From a colleague, student's response to question on a final -- see if you can spot the AI usage since it's so subtle... #AcademicSky #EduSky

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝 Let's protect bees and the honey they make. This article explains more about detecting banned antibiotics in honey, helping ensure safer, trustworthy honey. Learn more: cutt.ly/MtLYVCZe #WorldBeeDay #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #SciSky #AcademicSky #ChemSky #EduSky #Edchat 🍜🧪🍯🐝

Matthias’s talk yesterday, at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), was a great success! We are grateful to everyone who attended, and look forward to reading further research on this topic. #AcademicSky

Last week, we held the final event of the EthnicGoods project in Barcelona, featuring three days of fruitful discussions. The panels, hosted at @ibei.org and the CCCB, brought together diverse perspectives on nationalism. 1/2

📍 Join us TOMORROW at the CCCB for an International Seminar bringing together experts in peace and conflict studies, populist far-right movements, #nationalism and #governance to examine the current challenges and future horizons... 🎟️ Free admission with reservation, link below 1/2 #Diversity

How do states turn populations into “a nation”? A reminder that our public symposium on new research into #nation-building policies worldwide is tomorrow! Featuring the launch of the #NBPDataset. 🗓 18 March, 18:00–19:30 📍 Auditori Mercè Rodoreda, @ibei.org #AcademicSky 1/2

📣 We are pleased to announce the launch of our Nation-Building Policies Research Platform. We hope the research & analysis we have conducted over the last few years, will be a public good for the academic community for many years to come! [Link below] 1/2 #NationBuilding #Research #AcademicSky

How do states turn populations into “a nation”? Join our public symposium on new research into #nation-building policies worldwide, featuring the launch of the #NBPDataset — the first global, longitudinal dataset tracking nation-building over time. 🗓 18 March, 18–19:30 📍 @ibei.org #AcademicSky

How do we manage ethnic and cultural diversity in the face of rising exclusionary #nationalism? With major conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza, and increasingly restrictive policies worldwide, our panel will discuss how these opposing dynamics interact... 1/2 #Populism #NationBuilding

Last week in Amsterdam, EthnicGoods co-organized the workshop “Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Identity in Soviet & Post-Soviet Contexts” with the University of Amsterdam. A keynote by Pål Kolstø set the stage for rich discussions on identity, nationalism, and memory. #AcademicSky 1/2

As EthnicGoods comes to an end, we’re excited to announce an open expert panel to examine the rise of #populism, exclusionary #nationalism and the future of #diversity management. Join us on March 20th, 12-13:30, at the CCCB in Barcelona. For more info: www.cccb.org/ca/activitat... #AcademicSky

How do wars make states, and why do their effects last centuries? Join EULAS for a webinar on "Bringing War Back In" with expert and author Dr. @llschenoni.bsky.social + discussant Dr. Matthias vom Hau. 📅 24 Feb 2026, 15:00 CET: zoom.us/webinar/regi... @ucl.ac.uk @ibei.org @ethnicgoods.bsky.social

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Pål Kolstø as keynote speaker for our interdisciplinary workshop in Amsterdam tomorrow; where we will be exploring how #Soviet and post-Soviet identities are contested, renegotiated, and transformed across time and space. #PoliticalScience #AcademicSky

📝 The #SovietUnion profoundly influenced how ethnicity and nationality were categorized, governed, & lived. The state embedded these identities deeply into social & political life. Yet these categories were never fixed; they were constantly contested, negotiated, & reimagined... 1/2 #AcademicSky

*taps the sign* AI cannot write, because writing is more than stringing words together in a specific order. #AcademicSky

Our team recently highlighted the abuse of the CDC WONDER dataset, with a significant increase in the number of publications since 2023 (GenAI onset). In the first month of 2026, 276 new papers have been published, ~20% of the output in 2025 and ~79% of 2024 already.

Really interesting roundup from Hilda. Thanks!

Hilda Bastian@hildabast.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Lots to think about in my annual roundup of peer review research: - AI, mostly bad; some suggestions of ways it may help - Evidence on financial rewards for peer review - Influence of editors' biases More on equity & diversity; librarians & systematic reviews absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/02/02/5...

We often assume that strong state institutions and administrative capacity constrain atrocities. In our latest paper, however, we identify a countervailing pattern: states with greater capacity are less likely to engage in mass killing... 1/4 #SocialScience #NationBuilding

We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our colleague Matthias Koenig (1971–2026), Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University. Matthias was at the forefront of comparative research on diversity governance, and his empirical and theoretical contributions were widely recognized... 1/2

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

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📝 We're looking forward to a productive Workshop in Amsterdam. How have Soviet and post-Soviet regimes influenced identity, belonging, and #nationhood across Eastern Europe and Eurasia? We will explore continuities and ruptures, as well as new developments in minority issues across the region.

📊 The current perspective on #NationBuilding is it started in the past and is “successful” or “fails”. Our approach sees nation-building as an ongoing process, of distinct policies, that may change over time and vary by group. Our ongoing research identifies trends in policies. #AcademicSky

Opinion: The fact that now-established academics survived a system built on overwork does not make it fair or well designed. We must change it, says Yu Tao #academicsky #ECRs https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets-not-pass-down-pain-we-endured-early-career-researchers

For the past decade, governance reforms have been largely shaped by narratives promoting accountability, public engagement and the societal role of universities. This has resulted in strengthened board competences and enhanced external representation. 🔗 buff.ly/P0Q6nks

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

🌱 What will happen to human possibility when #AI reshapes the very capabilities that define our lives? This article considers AI’s role in human development, & how these systems may transform our freedoms, relationships, & futures... 1/2 hd-ca.org/is-ai-transf... #CapabilityApproach #SocialScience

HDCA: Is AI transformative for human flourishing?

Phillipa Shepherd, Université Grenoble Alpes, FranceCaroline Kuhn, Bath Spa University, UK Understanding AI’s role in human development requires more than [...]

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🎄 We’ll be taking a break — from social media and our studies 😅 — until the New Year. Happy Holidays from the EthnicGoods team!

We're releasing the Cultural Elimination Dataset, now integrated into our #NationBuilding framework. We documented cultural elimination — state policies erasing minority identities without mass violence — in 56 countries affecting 111 groups (1945–2020). Notably... 1/2 #AcademicSky #SocialScience

⏰ Applications close on Mon 15 Dec 2025! Who should apply: We welcome scholars, PhD researchers, and established academics working on questions of #ethnicity, #nationhood, & #identity in the #Soviet and post-Soviet contexts. Apply: 🔗 ethnicgoods.org/cfp-workshop... #PoliticalScience #AcademicSky