Nicholas Haas

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE's Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

We're kicking off a new season of your favourite show next Tuesday: The Migration & Ethnicity Workshop @aarhusuniint.bsky.social 🔥With an exciting line-up of stars, it promises to deliver world-class entertainment every second week. Please join if you're around (no online presentations).

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

Data Science Frontiers:

🚨Call for submissions (by Aug 1)🚨
NYU "Data Science Frontiers: Society and Politics" conference. Held at NYU’s New York campus Oct 15-17. Submit a paper or extended abstract. Full details here: nyuad.my.salesforce-sites.com/NYEvents/ape...
Travel subsidies for presenters. Please forward!

🚨 The Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition!

📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk

Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

@dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid!

The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below).

To express interest, complete form (by 06/24)
👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
1/n

Emmy Lindstam (IE, @emmylindstam.bsky.social) is now presenting work on how state-promoted national narratives shape support for undemocratic behavior, with experimental data from India and the United States 🇮🇳🇺🇸

(joint work with Nicholas Haas @nicholashaas.bsky.social)

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

CEPDISC’25 Conference on Discrimination

September 24-26, 2025
Horsens, Denmark

The conference brings together researchers working on discrimination from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Deadline for abstract submission is 15 May.

See the website for more info:

EPSA Pre-Conference on Culture We invite submissions for a pre-EPSA workshop on the topic of “Culture”. The event will take place on June 25th, 2025 at IE University Madrid. The study of culture has a long-standing tradition in pol...

Please spread the word:

Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University.

The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th).

More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Exclusionary bargaining behavior in 14 countries: Prevalence and predictors Abstract. Primates are known to engage in exclusionary behavior, forming alliances to block a minority from accessing scarce resources. Humans are no excep

14-nation study..."despite significant cross-country variability...individual-level characteristics matter...Men, individuals with deliberative reasoning style, ideologically right-leaning individuals consistently and substantially more exclusionary" academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd.

It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.

From our new issue: "My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead" by Nicholas Haas and Emmy Lindstam. #ASPRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Postdoctoral positions in Political Science at Aarhus University – Advertising Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Join our team! 🚨

We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University.

We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies.

Feel free to share!👇🏾

bss.au.dk/en/about-aar...

Fantastic 👏👏👏

⏰ Please share widely!

We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

New from @nicholashaas.bsky.social @emmylindstam.bsky.social: In India, inclusive historical narratives embedded in govt textbooks increase Muslim participants’ perceived centrality and entitlement, desire to lead, and demand for real-world Muslim leaders www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2 postdocs (up to six years)! | Daniel Bischof Daniel Bischof's webpage. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

🚨Jobs🚨

2 postdocs up to six years: shorturl.at/BP027

Small FAQ already provided. Get in touch if you have questions, I will try to update the FAQ regularly.

Please share and apply!

Excited to finish off the autumn semester's programme in the Aarhus University Migration & Ethnicity Workshop with a bang: Tomorrow, we will hear from @nicholashaas.bsky.social (presenter) & @emmylindstam.bsky.social on the effects of inclusive historical narratives💥

Are political institutions persistent? A large literature on the long-term effects of precolonial African institutions assumes as much. But so far, we lacked quantitative evidence for this.

In our new PSRM paper, @carlmc.bsky.social and I investigate this... doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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Opinion | The Conversations About the War in Gaza We Ought to Be Having Universities should not retreat into their ivory towers because the discourse has gotten toxic; a retreat into the ivory tower will encourage even more toxic discourse.

Keren Yarhi-Milo and Amaney Jamal in today’s NYT:

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/o...