The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

There are studentships to do PhD research with my colleagues - or indeed with me! Check out the link below for details of how to apply - but don't leave it too long, as the application deadline is coming up next week

Join us on Thursday @africamultiple.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @benjaminkirby.bsky.social uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/j/6681584839... AyQ0Uyb1RNOFdvT09oRVc3MXoyUT09 URL Meeting ID/PW below.

📣 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 ⚙️ #ecprjs26 Call for Papers buff.ly/oKqKLsj • Receive in-depth feedback • Build lasting scholarly networks ✔️ 35 confirmed Workshops buff.ly/mXDmfPt 📍 7–10 April, University of Innsbruck ⌛ Submit by 10 Dec #cfp #PoliSky

Excited to announce that, together with @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, I am co-organising the workshop 'Global Governance in Times of Disruption' at next year's @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions of Workshops. Details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Join us in Innsbruck to discuss this crucial topic!

3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh: edin.ac/4hVNTAL

Our brilliant Reviews Editors @drincon.bsky.social and @rtapscott.bsky.social are seeking expressions of interest for the journal's revamped reviews section. We look forward to seeing exciting and creative proposals! www-tandfonline-com.brad.idm.oclc.org/action/autho...

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Ethical Considerations for SoTL Research in Political Science Education - cup.org/4mBpnGq "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)" - @jeremymoulton.bsky.social ‬& @rtapscott.bsky.social #FirstView

Thanks to the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social research team for your contributions & @filippodionigi.bsky.social @rtapscott.bsky.social @marniehowlett.bsky.social for bringing this Forum together! #UKRIFLF @uoypolitics.bsky.social

📢 Forum written together with: ➡️ @marniehowlett.bsky.social ➡️@rtapscott.bsky.social ➡️@grace-akello.bsky.social ➡️Mousumi Mukherjee ➡️Natalia Otrishcenko ➡️Anastasia Shesterinina 📑Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research @ispjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article-...

🗓️🔔 CfP for CPE's upcoming workshop on "Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?" July 2nd! If you want feedback on working papers&projects, and use qualitative methodologies, this workshop is for you. Some bursaries are available. Please share! More info below:

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One reviewer still needed!

Thank you to our stellar roundtable panel for a fascinating discussion on the present and future of the field of civil wars research today! Lots of ideas and food for thought for both journal and field more broadly #ISA2025

Civil Wars is at #ISA2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social do join us! 🧩Workshop on Rebel Finance and the Financialisation of Rebel Governance, Saturday @ 8am 🪁Roundtable on Reimagining the Field, Sunday @ 1.45pm 🥂Drinks Reception, Sunday @ 7.45pm Feel free to DM or email us to discuss projects!

🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨 We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social. 📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq 🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!

Just a reminder! Come join our wonderful department. We are hiring a senior lecturer and associate senior lecturer @uupeace.bsky.social

Writing about ethical challenges in Neurology and seeking your most vexing recent ethical problems. "When surrogates choose suffering" is one that troubles me. Any thoughts from others?

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Ethnography & ethical approval from Hughes, G., & Emmerich, N., (2018). Ethnography and ethics: Securing permission for doctoral research in and from the national health service #ethics #ethnography

New publication alert! Polisky Dictatorsky Check out a new book "The Social Roots of Authoritarianism" by Natalia Forrat! You can find a summary here: twitter.com/forrat/statu...

Workshop of Institutional Ethics Review from University of Glasgow Full summary by @rtapscott.bsky.social here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_... Lots of good discussion but I particularly related to the section on costs...

What is Institutional Ethics Review, and Why is it (Still) so Unsatisfactory for the Social Sciences? www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Very interesting and fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on the role of women in Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) along the border between the #DRC and #Uganda, under the supervision of @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social & Doreen Kembabazi www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/

For all of those considering attending the European Conference on African Studies in Prague next June, see if your research fits our panel ! Lamine Savané (University of Ségou) and I are convening a panel called "Digital Platforms and Armed Insecurity in African Crisis Ecologies".

As I am on it, here is another still very embryonic list bringing together people interested in and posting about armed groups across types, contexts and places. Again, please do chime in with additional suggestions in replies. go.bsky.app/b1T1De

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Defining the Crisis in Sudan: Rethinking Pathways to Peace 26th Nov. 2024 | 2pm EAT Registration: biea.ac.uk/events/rethi... Attendance: in-person & online Host: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Rift Valley Institute and World Peace Foundation in association with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

It's that time of year again... The call for our UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! We invite ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to having you in London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025

The call for the Conflict & Change PhD Workshop at University College London is out! PhD students working on IR, conflict, contentious politics, apply by 8 December! It is a really nice crowd. Workshop is on 24-25 February, 2025. www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

Umm, hi everyone, welcome! If any of you have thoughts about teaching political science -- definitely in light of current events, but also just in general -- the Political Science Educator is going to have a Winter deadline of Dec. 15. Please submit! A few notes: educate.apsanet.org/political-sc...

Quoted here discussing the challenges of studying misinformation in closed/encrypted spaces and the consequences of an overwhelmingly US-centric focused research agenda.

Fulfilling my contractual obligation to tell you: MPSA Submission Deadline is tomorrow! Come talk about African Politics, a small but very mighty section! Good colleagues! Great city! No promises on the weather!

📢 Job alert: Postdoc 'Political Masculinities in the European Parliament.' Apply by 31 Oct. if you have expertise/interest in masculinities, representation, qualitative methods and the EP. RBS =💯🙏https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoc-Political-Masculinities-in-the-European-Parliament/804471102/

The fabulous Lauren Baker and I are submitting a panel proposal for WPSA on innovating ethnographic approaches to studying global environmental politics. We have a couple spots and proposals are due tomorrow, so if you are interested, please reach out ASAP!

Our annual post-doctoral research fellowships campaign at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) is now open. We welcome applications from researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Please share! www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Can’t wait to read this @annameier.bsky.social - congrats :)

It’s a strange feeling to have an article come out after leaving academia, but I hope you find this interesting and useful: “‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: Identity, democracy, and banning white supremacists in Germany” 🧵 on 3 things it’s trying to do: 1/

Our fantastic Reviews Team @rtapscott.bsky.social @drincon.bsky.social are now accepting Expressions of Interest for our revamped reviews sections! Categories include: - Review and Rejoinders - Reviews of non-English language work - Arts and Culture Reviews - Capsule Reviews Get in touch!

Calling all conflict scholars! Please share widely and consider submitting an Expressions of Interest to contribute to the reviews section of Civil Wars. We are recruiting: 🎭 Arts and Culture Reviews 🌎 Language and Translation Reviews 🤼 Reviews and Rejoinders Conflictsky 🗺

Calling all conflict scholars! Please share widely and consider submitting an Expressions of Interest to contribute to the reviews section of Civil Wars. We are recruiting: 🎭 Arts and Culture Reviews 🌎 Language and Translation Reviews 🤼 Reviews and Rejoinders Conflictsky 🗺

📣 Polisky Dictatorsky FALL Season 2024 Schedule is out 📣 We are thrilled to announce a new season featuring fantastic work and great discussants! To participate remember to subscribe at tinyurl.com/bddy4bta (for Zoom links and updates) Full info below plus a 🧵 with details on each meeting:

Nice intro by Catherine Boone of why “bringing economic regionalism back in to political science” is relevant podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The African Politics Conference Group is now on Bluesky! Follow us to stay updated on the section's news and opportunities.

🚨 @saragoodman.bsky.social and Jen Cyr's book on how to conduct good qualitative (and mixed-method) research is now out! @beattyriedl.bsky.social and I have a chapter on the benefits and pitfalls of mixed methods and how to combine different methodological tools.