It’s true generally but here even more so: for anyone who received an award or honor, there are dozens more who would have been worthy

In Brussels in September? Come along! ukandeu.ac.uk/events/the-f...

Re-upping this great opportunity for junior scholars working on conflict and international security using quantitative methods to present research, including practice job talks — apply to @jqconworkshop.bsky.social by August 14

This is why the extra 1.5% of GDP on defense-related expenditures is absolutely necessary and could be quite useful. on.ft.com/41b8ytg

📢 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Fall 2025 PhD students, postdocs & junior faculty: Present your research/practice job talk! 🗓️ Virtual: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 1pm ET 📝 Deadline: Aug 14 Application below: #PoliSci #polisky #JobMarket #ConflictStudies

📣 Terrific and supportive opportunity from @jqconworkshop.bsky.social for junior scholars working on conflict and international security using quantitative methods to present research, including practice job talks 📣

🚨 ISSS is accepting award nominations through September 15, 2025, for the following section awards: 🏆 Book Award 🏆 Best Security Article Award 🏆 Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Student Paper 🏆 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award All details here: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

#EDUsky #education #teaching #edchat#quotesoftheday

This week's @wpr.bsky.social column wasn't about illustrating general IR concepts, so much as it was about addressing a pressing current issue. But I did draw a bit from some of my recent research on alliances, primarily NATO specifically. Specifically...

New article: For the Times They Are A‐Changin': Towards a ‘Homeland Economics’ Paradigm of the European Union? - Brockenhuus‐Schack; Nedergaard - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #dkpol

Yesterday, our researcher Lotje Boswinkel was in Santander as part of the annual "Spain in the World" gathering, organised by the Spanish MFA and UIMP. Lotje discussed European security and shifts in the global order. More info🔸 www.uimp.es/en/ @lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social

More gold. New favorite substack. Particularly important for those of us straddling academe and policy.

We've got an article in here! @profpaulpoast.bsky.social Tim Haesebrouck and I that is... bsky.app/profile/jord...

We've got an article in here! @profpaulpoast.bsky.social Tim Haesebrouck and I that is... bsky.app/profile/jord...

As JPR's Editorial Office heads into the summer break, we are excited to share that we have just published our largest issue yet! 👉 Check out the July issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/JPR/curr... We will be back in early August - until then, happy reading and a peaceful summer! 🌞

🧵1/5 Happy to report that this article has an issue in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1177/0022... Abstract Why do countries mutually agree to constraints on their behavior? Why do they comply with such constraints in the absence of enforcement mechanisms?

Words to (try to) live by

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇

Slightly belatedly sharing this H-Diplo roundtable honoring the contributions of the late Owen Cote. Contributions from Barry Posen, Steve Miller, Phil Haun, @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social, Lena Andrews, Austin Long, and myself. We miss Owen everyday. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

📢 On June 6, #EISS Founding Director Hugo Meijer gave a lecture at the College de France titled “The Origins of War and Peace in the Human Species”, based on his forthcoming book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2026! 🎥 youtu.be/UWW9aMu9mzI?...

Join us for a public panel by the Jean Monnet Summer School on the future of EU–US relations. 🗓 30/6 🕒 15:30–16:45 CET 📍 VUB Campus Etterbeek, Auditorium I.0.01 👉 Register: ow.ly/k1m750WfohV #BSoG #TransatlanticRelations

Under greater pressure, younger cohorts increase the rate at which they publish articles significantly, and do so by placing a higher relative premium on high-impact factor journals (i.e., they don't flood low-impact journals). Since something must give, they publish fewer books and book chapters.

How do structural incentives, such as job scarcity and metric-based evaluation, shape the questions scholars ask, the methods they use to answer them, and the outlets they prioritize to publish their work? We have an updated draft answering these questions: osf.io/preprints/os...

Most literature reviews miss the point.
 Not because they’re sloppy. 
But because they treat the literature like a box to tick. In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter... 🧵

How can universities develop their staff’s capacity to adequately use – and perhaps even themselves develop – innovative pedagogical methods, resources and tools? Submit your workshop or presentation proposal for the 2026 #EUALearnTeach Forum by 6 October buff.ly/Klj3sHj #EduSky #HigherEd

Great conference, so bummed I can't join this year. Bravo team @eissnetwork.bsky.social !

New paper alert 😄 ! Mauricio Rivera Celestino, Scott Gates and I have a paper out in the Journal of Conflict Resolution: lnkd.in/gzqYuTmN! The work began in 2017 as part of the Street-Level Autocrat project. Since then, children have been born, data collected, and now, the article is finally out:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... New paper with William Lippert nownhas an issue!

www.linkedin.com/posts/jordan... Happy to report this paper in #armscontrol has an issue in @cspjournal.bsky.social. checkit

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra

Important new publication from @westpointsosh.bsky.social teammates: doi.org/10.1080/0268...

🧵1/This article has an issue! If ya do #defense #economics, #security or want disaggregated defense spending #data, this article, the data, and its replication materials should make that much easier - the #stata/#python do file scrapes it #nato #eu #econsky #ir journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Can anybody recommend good learning material for the use of DAGs in time series analysis? i'm interested in thoughtful takes on e.g. whether time should be a node or an index of several nodes, how to represent estimates of temporal differences in a clear way etc. #statssky

Soooo... I am tenured :-) Celebrated with @cescamat.bsky.social and the other amazing folks at IPERG in Barcelona. Thank you friends, family, tenure committee, colleagues, reviewers and letter writers. You made a Cavaillé happy. fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/ca...

BTG alum Juan Andrés Gannon recently published an article on State Military Capabilities in Security Studies. Check it out at the link below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧵1/This article has an issue! If ya do #defense #economics, #security or want disaggregated defense spending #data, this article, the data, and its replication materials should make that much easier - the #stata/#python do file scrapes it #nato #eu #econsky #ir journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“For the first time since reunification Germany became the biggest military spender in Western Europe” SIPRI has published a new report on military spending, with some very interesting data points www.sipri.org/media/press-...

¡Seguro que sí !

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‼️Brussels 360 Speakers‼️ Join us and Linde Desmaele (Leiden University) on the #Brussels360 course to discuss and learn about the shifts in the transatlantic relationship. 🐦 Apply by 23 April 2025 for early-bird fees! Apply today🔸 csds.vub.be/executive-co...

Coming up tomorrow (Tuesday)! If you’d like to hear from me about writing academic book reviews, please register at the link in the quoted post.

This is your chance to interact with some of the brightest minds in Brussels! Do sign up and/or spread the word! If you’re looking for an executive course in defence, tech and trade at the heart of EU and NATO affairs, this is it…

🧵1/So proud of my @westpointsosh.bsky.social teammate Ben Jebb & his co-author Alisa Laufer for this new publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Does terrorism spread among neighboring countries as would a contagious virus?

Many thanks to @cspjournal.bsky.social for a smooth process. Happy to have written this with my @unileiden.bsky.social teammate William Lippert. It was a new substantive and methodological journey for me!

Always grateful and joyful to be part of team @csds.bsky.social !

This article is #openaccess! #polisky #milsky #internationalrelations #security #Europe

1/New article! 🧵#internationalrelations #ukraine #russia #security with awesome William Lippert Under what conditions do the more powerful states in an adversarial conventional arms control (CAC) agreement accept a reduction in their relative military power? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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