To early-career women scholars in International Studies📣 Applications are open for the 2027 Pay It Forward program! 📣 As a former alumna and now a member of the organizing team, I strongly recommend it. Please share widely. 👉Deadline: June 15. 👉Apply: buff.ly/Cg0aCrR 👉Workshop: at ISA on March 20

International Studies Association@isanet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Applications for #PayItForward at #ISA2027 are now open! This workshop aims to connect #EarlyCareer #Women in #InternationalStudies with mentors and peers to learn about #ProfessionalDevelopment, #Careers, #Research, #Networking, and more. Learn more & apply: buff.ly/Cg0aCrR

Legislating Peace is out now with the Cambridge Elements Series in Gender & Politics. It’s available to download for free until March 6th! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Legislating Peace

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Legislating Peace

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🎉Bilim Akademisi tarafından düzenlenen Genç Bilim İnsanları (BAGEP) Ödülü’ne layık görülmekten büyük mutluluk duydum.☺️ @BilimAkademisi’ne ve çalışmalarım boyunca destek olan herkese çok teşekkürler! 🙋‍♀️ #BAGEP2026

@bilimakademisi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 sonuçları açıklandı! 2013’ten bu yana verilen 513 ödüle 37 yeni ödül ekleniyor. Kazananlar, ödül töreni ve destekçiler ile ilgili ayrıntılar bağlantıda. bilimakademisi.org/bagep-2026-s... #BAGEP2026 #BAGEP #BilimAkademisi

Know a great recent political economy article? Please nominate for the APSA Political Economy Section's Wallerstein Award. Nominators & winners need not be section members. Self nominations encouraged! To nominate, please send a pdf copy to all committee members by March 31.

My book in Gender and Politics Elements Series is now in print! 😊 @universitypress.cambridge.org Thank you @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Public Preferences, Gender, and Foreign Support for Armed Movements

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Public Preferences, Gender, and Foreign Support for Armed Movements

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Tiffany Barnes@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

First of all, this arrived on my desk this week! Love seeing @caglayanbaser.bsky.social Element IRL. 👏👏👏

📌Final day to submit nominations for the Executive Council of the Women's Caucus of @isanet.bsky.social (WCIS). Self-nominations ✅Send your name, affiliation & 200-word statement on your or the nominee's behalf to christina.fattore@mail.wvu.edu Happy to discuss our work if you have questions!

Caglayan Baser@caglayanbaser.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🙌The Women’s Caucus of the @isanet.bsky.social (WCIS) invites nominations for 5 open Executive Council positions: 🔸Program Chair/Chair, 🔸Graduate Student Representative, 🔸Members-at-Large. 🔜Deadline: Feb 9, 2026. 📩 Nominations: Christina.Fattore@mail.wvu.edu

Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@the-peio.bsky.social) at the University of Texas at Austin, January 7-9, 2027. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks to Terry Chapman, Dan Nielson, @natemjensen.bsky.social, @rwellhausen.bsky.social for hosting!

🙌The Women’s Caucus of the @isanet.bsky.social (WCIS) invites nominations for 5 open Executive Council positions: 🔸Program Chair/Chair, 🔸Graduate Student Representative, 🔸Members-at-Large. 🔜Deadline: Feb 9, 2026. 📩 Nominations: Christina.Fattore@mail.wvu.edu

📌My newly published Cambridge Elements book on gender and foreign support for armed groups is freely available online for a few more days:📌https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009407069 Check it out to see how foreign audiences perceive rebels,and what role gender plays in this perception #conflict #polisci

Tiffany Barnes@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to share a new Cambridge Element in the Gender & Politics Series. 📚 Read for free for the next 2 weeks cup.org/49HjK5q Congratulations @caglayanbaser.bsky.social 👏👏👏 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @dzobrien.bsky.social @rblaifeder.bsky.social

I presented a new project on gender equality and strategic frameworks at the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science #JSQPS. Had a chance to learn about many new cutting edge research, 100% recommended! Tokyo was wonderful - so much to observe and learn from the social context!

Excited that "Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition" is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social. W/ survey of white, Hispanic, and Black American respondents, we show primary gap in nascent political ambition is not between men and women but between white men and the majority of the polity.

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NEW - Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition - https://cup.org/4s4ZzFT - Andrea Junqueira, @dzobrien.bsky.social, @mhayes.bsky.social, Jongwoo Jeong, Brian Crisp & Matthew Gabel #OpenAccess

The proposal submission deadline is soon for the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Join scholars to explore the latest scholarship in political science around the 2026 conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” 📄 Submit proposals here: buff.ly/Ys5JPh6

🎉New book alert! 📢Do female combatants shape foreign support for rebel groups? My new @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org book shows that groups with women fighters receive more foreign backing because they’re seen as more democratic, gender equal and less violent. 🔓Free to read for 2 weeks👇

Tiffany Barnes@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to share a new Cambridge Element in the Gender & Politics Series. 📚 Read for free for the next 2 weeks cup.org/49HjK5q Congratulations @caglayanbaser.bsky.social 👏👏👏 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @dzobrien.bsky.social @rblaifeder.bsky.social

I’m lucky to teach a wonderful group of postgrads studying gender & politics at Bath 💫 Send your excellent gender & politics students our way 😊 They can find out more about our MSc in International Relations with Gender Politics at the Virtual Open Day on 12 Nov 👇 www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/ex...

📢Bilkent IR Department is hiring!📢 We have two open-rank faculty positions available 1) Open specialization in IR 2) Historical IR / Historical Political Economy Deadline is: 15 December. Link: ir.bilkent.edu.tr?page_id=3396 #polisky #poliscijobmarket #poliscijobs #psjminfo #academicjobs

Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

Grateful for the recognition of our article “Unique Offerings: Ideological Competition and Rebel Governance” by @apsa.bsky.social 2025 Conflict Section Best Paper Award. It has recently become online first. If you are inquiring about rebel strategies, then: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unique offerings: Ideological competition and rebel governance - Seden Akcinaroglu, Jeremy Berkowitz, Carlos E. Moreno Leon, Sema Hande Ogutcu-Fu, Evgeny Sedashov, Efe Tokdemir, 2025

This study examines the factors influencing non-state armed actors’ (NSAAs) ability and willingness to implement rebel governance, with a focus on the group...

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ISA's Women's Caucus (WCIS) is accepting nominations for 3 awards! 📢 The deadline is Oct 1, 2025. Help us spread the word! 🌟 Susan S. Northcutt Award – honoring service 🌟 Gerner Grant – early-career 🌟 Grad Student Best Paper – for WCIS members at ISA 2025. Link: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/

Hi friends! I am collecting submissions for the Best Women in Politics Paper Award for WPSA! Send your nominations to ejdavies [at] uci [dot] edu. Self nominations are welcome!

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
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In economics, men are tenured aren't punished for coauthoring. Women, however, are less likely to receive tenure the more they coauthor.

Nice girls don't get angry. They smile more 🤬

Prof Sam Illingworth@samillingworth.com · 12mo ago

💬 Women penalised for anger on inequality A new study found that when women express anger about gender inequality, they are judged more negatively and gain less support for collective action. Tackling narrow gender norms may help 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #SciComm #GenderEquality 🧪

📢 Call for Papers WORKSHOP: Gender, Peace, and Security: Resistance and Resilience Nairobi, 1-3 December, hosted by British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) with @rvinews.bsky.social ➡️ Application deadline 13 August! @statsvitenskap.bsky.social #resilience #gender #climate #peacebuilding

A good read on manosphere – a growing community of men who promote traditional masculinity and an opposition to feminism. Published 2 years ago but still, unfortunately, very relevant: www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

Adventures in the manosphere

Andrew Tate has turned five months of Romanian detention into a rallying cry. I went to a bootcamp for “alpha males” to find out why.

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And the whole world watched.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last yr.

Gaza starvation toll rises to 154, including 89 children - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-starvation-toll-rises-154-including-89-children

Excited to see my new Annual Review w. @dzobrien.bsky.social out this summer & open access! Special thanks to our editor @bashleyleeds.bsky.social & all the scholars doing research on gender & the executive branch. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Honored to be on this list from @forbes.com. "Taylor packs a wealth of analysis and interesting facts into a compact book.. The book is ideal for anyone who wants a better context for understanding news reports about Putin and Russia." www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

5 Must-Read Books To Understand Russia And The War In Ukraine

Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.

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Powerful writing by Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts who was detained by the US authorities because she called a genocide a genocide in a student newspaper

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · last yr.

“I was looking forward to taking a short walk and catching up with friends at the Interfaith Center, when I was suddenly surrounded and grabbed by a swarm of masked individuals, who handcuffed me and shoved me into an unmarked car.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...