Anita Gohdes
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Studying repression, the internet, and contentious politics. Professor @thehertieschool . Consultant @hrdag . she/her. @argohdes .bsky.social
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My book “Repression in the Digital Age” is out tomorrow with
@OUPAcademic
✨✨✨
You can order it here:
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Very excited to share that
@thehertieschool
has officially approved my tenure case 🤗 ✨
(my cat does not seem to care, fyi)
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Very excited to have received the proofs for my book - should be out in a couple of months! 📚🤩
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I'm pleased to share that our study (w/
@p_barbera
@zeitzoff
@geniia_iakhnis
) has been published with
#IJPP
! Our paper focuses on how world leaders use social media surrounding contentious events and crises. Link here 👉
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Academic conference season is upon us and I was asked to talk about going to conferences as early career researchers this morning. Lots to say about making them an enjoyable experience, but it's equally important to think about building a community you want to work in/with 👇
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I am over the moon to find out that "Repression in the Digital Age" has received the 2024 Goldsmith Award by the
@ShorensteinCtr
@Kennedy_School
:
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It's been about six months since my book was published - all the more wonderful to get this award in the mail today! ✨
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Some of my students are protesting - they deserve to be safe and to exercise their right to protest in peace. It’s really not complicated.
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Since I spend most of my time researching repression I thought I’d do a quick thread on the significance of
@NancyFaeser
using the word ‘repression’ in this context 1/
Das Rezept muss lauten: So viel Repression wie nötig und so viel Prävention wie möglich.
@FUNKEMEDIEN
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Got an unusual request last week - to talk to a women’s fashion magazine about Putin. I hope my replies convey a) the brutality of his actions and b) the fact that he is not acting irrationally, but that makes him no less dangerous.
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Daily reminder for my twitter bubble:
You are not helping a *single* person by wanting to be among the first to share 'new' information.
Don't share 'breaking news' before checking reliable sources. If you can't do that, wait for others to do so.
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A little thrilling to find my book at an actual bookstore today 📚💙
(Yes I pulled out to 📸 and put it back where it belongs 😊)
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Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Allison Koh
@allisonwkoh
, who defended her PhD, titled "Platformed Power Plays. Authoritarian Adaptations in Foreign Social Media Spaces"
@thehertieschool
@Hertie_Security
today!
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Tuscany is October is so lush 🌱
Feeling lucky to be visiting the
@eui_sps
department for the next month. Thanks to
@stephofmann
for having me!
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Nothing makes me happier than getting emails from former students about their accomplishments/jobs/life decisions.
Here's a reminder to let your Profs know! We're rooting for you!
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With
#EPSA2023
around the corner I'm delighted to share this year's diversity programme! We have tons of stuff planned - spread the word and please join us!
@zeynsom
@dasalgon
@stefanie_reher
@PatriciaCalca
@LealDavidL
@tabouchadi
@billybobphd
@europsa
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Exciting news from
@thehertieschool
- we've joined the
@Amnesty
Digital Verfication Corps 🧑🏽💻👩🏿💻👩🏾💻👩🏼💻🧑🏿💻
I'm especially happy to be co-leading this initiative with
@calibasak
@HertieCFR
read more here 👇
🎉 Exciting News!
@thehertieschool
has joined the
@amnesty
International Digital Verification Corps as its first EU member. This initiative is led by our own
@Hertie_Security
's co-director
@ARGohdes
and
@HertieCFR
's
@calibasak
!
🔗 Find out more ⬇️
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Gestern wurden die letzten Sitzbänke abgeschleppt, heute ist der Autoverkehr auf der Friedrichstr zurück. Fühlt sich an wie back to the 90s. Vielleicht kann man ja noch Unterführungen für die Fußgänger*innen bauen, damit die Autos endlich ganz ungestört Platz haben.
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Sharing my revised Syllabus for "Contentious Politics in a Digital World" here, super excited to teach this class again:
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If you want to hear me rant about why we all should care much more about shutdowns, come to my
@republica
talk 👇
#KeepItOn
Vom Iran über Äthiopien bis hin zur russischen Invasion in der Ukraine: Wie heizen Internet-Shutdowns Gewalt an? Was können wir dagegen tun?
Darüber sprechen wir mit der Professorin
@ARGohdes
auf der
#rp24
:
#WhoCares
@thehertieschool
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Taking a break from Twitter, but leaving you with the nine favorite books (non-work related) I read in 2021.
See you all in 2022.
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Hello, please share your favorite recent academic books on conflict/violence/authoritarianism/cyber/social media with me 📚 (self-promotion welcome!)
I’m about to start my (first!) sabbatical semester + want to catch up on all the cool research that’s come out in the past years📚
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Genuinely excited about the new
@apsrjournal
issue, can't remember the last time I saw so many articles on political violence, repression and protest in one of our top journals😍:
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Very excited to read and recommend this (open access!) book - congratulations
@nils_weidmann
on creating such a stellar resource!
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Very exciting that we now have 5(!) scholarships for folks who want to do the Master of Data Science for Public Policy
@thehertieschool
. Open for all nationalities 🌍:
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I’m not at
#ISA2024
this year but thankfully have my friend
@SamRitholtz
sending me pics of my book being there 🥳
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#EPSA2024
is happening later this week and here is the Diversity Programme!
Please share & join us!
@stefanie_reher
@tabouchadi
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.
@wucherpfennig_j
presenting the culmination of more than a decade of work on power-sharing and its effects on reducing the risk of civil war. Huge congrats!
@Hertie_Security
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Yesterday I spent the whole day at a workshop talking about the intricacies of contemporary non-violent repression. And now this. I have no words.
And there comes a time when fundamental rights scholars need a lawyer to defend their right to defend the rights of others from disproportionate intervention. Never did I think this need would arise for me in Germany. In 2024.
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5 topics I can talk about for 30 minutes without any preparation:
1. How Gossip Girl foreshadowed present-day surveillance capitalism
2. Measuring hard-to-reach populations
3. Cats 🐈
4. Internet Shutdowns
#KeepitOn
5. The attention economy & the rise of D-list celebrities
There are 5 topics I can talk about for 30 minutes without any preparation:
1. Tech leadership
2. Sharks
3. Particle physics; specifically string theory and gaps between general relativity & quantum mechanics
4. Fashion
5. The great fashion houses
What are yours?
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Just wrapped up an exciting workshop on the comparative studies of digital repression
@thehertieschool
- what a pleasure to learn from fantastic scholars working on this topic all across the world.
Stay tuned for more!
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"Higher education has not escaped the ‘great resignation’[...] Nature spoke to more than a dozen scientists leaving academia, who describe toxic work environments, bullying and a lack of regard for their safety and well-being as factors in their decisions"
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This is so important. Please be careful and mindful of the content you share. "Breaking news" media has the highest potential of being either false or inaccurate. Try to avoid becoming part of a misinfo/disinfo campagin.
Lots of videos and images alleging to show Russian attacks on Ukrainian towns and cities going viral on social media already. It is customary for old or false footage to go viral during a conflict, so please try to verify or check the source of the footage you see before sharing.
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"Do we r e a l l y need to study what's happening on the Internet??"
What’s the most memorable feedback you’ve received on your work?
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At
#EPSA2023
this year the diversity roundtable will be dedicated to regional inequalities in the discipline, and this will be an important part of the discussion!
Where/When: Friday, 10:20-12:00, TIC Auditorium B&C.
If you're coming to EPSA please join us!
Working in the UK & being subjected to constant Schengen renewals when academic life depends on conferences, workshops , department visits to share your research 😳being 2 hours from Paris by train & yet..it might as well be another planet. The bureaucratic cruelty of Schengen 😢
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Seeing so many PhD researchers defending their dissertations this week. Sending you all the biggest congrats! ✨
Writing/finishing your PhD is hard enough, and I can't imagine how rough it is during a pandemic.
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I’ve given up fighting this, I now just launch into a monologue of my (extremely good) skincare routine 💅
"So are you a PhD student then?" - a new term has started at Nuffield College
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Thank you to
@republica
for giving me the opportunity to talk about internet shutdowns and violence.
#KeepItOn
#rp24
Here are the 3 main points I talked about:
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With
@monkeycageblog
taking a break I want to shout out my other favourite polisci blog - Political Violence at a Glance!
@PVGlance
has been going strong for 10 years now🎈
Go read their posts 📚! Go write for them 📝!
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@AnkeHassel
@janboehm
Liebe Anke, viele Deiner Fragen stellen sich nur wenn man nicht anerkennt das trans Frauen Frauen und trans Männer Männer sind.
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Thinking of my Turkish friends, colleagues, and students today - fingers crossed for a free and fair election 🤞🏻🗳️
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Feeling incredibly honoured to have received 2016 Walter Isard Award for best dissertation in peace science in the past two years 🍾🎆😀
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How the killing of journalists affects future repression, new (ungated!) paper w/
@Sabine_Carey
now out
@JPR_journal
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Feeling particularly strong feminist rage this year on
#IWD2023
. More power to my sisters in Iran. More power to my trans sisters everywhere. More power to my solo-parenting sisters. I have no inspirational words to share, but I will try and channel my rage more effectively.
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At
#EPSA2022
@europsa
, join us tomorrow @ 4:50-6:30 pm for a roundtable on "Women in the Discipline", feat. an absolute rockstar lineup of
@anacweeks
@sbmitche
@VETroeger
@goyal_tanushree
@maqartan
👇
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I'm feeling this very strongly today. I don't really believe in the concept of new year's resolutions, but speaking out publicly and privately is certainly something I want do more of in 2023. That, and be on Twitter less.
It's frustrating to see colleagues make trans exclusionary statements. To trans students and colleagues, I want to say that most people in academia do not share these opinions. Many of us want to make academia more inclusive but we are too silent too often. We need to do more.
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As I prepare this week's lecture on violence against civilians it becomes, again, so apparent how these war crimes were foreseeable. All the research, all the signs were there. We have seen it happen before and we let it happen again. The horror repeats itself. 💔
Mass human rights abuses are a feature, not a bug, of the Russian (Soviet) way of war. From the killing fields of 1820s Northern Caucasus to mass rape in World War II, & from sweep ops of Chechnya to bombing cities in Syria, horrors like Bucha are the Russian Army's calling card
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The fact that people working for a highly respected organization such as
@CrisisGroup
are worried about speaking publicly in Germany is scandalous.
Good luck for Nathan Thrall, my former colleague
@CrisisGroup
, who is scheduled to publicly speak about Palestine in Germany. Hope he already has a good German lawyer.
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Many thanks to
@rmmyrick91
&
@liviaisabella13
for inviting me to present my book manuscript in the
@DukePoliSci
SPC workshop, and thank you very much to
@Rebecca_Dudley1
for the great comments, and
@levy_gabriella
for organizing everything! What a treat to be traveling again✨😷
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So proud of
@allisonwkoh
! Keep an eye out for Allison's super innovative and rigorous work on transnational digital repression, the effects of content moderation, and much more to come ✨ ✨
Proud that our
#PhD
@thehertieschool
Allison Koh is now a Postdoc
@KingsCollegeLon
in an ERC funded project that assesses for the first time how the rise of digital advocacy has impacted democracy across the world Congratulations
@allisonwkoh
!
@ARGohdes
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If you are interested in joining our community, please consider applying to our fellowship!
The research fellowship is ideal if you are considering a sabbatical in Berlin or are an early career scholar looking for an engaged research community. 👇
Applications have opened for our 2024/25 International Security Fellowships!🕊️
Apply before 31 October 2023 to join the Centre as a Practice Fellow or a Research Fellow ⬇️
#InternationalSecurity
#ResearchFellowship
#PracticeFellowship
@thehertieschool
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Elated to see all the creativity and innovation on important questions of protest, repression, and conflict in the presentations today - our field is blooming 💐🚀
Thank you for having me!
Great start to the
@uclconflict
PhD workshop this year. Thank you so much
@ARGohdes
for kickstarting the discussion by talking about your fascinating book project. We are excited about 7 different panels today and tomorrow!
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Read this thread if you are German. Be outraged. Write to your elected officials, speak up, organize. Now is the time.
It does not have be on you. Speak up. Write. Protest. Not in abstract. In Germany. In German. Not against the war, it is not specific. Against your government doing so little to make a difference. Make noise, cause disturbance. People are dying. You can make a difference /7
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It was an honor to present at the U of Barcelona yesterday and
@ic3jm
today, thank you for all the great comments and questions 🙏
Also loved the highspeed 🚄 between Barcelona + Madrid ☀️
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Ich hab mir das jetzt mal in Ruhe durchgelesen (ein paar der Änderungen scheinen gut) aber suche immer noch nach auch nur einem _einzigen_ überzeugenden Grund für die Senkung der Höchstbefristungsdauer.
Warum macht man sowas??
#ProfsFuerHanna
Das Bundeskabinett hat heute die Reform des
#WissZeitVG
beschlossen. Damit verbessern wir die Arbeitsbedingungen für
#Wissenschaftlerinnen
und
#Wissenschaftler
. 🎓
Alle Details sind hier nachzulesen:
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Very much looking forward to having
@ascharpf2
visit
@thehertieschool
today and give a talk on who participates in military coups 🪖
If you're in Berlin you can join us onsite at Hertie @ 12:30, details here 👉
@Hertie_Security
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This is the type of panel I would get up early for any day 💜
including
@tabouchadi
@CameronThies
@_kanishabond_
Cassy Dorff
@Jamiejhagen
& moderated by
@cullenhendrix
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"Instead, cyber operations are primarily used to shape narratives as a complement to diplomacy prior to war and then as a support to military operations after war has escalated."
📣 Louder, for the people in the back!
new article by
@JackieGSchneid
& co-authors 👇
Studying over 500
#WarGames
players leads to many insights into cyber operations from
@JackieGSchneid
@bhschechter
&
@rachaelmshaffer
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I have no silver lining to add here except to say if you are a social scientist struggling in German academia feel free to reach out, I'm happy to be your hypewoman.
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Scroll down if you’re looking for Germany 👀
Thankfully
@thehertieschool
looks a bit different…
I honestly would have never guessed, because
@FasosMaastricht
does very well. But the Netherlands (along with many other countries) has a long way to go… 😕
@FemMaastricht
@MaastrichtU
@LNVH_NL
#WomenInScience
#Patriarchy
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More cool talks
@Hertie_Security
this week!
On Thursday we have Sebastian van Baalen
@UCDP
talking about event data on political violence - join us👇
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Amazing to see the summer school back 🥳🫶
Summer School for Women in Political Methodology - 2023 edition! We started yesterday with a very insightful keynote lecture by the great
@VETroeger
about challenges in Political Methodology. Looking forward to a productive week with a group of brilliant young scholars!
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Dream job for conflict researchers
@Konstanz_Pol_PA
👇
Tenured IR position with a specialization in conflict research available at
@Konstanz_Pol_PA
of the
@UniKonstanz
. Come and join our amazing international politics group with
@AnkeHoeffler
,
@gabi_spilker
,
@DirkLeuffen
and
@nils_weidmann
.
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Happy that our paper on moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic is out
@PSRMJournal
!
check out this ✨summary 🧵 by
@simonsaysnothin
👇
1/ The findings in a nutshell: Using a conjoint experiment on medical triage decisions, we show that respondents tend to withhold support from partisan opponents - a finding that holds across five countries.
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Our
@thehertieschool
/
@amnesty
Digital Investigation Corps is organizing a 1-day Open Source Investigations Summit 🔎 on May 17 at Hertie in Berlin, sign up here to join! 👇📝
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This is alarming news that should be getting more attention: Twitter has complied with legal requests by the Indian government and blocked 122 accounts belonging to journalists, authors, and politicians.
A dilemma that new Twitter has not really addressed:
What do proponents of free expression do when people's own government does not want them to have it?
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Thank you very much for having me, and thank you to everyone for the outstanding comments!
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Gaza UPDATE:
On the night of May 26, the trauma stabilization point MSF supports in Tal al Sultan recorded 180 wounded patients and 28 dead after Israeli airstrikes hit a camp sheltering displaced people in a designated safe zone.
Read:
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Big news from our
@Hertie_Security
!
Thrilled to announce that our Centre
@Hertie_Security
has received a generous endowment by the Stanton Foundation. The endowment will contribute to building the Centre as a European hub for research, teaching and policy advice on nuclear security.
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@tabouchadi
I’m excited for where European political science is headed ✨ extra big thank you for all your work
@tabouchadi
@stefanie_reher
@zeynsom
!
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Putting together a cyber reading list for students and wow what a difference a couple of years make. We have so much more (and better!) research than we did just 5 years ago 👩🏼💻✨
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This is an absolutely remarkable thing to watch.
Thank you for all your messages about the Lukashenko interview. It was very much a team effort with
@BBCWillVernon
@mattgodtv
@AntonChicherov
. Also, thanks
@UniversityLeeds
for teaching me Russian. It came in useful…
@BBCNews
@BBCWorld
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Re-emerging in Berlin after a brilliant
#EPSA2023
in Glasgow - *huge* thank you to
@kenbenoit
and
@dalexiad
for all their hard work in making it a success!
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This is incredibly depressing. We are losing many of the brightest and kindest people. A disproportionate number of people quitting are marginalised folks, first-gen, queers, BIPOC scholars. It is a giant step backwards for academia.
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Very cool 2-year PostDoc with my colleague Danie Stockmann
@thehertieschool
in Berlin, working on Chinese info control in the EU 👇
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Hugely important new report by
@accessnow
on internet shutdowns in 2023.
The findings on violence during shutdowns are bleak:
"There were 173 shutdowns that occurred alongside violence in 2023, compared to 137 in 2022, 111 in 2021, and 100 in 2020."
Just out:
@accessnow
and the
#KeepItOn
coalition have launched our new report!
By nearly every measure, 2023 is the worst year of
#InternetShutdowns
ever recorded — highlighting an alarming and dangerous trend for democracy + human rights.
Read here:
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After a prolonged break I’m so excited that the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology is back 🥳
This year it will be in Basel and is organized by the fab team
@denisetraber
@th_ges
@SophiaHunger
@JBoukemia
Take a look, spread the word, apply 👇👇👇
🚨Call for applications open! 🚨
Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Basel
Open to PhD students and early career scholars
Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 27 March🗓️
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Once again there are internet shutdowns amidst crackdowns on
#IranProtests2022
Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (AS58224) withdrew 50+ prefixes from 16:26 to 19:33 UTC (with a brief announcement at 17:20 UTC).
#IranProtests2022
Here's the
@kentikinc
view of 151.238.60.0/23:
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Very much looking forward to (virtually) welcoming
@BelenGonzalez_S
to
@Hertie_Security
on Thursday (12:30pm CEST)! She will be giving a talk on the logic of hunger strikes - info on how to join us online here 👇
Join us on June 2 at 12:30pm CEST to hear
@BelenGonzalez_S
's presentation on the determinants, mechanisms, and consequences of hunger strikes. Sign up here 👉
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If you want to learn about gender + post-war accountability join us in Berlin
@Hertie_Security
next Thu (18 April @ 2pm) for a super exciting
@CIVICA_EU
talk by the one and only Prof.
@MilliLake
on "Hierarchies of victimhood in war-to-peace transition" 👉
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How is this real? 🤯
Oh...oh dear.
The NYPD has found...the
@OUPAcademic
Oxford Very Short Introduction series.
I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
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I'm slightly overwhelmed by all your kind words, thank you everyone!🥲
Very excited to share that
@thehertieschool
has officially approved my tenure case 🤗 ✨
(my cat does not seem to care, fyi)
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Very much looking forward to this!
PhD students, do apply (today!) 👇
We are delighted to confirm Anita Gohdes, based at
@thehertieschool
, as the keynote speaker for our PhD Workshop in February! We look forward to having you in London
@ARGohdes
🙂
Submit your abstracts by the end of the day!
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This is the first time Germany’s interior minister has referred to ‘repression’ as a policy tool on Twitter. Research on repression suggests this is no coincidence 2/
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This is a fascinating investigation into the diplomatic power that comes with possessing one of the most powerful pieces of surveillance technology:
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Wichtiger neuer
@cemas_io
Bericht zu den Finanzierungsmodellen von rechtsextremen Influencer_innen auf Telegram:
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“It is not a coincidence that women’s equality is being rolled back at the same time that authoritarianism is on the rise.”
go read this 🔥piece by
@EricaChenoweth
and
@z_marks
👇
.
@EricaChenoweth
and
@z_marks
explain how women’s participation strengthens mass movements—and how patriarchal authoritarians, mindful of popular threats to their rule, seek to exclude women from the political sphere.
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tl;dr: Democratic institutions alone aren’t enough to protect human rights because public support for repression against minorities can bolster governments’ incentives to use it. 8/
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I know this should not be surprising but it seems Twitter has learned exactly >>nothing<< from past election cycle fiascos.
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🚦agreement says the coalition will follow a policy of disarmament in the digital sphere, including stopping the 'transfer' of surveillance tech to repressive regimes.
Will be interesting to see how this is implemented (also 👀at the German surveillance tech industry).
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