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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🚨Publication alert 🚨 My latest article has now been published in ESTS. The paper explicates the creative labor required to reconcile incompatible informational logics in contemporary policing by retracing how crime analysts turn narrative reports into analyzable data. tinyurl.com/4w24mbjz (OA)

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The final 2025 issue of @jird-jour.bsky.social comes packed with great articles - and it will also be the last of its kind, as the journal transitions to a new publication model. Read for yourself 👇

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨Publication alert🚨 My latest article is now out in IPS. The paper analyzes how the EU tries to make its internal security databases more trustworthy. I argue that “trust in data” is not natural or automatic but something that is actively built through political priorities and technical practices.

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Last time I was at the @eui-eu.bsky.social was - checks personal archives - twelve years ago 😵 Now I feel old. But at least the view is as stunning as I remembered 🖤

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🚨Deadline reminder🚨 The @jird-jour.bsky.social editorial board is looking forward to receiving your SI/SC proposals by 30 October at the latest 💥 All info below 👇

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It's page-proof time 💥 Looking very much forward to the publication of the latest paper from the @curateproject.bsky.social in @estsjournal.bsky.social ❤️

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🤖 How does JIRD approach the issue of AI and academic publishing? 🤖 👉 In their editorial, @matthiasleese.bsky.social & @ajdah.bsky.social explicate our AI policy and call on all authors and reviewers to make use of AI tools sensibly and responsibly. 📄 Read it here: rdcu.be/eGCFt

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

At @jird-jour.bsky.social, we have implemented a new AI policy that clarifies what is allowed and what is not. In the latest editorial, @ajdah.bsky.social and I introduce this policy, discuss what is at stake, and explicate our rationale as editors. Read it as open access here: lnkd.in/eB-p4GNB

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

For the annual team hike of the ETH Zurich Technology and Governance research group, this year we tackled the famous five lakes route at Pizol. And after two years of bad weather luck, this time we caught a magnificent day ☀️ I believe it's safe to say that the entire team had fun 😊

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

As editors-in-chief, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social and I are extremely proud that @jird-jour.bsky.social is now for the first time ever ranked in Q1 of International Relations journals 💥 Clearly, we owe this to our predecessors, as we only took over in January 2025 - but good news is good news ❤️

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 program is out: c-in.floq.live/event/eisape... It's going to be a couple of super intense, fun, and presumably veeeeeery hot days in Bologna - looking forward to seeing everyone and catching up 👌

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨Publication alert🚨 We compare national quantum technology governance strategies with expert insights, showing that while both emphasize innovation and infrastructure, national frameworks underplay critical ethical, societal, and security concerns. Full OA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thanks to all of our colleagues who showed so much support for @jird-jour.bsky.social by agreeing to join the International Advisory Board ❤️

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work! w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social

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Sarah Mühlbacher @samuehlbach.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Open call for a Full Professorship (W3) for Sociology with a Focus on Theoretical Sociology and Epistemology; key areas: materialist theory in the line of the Frankfurt School and/or global critical theories @goetheuni.bsky.social, Germany Deadline: 11 July 2025 berufungsportal.uni-frankfurt.de

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

👉Deadline reminder! Submit your abstracts for the annual @dvpw.bsky.social critical security studies section conference by 7 June at the latest. Link to the official CfP: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us... We are looking forward to your proposals and please share widely - thanks!

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Fabian Hofmann (he/him) @fhofmann.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excited to embark on this relaunch alongside @francakappes.bsky.social , Victoria Motta, and Carolina Futuro! Shout-out to @matthiasleese.bsky.social , Klaus Dingwerth, and Lucile Maertens, who first established the #DoingIPS network in 🇨🇭 👉 Call for Participation: forms.gle/6aMrVN8pHVVw...

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

new issue of JIRD coming up ❤️

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Juliette Davret @juliettedavret.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Curious about how planning systems are moving from paper to digital? Our new article charts 25 years of digital transformation in the Irish planning ecosystem, revealing how visioning, scaffolding and politics shape technology adoption. See: doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

there's a lot of talk about the potential use of AI in border and migration management in this report, @laurajung.bsky.social & @abendsommer.bsky.social carefully and critically take stock of what is actually possible/going on and with what consequences 👇 tinyurl.com/59ts8b2m

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

in less diplomatic terms: we as editors have been fighting an uphill battle against a global corporation to get their shit together🤦‍♂️ this has been extremely frustrating, but we remain optimistic that things will change for the better soon...

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

15% plagiarism is fine - predatory publishing emails hit differently 😅

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨Call for Papers🚨 "Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025 all info in the picture

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I might be biased but this seems like a good read for the upcoming Easter break 👌

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚨Call for papers🚨 @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep) all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa please distribute widely!

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

View over Zurich old town and the lake/mountains from the rooftop terrace at the new office building. Feels almost Mediterranean 😎

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Sunset over @uottawa.bsky.social as my research stay comes to an end 👌 The past weeks were so packed with guest-teaching, talks, workshops, and chats about research ideas, editorial work, and grant proposals over coffee, lunch, or drinks that I rarely had the time to stop and let it sink in.

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Pssst! 🤫👋 Curious about what topics JIRD’s March Issue may cover? We offer you a sneak peek into our article production with a first view of the upcoming cover page. Stay tuned for more…

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thinking about publishing with JIRD? We have a thematically open annual Special Issue call with a deadline set for 🚨 October 30 🚨 More details on how to put together a proposal for a JIRD SI can be found here: shorturl.at/0RGlc

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our most downloaded article from 2024 deals with the mismatch between the Russian leadership’s AI narrative and the country’s actual technological capabilities. Read Anna Nadibaidze’s (@cwswarstudies.bsky.social) article for free as part of our 🏆 Top 10 of 2024 🏆 series: rdcu.be/ecUBK

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

excited about the first @jird-jour.bsky.social issue under our editorial tenure - good stuff coming soon :)

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

more Ottawa adventures: will be discussing field research methods next week :)

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

in light of the lack of significant writing progress, maybe I can TALK the book into existence? :)

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

is it a river? is it a glacier? hard to tell. where I come from water tends to be fluid... 🤔 #ottawa

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

look, it's yours truly. with a microphone! :)

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🚨Publication alert🚨 I reflect on the notion of the algorithm in policing and criminal justice, part of the "Handbook of Digital Criminology" (OA: shorturl.at/lHufh) Shout-out to @heidimorklomell.bsky.social and Mareile Kaufmann for putting together a fantastic line-up and excellent editorial work

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thinking about publishing with us? We have changed our article length to 8,000-10,000 words (excluding references). With this, we hope manuscript shortening does not necessitate cutting down references, which often leads to fewer citations for junior scholars. Click here to submit bit.ly/4h17woZ

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social is also a wonderful human being and a capable drinking buddy 👌

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We are delighted to introduce our new Managing Editor, Sarah Helena Schäfer! She is a project researcher at @cidape.bsky.social, where she investigates spirituality and emotions in the climate change discourse with a focus on Tibetan Buddhism.

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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Next in our introductory series is our communications officer, @fhofmann.bsky.social. Fabian is a doctoral researcher at the Technology & Governance group @ethzurich.bsky.social, where he investigates the role of smart cities in urban peace and conflict.

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

happening next Wednesday! jetlag free, but contingent on me surviving Ottawa ice and snow until then :)

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

@isanet.bsky.social #ISA2025 jetlag advantage: getting additional work and sometimes even a workout done in the middle of the night, then slowly watching the city come alive not sustainable though, already looking forward to the annual post-conference crash and burn... ☠️

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IPS Section @isaipssection.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🎊🎉 Congratulations to Katherine Jensen on winning the 2025 IPS Best Book Award for the book “The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil“ (University of Chicago Press, 2023)! #ISA2025

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

congrats to Renata, @nishashah.bsky.social & @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social! celebrations in order at the IS/STAIR reception on Tuesday 🥳

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IPS Section @isaipssection.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Join us at the IPS and STAIR joint reception! Happening on Tuesday, March 4th, from 7pm to 8pm at the Stevens Salon A1, Chicago Hilton. We hope to see you there! 🍸🎊 #isa2025 @isanet.bsky.social

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IPS Section @isaipssection.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🎉 Congratulations to João Pontes Nogueira on being selected the 2025 IPS Distinguished Scholar! Join the IPS Distinguished Scholar panel on Tuesday, March 4th, from 1:45pm to 3:30pm, at the Stevens Salon C-3, Chicago Hilton #ISA2025

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