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Cleo O'Brien-Udry
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International political economy, development, and climate politics | Assistant professor @UIUC | she/her

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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · Jun 18
PAWS Chicago needs foster families for kitten season!!!

Help get kittens adopted by taking them home for one to two weeks!!

www.pawschicago.org
Kitten yowling on a lap w/ laptop in background
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voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Excited to announce our free online lecture series on Industrial Development

To mark the release of our new VoxDevLit next week, with Senior Editors Francesco Amodio & Markus Poschke, we have organised a series of lectures on the key topics related to industrialisation.

Link to register below ⤵️
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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florianederer.bsky.social
My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities.

The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills.

Application👇
February 10, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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simonweschle.bsky.social
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

We're hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics!

Come join a great department: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312...

I'm on the committee, so send any questions my way.
#polisky #academicjobs
The Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for the position of Teaching Assistant Professor of Political Science. We are looking for a colleague who will teach three courses per semester in our undergraduate curriculum. The principal responsibility will be teaching in Comparative Politics, especially the introductory course, but the candidate may be invited to teach other courses, depending upon the department’s needs and the candidate’s areas of expertise. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated record of successful undergraduate instruction. There are no research expectations associated with this position. This is a fixed term position with an initial appointment for three years and opportunities for re-appointment and advances contingent on performance and available funding. As part of the University’s teaching track, the position offers competitive benefits. More information on UNC’s career ladder and fixed term ranks is available here: https://facultyaffairs.unc.edu/policies-and-procedures/faculty-appointments/fixed-term-faculty-ranks/.
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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melinscribe.bsky.social
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
February 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Now Open! APSA Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program | Deadline: March 15, 2026
Now Open: APSA Announces Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program | Deadline: March 15, 2026
The American Political Science Association (APSA) invites applications for the Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program, which provides awards of up to $2,500 to support research across all fields of political science. Submit your applications here! The application deadline for the Spring Centennial Center Research Grants is March 15, 2026. The Spring Application Cycle The program is designed to expand access to research funding for scholars whose institutional positions or professional circumstances provide limited or no research support.
politicalsciencenow.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
”What turns people into radical jihadist clerics? A new book suggests thwarted career ambitions. A subset of Muslim clerics who advocate for jihad started out as mainstream clerics looking for state-sponsored jobs…only to become unemployed, disenchanted, and radicalized” news.mit.edu/2017/why-som...
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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job

Assistant Professor in Politics

University of New Brunswick, Saint John

...The successful candidate should have experience teaching in such areas such areas as the Canadian Politics and Comparative Politics or International Relations...

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

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February 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
cobrienudry.bsky.social
"Donating a kidney offers an opportunity to do something big. If you’re sick of reading the news and feeling like nothing you do matters, charity can be an antidote."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

highly recommend! feeling a bit less powerless, a bit more hopeful these days
patient in hospital bed with soup and a plushie kidney
February 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said.
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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elinlb.bsky.social
Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?
January 30, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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antvalentim.bsky.social
🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social

I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Assistant Professor in International Migration
Assistant Professor in International Migration, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="te...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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miguelpereira.bsky.social
Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Assistant Professor in International Migration
Assistant Professor in International Migration, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="te...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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drewstommes.bsky.social
After years in academia, I’m exploring data science and research roles in industry.

I'm a quant. social scientist (PhD Yale ’24, NYU) focused on causal inference, experiments, and large-scale data.

Feel free to get in touch or share; all leads appreciated. [email protected]
January 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
cobrienudry.bsky.social
chicago says: ICE OUT EVERYWHERE. Sun. 1.25 @ 1pm. Ida B Wells & Michigan Ave.
chicago says: ICE OUT EVERYWHERE. Sun. 1.25 @ 1pm. Ida B Wells & Michigan Ave.
January 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
January 24, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas
January 25, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
January 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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dimitridrekonja.bsky.social
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM