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Jana Hönke

@janahoenke.bsky.social

Researches Global/International Political Sociology, (in)security governance, infrastructures, extraction, politics of contestation, Africa, South-South relations Also on LinkedIn. https://www.african-sociology.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html

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@africamultiple.bsky.social · 7d ago

The student association Model African Union Bayreuth will hold its annual elections on 8 September 2026 and is calling on students to put themselves forward. Location: FZA, Room S147 To apply: send a brief motivational letter to info@modelafricanunion.de More information: www.modelafricanunion.de

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Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung@dsfrieden.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FriedensStiftung in Zeiten globaler Krisen – unter diesem Titel haben wir am 5. Mai in Berlin das 25. Jubiläum der DSF gefeiert. Gemeinsam mit hochrangigen Gästen aus Politik und Wissenschaft diskutierten wir über Europas Optionen zur Stabilisierung der internationalen Ordnung. 📸©Ronka Oberhammer

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Dr. Marie Huber@mariehuber.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The first of several jobs in our project on corporate social responsibility as a transnational cause: 1 PhD position in sociology. We are a very supportive and ambitious international team. 2 PhD positions in history coming soon!

Centre Marc Bloch@centremarcbloch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Contrat doctoral (2026–2029) – Projet TRIBECA 🔎 Recherche sur la RSE et les entreprises transnationales à l'exemple de l'industrie textile 📅 Basé à Berlin au Centre Marc Bloch Début sept. 2026 pour 3 ans Deadline : 29 mai 2026 🔗 cmb.hu-berlin.de/meldungen/23...

Review of International Political Economy@ripejournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order, by @jbrgreen.bsky.social

The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order

This article revisits gold’s role within Bretton Woods, contributing to recent efforts to develop a more global and thematically inclusive international political economy (IPE). Challenging dominan...

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Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here’s that (disturbing) new study about the effects of Twitter/X’s biased algorithm: bsky.app/profile/eliz...

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
FoKS@foksbayern.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tag 2 unserer Fellow Assembly 🚀 Round Table zu „Verteidigung im Umbruch“ – mit intensiver Diskussion über Verteidigungspolitik, Resilienz, Wehrpflicht und aktuelle Herausforderungen. Mit Oliver Hidalgo, @drfranksauer.bsky.social Sauer, Inga Schalinski, Axel Schulte & Bernhard Stahl.

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FoKS@foksbayern.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thrilled! 🔥 Gestern beim #MSC: „Defuse it or lose it?“ Intensive Diskussion mit Abraham L. Newman, Andreas Kruck & Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt zu strategischer Interdependenz und der Zukunft der liberalen Ordnung.

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FoKS@foksbayern.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Let’s go! 🚀 „Defuse it or lose it?“ – Wie Staaten Interdependenz strategisch nutzen und was das für die liberale Ordnung heißt. Impuls: Abraham L. Newman (Underground Empire). Gerade gestartet beim #MSC.

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Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions@conf-mean-trans.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🌎 Join us for an exciting roundtable discussion at the #MSC2026 with leading experts, including Prof. Abraham L. Newman – hosted by @janahoenke.bsky.social from our Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions network Register now!

Invitation to the Roundtable „Defuse It or Lose It“ – MSC Side-Event (12.2., Munich) - Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions

Roundtable discussion – „Defuse It or Lose It: How to Defuse Interdependence Without Blowing Up the Liberal World Order“ 12.2.2026 | 18:30 | Amerikahaus, Karolinensaal, Karolinenplatz 3, Munich The Ba...

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Jana Hönke@janahoenke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our book was reviewed in @africaspectrum.bsky.social. I was not here for a while - belated thanks for engaging with the work and the generous remarks!

Africa Spectrum@africaspectrum.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📕Funda Baydar Yazan appraises @janahoenke.bsky.social @eric-cezne.bsky.social & Yifan Yang's Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice, recommending it to scholars interested in the politics of infrastructure beyond its technical dimension. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0002...