Maurice P. Schumann

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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My take on #EPSA2025: PowerPoint > Beamer

Sending this article along with the bills from several tapas bars to the finance department after #EPSA25

If you are attending #EPSA2025 and interested in uncovering the black box that is the postdoctoral job market, you're in luck! Marta Antonetti (LSE) and I will be hosting a roundtable on Thursday at 13:10 dedicated to the topic. 🧵👇

New Publication! 📣
When do governments limit digital rights through law? Read "Legalizing Control: The Rise of Restrictive Internet Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa" by @realmps.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
For a quick overview, read the 1-pager below.

Exciting news! 🎉 SCRIPTS – the Cluster of Excellence examining liberal democracy's challenges – is getting renewed @dfg.de. 🎓

Congratulations!

👨‍🏫 @mhallerberg.bsky.social (Co-Deputy Dir.)

👩‍🏫 Arianna Ornaghi & @argohdes.bsky.social (PIs)

@scripts-berlin.eu
#SCRIPTS #Research #PoliticalScience

Takeaway: Governments restrict digital rights through national law preemptively, outside the spotlight of political events.

For a quick overview of the study, check out the 1-pager below.

Leveraging original data on 360+ internet laws in 44 African states (2000–2022), I find that governments are more likely to pass restrictive internet regulation when such legislation is widespread regionally. Domestic or regional contention does not predict new restrictive regulation.

Legalizing control: the rise of restrictive internet regulation in sub-Saharan Africa Today, internet freedom is increasingly contingent upon government discretion. Previous research has uncovered how governments use digital strategies to establish control over online communication....

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Very excited to share my first solo-authored article (and the first from my dissertation) is published in Democratization! 🎉
📄 "Legalizing Control: The Rise of Restrictive Internet Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa"
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1351...

There are - to be fair - plenty of better ways to spend your day than reading our article. But since most of you are just doomscrolling Bluesky anyway, you might as well give it a read ⬇️

Nachdem meine Freundin beim Schauen von Andor Staffel 2 Dedra Meero als "Space Weidel" bezeichnete, kann ich es nicht mehr nicht sehen.

Not sure if this paper / R package is for you? Take a quick look at our 1-pager to find out more.

To address these challenges, we introduce a spatial approach for linking various types of war-related violence to civil wars recorded by the @ucdp.bsky.social —and it's easily executed with our R package ucdplink (github.com/corinnebara/...).

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

In our new paper (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...), @corinnebara.bsky.social and I discuss the challenges of attributing data on different forms of violence to specific civil wars.

The most popular panel at #isa25 so far

We're hiring a Professor of Military Strategy and Technology @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social!

More details here: apply.interfolio.com/163523

Student Research Assistants – AASAP Project (gn) part-time (10 hours/week)

Are you interested in gaining your first insights into academia through a Research Assistant role?
Apply now to join my colleague Christian in his exciting project on "The Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus" (AASAP).
hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

PhD programmes

We have a couple of open #PhD positions at the @hertieschool.bsky.social, including one in the field of international security (@hertiesecurity.bsky.social): www.hertie-school.org/en/phd/apply... Deadline: January 31, 2025

This also seems like a great occasion to share the one-pager we created to make our findings more accessible. How do you try to make your research more accessible? I’d be delighted to hear your insights!

Sechs Variationen von Harmoniesuche Horizonte - Forschung für den Frieden

For all the German speakers: @corinnebara.bsky.social and I are thrilled that our research on the effectiveness of partnerships between UN and non-UN peacekeeping missions is featured in Horizonte: Das Schweizer Forschungsmagazin! www.horizonte-magazin.ch/2024/12/05/h...

Patrick as scientist "the starter packs I am in" Patrick with board nailed to head "my posts"

I must not be the only one who feels this way

CRS Emerging Scholars Initiative - CRS CRS Emerging Scholars Initiative CRS

🌟 Are ypu a PhD candidate or early career scholar? Look here for an excellent new initiative by the Conflict Research Society to mentor emerging scholars ⤵️

conflictresearchsociety.org/emerging-sch...

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Proud of being assigned the #BestPaperAward together with @realmps.bsky.social for our work in progress "How International Economic Cooperation Shapes Digital Authoritarianism” at the 2024 Conference on International Cybersecurity – #Democracy and #Cyberspace by @thehagueprogram.bsky.social

We are hiring: shorturl.at/bptuG

Please share widely.

- 3-year quant postdoc.
- 100% research and data collection.
- On violent conflict and humanitarian law.
- Grade 7 salary (more than most UK postdocs).
- Works with me in a large team across politics and law.

📢 Next Tuesday (9am PST/12pm EST/5pm CET)

Christian Oswald (Bundeswehr) will present his work that uses Wikipedia page changes to measure and predict contentious politics.

Zac Steinert-Threlkeld (UCLA) and Theresa Gessler (Viadrina) will discuss.

Very happy to share the full-fledged and #OpenAccess version of our paper "The Search for Solid Ground in Text as Data: A Systematic Review of Validation Practices and Practical Recommendations for Validation", published with C. Lechner and Claudia Wagner in CMM✨
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Polisky Dictatorsky !!
SPRING 2024 SERIES SCHEDULE IS OUT
We are thrilled to announce a new season featuring fantastic promising work and discussants!
Make sure to participate by subscribing at tinyurl.com/bddy4bta (for Zoom links and updates)
A 🧵with details on each meeting:

Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.

A vast, covert Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.

Fantastic opportunity to get a phd. in political science: University of Gothenburg just announced 5-6 phd positions: