@irisv.bsky.social
Rådgiver Evalueringsavdeling/Norec Associated Researcher TraCe/Goethe University Frankfurt civil conflict | peace negotiations | nonviolent action | development cooperation | quantitative methods (views are my own)
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13.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis.”
11.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 89 🔁 50 💬 1 📌 1
🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Congrats Osman!
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).
03.01.2026 11:18 — 👍 2645 🔁 799 💬 47 📌 20„Die Mullahs müssen verschwinden“
Tag 2 der Proteste in Teheran gegen das Regime. Begonnen haben die Proteste gestern in den Basaren und Malls. Ladenbesitzer schlossen ihre Geschäfte, um gegen die Preiserhöhungen und Inflation zu demonstrieren. Die Menschen haben längst genug von diesem Regime.
Wow, Einreisesperre in die USA gegen 5 namentlich genannte Personen, und darunter sind die 2 Gründerinnen von @hateaid.org, das crazy.
HateAid ist eine immens wichtige NGO für Opfer von Hass und Hetze
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we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
Bar charge of "documented attacks on science" for January to Jun 2025 compared to last four presidents. Trump's attacks (402) far outweigh all the others, combined, and most of the others were from the first Trump administration and from the Bush period.
Extreme attacks on #science documented here for just the first six months of the Trump regime. More data and information here:
www.ucs.org/resources/sc...
What happens when third-party mediators use the external military support they provide as leverage in peace negotiations? Check out our new open access article here:
doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
07.12.2025 05:13 — 👍 1015 🔁 389 💬 8 📌 6
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
06.12.2025 20:22 — 👍 1037 🔁 462 💬 38 📌 108Bethlehem Christmas tree lit up for first time since Gaza war
www.arabnews.com/node/2625306...
Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean
Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🐡🧪👩🏻🔬 #histsci A 🧵
03.12.2025 13:46 — 👍 77 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down
@kaamilahmed.bsky.social
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Die enorme Kraft, wenn Menschenmassen gemeinsam schweigen. Ich bin wirklich beeindruckt von diesem Protest und dem langen Atem der Mobilisierung. Das ist ein Funke Hoffnung in dieser politisch doch sehr bedrückenden Welt.
01.11.2025 13:35 — 👍 160 🔁 58 💬 0 📌 0
The russian occupiers announced the completion of the "reconstruction" of the Mariupol Drama Theater — the very one they bombed in Mar 2022, when hundreds of people w/ kids were sheltering inside.
In Dec, they plan to reopen it and stage russian plays literally on the blood and bones of Ukrainians.
Office buildings at Jølstra river
Gleder meg til å begynne i ny jobb hos NOREC på mandag!
Looking forward to start my new Job in the Evaluation Department at NOREC!
Can voluntary gender quotas shift views on women in politics? Vladimir Chlouba’s study of Namibia’s SWAPO finds that a 50/50 quota increased women’s belief in equal political access—without backlash from men, reshaping perceptions of leadership.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations.
It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.
PRIO is hiring!
Specifically, we're looking for two post-docs for the project
"Rituals in combatant-to-civilian transformation”, led by my excellent colleague Júlia Palik
More information here:
www.prio.org/about/career...
www.prio.org/about/career...
#tdgr #frankfurtammain #ffm
17.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 75 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 0
Titelseite des Papers "In die Offensive kommen! Was die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft gegen autoritäre Kräfte tun kann"
Was können wir aus dem autoritären Playbook von Ungarn, Polen, Italien & den USA für Deutschland lernen? Dieser Frage sind Victoria Gulde & ich beim TTRex nachgegangen. Eine ausführliche Analyse folgt - hier schon mal 8 Schlüsse für demokratische Zivilgesellschaft, um erfolgreich entgegenzuhalten.
15.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 80 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 5as a Map Guy I feel obliged to comment on Columbus Day: Columbus was a monster, even by the standards of his time and, relevant to my purposes, was a crappy geographer. He thought going West to Asia was possible because he had a laughably incorrect estimate of the circumference of the globe.
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