Silviya Nitsova

The APSA Political Networks Section is now accepting nominations for its 2026 section awards, including the John Sprague Award, Best Conference Paper Award, and Political Ties Award!
Nominations (including self-nominations) are due April 4, 2026.
Submit here: forms.gle/cDC8Z3pdS6bm...

This is a fantastic workshop. Apply!

Tom Hardy would be a great pick for Andriy Yermak if there were a movie with his character in it.

Peace Fellowships

Applications for the 2027 Rotary Peace Fellowships are now open. They offer so much, including the opportunity to obtain a Master’s degree or a professional certificate from a world-class university, to outstanding candidates from around the world working in the field of peace & conflict resolution.

Use these in my own research and cannot underscore their utility strongly enough.

Timely and interesting papers.

Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos is the world leader speech that has impacted me the most since Ukrainian President Zelensky’s address hours before Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion. Worth your time. Worth giving it thought.

World-first AI partnership between The University of Manchester and Microsoft announced The University of Manchester becomes first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff.65,000 staff and students will receive full Microsoft ...

Glad to see UoM making such a move. “65,000 colleagues and students will receive full Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training, making Manchester the world’s first university to deploy equitable access across its entire community”

Title + abstract of the preprint

Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜

arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253

As a BA International Fellow, I cannot recommend this opportunity strongly enough. Apply!

Genuinely surprised by how many UK and European university department websites make it difficult to find basic information about their research staff.

New preprint is out!

Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7

Great place to present your work on political elites, broadly defined.

In less than six hours, Bulgaria switches to the 💶 as its official currency 🇧🇬 🇪🇺It’s pretty cool to witness the world move in the right direction despite everything. Congratulations to all of us on this big achievement.

Liberation, not collapse The fall of the Berlin Wall, and not the human chain across the Baltics, is emblematic of 1989. But what if this show of unity had become iconic of communism’s disintegration? Could acknowledging East...

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

🚨 Six days left to apply 🚨
2 x 3-year postdoc positions
to work with me on the many impacts of border change, no teaching obligations, a vibrant department @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and London is a fantastic city! Deadline: Jan 4th.

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

PolNet is coming to Manchester! So looking forward to having everyone over here for exciting discussions on everything political networks! 💜 @manchester.ac.uk

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UNC’s CSEEES was such a bright part of my time at UNC. It not only supported my research, but also felt like home. Such a loss for UNC, its students, and Eastern European and Eurasian studies in the US.

Postdoctoral Scholars Postdoctoral Scholars

Come work with us. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Studies and another for an open position at the Harriman Institute. Deadline January 5. harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

Say his name as many times as you can

#poliscijobs
Up to 24 postdocs at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester to start in October 2026:

Deadline 16 January.
Applicants must have been awarded their PhD by the closing date, & normally not more than 3 years before that.

Decorative image about the Brian Barry Prize communicating it's a deadline of 28 February 2026

Entries are now open for the 2026 Brian Barry Prize ✍️

The prize is awarded annually for excellence in political science. The winner receives £1,500 and will be published in @bjpols.bsky.social.

Follow the link for more information and to find out how to apply: https://bit.ly/3XUKdG1

SIOE 2026 at INSEAD Fontainebleau! 13-15 July. Call: www.sioe.org/conference/2...

Manchester, UK 🐝💜🇺🇦

Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’

A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports...

www.theguardian.com/education/20...


📢 Since launching EPSS in June 2025, we’ve been thrilled by the positive feedback from across the political science community.

Now that Call for Papers for EPSS Conference in Belfast has closed, we want to share the response has been extraordinary!

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Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend.

Other book workshop tips 🧵:

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