@merikeblofield
Professor of Political Science | global health, social, family & gender policy, Latin America | University of Hamburg | Finnish-Canadian, spent 25 years in the US and South America. Latin Americanist at heart.
On violence against women, a large gap between laws & their implementation exists. Yet we have few tools to measure it. Our @lancetgh.bsky.social article draws on admin & survey data on IPV survivors to assess the “recognition gap” across countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @giga-hamburg.de
Done; your work is a public service to people around the world!
Colleagues! We are recruiting a scholar of Latin American politics, doing excellent & policy relevan research. If this soudns like you & you are interested in pursuing a career in Europe, this 3+3 post-doc might be the perfect opportunity.
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/career/po...?
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My god, I did not expect from the headline (which was bad enough on its face) just *how* bad this situation actually was. You have to read the article to realize it.
Dear Hamburg based friends and colleagues,
Come join us for an incisive roundtable event Thursday at noon, where our regional experts discuss the global political and strategic Implications of US Intervention in Venezuela. Details below @giga-hamburg.de
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...
I guess having nothing is the best way to irritate Finns? 🤣
I guess just having nothing for Finland is the best way to irritate Finns
Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or face denial.
The words include "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" and "women."
Fantastic news
From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent
Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
Nailed. It.
This is the kind of man you want leading your country.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
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Paterson NJ is ~65% Hispanic,
~20% Black, ~10% white.
I’m sure that’s not at all a coincidence.
Democracy literally dies in bomb threats.
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
Thank you, Chicago.
When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.
Prêmio @alacipcp.bsky.social Melhor tese de doutorado em Ciência Politica.
Vamos divulgar???
In what universe is this ok?
I am excited for this challenge @GIGA, where our goal is to produce policy-relevant social scientific research for the benefit of society. This mission is esp. important now & I look forward to working w//colleagues in & outside GIGA @redpolitologas.bsky.social
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/mer...
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
When I worked in the Michigan Senate Repubs would let us know they had a family member w a particular medical problem, bc they would vote w their caucus on nearly everything but the rare times they voted w Dems it was on amendments about a particular medical problem
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.
According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.
