Stefan Döring

Policy brief: Trust in elections in Nigeria - Uppsala University

How much do Nigerians trust their elections? 🗳️🇳🇬

We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇

You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Reviewer notes: In a randomized experiment, the pre-post differences are not effect estimates Reviewer notes are a new short format with brief explanations of basic ideas that might come in handy during (for example) the peer-review process. They are a great way to keep Julia from writing 10,0...

Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:

www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...

Important story! Gift link!

The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.

By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Great primer on using UCDP

분노로 쓴 美구금일지…B1비자 근로자에 "노스코리아" 조롱도 | 연합뉴스 (서울=연합뉴스) 박영서 이동환 김준태 기자 = 미국 조지아주 배터리 공장 건설 현장에서 일하다 7일간 구금된 근로자들에게 '인권'은 실종된 단...

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

Is this irony? The Eurovision has always been political, just like the Olympics, the World Cup, the Nobel laureates, etc

🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

A thread 🧵:

💧Our researcher @stefandoring.bsky.social presented as a Featured Speaker at the 2025 International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In his presentation, Stefan touched on various aspects of how armed conflict shapes access to water.

Photo by Roger Anis

#Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict

Job opportunities at Retraction Watch Here are our current open positions: Editor, Medical Evidence Project Staff reporter, Retraction Watch Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database Learn more about the Center for Scientific Int…

The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions:

-- Editor, Medical Evidence Project
-- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch

and we're still recruiting for:

-- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database

Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎

Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”

Israel kills 20 Palestinians in airstrikes after agreeing to let some aid into Gaza Israel pursued its military operation in Gaza after it agreed to lift a two-month-old blockade on aid deliveries that has left the enclave on the brink of famine.

Wenn jemand hungert und ich gebe einen Krümmel Brot ist das keine Hilfeleistung.

„ U.N. aid officials said nine trucks had been cleared to enter, a quantity U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher described as "a drop in the ocean".

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

A vote for Sweden is a vote for Finland (you get two for the price of one ;) #esc2025

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Not many en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Gotta be Sweden again this year #barabadabastu #esc

I think OSF has lists for that

Research & Politics, Nature Human Behavior

Oh hey ACLED user,
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.

Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise

Graph with Twitter Mentions in march 2025

Graph with Mentions of research on Twitter, 2017.

In March 2024 Altmetric detected 1,024,527 mentions of research items on X, formerly Twitter.

This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago.

April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go.

Place your bets.

a man in a suit and tie is making a face in an office . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a face in an office .

Opening my email inbox after one week of vacation

Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv...

In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE).

#RPVSky

Japan says it wants to join a NATO command for the support of Ukraine Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says Japan wants to participate in a NATO command for its Ukrainian mission as Japan increasingly steps up military ties with the largely European security organ...

missed this one last night: "Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance."

Nice presentation by @tilmanbrueck.bsky.social

Genes

Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells Another man also regained some movement, but two others experienced minimal improvement.

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury

https://go.nature.com/41YLmhC

Have you build it?

🎓 Join our dynamic and supportive research community in Uppsala, Sweden! We are now seeking to fill a general PhD position in peace and conflict research. Last application date is 7 April 2025.

Read more and apply. 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

#PhD #Jobs #Hiring #AcademicJobs