@snitsova
British Academy International Fellow, Politics Department, University of Manchester | Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis | UNC PhD | political economy, oligarchs, political connections, political networks, Ukraine, Eurasia | snitsova.com
This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.
🇺🇦🦊 For the record, my amazing shiba inu work buddy is an ardent Ukraine supporter as well!
🇺🇦📈🎤 @oonuch.bsky.social is giving a special UoM Politics Pankhurst Series Lecture “Four Years of Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine: Democratic Resistance and Resilience (?) in Wartime Ukraine (What does the data actually say?)” tomorrow.
🇺🇦📈 One of our PhD students, Cressida Arkwright, is presenting her work on youth understandings of the state, citizenship, and participation in contemporary Ukraine at UoM Politics Democracy & Elections Seminar tomorow.
🇺🇦🥐 The UoM Ukrainian Student Society is holding a bake sale fundraiser today.
Ukraine is central to many events at @manchester.ac.uk this week.
🇺🇦📈 I am especially glad I got the chance to present my research on oligarchic networks in Ukraine at UoM Social Statistics Research Seminar today. Special thanks to @leifeld.bsky.social for the invite.
Four years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. Standing with Ukrainians. Supporting them in their fight for freedom and just peace. Bringing Ukraine to rooms and places that matter, big and small. That’s the least we can do.
The APSA Political Networks Section is now accepting nominations for its 2026 section awards, including the John Sprague Award, Best Conference Paper Award, and Political Ties Award!
Nominations (including self-nominations) are due April 4, 2026.
Submit here: forms.gle/cDC8Z3pdS6bm...
This is a fantastic workshop. Apply!
Tom Hardy would be a great pick for Andriy Yermak if there were a movie with his character in it.
Applications for the 2027 Rotary Peace Fellowships are now open. They offer so much, including the opportunity to obtain a Master’s degree or a professional certificate from a world-class university, to outstanding candidates from around the world working in the field of peace & conflict resolution.
Use these in my own research and cannot underscore their utility strongly enough.
Timely and interesting papers.
Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos is the world leader speech that has impacted me the most since Ukrainian President Zelensky’s address hours before Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion. Worth your time. Worth giving it thought.
Glad to see UoM making such a move. “65,000 colleagues and students will receive full Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training, making Manchester the world’s first university to deploy equitable access across its entire community”
Title + abstract of the preprint
Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜
arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253
As a BA International Fellow, I cannot recommend this opportunity strongly enough. Apply!
Genuinely surprised by how many UK and European university department websites make it difficult to find basic information about their research staff.
New preprint is out!
Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
Great place to present your work on political elites, broadly defined.
In less than six hours, Bulgaria switches to the 💶 as its official currency 🇧🇬 🇪🇺It’s pretty cool to witness the world move in the right direction despite everything. Congratulations to all of us on this big achievement.
On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
🚨 Six days left to apply 🚨
2 x 3-year postdoc positions
to work with me on the many impacts of border change, no teaching obligations, a vibrant department @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and London is a fantastic city! Deadline: Jan 4th.
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
PolNet is coming to Manchester! So looking forward to having everyone over here for exciting discussions on everything political networks! 💜 @manchester.ac.uk
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UNC’s CSEEES was such a bright part of my time at UNC. It not only supported my research, but also felt like home. Such a loss for UNC, its students, and Eastern European and Eurasian studies in the US.
Come work with us. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Studies and another for an open position at the Harriman Institute. Deadline January 5. harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...
I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.
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#poliscijobs
Up to 24 postdocs at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester to start in October 2026:
Deadline 16 January.
Applicants must have been awarded their PhD by the closing date, & normally not more than 3 years before that.