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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Pleased that my paper “Paper Pusher or President’s Guard: Contentious Action in Syria’s Revolution” has been conditionally accepted at the Journal of Peace Research. The latest version is online here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thanks to Amytess Girgis and Sander Trubowitz for organizing!

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#APSALabor's annual virtual workshop is next Friday, and this year's organizers have done an incredible job. Please circulate and DM for the Zoom link if you'd like to join! We're on from 7 am to 5:40 pm EDT, with a great set of presenters from across oceans and timezones.

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

third recent text from friends in ~Jordan asking if Zohran Mamdani is *really* about to win 1. as a political scientist we absolutely love to discuss early voting 2. first time in a while my voice messages back haven't needed to explain some distressing feature of U.S. politics 3. fingers crossed

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

That shift is obvious to all: I reached out to a knowledgeable friend about the piece, and he hadn't even heard of the court case: "I've been on Palestine frequency since 2023" But it also shows up in the data, for instance ACLED's tabulations of protests in Jordan --

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The findings reinforce that users across platforms can develop very distinct understandings of the costs of conflict. Violence is more rooted in macro-political meaning on Twitter than on Telegram, with ceaseless airstrike warnings divorced from dialogue on the conflict’s central framings.

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We also examined how messages differ across users how post on all three platforms. On a given day in 2020, one revolutionary org posted a stylized remembrance of a revolutionary youth on Twitter; news about airstrikes and Assad-ISIS conflict on Telegram; news about both, but non-stylized, on FB.

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The paper constructed and analyzed similar datasets from three distinct social media platforms: Twitter, Telegram, and Facebook. Analyzing millions of messages and images from 2017-2020, we show distinct visions of the conflict across these different platforms

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Our article “Social Media Narratives Across Conflict: Evidence from Syria” is now ahead of print at the Journal of Politics!

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Trump wants to “clean” Gaza of Palestinians Calls King Abdullah directly after US pauses all foreign military + development aid to Jordan but not Egypt and Israel. Those are top 3 recipients of US $ globally. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

And @yezidsayigh.bsky.social latest writing on the IMF's struggles to impose any conditions on Egypt's military companies carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

today brought to you by @seanyom.bsky.social and Pete Moore's excellent new article "The Fortress State: Extreme Militarization in Jordan" brill.com/view/journal...

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

reading new articles about about military spending in MENA and can only think of this Dril tweet

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Excited to be co-organizing the 2024 Comparative Labor Workshop with Bluesky-less Danny Daneri! We aim to bring scholars working on labor issues across subfields and methods orientations into conversation Please apply with an abstract by Dec. 8 for March 8-9, 2024: forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N...

Comparative Labor Politics Workshop 2024

The 2024 Comparative Labor Politics Workshop hopes to bring scholars studying labor across diverse cases and with varied methodological orientations into conversation. We encourage work by scholars in any stage of their careers, and across subfields of political science, sociology, or labor studies. We are particularly interested in the following themes:

· Labor, democracy, and authoritarianism
· Causes and effects of labor activism and mobilization
· Inequality in workplaces and labor markets
· Political responses to labor activism and inequality

Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words and optional paper draft by December 8, 2023 to this link: https://forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N8hj48. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-December. The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom on Thursday March 8th and 9th, 2024.

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Translating lawyer Hala Ahed's call for Jordan to withdraw from water deal w/Israel @ Dubai COP next month She is an influential Front Line Human Rights Defender awardee whose phone had been targeted w/Pegasus spyware www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/h... twitter.com/Hala_Deeb/st...

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Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Translation of Jordanian activist Sameer Mashhour on how translating massive street mobilization for Palestine toward political wins requires institutions Backdrop:100s of ongoing arrests, years-long repression of country's teachers' union and independent parties twitter.com/sameermashho...

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