Now this asshole is securitizing sofas and loveseats.

Someone anti-ICE shot the people ICE was detaining and happened to drop bullets with the words "anti-ice" written in pen. Got it.

Done.

Depuis le 3 septembre, les jihadistes imposent un blocus sur les routes de l'ouest du #Mali. Une opération inédite et révélatrice de la nouvelle stratégie du #JNIM : asphyxier les poumons économiques du pays et contraindre les forces armées à se disperser. www.jeuneafrique.com/1721333/poli...

It is amazing how much worthless research there is published on JNIM's politics and practices in the #Sahel. So few are based on fieldwork. So few interviews conducted. Few article engage with the literature in French. Honestly.... it's depressing.

Take note, @isanet.bsky.social.

Applications still open for EU applicants until early October! Applications to MA in African Studies remain open, so if you want to start an interdisciplinary social science Master's degree in October with a regional focus on Africa, apply now! www.ma-african-studies.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html

Slightly diminish a band: Hubbub at the Disco.

Really nice explanation in this video.

To the 205 other applicants to a recent job in the UK in conflict & security that got rejection letters today: I feel you! Something will stick. The academic job market blows. Just remember - keep at it!

Go live and work in Bordeaux with a great team!

Our 3rd workshop for young peace and conflict researchers, held last week at Augsburg. Once again – a great opportunity for discussing PhD research, getting feedback, and meeting peers! Thanks to the #BMFTR for the financial support.

In Burkina Faso, on the other hand, the military government passed a law to formalise the role of vigilante groups in order to bolster their fight against the Sahelian jihadist insurgency. @pmfrowd.bsky.social has written lucidly about this: academic.oup.com/afraf/articl...

What do healing crystals in Sweden have to do with the Taliban in Afghanistan? Our co-coordinator Prof. Dr. Florian Kühn answers this question on Swedish television. Find out more 👇 conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/en/growing-t...

I'm on Team "How". Team "the ways in which" can suck it.

Put it on your reading lists, folks!

I wonder how long it will take for #JNIM to capture these vehicles...

I'm just a boring ol' Political Scientist. I do not have degrees from MIT in "nuclear, chemical, and math".

Riina Turtio's article, "Soviet Military Assistance to Mali and Guinea, 1958–1980" in the Journal of West African History is a MUST READ. @glasmanjo.bsky.social may have been at least a bit right about Historians doing better work than Political Scientists! muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic...

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

Have you ever attended a talk or event that is fully-hybrid that has ACTUALLY worked ? Honestly.... sometimes these are rough.

Il faut le lire pour le croire. Le Gouvernement allemand cherche un accord avec les talibans (!) pour expulser des afghans. Les talibans qui tuent, torturent & maltraitent massivement. Les talibans que les allemands eux-mêmes ont combattu par les armes durant 20 ans. Quelle déliquescence morale.

So much for the Kenyan-led, US/Canada/France/EU-supported security intervention launched last year....

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

I'm honored to contribute to the "Wagner Symposium" organized by the Armed Groups and International Law Blog, with a piece focused on accountability for Wagner Group crimes in Mali. www.armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2025/06/27/a...

JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

By the person who bombed every single hospital in Gaza.

Is anyone else out there getting a bunch of article reviewer requests at the moment?

Remember when they told us women were too emotional for politics?

Après un an de détention en RCA, le chercheur Joseph Figueira Martin n'a toujours pas été jugé 👇 www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...

Excellent piece by Minna Salami on the 'populist trap' in Africa - and on Traoré: www.theideasletter.org/essay/africa...

This past three to seven days, and continuing today, Sahelian military forces have suffered staggering defeats (Ekinewane; Falmey; Dioura; Boulikessi; Koumbri; and today an attack on the base in Timbuktu). JNIM perpetrated all these attacks except for Ekinewane. Really difficult times in the #Sahel.

Honestly... see you in Brighton. @isanet.bsky.social - don't put people at risk because of lost money.

Rejoignez l'équipe que je coordonne avec @emorier.bsky.social , @corinnajentzsch.com & @yguichaoua.bsky.social sur les djihads subsahariens... 3 bourses postdoctorales de 3 ans à Belfast et Bordeaux. Des détails ci-dessous... Candidatez et/ou faites passer... #BokoHaram #JNIM #JASD #ISCAP #ISWAP

Binta Sidibé Gascon's testimony is essential. Watch it and forget the viral AI-generated Captain Africa horseshit that saturates the online space about IB Traore's Burkina

Are you a graduate student who presented at the 2025 ISA in Chicago? If you were part of a panel sponsored or co-sponsored by the IPS section, consider applying to the 2026 IPS Graduate Student Paper Award! Self-nominations are encouraged!

The IPS Section is now welcoming nominations for the 2026 IPS Book Award! To nominate or self-nominate a book, please email the award panel chair Philippe M. Frowd ([email protected]). Books must be received by September 1st, 2025. For further information, access: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Not enough. PNG Israel's ambassadors until the bombing stops.

** JOB ALERT ** Research position (3 years) at Queen's University Belfast to conduct research on project “Governing Jihad in Africa”. This position is to do comparative fieldwork on the ideology of at least two jihadi groups in Africa. Details here: hr.apps.qub.ac.uk/jobs/job_des...

Boom! Insecurities theme, here we go ! @janahoenke.bsky.social

Will it include discussion on concrete measures needed when a few of the attendees get detained at some random U.S. airport?

Here’s last night’s story about why Donald Trump’s relationship with the press is signaling a slide toward authoritarianism for the U.S., and why Doctor Odyssey is the best show on television. Do you hear us, ABC? Where is the season 2 renewal, ABC? youtu.be/07JQr5W3970

Reading & Discussion – Olivier van Beemen "In the Name of the Animals" ("Im Namen der Tiere") 19.5.2025 | 5-7 pm | Conference Hall, FZA, University of Bayreuth & livestream! 👉 www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025... #Conservation #AnimalProtection #Africa Photo© C.H.Beck-Verlag

New in Geopolitics: Grassroots Geopolitical Imaginaries in the Sahel: Civil Society Security Narratives in Burkina Faso and Niger by Adam Sandor and Laura Berlingozzi @adamsandor.bsky.social @lauraberlingozzi.bsky.social Read more here:

How do civil society actors in the Central hashtag#Sahel shape their governments' foreign policies and geopolitics? @lauraberlingozzi.bsky.social and I examine this question with regard to current politics in #Niger and #Burkina Faso. 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is a really important piece by @adamsandor.bsky.social and Laura Berlingozzi on the deeply ambiguous role of civil society under military rule in Burkina Faso and Niger.

You changing the location of next year's convention? Because you should.

In our new article, Can Mutlu, @biometricstate.bsky.social and I argue for more attention to how smartphone apps are used at borders. Available in #openaccess!