iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seit Google automatisch KI-Zusammenfassungen anzeigt, haben "zero-click searches" um ≈70% zugenommen. Für die direkte Demokratie der Schweiz hat das grosse Folgen. Bei der #10MillionenSchweiz -Abstimmung (Bevölkerungsdeckel) tendierten die KI-Zusammenfassungen von Google mehrheitlich zur Ja-Seite

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The @magdalenoxford.bsky.social junior research fellowships are now open, including for politics. Due 15 Oct. 3 years of 100% research time to those who submit their PhD between July 2025-Oct 2027. Comes with good ECR pay, relatively generous support funds. www.magd.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

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Job Vacancies - Magdalen College

Magdalen College is one of the oldest, largest, and most beautiful colleges in Oxford – it is a wonderful place to work. You can explore and apply for current vacancies on our recruitment website via ...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

When should immigrants gain voting rights? @alyssamtaylor.bsky.social & Mia K. Gandenberger examine how integration and psychological predispositions shape support for immigrant enfranchisement. Read more: buff.ly/sHJJA2s @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #ImmigrationPolitics

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As democracies grow more diverse through immigration, a key question arises: when should immigrants participate in political decision-making? We examine citizens’ beliefs about when immigrants should vote in national elections (before citizenship, with citizenship, or never) and whether these views depend on immigrants’ integration markers. We assess how exclusionary worldviews and psychological predispositions—authoritarianism, social dominance orientation (SDO), and ethnocentrism—shape views of democratic membership and how malleable those views are. Using 2021 survey data from Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find that integration criteria matter most to those who view citizenship as the primary gateway to political inclusion. High levels of SDO and ethnocentrism are associated with exclusionary preferences, though integration efforts reduce resistance among individuals high in SDO. Authoritarian-leaning individuals are simultaneously more willing to include immigrants pre-naturalization and more likely to support permanent exclusion. These findings highlight the conditional nature of political inclusion in diverse democracies.

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns. Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just under 2 weeks til the closing date for the Assoc Prof in Law, Politics and Computational Social Science at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford. This is an amazing opportunity to be part of the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods. Join us! www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...

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Associate Professorship of Law, Politics and Computational Social Science (APNTF)

In association with Nuffield CollegePermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review isconducted during the first 5 years.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“These papers distort meta-analyses and scientometric studies, waste scarce peer review resources and pose a significant threat to the integrity of the scientific record. We conclude that current checks for redundant publications and plagiarism are no longer fit for purpose in the GenAI era.”

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...

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Lecturer in Ethics and/or Political Philosophy | King's College London

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m excited about APSA in Boston. I will present new work on the process of stigmatization of political ideologies. I’ve been working on this for very long and hope to have a draft to share soon. In the meantime, if you’re at the conference, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what I have so far.

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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We have updated the Migration Movies Database, which now includes 700+ documentaries, movies, and series globally. The database is designed to serve as a resource for anyone interested in incorporating movies into teaching, learning, and public discourse. migrationpolicycentre.eu/project/migr...

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Migration Movies Database - Migration Policy Centre

This Migration Movies Database brings together screen works that tell stories of migration and human movement from1940 until 2025.

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Fabian Gülzau @fguelzau.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

✨Gelegenheit für Einblicke in die wissenschaftliche #Politikberatung: Der SVR Migration sucht Praktikant:innen für 2027! 👉 Bewerbungen bis 27.09.2026 Bei Fragen rund um das Programm stehe ich Interessierten gern zur Verfügung. #Praktikum #Migration #Forschung

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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 20/08/2026

🚨 OCEAN HEAT: We are entering uncharted territory. Record-breaking ocean temperatures are pushing ecosystems closer to dangerous tipping points. Fossil fuel corporations and big polluters are gambling with a liveable planet for profit.

Line graph of Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomalies from 1982–2026. The red 2026 line rises from around -0.7°C in January to nearly +2.7°C by mid-August, far above most previous years. Source: Climate Reanalyzer, using NOAA OISST v2.1 data.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📢 LSE Political Theory job opening We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level Reach out with questions & please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory

Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory, , <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</p> <p style="margin:...

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📄 And another working paper: **Pretty much all citizens say they support democracy.** But what do they mean by that? We ask whether voters from different partisan camps mean the same thing when they talk about "democracy." Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Northwestern is hiring in quant methods (assistant level, tenure track) Please repost and share with those you think would be good candidates, thank you! polisci.northwestern.edu/about/facult... #psjobs #psjminfo #poliscijobs

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Methodology (Tenure-Track)
The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time position in Quantitative Political Methodology at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin Fall 2027. We emphasize methodology with a strongly applied perspective: successful candidates will maintain an active, independent research program that includes methodological contributions in their own right, while also teaching quantitative research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and applying those methods to substantive questions in their area of expertise. We are especially interested in candidates whose work bridges data-driven/computational approaches with design-based inference, though we welcome applicants making cutting-edge contributions in either of these traditions or in other areas of political methodology. Successful candidates' substantive research agendas may be in any area of political science or may cross boundaries; as with all Northwestern faculty, successful candidates will be expected to provide service to the department, the university, and the profession.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Why & how did #elites in #GreatBritain expand the #franchise between 1830 & 1918? In their July article, @chitbazoo.bsky.social, @cboix.bsky.social, Sonia Giurumescu, & Paulo Serôdio develop a #theory of #democratization to answer this question. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... #voting #data #MPs #voters

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Asli Cansunar @aslicansunar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE), we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link below if you’d like to join.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm hiring an Associate Director for the Center for Qualitative & Multi-Method Inquiry: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114... Run IQMR, work on QDR, help run events around methods @maxwellsu.bsky.social - great for recent MA or PhD interested in alt-ac 1/2

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Associate Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI)

Work collaboratively with the Director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI). Lead the planning and logistics for the annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research...

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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Es ist endlich da! 😍 Unser (@cerpintaxt.bsky.social & @donyhu.bsky.social) Buch "Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung: Eine Einführung" (@springer.springernature.com) 💡Eine empirisch-vergleichende, politikwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Kommunalpolitik 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet Lehrenden und Studierenden eine kompakte Einführung in die empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📢 Apply now! The Faculty of Law & the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at @politicsoxford.bsky.social seek an Associate Professor of Law, Politics & Computational Social Science (joint with Nuffield College). 📆 Closes: Noon BST, Tue 15 Sept: tinyurl.com/ymfs8j89

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

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Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research in Law Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research vacancy in Law Building. Lecturer in Politics - Teaching & Research School of Law and Politics The School of Law a...

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Are you an early-career scholar (self defined) and going to @psaepop.bsky.social #epop2026 in Liverpool? I’m happy to arrange a few coffee chats (on me) about the job market, publishing, applying for grants, or research on (visual) political communication or political behaviour. Just email me!

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

(short-notice) speaking opportunity w/ a bit of € for PhDs/postdocs in migration politics or sociology! We have an NU summer school running in Rotterdam and would love an additional presenter on 28 July. 20-30 minute version of your research for undergrads, then short Q&A panel about grad school.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It was great to speak to Iván and Shonah of the University of Vienna's brilliant student-led IPW podcast about the state of British politics, Starmer's woes and Burnham's prospects. (This was recorded before the Farage donation scandal broke out.) open.spotify.com/episode/1Zp0...

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The End of the Two-Party System in the UK? (with Dr. Leonardo Carella)

IPW Podcast · Episode

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/07/2026

The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Please share info on the short workshop below with anyone you think might benefit. Thanks!

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Koichi Osamura @koichiosamura.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026

How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

NEW PUBLICATION!🚨 The 2023 Swiss federal elections were the first ever held under mandatory campaign finance disclosure rules. So how does an open-list PR influence campaign spending? Greater voters' ability to cast preference votes = more money spent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is really great, with many quotable portions, but I will just highlight "making the rejection of democracy sound like futurism" is such an elegant way to describe the what's going on.

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Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Applications for Visiting Fellowships in Trinity term 2027 are now open! Are you an academic, post-doctoral scholar, independent researcher or PhD student working on topics related to forced migration? Apply now to join us in Oxford next April: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/visiting-fel…

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Bernhard Weidinger @bweidin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Aside from the guide, the EU-funded OPEN COST Action network (www.au.dk/opencostaction) has launched a mentorship program assisting academics under attack and organizes training events for volunteers. Please refer to academicresilience.eu for more information and additional resources. 2/3

Poster for the Academic Resilience website and support program, reading: "Do you need advice regarding your academic freedom? Would you like to volunteer, to help a scholar at risk once a week with their administrative tasks, or simply lend a sympathetic ear? Contact us". Also promotes the Pocket Guide for academics under attack. On the bottom, a number of co-sponsors' logos.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We invite you all to EPSS Mingle With Drinks at the Ulster Museum today at 17-19.30. No registration of tickets needed. It's a great way to celebrate the successful first EPSS conference together! 1/2

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Very cool and creative paper! You don’t want to miss this presentation at EPSS.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Back from hiatus with some good news: my book has come out in German! Thankful to @springer.springernature.com for publishing and to Patrick Kraft for his help with this.

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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...

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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

MORE JOBS! The Dept of Politics is looking to recruit up to SEVEN new lecturers, with five as T&S and two as T&R. Any field is great, but we have gaps in British Politics, Theory, Public Pol, Comparative. The ad for the T&S can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... @livunipol.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Apply now for the Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Migration Movies Database is now available on @letterboxd.social. This list gathers 600+ films about human movement from 1940 to today: refugees, labour migration, diaspora, border crossing, discrimination, return, and irregular migration. letterboxd.com/lorenzo_picc...

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Migration movies

Migration is one of cinema’s oldest stories: journeys, borders, exile, belonging, survival, reinvention. This list is based on the Migration Movies Database, a research project by the Migration Policy...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Another day of far-right violence and pogroms in the UK. A country that still labels these thugs “protesters”, that claims “this isn’t Britain”, that fails to take responsibility for empowering and enabling these thugs, where the media is too afraid to call the forces behind this “far right”

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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Image showing the abstract of the paper "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies at the Voting Booth" by Werner Krause and Christina Gahn, published in the Journal of Politics. The abstract describes a quasi-experimental study across 25 countries finding that parties polling just below electoral thresholds are approximately 45 percentage points less likely to clear them, and that this effect diminishes when voters are informed about polling uncertainty.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Mike has written a terrific book about what happened in state legislatures after the imposition of Jim Crow. Data are amazing, analysis is nuanced, and the lessons are important. Check it out!

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IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network @imiscoe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🚨 Opportunity alert! The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems invites recent graduates in a social science discipline to apply for a short-term research fellowship. 📅 Deadline: June 15th 💡 Full call here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

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Visiting Research Fellowship for a prospective PhD student in Migration Studies with a focus on informal work

We invite early-stage researchers to apply for the Ernst Mach Grant – worldwide, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. This prestigious fellowship supports young ...

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🚨🚨 Job: Please share 🙌 - what? PhD position in my DFG-funded project on how citizens understand their role in democracy. - when? Application deadline Jul 1, job start Sept 1 or soon thereafter - how? www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

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