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Susan Shepler

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Assoc. Prof. at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. Sierra Leone. 🇸🇱

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Zentrum für Konfliktforschung @zfk-mr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📢 Save the Date! Keynote Lecture: Peacemaking in the Shadow of War 🌍 🎙️ Prof. Dr. Keith Krause (Geneva Graduate Institute) 📅 23 Oct 2026 | 🕟 4:30–5:30 pm 📍 Marburg, DSA | Pilgrimstein 16 How can peacemaking remain principled and pragmatic in turbulent times? 📝 Registration: uni-marburg.de/Ml7JOG
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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 25/09/2026
✍️ NEW OP-ED | What Peacemaking Loses When Women Are Left Out The United Nations has made halting but real progress in bringing women into peace negotiations and postwar reconstruction. Now that progress is being reversed. @cristaldowning.bsky.social in TIME.
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What Peacemaking Loses When Women Are Left Out
"Women hold communities together through wars but they are increasingly being left out of peace talks," writes Cristal Downing.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just had a super interactive session on "Gender, Peace, and Security" with a class full of women. Walked past a business class full of men, and I could see through the window that the whole back row was watching various sports on their laptops during lecture.
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Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📚EVENT REMINDER: Really looking forward speaking to folks at the Elliott School today at George Washington to talk about my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. Hope some of you can join me in DC this afternoon!
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This sentence from Carol Cohn is a great way to start class today: "one cannot understand either women's relation to war or war itself without understanding gender, and understanding the ways that war and gender are, in fact, mutually constitutive."
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Care about child rights? Child labor? education? Come see Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi at @AUSIS on October 5, 2026, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community." A statement signed by 25 Fields Medalists. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
From our colleagues down the street. "When Will This War End: Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror". waronterror25.org
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25 Years of the War on Terror
Conference: When Will This War End: Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Rich countries are abdicating their responsibility share.google/XtJNLFLrUlKR...
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Sudan's healthcare system on brink of collapse after cuts, medical charity MSF warns
Médecins Sans Frontières is urging world leaders to increase funding to help the millions who need aid.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interesting call for papers from Feminist Africa: Decriminalisation and (Re)Criminalisation of Same-Sex Relationships in Africa: Struggles, Successes and the Way Forward feministafrica.net/2026/08/25/c...
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Call for Submissions: Decriminalisation and (Re)Criminalisation of Same-Sex Relationships in Africa: Struggles, Successes and the Way Forward - Feminist Africa
Deadline for Extended Abstract Submissions: 9th October 2026 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net and copy info@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Amanda Odoi ...
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/01/2025
How did the tech bro crowd, growing up on stories of sci-fi, transhumanism, virtual reality and limitless ability to modify one's body, "biohacking," etc. end up becoming so viscerally anti-transgender? Truly boggles my mind.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact that my university won't allow our delicate masters students to travel to provincial Sierra Leone with me. We are a school of international SERVICE, yet it's too dangerous to go and meet "the international" face to face.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thinking of including this on my syllabi as my AI use policy:
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Did you know there's a "Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy" and an "International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation"?
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INEE @inee.org · 18/08/2026
We’re looking for #education actors to contribute to our new blog series on education in #Nigeria. We’d like to showcase: 🧑‍🏫Challenges and opportunities of teaching and learning in Nigeria 💡Innovative education approaches 🏫Examples of good practice in #EiE 📢Advocacy for strengthenin education
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Northwestern plans to remove its flagship Program of African Studies’ status as a university research center, effectively closing the program at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lagos to Abidjan! One of the great road trips (bring patience, sense of humor, small bills, and a good appetite). A great feature that efficiently covers a lot of thematic as well as geographic ground, by Emmanuel Akinwotu apps.npr.org/west-africa-...
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In West Africa, one road could change a continent — and the world
A 600-mile journey along the shores of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast reveals one of the world's most consequential transformations.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Long-term ethnographic engagement requires a lifetime of connections. I just sent my friend and keke driver money to help cover his wife's emergency C-section. That's not coming out of any research budget.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sorry that it’s Instagram. If you live in the DMV (DC area), important information about ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DbzS1RjDfwv/
A community alert dated August 8, 2026, from Montgomery County immigrant rights collective. 

We are receiving reports that ice continues to operate in the parking lot of the Korean Korner shopping center on Veirs Mill Road in Silver Spring. Today marks the fourth day this week that ice activity has been reported at the location.

Korean Korner shopping center, 12207 Veirs Mill Rd., Silver Spring

According to community reports ice agents have been driving through the parking lot and targeting people in the area. 

vehicles reportedly being used by ice include vehicles with no license plates 

at least one vehicle with an Arkansas plate and one with an Ohio license plate 

if you or someone you know may be at risk of immigration enforcement we strongly recommend avoiding the shopping center and surrounding parking lots in the coming days 

please share this alert with your family friends and community. If you witness suspected ice activity do not put yourself at risk document only if it’s safe to do so and call the DMV rapid response hotline.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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beleaguredcommoner.bsky.social @beleaguredcommoner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every Gender Studies major deserves an apology for every joke made at their expense. People studied STEM because everything was science and engineering. People studied CompSci because everything was computers. People studied Gender because as it turns out, everything actually is Gender.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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AP Exclusive: Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
Teenagers conscripted by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces to battle the army in the country's war say they were trained by Colombian mercenaries.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Full-time non-tenure line faculty position as Research Professor (Open Rank) and Research Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. apply.interfolio.com/189922
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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BBC Audio | Business Daily | Sierra Leone: The cocaine trail
How did one of Europe’s most wanted drug smugglers Jos Leijdekkers land in Sierra Leone?
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
*extremely late-breaking opportunity with a tight turn around* Come work with me, Meredith Loken, and Jenny Hedström on the UN-funded Women's Activities in Armed Rebellion (lnkd.in/gvhJ-57D) expansion! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Congratulations to only the third woman to win the Fields Medal. Hong Wang Twirls in Fractal Dimensions of Three www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/s...
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Hong Wang Twirls in Fractal Dimensions of Three
The young mathematician won a prestigious Fields Medal for her work on the so-called Kakeya conjecture.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Careers - Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
2026-2027 Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellow The Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellowship is a one-year program that provides unique opportunities to a recent PhD or master’s level graduate to c...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 20/07/2026
A "cocoa rush" in Liberia’s remote southeast is driving a major deforestation crisis. Tens of thousands of migrant workers from Côte d’Ivoire are clearing West Africa’s last remaining rainforests for cocoa plantations, pushing Grand Gedeh county to record forest loss. @shokes.bsky.social reports.
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The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier
(GRAND GEDEH, Liberia) – Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George Bowey, a baby-faced community eco-guard who…
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
See a pattern? Don't squint too hard.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/07/2026
Hello from academia
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DoingIPS Switzerland @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
✨ Join us in Zurich this November! CfP: DoingIPS Switzerland Symposium 🗓 2–3 Nov 2026 | ETH Zurich Theme: What Keeps the World Turning? Attending to Care, Maintenance, and Repair in Global Politics 🔗 Full CfP: drive.google.com/file/d/14Z_Z...
Image of a plant growing out of concrete. On the image,
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.
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Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm excited to kick things off for my US book events with a celebration on 16 September at my alma mater @umassboston.bsky.social where I'm looking forward to seeing Boston friends, new and old! Registration 🔗 bit.ly/4f8tszx 🦄 More details about the events in NYC, D.C. and New Orleans to follow.
US book tour events for Queering Women, Peace and Security
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Lesley Bartlett @lesleybartlett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Please take a moment to formally register your response to the Trump administration’s efforts to radically change Title VI and Fulbright-Hays. Our ability to think critically about international topics is at stake.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
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Assistant Professor
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Aaah the live broadcast from Cape Verde being interrupted by the goal
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 15/06/2026
Misinformation fuels Ebola spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo: False claims about the virus, including that the epidemic was a hoax, have proliferated across the nation. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
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Misinformation fuels Ebola spread
Official Ebola cases approached 1,000.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Berlin Social Science Center (@wzb.bsky.social) is looking for a new director for the study of international relations. The director will establish and lead a new research research department. I am happy to chat with interested candidates. www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...
Job ad. Text in the link.
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In one of my Sierra Leonean WhatsApp groups, someone just said "I know Sierra Leoneans who are part of the fighting (in Ukraine). One of them was planning to send his parents to Mecca with the proceeds from the war. Talk about robbing Satan to pay God!"
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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
After experiencing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, this news is so distressing. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...
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Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It
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MPI for Social Anthropology @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ is offering a postdoc position (m/f/d). recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/52... Deadline: 30 June 2026
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julianpecquet.bsky.social @julianpecquet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
What #Ebola protocols? Back from a week #Uganda on Sunday, I sailed through customs @ Dulles Airport w/out one question about where I was coming from, the fresh stamps in my passport or my 8-hour flight from Entebbe to Brussels My latest @ The Africa Report : www.theafricareport.com/419733/us-af...
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US-Africa Week Ahead: Trump plays travel-ban defence on Ebola
Washington’s heavy-handed response to the outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain in the DRC and Uganda is coming under scrutiny as African economies take a hit.
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Kirrily Pells @kirrilypells.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Call for Papers: #Children #Memory work and Generational Relations in Global Contexts Special issue of Childhood. Abstracts due 1st June 2026 For call details: bit.ly/4dUvVi9 Please share widely!
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