I am beyond excited that my latest work with Jenniina Kotajoki was published in IO (open-access!) - www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A quick thread below -

@cbrandt.bsky.social and Jenniina Kotajoki's study of naming and shaming non-state armed groups finds that nearly half of all condemnations at the UN Security Council target them (rather than other states)—and states shame them for very different strategic reasons. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council - https://cup.org/3QQoa37 - @cbrandt.bsky.social & @jkotajoki.bsky.social #FirstView

Ahhhhhh!!!!!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council - https://cup.org/3QQoa37 - @cbrandt.bsky.social & @jkotajoki.bsky.social #FirstView

hive mind: help me find for a lecture a good demonstrative peace and conflict paper that uses testing of an interaction effect as a first cut test of causal process

its pretty funny its a survey about harassment

Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez@devoncantwell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Greetings to the rest of Europe from the Reply All-pocolypse of my inbox

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

I am excited to announce that Lisa Hultman and I have been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) grant for a three-year project to study why publics support war crimes. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

DPCR awarded two RJ project grants - Uppsala University

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🚨The Graduate Student Support Grant is now open 🚨 If you are a graduate student in political science with an urgent financial need-please apply today! Awards are given to applicants on a lottery basis. It doesn't hurt to apply. connect.apsanet.org/graduate/gra...

What should we expect from President Trump’s new executive order on “wrongful detention”? My latest, on @goodauth.bsky.social, explains👇 goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

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It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

📢 New publication! 📢 Why do ordinary citizens participate in election violence in democracies? Kathleen Klaus and @meganturnbull.bsky.social argue that such violence is often jointly produced by elites and citizens, enabled by threat-based narratives and social networks that legitimize violence.

Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer: -Join your campus AAUP chapter. -If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

I'm teaching intro to IR (last minute substitute teacher right here) and today a student asked for great IR podcasts. Can someone point me to the place where this has already been discussed and decided? I do not listen except for special occasions because of my schedule.

🎙️In this episode, Karen Brounéus, one of our professors and clinical psychologist, takes us on a journey there and back again. Her research helps us think more deeply about the intrinsic link between #MentalHealth and #ConflictReduction. Listen: 🎧 Podbean: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i2jm6-...

🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... A thread 🧵:

for scholars using LLMs to classify/analyze/do anything with news sources - does uploading news to commercial LLMs somehow not violate the newspapers' terms of service? what am I missing here?

These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...

Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors.

One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

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Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!

Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen

I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...

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I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

UppsalaPeaceConflict@uupeace.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are looking for 1–2 postdoctoral researchers to join the project “Political Violence in Democracies”, led by @hannefjelde.bsky.social 📌 Full-time, 2-year postdoctoral position 📆 Start Date: Dec 1, (or by agreement) 📍 Location: Uppsala ⏳ Apply by: Oct 1 Read more: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6. How will the next legally required transition of power go?

Wondering about submitting your proposal to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference? See 👇🏻 and its exciting new panel formats.

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

📍Why a non-profit organization? 📍 EPSA has played a vital role in building a strong network for European political scientists. We all benefitted, but its structure, controlled by a for-profit company, distributed profits as dividends, rather to its members. That’s changing. Now.👇 /2

its pretty funny how consistently AI thinks I should be using more emojis in this response memo

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Job alert! Please apply and/or share with your networks! GLOBIS is hiring a Research Professional to work with us on our Human Rights Programs, especially the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). (1/3) www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...

A Cal State faculty member was arrested for protesting ICE. The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · last yr.

One of my colleagues and a union comrade was abducted at the Camarillo action yesterday. We still don't know where he is, who is holding them, or any other information about his status. If you're in the area, please reach out to the folks listed in the press release and donate to the bail fund.

Letting down important coauthors 🫠

hats off to whoever required the EU to update the rules of this grant application to specify "The individual researcher and the supervisor must be two different people."

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

I’m at NEPS! Come say hi!!

Caroline M. Brandt@cbrandt.bsky.social · last yr.

Have to say, who ever had the idea - what about Peace Science, but make it in Barcelona; that was a good idea