Gustav Meibauer

Reskeet with how people would know if you suddenly became rich

a hand in a white glove stirs a bowl of red liquid ALT: a hand in a white glove stirs a bowl of red liquid

Yesssssss.

W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

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Back to school, back to the future of geopolitics 3 September 2024

I'm currently working on this year's "Back to School" reading list for my Substack.

If you are a PhD candidate/ ECR & have a longer piece (2.5k+) or peer-reviewed article (more info below), drop it in the comments or in my pms!

geopoliticaleurope.substack.com/p/back-to-sc...

Junge nur weil du deine fragwürdigen Pamphlete auf der Schreibmaschine tippst heißt das noch lange nicht, dass der Rest von uns nicht eine vernünftige digitale Bildung genossen hat.

Just encountered the term "nap-trapped" and it feels liberating to finally be able be to put my current life into words.

I grew up on these streets

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Awww. Meine Forschungsergebnisse werden sonst sehr selten mit "gesicherten Erkenntnissen" in Verbindung gebracht.

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

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Dear universities,

I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.

Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.

Signed,
Everyone.

My co-author just submitted a manuscript that we worked with on-and-off for four years. Even if editors/reviewers end up hating it, right now it just feels good to finally break the increasingly frustrating cycle of feedback, changes, pause, more changes, feedback...

First Ozzy Osbourne, now Hulk Hogan - these are bad days for the alliteratively named. 😖

Small paid opportunity for a PhD student:

I had a guest lecture fall through *next week* on a summer program I'm teaching and would love a mid-late stage PhD to talk about their work and grad study.

Any topic re European city politics and/or migration. Virtual is assumed, but in-person possible.

It's probably because this is beyond.

Inspired by our #Warwick friends, we have decided to Rebrand™️.

Our Brand Proposition motivates through innovative synergies, powerful purpose, and marketing values uniquely derived from our strategic positioning, all of which collectively shape our value-driven mission.

This is #beneath.

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

I, too, feel confident that Mamdani is going to lose in southern Arizona.

Well ThAt's WhY HE'S a bILLIonaIRe aNd yOu'RE nOt wait

Structuration nach Giddens ist wenn sich Strukturen und Agenten gegenseitig bedingen.

Zum Beispiel die deutsche Wissenschaftslandschaft: gleichzeitig bei riesigem Reformbedarf immer nur unsägliche Flitzpiepen als Minister.

'Bier ist weder durch das Bundesreisekostengesetz oder die Fakultätsauslagenverordnung gedeckt. Daher unser Angebot, hier alternativ 'Hold my kaltgewordener Pfefferminztee' zu nutzen.'

Ehrt Dionysius ja, dass er sich das nicht hat zu Kopf steigen lassen.

Seite an Seite mit rechtsextremen Hetzern eine Kampagne gegen eine angesehen Juristin lostreten, die daraufhin massiv bedroht wird, und wenn sie sich wehrt „Resilienz“ und „Kritikfähigkeit“ einfordern, ist dreiste Täter-Opfer-Umkehr, politisches Gaslighting und menschlich einfach unter aller Sau.

Ah yes, 'could be considered' in the same way that me writing a draft blogpost could be considered a successful ERC grant application.

This reminds me of how I inspired Marx when I met him in high school in Wiesbaden in 2006!

(Except maybe he was called Max and his magnum opus turned out to be a badly plagiarized BA thesis)

Also owns the sun.

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

We're hiring!

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The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!

Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.