TU Delft is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Community-Level Design for Climate Action academictransfer.com/en/340038/assi…

Back home after the MPSA conference in Chicago. I had many interesting conversations, received useful feedback on my paper, and I appreciated getting a sense of the latest research on policymaking and China. Many thanks to EJ Fagan for organizing the public policy panels! 🙏

The call for proposals for my upcoming special issue 'Cleavage Referendums: Ideological Decisions and Transformational Political Change' will close on 15 April. A short description and details on submission are available at cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgov…

During last week's MPSA conference, I attended a roundtable on Dr. Clare Brock's new book, which 'makes agriculture accessible to those who grew up in cities,' (panelist quote) while helping us understand polarization and how this affects lobbying & policymaking. Recommended!

Call for papers: Achieving carbon neutrality in China’s power sector

You are invited to submit your work to the special issue organizing with Michael Davidson, #JiangLin , and #ZhaohongBie in The Electricity Journal.

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Our new paper is out Public Performance & Management Review ! The second paper on target setting in China. By analyze two policy instruments put in place to steer implementation, we advance target setting literature on the conditions under which target setting can translate into government performance.

Hoy sale, ya con paginación, nuestro texto (Alejandra Elizondo, Camilo González y Martin Lodge) sobre regulación y desarrollo en Regulation & Governance: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…. Aprovecho para recuperar los diversos productos del proyecto sobre regulación apoyado por la The British Academy.1/

Two new fixed-term Tutor jobs relating to the Media, Culture and Society MSc programme at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The Tutors will also support our Sociology-based MSc Media, Communications and International Journalism UofG Soc & Pol Sci

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JOB OPENING: Come work with me! We’re hiring a new Research Assistant/Associate to support the work of ChinaPower.

Apply here: careers.csis.org/opportunities/…

'Several [men] said that they actively didn’t respond to emails, or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner. This meant they were assigned fewer tasks, but were also less frequently asked, and thus got away without doing service.” Le big sigh... kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

“The interviews revealed that women do 75 per cent of the internal service work, while men only do 25 per cent,' says Mik-Meyer.”

Here is the new call for Compare Fellowship 2024-2025, a support and mentoring programme for researchers from low income countries. Full details here:
baice.ac.uk/compare-fellow…

When I was applying to a Marie Curie I asked a former colleague and friend if they could share their successful application with me.
They said no.
So now I make a point to share my application with everyone who wants to read it, because that's the type of academic I want to be.

Had a great week at the MPSA conference. See you next time, Chicago!

Hi everyone! I am Elisabeth Bik, PhD, a science integrity consultant and volunteer.
In this thread for #YoungScientistNetworking (invited by Teddy Zartler aka @quantumtessera.bsky.social), I will tell a bit about my somewhat unusual career.
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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 Jana Christopher Cheshire Even better, we need to slow down science. Make it less about metrics (h-index, citations, impact factor) and more about quality, rigor, reproducibility. Publish smaller and open experiments and have other reproduce them. Reward this.
undark.org/2023/07/27/sci…

MPSA has arranged for two neutral ombuds to be onsite this year with alternating office hours from 9-5 Thursday - Saturday and 8-10am Sunday. If you experience behavior that violates the MPSA code of conduct, *please* visit an ombuds! .mpsanet.org/about/governan…. 2/

See you soon Chicago! 🇺🇸

Tests confirm avian flu on New Mexico dairy farm, probe finds cat positives

The virus was also confirmed on five more Texas farms, as investigators find more clues from animal samples and genetic sequences.

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Article accepted 🥳