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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨 new article alert 🚨 @rtapscott.bsky.social and I have a new article @africanaffairs.bsky.social that provides new descriptive data about the popularity of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Museveni’s son and likely preferred successor. academic.oup.com/afraf/advanc... 1/4

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

*PSA Prize Winners* 🎉Congratulations to Dr Jeremy Moulton @jeremymoulton.bsky.social this year’s academic prize winner of Vicky Randall Prize for outstanding contributions to teaching & learning ➡️ buff.ly/dvOF0Sa

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African Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

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2026 APCG Award Nominations

The 2026 APCG Award nominations are now open and due May 1st! Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book.

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

There are studentships to do PhD research with my colleagues - or indeed with me! Check out the link below for details of how to apply - but don't leave it too long, as the application deadline is coming up next week

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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join us on Thursday @africamultiple.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @benjaminkirby.bsky.social uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/j/6681584839... AyQ0Uyb1RNOFdvT09oRVc3MXoyUT09 URL Meeting ID/PW below.

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

📣 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 ⚙️ #ecprjs26 Call for Papers buff.ly/oKqKLsj • Receive in-depth feedback • Build lasting scholarly networks ✔️ 35 confirmed Workshops buff.ly/mXDmfPt 📍 7–10 April, University of Innsbruck ⌛ Submit by 10 Dec #cfp #PoliSky

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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Excited to announce that, together with @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, I am co-organising the workshop 'Global Governance in Times of Disruption' at next year's @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions of Workshops. Details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Join us in Innsbruck to discuss this crucial topic!

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Civil Wars Journal @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Our brilliant Reviews Editors @drincon.bsky.social and @rtapscott.bsky.social are seeking expressions of interest for the journal's revamped reviews section. We look forward to seeing exciting and creative proposals! www-tandfonline-com.brad.idm.oclc.org/action/autho...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 28/08/2025

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Ethical Considerations for SoTL Research in Political Science Education - cup.org/4mBpnGq "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)" - @jeremymoulton.bsky.social ‬& @rtapscott.bsky.social #FirstView

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Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

📢 Forum written together with: ➡️ @marniehowlett.bsky.social ➡️@rtapscott.bsky.social ➡️@grace-akello.bsky.social ➡️Mousumi Mukherjee ➡️Natalia Otrishcenko ➡️Anastasia Shesterinina 📑Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research @ispjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article-...

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Forum: Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research

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Centre for Political Ethnography @polethnography.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🗓️🔔 CfP for CPE's upcoming workshop on "Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?" July 2nd! If you want feedback on working papers&projects, and use qualitative methodologies, this workshop is for you. Some bursaries are available. Please share! More info below:

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Jeremy Moulton @jeremymoulton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

One reviewer still needed!

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Civil Wars Journal @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thank you to our stellar roundtable panel for a fascinating discussion on the present and future of the field of civil wars research today! Lots of ideas and food for thought for both journal and field more broadly #ISA2025

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James Worrall @jamesworrall.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Civil Wars is at #ISA2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social do join us! 🧩Workshop on Rebel Finance and the Financialisation of Rebel Governance, Saturday @ 8am 🪁Roundtable on Reimagining the Field, Sunday @ 1.45pm 🥂Drinks Reception, Sunday @ 7.45pm Feel free to DM or email us to discuss projects!

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

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MoPED Workshop

Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨 We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social. 📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq 🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!

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Hanne Fjelde @hannefjelde.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just a reminder! Come join our wonderful department. We are hiring a senior lecturer and associate senior lecturer @uupeace.bsky.social

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Lynne Taylor @neulpt.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Writing about ethical challenges in Neurology and seeking your most vexing recent ethical problems. "When surrogates choose suffering" is one that troubles me. Any thoughts from others?

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 13/12/2024

Ethnography & ethical approval from Hughes, G., & Emmerich, N., (2018). Ethnography and ethics: Securing permission for doctoral research in and from the national health service #ethics #ethnography

Text: Ethical Dilemma
A researcher setting out to undertake participant-observation with the aspiration of creating an ethnography,
or an account of people and their social world, will not know what they might encounter once they are in the
field. Just as the lab scientist will not know what the results of her experiment might be before she concludes
it, neither does the social scientist know what she might find in advance. ... If we knew what we were going to find, we wouldn’t need to undertake the research. The problem for the ethnographer is not that she is unable to predict what she will find, but that she will be unable to predict exactly how she will go about exploring her object of study. A participant-observer who wants to understand the world from the vantage point of another person, or from within a
particular social setting, must follow that person, or inhabit that setting, and not direct them. For example, an
ethnographer will not know in advance how someone’s daily routines might play out, and yet they will seek
to participate in these to understand how they experience their lives. ... ... This intrinsic uncertainty about not just what will be found during the research process but how
the process will unfold is particularly problematic for ethnographers when they come to complete the research
ethics application form that requires the research interventions or procedures to be specified in advance. The
tension between the anticipatory regulatory regime and the emergent nature of ethnography in healthcare is
discussed in detail by Murphy and Dingwall (2007). They focus on the difficulties of obtaining written consent
without knowing in advance exactly what the research will involve and, therefore, when there is lack of clarity
as to what the research participant might be consenting. They caution against an overly bureaucratic process
of prior approval as this can over-shadow the need for researchers to respond ethically to dilemmas as they
arise.

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 12/12/2024

Workshop of Institutional Ethics Review from University of Glasgow Full summary by @rtapscott.bsky.social here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_... Lots of good discussion but I particularly related to the section on costs...

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Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Very interesting and fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on the role of women in Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) along the border between the #DRC and #Uganda, under the supervision of @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social & Doreen Kembabazi www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

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Devon E. A. Curtis @deacurtis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/

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Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For all of those considering attending the European Conference on African Studies in Prague next June, see if your research fits our panel ! Lamine Savané (University of Ségou) and I are convening a panel called "Digital Platforms and Armed Insecurity in African Crisis Ecologies".

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Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

As I am on it, here is another still very embryonic list bringing together people interested in and posting about armed groups across types, contexts and places. Again, please do chime in with additional suggestions in replies. go.bsky.app/b1T1De

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Mike Young @mkeyoung.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy

Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Defining the Crisis in Sudan: Rethinking Pathways to Peace 26th Nov. 2024 | 2pm EAT Registration: biea.ac.uk/events/rethi... Attendance: in-person & online Host: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Rift Valley Institute and World Peace Foundation in association with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation

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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 19/11/2024

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

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CRS | Cedric Smith Prize

The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student

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Kristin M. Bakke @kristinmbakke.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's that time of year again... The call for our UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! We invite ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to having you in London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025

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PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

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Sigrid Weber @swebera.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The call for the Conflict & Change PhD Workshop at University College London is out! PhD students working on IR, conflict, contentious politics, apply by 8 December! It is a really nice crowd. Workshop is on 24-25 February, 2025. www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

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PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Umm, hi everyone, welcome! If any of you have thoughts about teaching political science -- definitely in light of current events, but also just in general -- the Political Science Educator is going to have a Winter deadline of Dec. 15. Please submit! A few notes: educate.apsanet.org/political-sc...

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Political Science Educator - APSA

The newsletter of APSA's Political Science Education Organized Section.

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Patricia Rossini @patyrossini.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Quoted here discussing the challenges of studying misinformation in closed/encrypted spaces and the consequences of an overwhelmingly US-centric focused research agenda.

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Fulfilling my contractual obligation to tell you: MPSA Submission Deadline is tomorrow! Come talk about African Politics, a small but very mighty section! Good colleagues! Great city! No promises on the weather!

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Liza Mügge @lizamugge.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

📢 Job alert: Postdoc 'Political Masculinities in the European Parliament.' Apply by 31 Oct. if you have expertise/interest in masculinities, representation, qualitative methods and the EP. RBS =💯🙏https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoc-Political-Masculinities-in-the-European-Parliament/804471102/

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

The fabulous Lauren Baker and I are submitting a panel proposal for WPSA on innovating ethnographic approaches to studying global environmental politics. We have a couple spots and proposals are due tomorrow, so if you are interested, please reach out ASAP!

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Our annual post-doctoral research fellowships campaign at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) is now open. We welcome applications from researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Please share! www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

It’s a strange feeling to have an article come out after leaving academia, but I hope you find this interesting and useful: “‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: Identity, democracy, and banning white supremacists in Germany” 🧵 on 3 things it’s trying to do: 1/

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‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany - Anna A. Meier, 2024

Calls for governments to proscribe white supremacist actors as ‘terrorists’ have increased in recent years, yet little attention has been paid to whether proscr...

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Civil Wars Journal @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Our fantastic Reviews Team @rtapscott.bsky.social @drincon.bsky.social are now accepting Expressions of Interest for our revamped reviews sections! Categories include: - Review and Rejoinders - Reviews of non-English language work - Arts and Culture Reviews - Capsule Reviews Get in touch!

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Rebecca Tapscott @rtapscott.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Calling all conflict scholars! Please share widely and consider submitting an Expressions of Interest to contribute to the reviews section of Civil Wars. We are recruiting: 🎭 Arts and Culture Reviews 🌎 Language and Translation Reviews 🤼 Reviews and Rejoinders Conflictsky 🗺

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

📣 Polisky Dictatorsky FALL Season 2024 Schedule is out 📣 We are thrilled to announce a new season featuring fantastic work and great discussants! To participate remember to subscribe at tinyurl.com/bddy4bta (for Zoom links and updates) Full info below plus a 🧵 with details on each meeting:

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 20/08/2024

Nice intro by Catherine Boone of why “bringing economic regionalism back in to political science” is relevant podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Catherine Boone,

Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African countries into b

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