Ellie Knott

New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social

We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.

For personal reasons (🐣), I’ve not been following recent Moldovan politics enough to comment more than yey PAS / Maia. But, I can comment just how much more coverage these elections and Moldova as a result are getting. Moldova’s visibility right now (and the reasons) is something worth observing.

Moldova has voted: PAS wins with 50.15%, beating the polls despite Russian interference.

The people chose a pro-EU, reform path. Meanwhile, the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc (24%) calls for protests. PAS must now deliver reforms & lead Moldova toward EU accession.

#Moldova #Elections #EU

#Moldova With 55 seats in Parliament, pro-EU party PAS secures absolute majority.

Patriotic Bloc leader Igor Dodon calls for a peaceful protest at 12.00 and alleges irregularities in the voting process. He has yet to recognize the results.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and…

A cartoon of Putin and Trump walking down a red carpet, that turns into a huge bloodstain.

Blood red carpet. By Mykhailo Dunakovskiy.

The mental and admin load expected on new mothers (knee deep in stitches and waist high in sleep deprivation) is wild and the bureaucratic push back from the NHS is even more wild. Want your partner’s number on baby’s details? They’ll remove it. Want your partner to register at a GP? They can’t.

I am looking for a researcher (pre-doc) in my DFG-funded project "Violence Against Political Actors at the Grassroots Level" 👇

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My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

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Today, I start a new chapter on parental leave and as an Associate Professor. Beyond grateful to everyone who helped me make both of these happen, professionally and personally, to those who supported, advised, wrote letters, reviewed manuscripts, cared, and let me rant.

Now on FirstView ft. @marniehowlett.bsky.social and @lkonken.bsky.social.

How can we as a profession address that our "homes" and "fields" are not distinct and separate, especially with the rise of virtual and digital research methods?

#polisky #academisky

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NEW PUBLICATION🎉
Happy to finally share the new @globalcit.bsky.social Report on the State of #Citizenship in #Ukraine (2014~2024) co-authored with @faburkhardt.bsky.social
#EUI #passportisation
hdl.handle.net/1814/92966

🔴 Russia conducted one of the most massive attacks on Ukraine to date tonight.

Preliminarily, Russian troops deployed:
- Between 560 and 700 drones.
- Over 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles.

The main targets of the assault were Lviv, Lutsk, and Chernivtsi.

Moldova Matters e acum și în română! NYT scrie că Moldova ar fi dispusă să primească „deportați” din țări terțe trimiși de SUA. De ce asta nu se va întâmpla (probabil)… și de ce chiar n-ar trebui. 👇

open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...

Stonewall's new short strategy is out. Not one specific mention of trans people. Not one specific mention of mass segregation and persecution. Not one specific mention of trans children. Not one specific mention of mass oppression and healthcare criminalisation.

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Bahahhaha. Also, weirdly, they keep posting different clips of it. The strangest.

Hai www.instagram.com/p/DLkT6FtNeo...

Russia's disinformation campaign targeting Moldova continues, with dozens more links to social media posts with fake news videos emailed to Bellingcat over the last week.

I need you to watch Irina Vlah rap as part of her take down of PAS www.instagram.com/reel/DLjn3TV...

Expert commentary on proposed amendments to UK citizenship law extending naturalisation period from 5 to 10 years: back to the future reviving Labour's proposals from 2008, and with a similar lack of evidence base for this extension....

🌍 Just launched: The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report ⚡

Explore trends in citizenship laws across 191 countries (2020–2024), including dual citizenship, gender equality, immigrant inclusion & more 📊

🔗 Read the full report: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

It seems facile to say, but many of us are supportive of trans rights explicitly because of our serious feminist commitments.

Trans rights are human rights. Women's rights are human rights. And reproductive rights are a fundamental part of those human rights. These fights are inseparable.