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...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber Adam!

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Jobs

New CIS Position Openings including a Senior Research Coordinator, Postdoc Position with Karsten Donnay in Digital Democracy, and a Postdoc Position in the Political Economy of Low-Carbon Technologies: cis.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Early-career researchers: we offer a Peace Research Fellowship at @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich - fully funded, 2-week research visit with the Decades of Peace team.
Deadline: March 20
Application details: www.decadesofpeace.com/fellowship
August in Zurich may include a swim in the river.

Time for another highlight of some of our research from the last few years! This week we are showcasing our rich research on #internationalrelations 🧵
#IR

Destroying Trust in Government: Effects of a Broken Pact among Colombian Ex-Combatants Abstract. Mistrust between conflict parties after civil war is a major hurdle to sustainable peace. However, existing research focuses on elite interaction

How did the decision to extradite former top-level parliamentarians to the US affect the trust relationship between rank-and-file members of armed groups and the #Colombian government? Check out this piece by Joakim Kreutz and @enzonussio.bsky.social in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

My article on the Dark Side of Community Ties in American Sociological Review also became a meme.

The memes were a great conversation starter and forced students to focus on core aspects. In my view: it worked.

PS: Some memes are a bit rough due to the course topic. I hope nobody takes offense.

Another one for @meganastewart.bsky.social article on civil war as state-making

The 2021 article by @llschenoni.bsky.social on Bringing War Back In @ajpseditor.bsky.social

For @corinnebara.bsky.social article on incentives and opportunities for violent conflict in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social, the student focused on research methods

This on @owasow.bsky.social article on Agenda Seeding in @apsrjournal.bsky.social

This is on @barbarafwalter.com seminal article on credible commitment problems in the settlement of civil war

Next is on @ninatannenwald.bsky.social classical article on the Nuclear Taboo

The above meme is based on Christian Davenport's article on state repression in the @annualreviews.bsky.social of political science.

The next on Ana Arjona's book on Rebelocracy @universitypress.cambridge.org

I used MEMES as a teaching tool:

Students designed memes to capture a core idea of the course readings.

The ensuing class discussion often led to new perspectives on the readings, plus students had fun.

The course was on State and Violence @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich

A selection:

**New Pub Unboxed!**

@oxfordup.bsky.social Handbook of #TransitionalJustice
48 Chapters by Leading Scholars
6 Parts / 1154 Pages long
A decade in the making
Oxford Academic link in next thread

Would you like to know more about my research on violence reduction?

Come to my inaugural lecture at the University of Zurich on "Decades of Peace" - based on my consolidator project @snsf.ch.

December 8, at 5pm, in the aula (KOL G 201). Apero right after in the Lichthof. @ipz.bsky.social

Gratuliere, lieber Philipp!

I'm delighted to announce that my paper "How terrorism affects support for democracy" doi.org/10.1007/s111... is now published in Public Choice.
Thanks to all my dear colleagues and friends who supported this project in whatever way over the years.😍🥳🍀

Thanks a lot for having me! I was impressed by such a nice and constructive community at York!

What a fantastic talk this morning by @enzonussio.bsky.social for our second seminar of the 2025-2026 Civil War Paths Seminar Series, discussing violence against ex-combatants in Colombia!

📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴!

The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School.

👇 More details in the next posts.

The resistance reaches into Trump country As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

At La Statale Milano in the Social & Political Sciences Dept. with NASP graduate school & EPRA Hub we have organised a new seminar series: Milan Conflict Research Seminars (MiCoReS). Here this term programme.

Dear friends: The ESOC (Empirical Studies of Conflict) is coming to Taipei next June! Renard and I are helping organize the conference this time around, and there will be “lots of” cool people (no spoilers!) attending it and presenting their newest research on conflict.

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

We're very excited to launch our upcoming Civil War Paths seminar series! Our 2025-2026 series explores issues at the forefront of the study of civil war and its aftermath, featuring contributions from @hedstrom.bsky.social and @enzonussio.bsky.social . /1