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Hey APSA, there are no available biometrics appointments for a month in Seattle USCIS office 🎉. I need to drive to Spokane (248 miles) or Yakima (147 miles) if I want to get an appointment to apply for the visa. Enjoy your first-world conference ♥️

When GitHub Copilot thinks I am doing data collection for the Russian government, and wants to help 🥸

Google is done. Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT)

🚨Jobs alert🚨 Please share (and do apply)! Our energetic, inclusive unit at WZB is hiring for up to three positions. 2 postdocs: wzb.eu/en/jobs/two-po… 1 predoc: wzb.eu/en/jobs/predoc… Deadline: **Jan 9, 2023** Political inequality, social cohesion, and more!

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I very much hope that the Latvian government will reverse its decision, and allow Дождь, a major independent Russian-language TV channel, the main source of information for anti-war and anti-Putin Russians, to continue operating in Latvia. 1/

If you're looking to support folks affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria: I completely trust that Ahmet, one of our grad students whose hometown was hit, has identified a good organization

Looking forward to my copy of this amazing dive into the use of law by citizens and government in Chechnya!

Vanderbilt is hosting a conference for junior scholars on the Politics of Immigrant and Intergroup Experience on May 31 - June 1.  Paper proposals are due Friday. More info below. Please apply and spread the word!

For those attending APSA this year - @UNITEHERE11 is currently on strike and negotiations are stalled. They are asking APSA to relocate, cancel, or move the conference online. Here is the Labor Politics Group’s open letter to APSA leadership: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A clear and brave message from Alexey Navalny in case the regime should kill him.

Statement by Navalny's mother... heartbreaking

Crowds in Moscow at Alexey Navalny funeral. Thank you, Alexey! We will not forget! Video source: BBC

Russia sanctioned a bunch of US-based academics, esp. noting those with any connection to Columbia's Harriman Institute. Keep up the good work, Tim Frye Kimberly Marten Elise Giuliano Emma Mateo. Special shout out to Tom Garza at UT CREEES, who taught me Russian as an undergrad!

🚨Job alert🚨 Vanderbilt Asian Studies is hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies, specifically looking for social scientists: apply.interfolio.com/154998

🚨New PONARS Policy Memo: Can Russians Learn to Recognize Propaganda? Understanding of Media Bias Amid the Ukraine War by Anton Shirikov and Georgiy (Gosha) Syunyaev 📖Read more here: ponarseurasia.org/can-russians-l… Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

💡Ideology can be a key factor in shaping the territorial (de)centralization of power. ➡️ Anna Wilke Georgiy (Gosha) Syunyaev & M. Ting find that ideological polarization and re-election prospects drive politicians away from centralization cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

After many years of working on it, it feels great to finally see my job market paper out in AJPS!