A reminder that there are already a lot of European alternatives in place. Always worth exploring european-alternatives.eu when looking to buy or switch.

One beautiful thing about Norwegian society: people don’t blast phone calls, facetimes, or speaker mode in public. The sound of silence 🇳🇴✨

Meet Citation Compare: ortutt.github.io/citation-com... Enter an article's link or DOI and get not only its citation number but also see how it compares to all other articles published in the same year and journal. Information based on CrossRef API. Vibe coded by Claude. Hope people find it useful!

Phone-free parties are trending and honestly? I want phone-free universities, phone-free cafés, phone-free bars. I want to make eye contact with a stranger and have a random conversation.

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Talking abundance: Just like some EU countries are failing at managing decreased supply of energy sources in a world with 🔥 demand, EU institutions (the ERC) are struggling to deal with similar dynamics in the research space. The outcome will be exiting and/or finding alternatives in both spaces.

Is anyone else genuinely scared about what might happen tonight? The kind of afraid where it feels like the world could cross a line you can’t uncross. I really hope that tomorrow, looking back, this will feel dramatic.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

It was an honor to serve on the committee selecting the Article of the Year. Very happy to pass last year’s award on to such an outstanding article! 💫🥳

We’re proud to share that JPR now leads its field in gender-inclusive authorship. Between 2000 and 2024, the share of all-male author teams dropped from nearly 75% to ~40%. This shows the value of inclusive publication policies and collaborative research practices in peace and conflict studies.

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It's only a matter of time before they come for political science next

When the first dinosaur bones were found, artists didn't really know how to render them realistically, so they do the artistic equivalent of stretching skin around them as tightly as possible, without considering where muscle and fat must have been.

Breaking: another case of academic cheating driven by ego and power. Thought that was the whole story but according to Gideon’s Wikipedia, there are multiple lawsuits, retracted papers, and a revoked license. Overachiever!

"Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

🚨 Extremely cool Postdoc position for Conflict Scholars ✨ You get to work with the great Scott Gates in his ERC advanced grant 🎉

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

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🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

Perfect day to leave Switzerland ...

How can and should we study an important yet largely inaccessible institution like the #EuropeanCouncil? In a new article, published in #EuropeanPoliticalSciene, I present key data, paradoxes and research avenues 50 years after its creation. The article is available open access 👇 h7.cl/1n6zx

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Excuse me, but why do economists get their own wine research association? Where is the wine politics association??? I feel excluded from the grape bargain.

I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed. Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.

🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why does Europe not speak out against US actions in Venezuela? Because Ukraine (and Europe) is held hostage to US goodwill. Speaking out risks American retaliation.

US vs #EU teh regulation showdown has a major player rarely mentioned. EU public! Citizens want more and better regulations. So both easy line for politicians to take and could also have a unifying & galvanising effect within the EU

🚨 Servicehinweis 🚨 Nicht vergessen: Meldungen an die #VGWort für Publikationen sowie Beteiligungen an Beiträgen und Werken rechtzeitig eintragen! 🗓 Meldeschluss: 31. Januar 2026 #IchBinHanna

With a very supportive PI ✨

On my Substack Live taking questions about my new book www.TheOwnedContinent.eu I was asked why Republicans have a seething anger toward Europe. I noted that most Americans don't think about Europe much at all (especially compared to how much Europeans think about them). But MAGA is obsessed with 🇪🇺

Now with the same productivity as the US, “core EU” also has more leisure time, higher life expectancy, less inequality No matter how you look at it, it is a clearly superior economic performance

Male scientists are more disagreeable🤷‍♀️ #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/disa...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

„Ein europäischer Bürger wird auf europäischem Boden von US-Sanktionen getroffen, weil er seinen Job bei einer Institution macht, die von der EU maßgeblich finanziert und unterstützt wird.“

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📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!

join tomorrow when @acalacino.bsky.social is presenting joint work ✨

Rumors say that the position comes with a delicious yearly Danish Christmas dinner 😋

Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social - Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance? - https://cup.org/47G8gOG - Ana Ruipérez Núñez & @melinscribe.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research. Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

Look, this "dramatic break" stuff is simply not true. Domestic politics & geopolitics have shaped economic policies for ~forever, even as, yes, the causal arrow goes both ways. People have written vast piles of books & articles about this. An entire field, called "international political economy" 🤷‍♂️

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Turns out, predicting crises isn’t about crystal balls, it’s about data. Enjoyed exploring the future of early warning data at the German Federal Foreign Office @diplo.de with colleagues across academia & practice.