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stefandoring.bsky.social
Water and Conflict Scholar // Dep of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) // views are my own
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I know some of you want this: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Clarifying once again whose side our government is on

WOW, thank you all for the outpouring of support. Know that I am reading all of them & want to thank everyone individually. Also, I did decide to share on Twitter/X (only to raise attention for the NOAA community)... and omg, the hate on that website is shocking. Never again. Truly a horrific space

Last week, Hegseth ordered Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital action therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.

Air traffic, extreme weather forecasts, measles, general medical care. I’m waiting for EU countries to issue travel warnings.

Women are ~too emotional~ for political leadership

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

In the latest episode of Researching Peace, we look at current threats to democracy and ask if the internet and social media have turned against democracy. Joining us from Norway is Espen Geelmuyden Rød. 🎧 Listen 👉 www.podbean.com/eas/pb-636j6...

If you read too much news lately, watch this instead:

Out now open access at @ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Published at PLOS one: "X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New publication; Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research Open access link; link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts... I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

I just posted a new notebook: Causal Inference with the 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 📦 for #Rstats. It introduces the idea of G-Computation and tries to demystify the differences between ATE, ATT, and ATU. This is a first draft and I would looove any feedback! marginaleffects.com/chapters/gco...

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Definitely urge folks interested in environmental peacebuilding, climate security, environmental security, environment, natural resources, peace & conflict to follow @enpax.bsky.social

A new article by Isabel Bramsen from Lund University and Isak Svensson from our department explores the designs and dynamics of past, present, and potential mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The article is available open access 👉 brill.com/view/journal...

Kicking off my shiny account with a paper alert ✨ Out in World Development: a review of the literature on the impacts of violence across societal wellbeing and development, with a focus on what we know about how various impacts intertwine. A truly inter-disciplinary effort doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

🕊️ Skriver tillsammans med 23 kollegor @uupeace.bsky.social på DN Debatt om varför det ligger i Sveriges egenintresse att regeringen återupptar och växlar upp fredsarbetet. www.dn.se/debatt/sveri...

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Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Here's a provocative new paper "Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science" doi.org/10.33774/aps...

The application for Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2025 is open! We invite senior African scholars to apply for a 3-month scholarship in Uppsala. Scholars awarded the Chair pursue their own research while contributing to activities at our dep. and the Nordic Africa Institute.👉 nai.uu.se/opportunitie...

EGU25 Call for Abstracts - Session ITS2.3/CL0.12: Population Health Impacts of Climate Extremes and Climatic Factors. Working on health and climate change, consider submitting an abstract for our session at the next EGU.

Our Associate Professor Johan Brosché appeared on Swedish national radio discussing the often forgotten war raging in Sudan. The program is available here (in Swedish) 👉 sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/det-...

Check out our latest article, led by Paola Vesco, reviewing literature on war impacts through an inter-disciplinary theoretical framework. We review studies across 9 dimensions of human development: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... @prioresearch.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social #conflictsky #polisci

It’s concerning. In my view young researchers should avoid MDPI and Frontiers altogether

Happening now @uupeace.bsky.social: @golafs.bsky.social defending her dissertation ”Precarious paths to democracy”, with opponent @sdhyde.bsky.social Looking forward to a stimulating discussion!

Zambia has lost $1.3 billion due to the energy crisis = 5% of GDP due to energy blackouts A wellspring of solar projects are in the pipeline, with an array of developers. Interesting to note that China has not gained a stranglehold here #drought #energysky e360.yale.edu/features/zam...

Another excellent piece of work by @sebastianvanbaalen.se and @andresuribe.bsky.social examining how rebel governance works in government dominated areas. Must read >>>

New in #Demscore v4: The Demscore e-infrastructure has been expanded with new datasets from UCDP and MIGPOL. #UCDP Peacemakers at Risk Risk (PAR) Dataset #MIGPOL Historical Immigration Policies (HIP) Explore the new data at www.demscore.se @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

From our new issue: "In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes" by Sabrina Arias (@sabrinabarias.bsky.social) and Christopher Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social). www.cambridge.org/core/service...

How can researchers write accessible summaries of academic papers? After editing ~350 @voxdev.bsky.social articles, I hopefully have something useful to say. Here are the key takeaways from editing first drafts of academics trying to write for policy audiences 🧵 1/10

The Philippines have now been hit by four typhoons in the span of just 10 days. Can't say I recall ever seeing this before.

Today is #WorldToiletDay More than 1,000,000,000 (one billion in US format) people lack access to the dignity of a toilet. Over the years, I've written about #WorldToiletDay (and more broadly, the governance of toilets), but lately I have not done so. Perhaps I should increase my focus on this.