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Iris Volg

@irisv.bsky.social
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Rådgiver Evalueringsavdeling/Norec Associated Researcher TraCe/Goethe University Frankfurt civil conflict | peace negotiations | nonviolent action | development cooperation | quantitative methods (views are my own)

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Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
10 PhD positions in the research group “Gender and Gendering in the Context of International Criminal Law: Conflicts, Normative Orders, and Practices of Transformation” at the University of Marburg stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f...
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Doctoral Researchers/PhD
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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Innenminister Dobrindt: Rechtsextremismus ist die größte Gefahr bei politisch motivierter Kriminalität. Familienministerin Prien: Rechtsextremismus ist die größte Gefahr für die Demokratie. Ergebnis: Die BpB wird sich ab jetzt mehr auf Linksextremismus fokussieren. Es ist zum Haare raufen.
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Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant Kurswechsel
Der bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 16/04/2026
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg We offer a job as a Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science with a focus on AI agents (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 75 %, limited for four years). gesis.jobs.personio....
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Scientific career at GESIS
At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase
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Julian Voß @juvoss.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
📢 Job alert: Assistant Professor (fixed-term) in International Politics @ Osnabrück University & @giga-hamburg.de. Focus on quantitative IR/Comparative Politics. 🗓 Apply by May 3, 2026 tinyurl.com/5aykbjk9
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50 FB 1 Assistant Professorship in “International Politics”: Uni Osnabrück
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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Ergebnis einer großen Meta-Studie bestätigt: „Der Konsum von misogynen Medieninhalten führt im Durchschnitt zu einer signifikanten Zunahme von frauenfeindlichen Einstellungen, Verhaltensneigungen, sogar Verhaltensweisen.“ Bei jungen Menschen ist der Effekt zudem deutlich stärker ausgeprägter.
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Misogynie und Medienkonsum: Frauenfeindliche Inhalte machen Menschen tatsächlich frauenfeindlich
Eine Studie zeigt: Wer misogyne Videos, Games oder Pornos konsumiert, übernimmt oft sexistische Haltungen und aggressives Verhalten. Das gilt mitunter sogar für Frauen.
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Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Excited that our article has been published at JPR! We study the impact of sanctions on peace negotiations in intrastate conflicts. Building on experimental insights from political psychology, we argue that the impact of sanctions differs by conflict incompatibility: doi.org/10.1093/jopr...
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Fostering agreements or hampering compromise: the context-specific effect of sanctions in peace negotiations
Abstract. Whether sanctions push conflict parties to reach a negotiated settlement and contribute to ending violent conflicts is disputed in the literature
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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📢 We are hiring: Combined Postdoc position at V-Dem Institute and GLD! Applications are open for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. Application: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... 🧵1(4) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceJobs #PostDoc
Flag of University of Gothenburg, hanging from the wall of the Department of Political Science building. Added text: We're Hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. Combined position at V-Dem Institute and Governance and Local Development Institute.
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Demscore @demscore.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#Internship at DEMSCORE Fall 2026 Are you a student with a strong interest in data-driven research within the field of social science? Apply now for an internship at DEMSCORE during the fall semester 2026. 👉 Application information: www.demscore.se/about/intern... 📆 Application deadline: April 12
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"The cameras that had surveilled women for showing their hair, that had tracked protesters through city streets, that had sent threatening text messages to millions, those same cameras led the strike team to Khamenei’s door." royapakzad.substack.com/p/youre-welc...
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You're Welcome, Mr. Supreme Leader
On the irony of cameras built to police Iranians becoming the regime’s Achilles’ heel
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𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒛 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 @electroheinz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
die cdu KOOPERIERT BEREITS mit der afd
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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung @boell.de · 13/02/2026
🟢 Jetzt bewerben! Wir suchen eine Leitung Referat Steuerung und Evaluierung, stellvertretende Leitung (w/m/d/k.A.) für den Bereich Internationale Zusammenarbeit ➤ 39h/Woche ➤ Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 01.03.2026 ➤ Mehr Infos hier ⤵️ www.boell.de/de/2026/02/1...
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Leitung Referat Steuerung und Evaluierung, stellvertretende Leitung (w/m/d/k.A.) | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, befristet bis zum 30.11.2029, eine Leitung Referat Steuerung und Evaluierung, stellvertretende Leitung (w/m/d/k.A.) für den Bereich Internationale Zusammenarbeit...
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis.”
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Osman Suntay @osmansuntay.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social. it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/9
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Religious Elites, (Non)Politicization, and Intergroup Attitudes among Muslim Immigrants in Germany | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Vil du bli vår nye kollega? Evalueringsavdeling for norsk utviklingssamarbeid søker prosjektleder: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
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Prosjektleder (291292) | Norec
Stillingstittel: Prosjektleder (291292), Arbeidsgiver: Norec, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 21. januar 2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
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Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).
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Daniela Sepehri @danielasepehri.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
„Die Mullahs müssen verschwinden“ Tag 2 der Proteste in Teheran gegen das Regime. Begonnen haben die Proteste gestern in den Basaren und Malls. Ladenbesitzer schlossen ihre Geschäfte, um gegen die Preiserhöhungen und Inflation zu demonstrieren. Die Menschen haben längst genug von diesem Regime.
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Johanna Treblin @johannatreblin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Wow, Einreisesperre in die USA gegen 5 namentlich genannte Personen, und darunter sind die 2 Gründerinnen von @hateaid.org, das crazy. HateAid ist eine immens wichtige NGO für Opfer von Hass und Hetze
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Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Vil du bli vår nye kollega? Evalueringsavdeling for norsk utviklingssamarbeid søker prosjektleder: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
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Prosjektleder (291292) | Norec
Stillingstittel: Prosjektleder (291292), Arbeidsgiver: Norec, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 21. januar 2026
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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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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Extreme attacks on #science documented here for just the first six months of the Trump regime. More data and information here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc...
Bar charge of "documented attacks on science" for January to Jun 2025 compared to last four presidents. Trump's attacks (402) far outweigh all the others, combined, and most of the others were from the first Trump administration and from the Bush period.
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Allard Duursma @allardduursma.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
What happens when third-party mediators use the external military support they provide as leverage in peace negotiations? Check out our new open access article here: doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements
Abstract. This article argues that third-party mediators who simultaneously provide external military support to a conflict party possess unique leverage t
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Bethlehem Christmas tree lit up for first time since Gaza war www.arabnews.com/node/2625306...
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci A 🧵
Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down @kaamilahmed.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are ...
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The russian occupiers announced the completion of the "reconstruction" of the Mariupol Drama Theater — the very one they bombed in Mar 2022, when hundreds of people w/ kids were sheltering inside. In Dec, they plan to reopen it and stage russian plays literally on the blood and bones of Ukrainians.
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Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Gleder meg til å begynne i ny jobb hos NOREC på mandag! Looking forward to start my new Job in the Evaluation Department at NOREC!
Office buildings at Jølstra river
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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Can voluntary gender quotas shift views on women in politics? Vladimir Chlouba’s study of Namibia’s SWAPO finds that a 50/50 quota increased women’s belief in equal political access—without backlash from men, reshaping perceptions of leadership. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Seeing is believing: Voluntary gender quotas change female leadership stereotypes - Vladimir Chlouba, 2025
Can gender quotas voluntarily adopted by political parties alter stereotypical views about women in politics? This article examines Namibia’s SWAPO, an electora...
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.
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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
PRIO is hiring! Specifically, we're looking for two post-docs for the project "Rituals in combatant-to-civilian transformation”, led by my excellent colleague Júlia Palik More information here: www.prio.org/about/career... www.prio.org/about/career...
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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.eurosky.social · 18/10/2025
#tdgr #frankfurtammain #ffm
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 13/10/2025
as a Map Guy I feel obliged to comment on Columbus Day: Columbus was a monster, even by the standards of his time and, relevant to my purposes, was a crappy geographer. He thought going West to Asia was possible because he had a laughably incorrect estimate of the circumference of the globe.
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taz @taz.de · 11/10/2025
Bassam Aramin ist Palästinenser, Rami Elhanan Israeli. Beide haben ihre Töchter an den Nahostkonflikt verloren. Wie bleiben sie Freunde, trotz allem?
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Versöhnung in Israel und Palästina: „Ich entdeckte den Menschen, wo ein Feind sein sollte“
Bassam Aramin ist Palästinenser, Rami Elhanan Israeli. Beide haben ihre Töchter an den Nahostkonflikt verloren. Wie bleiben sie Freunde, trotz allem?
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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 08/10/2025
Die breite zivilgesellschaftliche Ablehnung der #Chatkontrolle & der Protest der letzten Tage haben offenbar Wirkung gezeigt. Die Bundesregierung stimmt auch unter Schwarz-Rot einer anlasslosen Chatkontrolle in der EU nicht zu. Vom Tisch ist das Thema aber noch nicht. netzpolitik.org/2025/protest...
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Protest wirkt: Bundesregierung ist gegen „anlasslose Chatkontrolle“
Die breite zivilgesellschaftliche Ablehnung der Chatkontrolle und der Protest der letzten Tage haben offenbar Wirkung gezeigt. Die Bundesregierung stimmt auch unter Schwarz-Rot einer anlasslosen Chatk...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/10/2025
"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Excited to share that our article on "Negotiating Difficult Issues with Little Fervour? Why Peace Processes in Territorial Conflicts Tend to Produce Incomplete Outcomes" has now been published by ISQ 🎉 doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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Negotiating Difficult Issues with Little Fervour? Why Peace Processes in Territorial Conflicts Tend to Produce Incomplete Outcomes
Abstract. There is widespread consensus in peace research that territorial conflicts are more enduring and difficult to settle than non-territorial conflic
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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.eurosky.social · 28/09/2025
💪💪💪
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Read this. Seriously, read it. The Trump regime is declaring open season on its critics - NGOs, philanthropists, activists. They will be harassed, arrested, jailed. The silencing effect on others who might speak out will be huge. This is authoritarianism. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Wenn es im Gute-Laune-Radio in Österreich plötzlich einen 7 minütigen Monolog des Moderators über Autokratie und den Wert der Demokratie gibt und wie die USA kein demokratischer Verbündeter mehr sind, dann sollten alle wissen wie ernst es ist. Ging jetzt schnell, aber das ist unsere Realität.
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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