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Caroline M. Brandt

@cbrandt.bsky.social
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Berkeley Ph.D., Sylff Fellow at Uppsala University Scholar of civil conflict peace agreements and international interventions. Lost southerner. She/her.

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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I am beyond excited that my latest work with Jenniina Kotajoki was published in IO (open-access!) - www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A quick thread below -
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Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council - Volume 80 Issue 2
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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
@cbrandt.bsky.social and Jenniina Kotajoki's study of naming and shaming non-state armed groups finds that nearly half of all condemnations at the UN Security Council target them (rather than other states)—and states shame them for very different strategic reasons. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 06/05/2026
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council - cup.org/3QQoa37 - @cbrandt.bsky.social & @jkotajoki.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo of "IO" in white letters on a dark blue background with the hashtag "OpenAccess" below it.
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ahhhhhh!!!!!
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
hive mind: help me find for a lecture a good demonstrative peace and conflict paper that uses testing of an interaction effect as a first cut test of causal process
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
its pretty funny its a survey about harassment
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 30/10/2025
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I am excited to announce that Lisa Hultman and I have been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) grant for a three-year project to study why publics support war crimes. www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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DPCR awarded two RJ project grants - Uppsala University
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Arica Schuett @aricaschuett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨The Graduate Student Support Grant is now open 🚨 If you are a graduate student in political science with an urgent financial need-please apply today! Awards are given to applicants on a lottery basis. It doesn't hurt to apply. connect.apsanet.org/graduate/gra...
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Graduate Student Member Support Grant FAQ
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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
What should we expect from President Trump’s new executive order on “wrongful detention”? My latest, on @goodauth.bsky.social, explains👇 goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...
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Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens
A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”
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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/
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Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📢 New publication! 📢 Why do ordinary citizens participate in election violence in democracies? Kathleen Klaus and @meganturnbull.bsky.social argue that such violence is often jointly produced by elites and citizens, enabled by threat-based narratives and social networks that legitimize violence.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer: -Join your campus AAUP chapter. -If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont
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Susan Hyde @sdhyde.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'm teaching intro to IR (last minute substitute teacher right here) and today a student asked for great IR podcasts. Can someone point me to the place where this has already been discussed and decided? I do not listen except for special occasions because of my schedule.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🎙️In this episode, Karen Brounéus, one of our professors and clinical psychologist, takes us on a journey there and back again. Her research helps us think more deeply about the intrinsic link between #MentalHealth and #ConflictReduction. Listen: 🎧 Podbean: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i2jm6-...
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Kate Lonergan @katelonergan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🆕 📣 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 🧵:
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
for scholars using LLMs to classify/analyze/do anything with news sources - does uploading news to commercial LLMs somehow not violate the newspapers' terms of service? what am I missing here?
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...
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Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors.
One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 19/08/2025
Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!
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Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen
I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...
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Hanne Fjelde @hannefjelde.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6. How will the next legally required transition of power go?
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Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Wondering about submitting your proposal to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference? See 👇🏻 and its exciting new panel formats.
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
its pretty funny how consistently AI thinks I should be using more emojis in this response memo
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵
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K. Chad Clay @kchadclay.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Job alert! Please apply and/or share with your networks! GLOBIS is hiring a Research Professional to work with us on our Human Rights Programs, especially the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). (1/3) www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...
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Research Professional
The Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) is seeking a high-achieving, detail-oriented researcher to support the Center’s Human Rights Research and Education programs. In particular, this pos...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
A Cal State faculty member was arrested for protesting ICE. The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Letting down important coauthors 🫠
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
hats off to whoever required the EU to update the rules of this grant application to specify "The individual researcher and the supervisor must be two different people."
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I’m at NEPS! Come say hi!!
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Have to say, who ever had the idea - what about Peace Science, but make it in Barcelona; that was a good idea
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
okay, you have to admit, a correction that reads "The name of the author Amy N. Arndt was incorrectly omitted from the author list in the original article" is pretty funny for an article titled "I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap."
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
jesus christ
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim? @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social‬ and @abbeyst.bsky.social‬ for @lseusablog.bsky.social‬
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How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
Trump's harsh immigration actions are part of the administration’s strategy for dismantling democracy by amassing coercive power.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Important message from @ethanvporter.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @emmaspiro.bsky.social “NSF has accepted a dangerous myth that misinformation research (and research more generally) is really just partisan activism […] Nothing could be further from the truth” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Misinformation research continues to be urgent science
By one account, roughly 70% of Americans regard misinformation as a major threat, outpacing fears about climate change and infectious disease (1). This is true although the current and longer-term imp...
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
When the Napalm Girl photo showed a child fleeing napalm in Vietnam, it fueled outrage and changed history. Today, the world watches Palestinian children burn on live stream as Israel’s final solution unfolds in Gaza, yet the west remains silent, inept, and indifferent.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
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Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling
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Charles Olney @olneyce.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Music lets share our most banal experiences--first kisses, awkward breakups, the endemic embarrassments of being 13--and helps to reveal our shared humanity in the process (inspired by a wonderful @personalbeatles.com conversation with @davebazan.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/topkomme...
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Music and the embarrassments of youth
The human experience is essentially banal. That's part of what makes it beautiful
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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My article with @hannefjelde.bsky.social & U Daxecker is now published in V87(2) of @thejop.bsky.social. Here is 🧵summarizing our findings: We argue that misinformation can induce affective shifts that increase out-group animosity and fuel polarization. doi.org/10.1086/732979
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Misinformation, Narratives, and Intergroup Attitudes: Evidence from India | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 2
Much research examines citizens’ beliefs in misinformation and whether these beliefs can be corrected, but we know far less about how misinformation impacts social attitudes. We propose that misinform...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Because international students help underwrite and expand opportunities for American students, the collateral damage from their decline or exit would be catastrophic.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For researchers / #polisky folks: if you’re dealing with online harassment because of your research, here is a useful set of resources (potentially relevant to others too):
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Researchers
Visit the post for more.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A new study by Doctoral Candidate @jkotajoki.bsky.social examines how UN peacekeepers perceive local civilian actors and non-state armed groups. The article in International Peacekeeping is available open access on the publisher’s website. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #UN #Peacekeepers
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Stephanie Schwartz @stephrschwartz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I want to take this opportunity to say: Research is hard, especially when studying complex systems like politics that are constantly changing. None of us are immune to missing something or drawing a bad inference. Not everything that’s true now will still be in the future. Show each other grace.
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Susan Hyde @sdhyde.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Look forward to seeing many friends at this 3-7 event
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are thrilled to co-host the annual conference of the Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network (SWEMENA) on 28-29 August. The call for papers is now open! The deadline for submitting your abstract is 25 March. Read more. 👉 www.swemena.se/news/swemena...
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@mirya.bsky.social could you point me towards the person who made the MHAWS logo? I remember reading about it but can't find the email !
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Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We at @uupeace.bsky.social we’re honored to have Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social present her new book project on Return without Refoulement - I learned SO MUCH
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