Matthias Leese

For the annual team hike of the ETH Zurich Technology and Governance research group, this year we tackled the famous five lakes route at Pizol.

And after two years of bad weather luck, this time we caught a magnificent day ☀️

I believe it's safe to say that the entire team had fun 😊

congratulations!

As editors-in-chief, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social and I are extremely proud that @jird-jour.bsky.social is now for the first time ever ranked in Q1 of International Relations journals 💥

Clearly, we owe this to our predecessors, as we only took over in January 2025 - but good news is good news ❤️

@europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 program is out: c-in.floq.live/event/eisape...

It's going to be a couple of super intense, fun, and presumably veeeeeery hot days in Bologna - looking forward to seeing everyone and catching up 👌

🚨Publication alert🚨

We compare national quantum technology governance strategies with expert insights, showing that while both emphasize innovation and infrastructure, national frameworks underplay critical ethical, societal, and security concerns.

Full OA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

from an editorial perspective, there are a few scenarios to explain this admittedly shitty experience: maybe there was a change in the editorial team? maybe the other paper had in fact been sitting in the pipeline for an extended time? maybe a different editor gave the desk reject?

Thanks to all of our colleagues who showed so much support for @jird-jour.bsky.social by agreeing to join the International Advisory Board ❤️

@fhofmann.bsky.social, Sophie Bettex, @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social, Mareile Kaufmann, Vasilis Argyriou, Fredrik Schade

on picture duty: Mattéo Bard

couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work!

w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social

Open call for a Full Professorship (W3) for Sociology with a Focus on Theoretical Sociology and Epistemology; key areas: materialist theory in the line of the Frankfurt School and/or global critical theories

@goetheuni.bsky.social, Germany

Deadline: 11 July 2025

berufungsportal.uni-frankfurt.de

@kawezel.bsky.social @delfrothe.bsky.social @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social

👉Deadline reminder!

Submit your abstracts for the annual @dvpw.bsky.social critical security studies section conference by 7 June at the latest.

Link to the official CfP: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...

We are looking forward to your proposals and please share widely - thanks!

Excited to embark on this relaunch alongside @francakappes.bsky.social , Victoria Motta, and Carolina Futuro!

Shout-out to @matthiasleese.bsky.social , Klaus Dingwerth, and Lucile Maertens, who first established the #DoingIPS network in 🇨🇭

👉 Call for Participation: forms.gle/6aMrVN8pHVVw...

more good stuff coming our way from @josipovicivo.bsky.social

fantastic, congrats @josipovicivo.bsky.social 🥳

new issue of JIRD coming up ❤️

Curious about how planning systems are moving from paper to digital? Our new article charts 25 years of digital transformation in the Irish planning ecosystem, revealing how visioning, scaffolding and politics shape technology adoption.
See: doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

there's a lot of talk about the potential use of AI in border and migration management

in this report, @laurajung.bsky.social & @abendsommer.bsky.social carefully and critically take stock of what is actually possible/going on and with what consequences

👇
tinyurl.com/59ts8b2m

in less diplomatic terms: we as editors have been fighting an uphill battle against a global corporation to get their shit together🤦‍♂️

this has been extremely frustrating, but we remain optimistic that things will change for the better soon...

Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It Abstract. This forum urges international relations (IR) practitioners to rethink the nature of both failure and success, and their own responsibility in bu

we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it

check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure

@meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

The political economy of platformed silos: Theorizing data storage reconfigurations in the age of interoperability capitalism - Matthew Archer, Louis Ravn, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, 2025 Interoperability has become a prominent topic in contemporary discourses around digital infrastructures in fields as diverse as security, finance, health, and c...

Platforms, silos, interoperability - what's the deal with these database buzzwords?

Check out this🔥new paper by @matthewarcher.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

15% plagiarism is fine - predatory publishing emails hit differently 😅

beides

🚨Call for Papers🚨

"Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social

Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025

all info in the picture

just to clarify: the empirical work I did on predictive policing did not involve Palantir software

the most knowledgeable person about this would be Simon Egbert at Uni Bielefeld

I might be biased but this seems like a good read for the upcoming Easter break 👌

🚨Call for papers🚨

@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep)

all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa

please distribute widely!

View over Zurich old town and the lake/mountains from the rooftop terrace at the new office building.

Feels almost Mediterranean 😎

I could graphically illustrate the nose-hands-clothes trail of bodily fluids and foods, but I suppose that won't be necessary