How much do Nigerians trust their elections? 🗳️🇳🇬 We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇 You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here: www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Great primer on using UCDP

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... A thread 🧵:

💧Our researcher @stefandoring.bsky.social presented as a Featured Speaker at the 2025 International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In his presentation, Stefan touched on various aspects of how armed conflict shapes access to water. Photo by Roger Anis #Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict

The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions: -- Editor, Medical Evidence Project -- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch and we're still recruiting for: -- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎 Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”

A vote for Sweden is a vote for Finland (you get two for the price of one ;) #esc2025

Gotta be Sweden again this year #barabadabastu #esc

Oh hey ACLED user, Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings. Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃 #ACLED #DataSurprise

In March 2024 Altmetric detected 1,024,527 mentions of research items on X, formerly Twitter. This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago. April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go. Place your bets.

Opening my email inbox after one week of vacation

Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv... In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE). #RPVSky

missed this one last night: "Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance."

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/41YLmhC

🎓 Join our dynamic and supportive research community in Uppsala, Sweden! We are now seeking to fill a general PhD position in peace and conflict research. Last application date is 7 April 2025. Read more and apply. 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Jobs #Hiring #AcademicJobs

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

🚨 Check out this new article “Between a rock and a hard place: A geosocial approach to water insecurity in Kabul” Read about the findings and implications: doi.org/10.1016/j.wa... #water

Warum es keinen Brennpunkt in der ARD gibt, wenn der Täter ein Deutscher mit mutmaßlich rechtsextremem Hintergrund ist. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Super fun this is out! My pleasure to host @floriankrampe.bsky.social for the @uupeace.bsky.social podcast. We need more science-policy exchanges.

🎙️ In a new episode of Researching Peace, we discuss the link between science and policy with Florian Krampe, who works as Director of Studies, Peace and Development at SIPRI. 🎧 Listen: researchingpeace.podbean.com/e/35-bridgin...

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

In the latest episode of Researching Peace, we look at current threats to democracy and ask if the internet and social media have turned against democracy. Joining us from Norway is Espen Geelmuyden Rød. 🎧 Listen 👉 www.podbean.com/eas/pb-636j6...

Out now open access at @ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New publication; Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research Open access link; link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I just posted a new notebook: Causal Inference with the 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 📦 for #Rstats. It introduces the idea of G-Computation and tries to demystify the differences between ATE, ATT, and ATU. This is a first draft and I would looove any feedback! marginaleffects.com/chapters/gco...

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Definitely urge folks interested in environmental peacebuilding, climate security, environmental security, environment, natural resources, peace & conflict to follow @enpax.bsky.social

A new article by Isabel Bramsen from Lund University and Isak Svensson from our department explores the designs and dynamics of past, present, and potential mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The article is available open access 👉 brill.com/view/journal...

Kicking off my shiny account with a paper alert ✨ Out in World Development: a review of the literature on the impacts of violence across societal wellbeing and development, with a focus on what we know about how various impacts intertwine. A truly inter-disciplinary effort doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

🕊️ Skriver tillsammans med 23 kollegor @uupeace.bsky.social på DN Debatt om varför det ligger i Sveriges egenintresse att regeringen återupptar och växlar upp fredsarbetet. www.dn.se/debatt/sveri...

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Here's a provocative new paper "Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science" doi.org/10.33774/aps...

The application for Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2025 is open! We invite senior African scholars to apply for a 3-month scholarship in Uppsala. Scholars awarded the Chair pursue their own research while contributing to activities at our dep. and the Nordic Africa Institute.👉 nai.uu.se/opportunitie...

EGU25 Call for Abstracts - Session ITS2.3/CL0.12: Population Health Impacts of Climate Extremes and Climatic Factors. Working on health and climate change, consider submitting an abstract for our session at the next EGU.

Our Associate Professor Johan Brosché appeared on Swedish national radio discussing the often forgotten war raging in Sudan. The program is available here (in Swedish) 👉 sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/det-...

Check out our latest article, led by Paola Vesco, reviewing literature on war impacts through an inter-disciplinary theoretical framework. We review studies across 9 dimensions of human development: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... @prioresearch.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social #conflictsky #polisci

It’s concerning. In my view young researchers should avoid MDPI and Frontiers altogether

Happening now @uupeace.bsky.social: @golafs.bsky.social defending her dissertation ”Precarious paths to democracy”, with opponent @sdhyde.bsky.social Looking forward to a stimulating discussion!

Zambia has lost $1.3 billion due to the energy crisis = 5% of GDP due to energy blackouts A wellspring of solar projects are in the pipeline, with an array of developers. Interesting to note that China has not gained a stranglehold here #drought #energysky e360.yale.edu/features/zam...

Another excellent piece of work by @sebastianvanbaalen.se and @andresuribe.bsky.social examining how rebel governance works in government dominated areas. Must read >>>

New in #Demscore v4: The Demscore e-infrastructure has been expanded with new datasets from UCDP and MIGPOL. #UCDP Peacemakers at Risk Risk (PAR) Dataset #MIGPOL Historical Immigration Policies (HIP) Explore the new data at www.demscore.se @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...