Want to use word embeddings to track significant changes in political sentiment over time? Check out Risa Kitagawa and my new text-as-data research note that was just accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected]!

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For excellent political satire on #Zimbabwe 's political history, including #Guhurakunde massacre & rise and fall of #Mugabe , read #NoViolet_Bulawayo 's excellent novel #Glory (deservedly shortlisted for The Booker Prizes) Wesley Maraire lise rakner Leonardo Arriola Matthew Fiona Shen Bayh

Since #Ghana 's #Anti - #LGBTQ law was proposed, instances of violence – including seemingly organised crime – against the #queer community have increased. LawTransform Lisa-Marie Matthew lise rakner Leonardo Arriola OragoNW Camila Gianella Malcolm Langford africanarguments.org/2022/11/ghana-…

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Thrilled that ' #QueerLawfare in Africa' is out!!! 📌 #OpenAccess from Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) 📌 pulp.up.ac.za/edited-collect… Thanks to my co-editors Dr. Adrian Jjuuko Francois Alan Msosa & great chapter authors, including Pierre de Vos ⚖️ OragoNW Satang Nabaneh Cham Matthew Liv Tønnessen CMI Bergen

Air pollution was responsible for 1·1 million deaths across Africa in 2019. Air pollution na silent killer! Let's take action, NOW! #Cityzens4CleanAir #CleanAirCop27

What if genocide, not war, was considered the central problem of International Relations? How would the study of international relations be different?

I ask that question of my Intro to IR students. Here's what we discussed.

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Congratulations Ruth Rubio Marín on 'Global Gender Constitutionalism & Women's Citizenship' Cambridge University Press - Law Amazing & needed! Universidad de Sevilla European University Institute Watch the book launch at the LawTransform #BeEX2022 with Matthew Andrea Castagnola - & poem by Stella Nyanzi!
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Saying I second this, is an understatement. Thank you, Leonardo Arriola

This paper found a home and could not be happier. With friends/colleagues like Donghyun Danny Choi and Leonardo Arriola doing and writing up research doesn’t feel like work. #grateful

Excited to share my new article in American Political Science Review! Thank you to the anonymous reviewers who gave such constructive feedback. (Seriously. I will pay it forward.)

And now, after some delay, a 🧵👇

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Important #NobelPeacePrize2022 to #humanrights activists working in extremely difficult circumstances. CMI Bergen LawTransform project #RightsACT researches how activists work in such contexts - which unfortunately are increasingly common Leonardo Arriola Liv Tønnessen lise rakner Matthew

#Autocratic #Lawfare in #Uganda - increased repression through #MediaLaws Fiona Shen Bayh Lisa-Marie Edge Kanyongolo lise rakner Vibeke Wang Svein-Erik Helle @ThaliaGrz Nicolas van de Walle Leonardo Arriola Matthew LawTransform Wesley Maraire

Great episode this week on #democracy and whether backsliding is happening across Africa or not, with all our faves - Leonardo Arriola lise rakner Nicolas van de Walle ! Bookmark : resource for next AY classes on African politics 😀😀

NB🤗 LawTransform #PhDcourse “Effects of #Lawfare : Courts & law as battlegrounds for social change” Universitetet i Bergen 15–30 Aug. General & special tracks: #Democracy & #Autocratization ; #Gender & #Sexuality ; #NaturalResources & #Climate .
Includes the #BergenExchanges !
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The book was produced by an all-star team of scholars: Martha Johnson Melanie L. Phillips PhD lise rakner Peace Medie Dr Amanda Coffie Gretchen Bauer Amanda Lea Robinson Ragnhild L Muriaas Amanda Clayton Rachel S Fisher Alice J. Kang Matthew and ​​Akosua Darkwah 2/4

2 new ERC projects in Political Science in Bergen 🔥Mine Ragnhild L Muriaas on gender and political careers, the other on immigration and prejudice, E Ivarsflaten. 4 fully financed 4yrs long postdoctoral research fellow positions. For you? 👇🏽👇🏽
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Drop by or tune in! Thanks LawTransform Siri Gloppen and CMI Bergen for hosting this great event and #bergenexchanges2020

When a #Bergen sunset makes you forget the lockdown and notice nature’s majesty. #nofilter

Many thanks to Merete Bech Seeberg and colleagues at Aarhus Universitet for hosting the Representation and Elections in Africa workshop this weekend.

Bergen fog giving me Stephen King “The Mist” vibes.