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Tessa Devereaux

@tessadevereaux.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at SOAS Politics/ Conflict and Rebel Governance / Gender

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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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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
You can hear my discussion with @tessadevereaux.bsky.social on Mali and the role of JNIM here.
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Tessa Devereaux @tessadevereaux.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How and why are JNIM gaining ground in Mali? My latest analysis for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-an-armed...
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Why an armed group linked to al-Qaida is gaining ground in Mali
Decades of neglect, corruption and state brutality have allowed armed group JNIM to gain the support of Mali’s marginalised communities.
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🚨 Job Alert! We have a fascinating new project running on jihadist insurgencies in Africa, for which three research positions are open. Only five more days left to apply! Details about the three positions 👇
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 24/04/2025
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @iojournal.bsky.social - The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance - cup.org/4jjcejL "I demonstrate that armed groups exploit pre-existing gender grievances, using strategies like punishing domestic violence..." - @tessadevereaux.bsky.social
International Organization logo featuring the text 'IO' in large white letters on a dark blue background, followed by the words 'LATEST ISSUE' in smaller white letters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Tessa Devereaux @tessadevereaux.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
How & why do insurgents challenge gender norms during conflict? Using data on 137 armed groups and two Malian case studies, my new @iojournal.bsky.social article shows how rebels reshape local power relations by regulating gender customs. Read it here: bit.ly/3DIjRRe @polviolencepapers.bsky.social
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Alex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I've written my thoughts down about one of Trump's many executive orders: condemning South Africa on baseless grounds. South Africa's Expropriation Act does not constitute anything other than a regular piece of legislation. blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
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Trump has punished South Africa for something its government has not done
The US president has claimed the South African government is seizing land from white farmers. The reality is much more mundane
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 20/02/2025
Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Heard of the #manosphere? Dr. Mariel Barnes & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's new @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper urges the recognition of the revived men's movement as political, and explores when different parts of the manosphere turns violent. #GenderSky #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Manosphere and Politics - Mariel J. Barnes, Sabrina M. Karim, 2025
The revived men’s movement, colloquially the “manosphere,” has recently increased in prominence and influence, and has been connected to numerous instances of v...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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Corinna Jentzsch @corinnajentzsch.com · 14/01/2025
JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions)
PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions, each 1.0 fte)The Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites ...
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In an explainer for @goodauth.bsky.social, I share some historical and contemporary context to martial law in South Korea and Yoon's botched attempt yesterday. goodauthority.org/news/martial...
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South Korea's president briefly declared martial law.
President Yoon’s approval rating hit a record low, at just 19 percent, last week. So what's behind his declaration of martial law?
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
jessica.substack.com/p/idaho-will... An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
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Idaho Will Enforce Abortion Travel Ban
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Tessa Devereaux @tessadevereaux.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The call for the UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics are invited to apply by 8 December. 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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Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
ICYMI: I wrote on shifting trends in Africa’s post-coup politics @africa.theconversation.com
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Salil @salilb.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
It is an absolute shame that Anthony Bourdain is not alive for this moment
Excerpt from Anthony Bourdain's "A Cook's Tour"
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