped off the street & disappeared into the prison network at the whim of the state. This is why we say "free them all." The system is the problem.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the @iies.su.se has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here: www.su.se/institute-fo...

Relieved to hear that all the advocacy from my sector ensured that Carney re-introduced a Minister for Women and Equality. Reminder that holding politicians accountable is literally our job as voters. Calling out Carney did not mean we wanted the CPCs to win. It was for this exact outcome.

Are you a grad student who has presented a paper at ANY ISA conference (national or regional) between March 2024-March 2025? Nominate yourself (or someone else) for the Frances V. Harbour Graduate Student Paper Award. Check out link for eligibility! www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

🚨 New book out! 🎉 Thrilled to share Gender and Diplomacy: Critical Junctures, Innovations & Future Research Directions, co-edited with @EliseInTheWoods Exploring how gender, race & power are reshaping diplomacy. 📖 t.co/09HVZquuCX #Gender #Diplomacy #IR #FeministIR

Very excited to see my first book chapter published w. co-authors Nora Stai, Torunn Tryggestad and @kajbak.bsky.social on women ambassadors to the UNSC. Check out the book Gender and Diplomacy, edited by @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social and @chichoriktputli.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Looking for 2 x guest lecturers (paid) to give research led talks within a new course 'Rethinking IR' for final yr UGs on ontological security, bodies/embodiment, emotions/affect, biopolitics/necropolitics, or visual global pol in the Fall 2025 semester. Pls DM/email expressions of interest 🙏

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

We are excited to announce that tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7, at 4pm c.t., our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Juliana @tappeortiz.bsky.social , will join us for the IfP Departmental Seminar! She will discuss “Women under Threat in Armed Conflicts” to ask how safe social activism in Columbia is.

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

If you're in #Vancouver or the lower mainland, consider donating blood. Hospitals are in need following this weekend. www.blood.ca/en

In just 100 days, the Trump administration has inflicted enormous damage to human rights in the United States and around the world. To mark the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, Human Rights Watch has cataloged 100 of the administration’s human rights harms 🧵⤵️

Hey GenderSky & PoliSky! Join us in Naples for the SISP Annual Conference! Our section “Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality in Politics” features 8 fantastic panels — they’re waiting for your paper proposals! Plus… we’ve got a few surprises in the works for the #BeijingPlatform anniversary 😉

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Love to my trans sisters, always. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Uhhh just gunna leave this here for those teaching public opinion. Source (Probability of winning as of Apr. 15, 2025): newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po... #polisky

Since their rollout, I have made heavy use of the custom GPT tools in ChatGPT. Here is a thread of some of the tools that I use regularly (all of them require ChatGPT 4). I think they are most useful for people doing quantitative social science, but some are more general.

Want to learn more about how to defend democracy? Check out @idarudolfsen.bsky.social and mine course this fall at @prioresearch.bsky.social

Canadians 🇨🇦 who live abroad, don’t forget to update your address so that your ballot arrives by mail. It takes two seconds 📬✉️🇨🇦 www.elections.ca/content.aspx...

The ICBL is horrified by Finland’s decision to withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty and calls on #Finland to reconsider this step and stay in the Treaty. #MineFreeWorld #ProtectMineBan @alexstubb.bsky.social @defencefinland.bsky.social @anttihakkanen.bsky.social @um.fi @elinavaltonen.bsky.social

Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.

A Somerville, MA resident sends along this image of all the people who turned out for an emergency rally today for Romeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD international student who was essentially abducted by ICE yesterday. Thousands came "on six hours' notice."

It's disappointing to see that @mark-carney.bsky.social decided to eliminate the position of Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth (WAGE) in his cabinet. Thankfully, several Canadian advocates and organisations are calling for its reinstatement: www.actioncanadashr.org/news/2025-03...

I’m going to reiterate what @beafihn.bsky.social has said many times, possession of nuclear weapons is not a credible defense because you can’t actually use them. Development of nuclear weapons would be neither smart nor responsible

Chrystia Freeland walking into the Liberal Party leadership event tonight to Nelly Furtado’s Maneater is a choice #canpoli

We are now receiving applications for one fully funded PhD position in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Applications are also open for our general PhD position👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Democracy

I am looking for table suggestions! I want to show my bachelors students a "real world" example of a simple bivariant OLS regression where the independent variable is not a binary indicator. This can of course be the first model in a series of models in the table.

btw one thing I learned at the training i went to this weekend is that bc ICE isn't allowed anywhere in a business that a customer wouldn't be allowed, an employees only sign on a door is enough to cause them to need a warrant. "closed for a private event" guarantees the same

This week’s reading list

I know we all love a dose of hopium, especially now. But the take, which I see all across here, that the far right was defeated in Germany tonight because 80% of Germans voted for other parties is very misleading and unhelpful. Understanding this really matters. 🧵

🚨New Special Forum🚨 Introducing a new special forum “Rethinking Failure: Feminist Peacebuilding and the Peace Continuum in Violent and Illiberal “Post-Conflict” Settings” by Miriam J Anderson, Elizabeth S Corredor, & Julia Zulver Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Does anyone have access to this ceasefire that's behind a paywall on Scribd? #polisky #conflictsky www.scribd.com/document/643...

We just happened to publish an article that shows what happens when an electoral autocracy co-opts humanitarian organizations and uses them for its goals. Autocrats don’t do humanitarian aid. They do control. #USAID doi.org/10.1007/s121...

The date now seems to be 30 January. As feared UNRWA has been ordered to evacuate the UNRWA compound in Jerusalem by then.

I'm looking for the text of the Hat Yai Peace Agreement signed in December 1989 between the Government of Thailand and the CPM. Any leads much appreciated! #Conflictsky #Polisky