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Thomas Malang

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Political scientist at IPZ

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Job alert 🚨! We have a six-year postdoc position with our department 👇. If you work in areas we work in and/or extend our work in interesting ways, please consider applying. We have a lot of diverse projects, international staff, run our business in English & are located in one of the best cities 🌍.
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Thomas Malang @dalangmalang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Invited to the UN by the Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies. Discussed about our research on parliamentary diplomacy with Ambassadors, MPs, and entrepreneurs. Very good experience.
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Michal Onderco @profonderco.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There is absolutely zero doubt that under @adreher.bsky.social ‘s tenure, RIO was the best managed journal in the field by quite some margin, publishing consistently great work. Tough but fair, with incredible response time. Thank you for your service!
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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Heute bin ich in @jmwiarda.bsky.social's Blog zu Gast, mit einem Beitrag zur Hitze im Hörsaal und wie sie sich ganz einfach vermeiden liesse: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
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Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal
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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Political Networks Conference 2026, University of Manchester (4–7 Aug), open for registrations until 6 Jul 2026 midnight: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... First come, first served. Subsidised workshops and registration. #sna #networkanalysis #polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #polisci @manchester.ac.uk
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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📢 My Bluesky-less colleague Lena Schaffer is advertising one PhD and one Postdoctoral position in her new SNF project on climate politics at @uniluzern.bsky.social Here is the link with info about the postdoc position and instructions to apply 👇: www.unilu.ch/en/universit... Please share! 🔁
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Postdoctoral Researcher (80%) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss
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Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources - Nature Human Behaviour
This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 06/05/2026
#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - How descriptive over- and under-representation impacts citizens’ evaluations of decision-making across policy domains - cup.org/4tjEneL - @reidingerve.bsky.social, @lucasleemann.bsky.social & Jonathan Slapin #FirstView
Logo of Political Science Research and Methods featuring the initials "PSRM" in a stylized grey font on a black background.
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📣 Call for Papers! Die Themengruppe Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung lädt zur Tagung am 🗓 1.–2. Oktober 2026 📍 in Greifswald (dieses Jahr bei uns vor Ort – ich freue mich sehr!) Einreichungen bis 15. Mai 👇 Hier gehts zum Call for Papers shortlink.uk/1tdsI
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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Would you like to tackle major societal challenges through cutting-edge data science? Then join our team as a Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn). We're hiring! 🚀 Apply 👉 hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs... #Data4Good #WeAreHiring
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Thomas Malang @dalangmalang.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Fieldwork update: many observations, insightful exchanges, and some unexpected new-found fame in India.
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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Deadline to apply for two 2-year postdoc positions in International Relations is in 4 days: 10 April! Positions linked to my ERC-project "Protectionism in Place: Explaining How Subnational Change Affects Public Support for Protectionism". @stockholm-uni.bsky.social #polisky #econsky #poliscisky👇
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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🚨 Deadline approaching at the end of this week. Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Connecting research communities -- North America + Europe, different disciplines, methods, theories. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA
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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The German public is more approving of police violence when victims are immigrants, and this bias is highly resistant to new information. This shows our new study published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)
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Public opinion on police misconduct: Discrimination and information resistance
The German public is more approving of police violence when victims are immigrants, and this bias is resistant to new information.
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Lukas Rudolph @lukrudolph.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
How do rural host communities respond to environmental migrants? With @linus-hormuth.bsky.social, @the-free-heart.bsky.social & V. Koubi (@ethz.ch), we show for a Global South context and with visual conjoint experiments that deservigness matters -- now in Comm. Earth & Environment: rdcu.be/e8Czw
Example of a binary paired profile table with four attributes (occupation, religion, reason for migration, distance from origin) as shown to survey respondents (for credits see Fig. A1 of the article)
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Enzo Nussio @enzonussio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Early-career researchers: we offer a Peace Research Fellowship at @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich - fully funded, 2-week research visit with the Decades of Peace team. Deadline: March 20 Application details: www.decadesofpeace.com/fellowship August in Zurich may include a swim in the river.
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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
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Offene Stellen / Open Positions
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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
⏳ 5 days left to apply! 4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at in a collegial & supportive department. Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related. Deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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Thomas Malang @dalangmalang.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Kleine Interviewschnipsel von mir. Take-away: die Lage ist düster, aber evtl sollte man das nicht an Auftritten beim WEF festmachen.
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Ist das WEF dieses Jahr so politisch wie noch nie? | Nau.ch
Am diesjährigen WEF wird in Davos auffallend oft über Politik gesprochen. Die Wirtschaft verkommt am Weltwirtschaftsforum beinahe zum Randthema.
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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci
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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
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Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Aurélia Bardon @aureliabardon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏
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Postdoctoral Research Position
Deadline: 15.12.2025
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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
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Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
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Valentina Consiglio @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior? 🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
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Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - Volume 55
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵
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CIS ETH @ciseth.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Post-Doctoral Research Position (80%) in the Research Group of Professor Thomas Widmer Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich, research area ‘Policy Analysis & Evaluation’ www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:55da...
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
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Bjørn Høyland (@bjornhoyland.bsky.social)
Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo. Interests: EU politics, comparative legislative politics, comparative European Politics & political data science.
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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/
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urpp-equality.bsky.social @urpp-equality.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Diktatfrieden und Zollkrieg? Nach dem Gipfel in Alaska wächst in der Ukraine und der Schweiz die Sorge, im Machtpoker der Weltmächte übergangen zu werden. Eine lebendige Diskussion im SRF Club unter anderem mit Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social www.srf.ch/play/tv/club...
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Trumps neue Weltordnung: Diktatfrieden und Zollkrieg? - Club - Play SRF
Nach dem Gipfel in Alaska wächst in der Ukraine und in Europa die Sorge, im Machtpoker der Weltmächte übergangen zu werden. Eine Erfahrung, die auch die Schweiz unter Trumps Zollpolitik machen musste....
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Meray Maddah @meraymaddah.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023. Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...
Network visualization of foreign diplomatic visits using the COLT dataset.
- Countries are shown as circular nodes sized by the number of inbound visits.
- Node color indicates world region: blue for Asia, yellow for Europe, red for Africa, green for Latin America and the Caribbean, pink for Oceania, and purple for Northern America.
- Directed arrows represent path of state visits from a leader’s country to their first destination, with line thickness indicating visit frequency in each decade.
Edge colors denote decades: dark blue (1990s), orange (2000s), and light green (2010s–2023).
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Thomas Malang @dalangmalang.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Late to the party. New publication with Axel Bayer in the International Political Science Review about political interactions of MPs in Zambia that switched their party affiliation. doi.org/10.1177/0192...
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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
How does participation in the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations affect the situation of civil society organizations? To learn more on this question, please check out our new publication @bjpols.bsky.social
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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Morgen, Mi 2.7.25 um 17 Uhr spreche ich im nächsten Crisis Conference Call mit Prof. Dr. Ralph Ossa, Ökonom an der @uzh-ch.bsky.social und ehemaliger Chefökonom der WTO über die Krise des Welthandelssystems. Offen für Alle, Anmeldung zum Zoom-Call hier: www.crisiscompetence.uzh.ch/de/events/Kr...
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Gerade ist ein Riesenkarton mit Ausgaben der #Exponentialgesellschaft angekommen, entsprechend große Freude beim unboxing. Danke, @suhrkamp.de! Ich verlose hier zwei Exemplare unter allen, die diesen Post bis Freitag teilen. Viel Glück! 🤞
Box mit zehn Exemplaren des Buches Die Exponentialgesellschaft.
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo
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CIS ETH @ciseth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Post-doc position with Lucas Leemann, deadline April 15th: www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:1317...
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Meray Maddah @meraymaddah.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Attending #MPSA2025 and interested in how IOs interact with gender representation across different political systems? Join us for the panel on "Substantive Representation" 📍 Sat, April 5 | 11:40am–1:10pm CDT / 12:40–2:10pm EDT I’ll be presenting our coauthored work with @dalangmalang.bsky.social
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sure you don't want to work with us? We're clearly not an Ivy League institution, but we can offer a great work environment in a beautiful region. Lake and the Alps are included for free. In case it matters, egg prices are stable at around 30 cents apiece. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...
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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Christina Zuber is hiring a Polish Speaking Postdoc for her new project w/ experience in qualitative methods. I often join this incredibly friendly group for coffee, research discussions and outings and am thankful for Christina's sharp mentorship during my postdoc so apply and join us! :)
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Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨New research network on Africa: Last year, we founded the "International Politics in Africa" (IPIA) network, w/ Mwita Chacha (Birmingham), Eniye Dubakeme (Baze University), Consolata Sulley (Dar es Salaam) & others, after ASAUK 2024. It's been fairly low key so far, but we want to expand: 1/6
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About IPIA
About IPIA The International Politics in Africa (IPIA) research network is a group of scholars and practitioners engaged in the empirical study and understanding of how African societies, citizens, go...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
And now we get to watch as potentially epoch changing events occur. There's a very 19th Century feel about the sight of the US and Russia discussing European borders. Though rather than Vienna or Berlin, modern day statecraft apparently happens in Saudi. 5/5
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Meray Maddah @meraymaddah.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Thrilled to share that I'll be a visiting research scholar at @harvard.edu 's Department of Government. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to learning more from the department’s faculty and students. 📍If you are in the area, I will be at Cambridge’s Knafel Building.
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Thomas Malang @dalangmalang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Job Alert: PhD position (3.5 years) in my research project "Contested Representation of Inequalities in International Cooperation" @ipz.bsky.social , University of Zurich. Join our international, friendly department with excellent working conditions! #PhD #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience
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Thomas Malang @dalangmalang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Job Alert: PhD position (3.5 years) in my research project "Contested Representation of Inequalities in International Cooperation" @ipz.bsky.social , University of Zurich. Join our international, friendly department with excellent working conditions! #PhD #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‼️ 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
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