Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:
Posts by Lars Berger
Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...
🚨 Job Alert: AsstProf International Peace & Security in Amsterdam (VUA)🚨
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...
👀 We're looking for a full-time, permanent Assistant Professor in Political Science to join us @ School of Politics and IR.
We're fairly open on specialism (DM if interested in security), applicants must have experience teaching and using "R" for our quants work.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...
Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026!
Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields
📅Apply by 29 April 2026
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!
HOLY SHIT
The untold story of Niger is that, despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, the country had made real progress under its democratically elected presidents in the decade before the 2023 military coup.
Du hast deine Identität bei LinkedIn verifizieren lassen für ein blaues Häkchen? Tut mir leid für dich.
Dein Pass, ID und biometrische Daten schlummern jetzt bei Peter Thiels finanziertem "Persona Identitites". And you're screwed. Here is why:
www.golem.de/news/linkedi...
The US war with Iran has now reached what scholars call the worst-case scenario for Gulf states. Energy infrastructure that built regional power over three decades is now a battlefield, according to a scholar who studies the Gulf.
theconversation.com/targeting-of...
We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...
Schande mit fataler Signalwirkung: #CDU und #Weimarwerk stimmen im Stadtrat von Weimar zusammen mit dem extrem rechten #AfD-Ableger FBW gegen die Förderung des Bündnisses gegen Rechtsextremismus. Und das in der Stadt der Weimarer Demokratie und am Tag der Demokratiegeschichte. Bin fassungslos.
In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence.
In recognition of CSIS’s 40th Anniversary, SIH is proud to announce a C$3,400 travel award for Canadian students researching Canadian intelligence. To be considered, note this in your submission. If already applied, email to confirm candidacy.
Submit to SIH2026Conf@gmail.com by March 23
@kcsi.uk
Two possible terrorist attacks in the United States today, at Old Dominion University in Virginia and Temple Israel in Michigan. It’s fair to say, as is so often the case, that “The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again.” @foreignaffairs.com
PhD Studentship Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs
📅 Four-year doctoral programme
🏫 @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social
⌛ Wed 1 April
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#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
📢 CfA: #MegatrendsAfrika Fellowship 2026
3 fully funded 3-month research stays (fall 2026) in Berlin, Bonn or Kiel for scholars from African countries. Topics include peace & security, democracy, economic prospects, global order & science diplomacy. Deadline is 25/03/2026.
🔎 Apply now: t1p.de/3tt3s
Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.
🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
🗓Am 22. März 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Profile für alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. ⬇️ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...
State failure and collapse into civil war is a more likely outcome than either democracy or a monarchical restoration in a postwar Iran, writes Marc Lynch.
Help APSA recognize new scholars and dissertations!
Submit information about any #dissertations defended in your department in the 2025 calendar year by March 9, 2026. Scholars will be recognized in our Political Science Today Spring issue! #polisky
"The report found that the Rapid Support Forces had engaged in a widespread and co-ordinated pattern of violence that ranged from targeted mass executions, rape and deliberate starvation during the siege and in their takeover of the city in late October."
📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations!
If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see.
🗓 Deadline: 29 April
🔁 Please boost/RT!
#Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Happy to share our new paper in Comparative Migration Studies, with @hcebolla.bsky.social , @borchgrevink.bsky.social , and Inmaculada Serrano, within @equalstrength.bsky.social, where we show that #Radical-Right electoral gains increase anti-Muslim #HateCrime across Europe.
shorturl.at/UDGh9
Check out this new paper by @ucdpolitics.bsky.social PhD candidate @linettelim.bsky.social on how and why Chinese authorities portray foreign media as a threat, and why it matters.
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
How do democracies weigh intelligence and counterterrorism cooperation with autocracies? My study with Stephan Lau of German views on ties with Egypt shows that reports of rights abuses and meddling reduce public support. First fifty copies free! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PublicOpinion