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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · 8d

Not ethnography:
1.) Two-week long field visit
2.) In-depth interviews
3.) Intermittently scanning social media
4.) Being professionally employed before grad school and later writing it up as "research" for a dissertation

Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not an anthropologist but can we stop calling a two-week field visit ethnography

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 8d

Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.

acdatacollective.org

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Jun 19

On writing, reporting, and crossing the US border as a non-citizen.

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

www.newyorker.com

Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Jun 11

Individual scholars will have to make decisions a/b how they engage w/ programs like Fulbright going into future cycles, if they even continue to exist.

But the message being sent by the admin, & that the Board is calling out directly, is that only politically approved projects will go forward.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article)

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

www.nytimes.com

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Jun 10

And also 1 permanent lecturer in economics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

AEP Lecturer in Economics

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Jun 10

Department of Political Economy at King’s College London is hiring 2 permanent lecturers (teaching-focused) in political science:

- Research methods: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

- Comparative politics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

Application deadline: June 29, 2025

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Jun 10

Political Science job alert! UK based, Oxford, IR, lectureship.

Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · Jun 10

Three lectureships in IR at Oxford - appointments are fixed for 5 years:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK960/d...

Departmental Lecturers in International Relations at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Departmental Lecturers in International Relations. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Jun 9

Every single researcher should be up on digital privacy and basic anti-surveillance protocols. Wired has a good intro here. More on the ARC Bibliography.

WIRED @wired.com · Jun 9

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. It's already happening. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

www.wired.com

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Jun 4

Apropos of absolutely no contemporary issues with archives, libraries, or ethics...

Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence

www.cambridge.org

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

www.nature.com

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 2

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week.

That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports.

Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · May 23

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · May 23

“Nakedly authoritarian and retaliatory” — statement from Harvard’s @aaup.bsky.social chapter on the termination of Harvard’s SEVP certification.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · May 15

Recovering from my shock at seeing this..

I'm thinking about the dire implications for fieldwork, ethnography, anthropology, and basically any field of study that is predicated on TALKING TO ACTUAL PEOPLE.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · May 15

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming

Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”

just fucking shoot me

Through the case study report, "Ask Amina" and "Ask Abdalla" – experimental agents representing a refugee in Chad and a combatant in Sudan – participants will gain insights into how these technologies might transform field operations while navigating complex ethical terrain. The workshop will address critical questions about representation, power dynamics and data rights. Participants will:

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · May 13

"Conflict, autocracy, censorship, poverty, inequality, disciplinary imperatives, and institutional interests all shape research opportunities and agendas...The Spring 2025 issue of Dædalus explores how ethical standards can be developed and applied to improve the quality of social science research"

The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East and North Africa

For decades, social scientists who work in and on the Middle East have confronted the ethical complexities of working with research participants, partners, and colleagues who are at risk. Conflict, au...

www.amacad.org

Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · May 12

Call for applications! ARC mini-course to be held at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, UK, September 23-26 2025.

Due date for applications: May 31, 2025.

advancingconflictresearch.com/summer-program

Educational Programs — ARC

advancingconflictresearch.com

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · May 12

If you are doing international fieldwork for a dissertation or research project this summer, please, please educate yourself about your rights at *all* borders and your obligations under ethical frameworks such as the Institutional Review Board. Employ proper digital security practices. Full stop.

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics

"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"

www.usermag.co

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · May 4

Welp

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · May 4

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

www.404media.co

Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · May 2

One great set of reasons not to use duplicate apps when conducting fieldwork.

Signal is secure because of its original functionality, which TeleMessage's features negate.

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Apr 29

So much wrong here, starting w/ a non-consensual, deceptive researcher intervention into an online community that could have permanently shifted that community's dynamics & caused multiple harms. There are ethical ways to use deception, but consultation, debriefing, & do no harm are paramount.

404 Media @404media.co · Apr 29

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

🔗 www.404media.co/researchers-...

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

www.404media.co

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WIRED @wired.com · Apr 21

Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.

Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

www.wired.com

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Apr 20

On the degradation and destruction of data in the US

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

www.propublica.org

Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Apr 14

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!

"The position is based at ETH Zurich and is supervised by Prof. Livia Schubiger.

The candidate will work with the IRDS group on projects...related to gender-based and other forms of violence, as well as avenues to reduce such violence."

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science/Political Science/Economics

jobs.ethz.ch

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Mar 31

ARC has added four guides to securing private/academic/journalistic data for border crossings to our digital security page. Materials from CUNY Clear, Wired, The Guardian, & the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Digital Security Resources — ARC

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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Mar 26

How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border

With reports of people being turned away at airports over messages found on devices, here’s what to do to minimize risks

www.theguardian.com

Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium @arcconsortium.bsky.social · Mar 6

Minerva grants terminated, including projects focused on the intersection of climate and security and on online threats.

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

www.science.org