Anita Gohdes
@argohdes.bsky.social
Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her. Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Francesca Bria über Peter Thiel, Palantir, den „Demokratiepreis“ und die Verstrickungen zwischen Thiel und Springer ist sehr viel klarer und lesenswerter, als es der Teaser erahnen lässt. 🎁 -Link ohne Paywall www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
Axel Springer Award 2026: Warum Peter Thiel keinen Demokratiepreis verdient hat
Der rechtskonservative Techinvestor Peter Thiel wird mit dem Axel Springer Award ausgezeichnet. Dabei sollten unabhängige Medien dessen Methoden eigentlich hinterfragen.
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Wayne Rooney speaking for the entire world on the half time show. "I thought it was crap."
Ich habe schon lange keine Online Petition mehr unterschrieben, aber diese hier schon: weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...
SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!
Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...
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Very happy to see this out! Our new paper, "Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions," is now published in Psychological Science.
Stop! 🛑 Scroll no further - this is the coolest thing you'll see today. Presenting The Data Dispatch: data journalism made by my students at the Hertie School 👇 data-journalism-26.github.io
Join us today at 2:15pm (Berlin time) for our last @scripts-berlin.eu AI & the global order summer lecture series! Molly Roberts will be talking about „How Partisanship Affects Preferences for Large Language Model Output“ www.scripts-berlin.eu/general-even...
SCRIPTS Forum Summer Lecture #4 | How Partisanship Affects Preferences for Large Language Model Output
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And now, on to @epssnet.bsky.social Copenhagen 24-26 June 2027! #EPSS2027 is going to be amazing Many thanks to the University of Copenhagen, and to @sarahagemann.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social & Kasper Møller Hansen for making next year’s conference happen I hope to see you all there!
What a wonderful few days in Belfast for #EPSS2026 and what a fantastic community! Thank you to everyone who joined the conference with such enthusiasm A special thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & the rest of the EPSS Council for making it all possible
EPSS 2026: That's a wrap! 🎊 Thanks to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers, & participants for making this conference such a success. Safe travels, and see you at EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen!
Main indicator for me that this has been an excellent conference: seeing both the panels and receptions FULL of attendees 📊 😎🍷 #EPSS2026
EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo agoThank you to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers for your amazing efforts to make this conference a success. 2/2
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
Looking for an absolutely riveting read to better understand security organizations? Check this out 👇🏻by Christian Gläßel & @ascharpf.bsky.social , just awarded first ever @epssnet.bsky.social book award 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Anita Gohdes@argohdes.bsky.social · 2mo agoHuge congratulations to Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social for winning the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social best book award for “Making a Career in Dictatorship“ 🥳 #EPSS2026 @hertiesecurity.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social for winning the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social best book award for “Making a Career in Dictatorship“ 🥳 #EPSS2026 @hertiesecurity.bsky.social
A heartfelt thank you to our amazing outgoing #EPSS president @sarahobolt.bsky.social, who was not only instrumental to creating EPSS, but also sheparded it so successfully through its first year. And equally huge thanks to incoming EPSS president @simonhix.bsky.social for his fabulous leadership!
Come and work with us @iepolisci.bsky.social & don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Please share!
IE Political Science Department@iepolisci.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.
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.
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”
One week to go until the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference! Michal Parizak and I put together the International Relations Section panels, from nuclear politics to IOs and geopolitics, from alliances and international conflict. Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...
🎉🎉🎉 The inaugural EPSS Conference in Belfast is just around the corner! Join us in Belfast from 18th to 20th of June, 2026 🎉🎉 🎉
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) from hell
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...
Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 402)
For the research project “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) at the Center for Civil Society Research, in collaboration with other research units and the Cluster of Excellence...
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I got a preview of this book an can only recommend it - a treasure trove of knowledge and analysis. Congratulations to @danaelkurd.bsky.social and all contributors!
Dana El Kurd@danaelkurd.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World will be out this July Endorsement below by @argohdes.bsky.social
Faschisierung ist auch, wenn Spiegel-Redakteure zu 100% mit den Ressentiments von Neofaschisten übereinstimmen, sich ihre Thesen und Begriffe aneignen und sich kaum noch dafür schämen
Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 3mo agoRené Pfister schreibt über die @re-publica.com einen Spiegelbeitrag und mir scheint, als könnte man daran mehr über das Genre dieser Art Antielfenbeinturmgepolter lernen als über seinen Gegenstand. Irgendwie denkt man die ganze Zeit: den Text kenne ich doch schon? Und dann: bam 1/
Had a proper fangirl moment last night, getting to discuss AI, empire, and authoritarianism with the one and only @karenhao.bsky.social at the German Council on Foreign Relations. (foto credit: DGAP)
