Under what conditions do kin-states pursue militarized irredentism rather than limiting themselves to irredentist rhetoric or cultural engagement with co-ethnics abroad? Check out my @journalofgss.bsky.social article here 👉 academic.oup.com/jogss/articl... polisky | nationalisky

#polisky #polrel Happy to announce my latest open access pub w/ Jonathan Fox and Jeffrey Haynes at @africaspectrum.bsky.social, wherein we use RAS4 data to examine correlates of governmental religious discrimination v. religious minorities in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1990-2023. Happy reading!

TOI: IDF says it has located and identified the body of final slain hostage Ran Gvili in Gaza Time to close this horrible chapter and move forward to a better world for everyone, Israelis and Palestinians alike.

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...

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New issue of Politics and Religion! *How religion shapes presidential approval *Women's representation in American clergy *Veiling in Bangladesh *Rivalry bw Iran and Saudi Arabia *Religion & climate change *Review of Gunes Tezcur's new book, Liminal Minorities Check it out! #polrel #polisky

Iran is now officially acknowledging 3,117 killed in protests around the country.

The BBC is starting to pay attention. Maybe other major news outlets should too.

And the next astoundingly stupid, profoundly illegal, world order threatening territory grab by the Trump administration will be...

This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.

#polisky #polrel funding opportunity! Use fresh new data to do cool research 💯

Utterly and unforgivably horrific.

Important thoughts from an outgoing associate editor at my favorite academic journal, Security Studies, where my work has been accepted twice, rejected much more frequently, and *always* fairly and thoroughly reviewed.

On the remarkable quiet on this platform from my academic colleagues regarding the ongoing protests and murder of 100s-1000s of unarmed Iranian protesters by the Iranian regime...

More than 3000 murdered by the Iranian regime in 16 days. Crickets.

Ongoing thread of the names, images, and brief bios of Iranian civilians killed during January 2026 #IranProtests:

Iran has been offline for more than 84 hours. #DigitalBlackoutIran

Any Eyes on Iran? The silence, as usual, is deafening.

#polisky #contentiousky about the closest you can get to real time updates on protests in Iran

Threads like these, by people who didn't become experts yesterday, are why I love my academic network on bluesky. Read up, folks!

Indispensable work by @captcheng.bsky.social on rebel-perpetrated wartime genocidal violence, with a focus on ISIS targeting of Yazidis. #polisky #conflictsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To what extent do EU member states really ensure separation of religion and state? Much less than you would expect! Check out the latest from my friend and colleague, Jonathan Fox #BarIlan #RAS #polrel

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#polisky #historysky #jewishstudies folks, opportunity for a fully funded 1-4 month research stay with us at #BarIlanU in 2026. Inquiries to [email protected]

#polisky folks take note!

#polrel on a topic that doesn't get nearly enough attention, the John Birch Society as a progenitor of contemporary American Christian nationalism.

Important new work by Zeynep Taydas, Laura Olson, and Jeffrey Fine on the nuanced intersection of religion and ethnicity on approval for presidential policies. #polisky #polrel

#polisky, #conflictsky, and #polrel folks, check out this excellent review by Nilay Saiya of Güneş Murat Tezcür's outstanding new book from 2024, Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies.

Happy to announce the third pub from Round 4 of the Religion and State project #RAS4, from Jonathan Fox and me on Western Democracies, 1990-2023, part of a special issue on the Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West at the Review of Faith and International Affairs #polisky #polrel

Happy to announce the second publication from Round 4 data collection for the Religion and State project #RAS4, from Jonathan Fox, Marko Vekovic, and me. Here we summarize general findings for post-Communist states, 1990-2023. Even more regional data coming down the pipeline soon! #polisky #polrel

From the bad place, but keeping it classy.