Lars Berger
@larsberger.bsky.social
Professor, Federal University of Administrative Sciences/Berlin, Research and teaching on US foreign and counterterrorism policy, Islamist terrorism, MENA international politics, Views my own.
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⭐Only 3 days left to apply!
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University in Kingston for #AMALTHEA, a 3 year Horizon Europe project on how gender shapes radicalisation & extremism.
Apply if you work on gender, qualitative methods, or terrorism studies.
www.queensu.ca/cidp/call-ap...
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University in Kingston for #AMALTHEA, a 3 year Horizon Europe project on how gender shapes radicalisation & extremism.
Apply if you work on gender, qualitative methods, or terrorism studies.
www.queensu.ca/cidp/call-ap...
Call for Applicants - Postdoctoral Fellow - Gender, Radicalisation, and Extremism | Centre for International and Defence Policy
Oct 29, 2025 | Call for Applicants | Post-Doctoral Fellow - Gender, Radicalisation, and Extremism
www.queensu.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
⭐Only 3 days left to apply!
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University in Kingston for #AMALTHEA, a 3 year Horizon Europe project on how gender shapes radicalisation & extremism.
Apply if you work on gender, qualitative methods, or terrorism studies.
www.queensu.ca/cidp/call-ap...
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University in Kingston for #AMALTHEA, a 3 year Horizon Europe project on how gender shapes radicalisation & extremism.
Apply if you work on gender, qualitative methods, or terrorism studies.
www.queensu.ca/cidp/call-ap...
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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We are looking for reviews of the following:
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are looking for reviews of the following:
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
John Schwarzmantel & Helen Beetham: Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Murad Idris: Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.
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Hier eine kurze Übersicht über die Angebote des Datenportals für die Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung in der neuen Ausgabe der ZREX.
📃Out now! doi.org/10.3224/zrex...
Warum (noch) ein Datenportal?
Wir freuen uns, unseren ZRex-Beitrag über den Aufbau einer Dateninfrastruktur zum Finden & Teilen von R|EX-Forschungsdaten zu teilen.
#ExtremismData #DataSharing #OpenScience #ResearchData
Warum (noch) ein Datenportal?
Wir freuen uns, unseren ZRex-Beitrag über den Aufbau einer Dateninfrastruktur zum Finden & Teilen von R|EX-Forschungsdaten zu teilen.
#ExtremismData #DataSharing #OpenScience #ResearchData
DP-R|EX: Das Datenportal für die Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung
| ZRex – Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung
Ziel der neuen Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung ist es, der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zur illiberalen, populistischen bzw. extremen Rechten ein Forum zu geben.
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hier eine kurze Übersicht über die Angebote des Datenportals für die Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung in der neuen Ausgabe der ZREX.
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We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
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Bär added that Germany has “excellent conditions for conducting research”, including that academic freedom is protected in the constitution. “This is our big advantage and we champion it,” she said, adding that the Global Minds Initiative had attracted “strong demand”.
German academic freedom initiative funds first arrivals.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports 74 researchers to move to Germany, from nations including US.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports 74 researchers to move to Germany, from nations including US.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
German academic freedom initiative funds first arrivals - Research Professional News
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports 74 researchers to move to Germany, from nations including US
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Bär added that Germany has “excellent conditions for conducting research”, including that academic freedom is protected in the constitution. “This is our big advantage and we champion it,” she said, adding that the Global Minds Initiative had attracted “strong demand”.
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Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
acdatacollective.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
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🚨Job Alert 🚨
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)
An der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, Professur für Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle im Umfang von 30 Wochenstu...
jobs.uni-erfurt.de
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨Job Alert 🚨
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...
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Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
W 2-Professur für Politische Psychologie (m/w/d)
jobs.rptu.de
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
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LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome!
Please reach out if you would like any more details.
Please reach out if you would like any more details.
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science,
,
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p>
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jobs.lse.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome!
Please reach out if you would like any more details.
Please reach out if you would like any more details.
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We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
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Apply now for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit:
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Spring 2026 Virtual Research Workshops - Project on Middle East Political Science
The POMEPS Spring Virtual Research Workshop convenes online discussions of groups of three thematically linked journal article-length papers focusing on topics/cases in the MENA region. To provide fee...
pomeps.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Apply now for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit:
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Interested in the impact of tech disruption & geopolitical shifts on intelligence practice and research? Join us at the June 2026 Intelligence College in Europe Academic Conference in Munich.
📌 Submit abstracts by 14 Nov 2025
💡 No fee, catering included
➡️ tinyurl.com/3r9tpk7n
Interested in the impact of tech disruption & geopolitical shifts on intelligence practice and research? Join us at the June 2026 Intelligence College in Europe Academic Conference in Munich.
📌 Submit abstracts by 14 Nov 2025
💡 No fee, catering included
➡️ tinyurl.com/3r9tpk7n
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Interested in the impact of tech disruption & geopolitical shifts on intelligence practice and research? Join us at the June 2026 Intelligence College in Europe Academic Conference in Munich.
📌 Submit abstracts by 14 Nov 2025
💡 No fee, catering included
➡️ tinyurl.com/3r9tpk7n
Interested in the impact of tech disruption & geopolitical shifts on intelligence practice and research? Join us at the June 2026 Intelligence College in Europe Academic Conference in Munich.
📌 Submit abstracts by 14 Nov 2025
💡 No fee, catering included
➡️ tinyurl.com/3r9tpk7n
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🚨 Job Alert U. de Montréal 🚨
Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China
If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job.
Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing!
Reach out with any Q?s
tinyurl.com/y9trt5va
Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China
If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job.
Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing!
Reach out with any Q?s
tinyurl.com/y9trt5va
September 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 Job Alert U. de Montréal 🚨
Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China
If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job.
Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing!
Reach out with any Q?s
tinyurl.com/y9trt5va
Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China
If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job.
Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing!
Reach out with any Q?s
tinyurl.com/y9trt5va
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📢 For my DFG project “The Role of Religiosity in Delinquency among Christian and Muslim Youths,” (ReliDeli) I am looking for a research associate:
🔗 en.kfn.de/wp-content/u...
#Sociology #Psychology #PoliticalScience #Criminology
👇
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#Sociology #Psychology #PoliticalScience #Criminology
👇
🔍 Researcher (Pre-Doc) (f/m/d), 75%, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Criminology or related disciplines
📅 Start: 01.10.2025 (or later), limited to 3 years.
📩 Applications must be submitted by 17 September 2025 to: jp.steinmann@kfn.de
Further information: en.kfn.de/research-pro...
📅 Start: 01.10.2025 (or later), limited to 3 years.
📩 Applications must be submitted by 17 September 2025 to: jp.steinmann@kfn.de
Further information: en.kfn.de/research-pro...
August 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📢 For my DFG project “The Role of Religiosity in Delinquency among Christian and Muslim Youths,” (ReliDeli) I am looking for a research associate:
🔗 en.kfn.de/wp-content/u...
#Sociology #Psychology #PoliticalScience #Criminology
👇
🔗 en.kfn.de/wp-content/u...
#Sociology #Psychology #PoliticalScience #Criminology
👇
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The Dept of Govt & Law at Lafayette College invite applications for a shared tenure-track position in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 1, 2026. For more info: pomeps.org/job-posting-...
Job Posting: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position in IR/CP at Lafayette College - Project on Middle East Political Science
The Department of Government and Law and the International Affairs Program at Lafayette College invite applications for a shared tenure-track position in International Relations and/or Comparative Pol...
pomeps.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Dept of Govt & Law at Lafayette College invite applications for a shared tenure-track position in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 1, 2026. For more info: pomeps.org/job-posting-...
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📢 Only 6 days left to apply for @timep.bsky.social's Bassem Sabry Fellowship!
If you're an international candidate based outside of the US, under 35, proficient in English and Arabic, and committed to a better MENA region, don't miss out on this unique opportunity timep.org/2025/08/08/o...
If you're an international candidate based outside of the US, under 35, proficient in English and Arabic, and committed to a better MENA region, don't miss out on this unique opportunity timep.org/2025/08/08/o...
August 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📢 Only 6 days left to apply for @timep.bsky.social's Bassem Sabry Fellowship!
If you're an international candidate based outside of the US, under 35, proficient in English and Arabic, and committed to a better MENA region, don't miss out on this unique opportunity timep.org/2025/08/08/o...
If you're an international candidate based outside of the US, under 35, proficient in English and Arabic, and committed to a better MENA region, don't miss out on this unique opportunity timep.org/2025/08/08/o...
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
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🎓📢 We’re hiring!
Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)
💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)
💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster
Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!
jobs.zeit.de
August 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🎓📢 We’re hiring!
Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)
💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)
💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
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Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.
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Deadline: 31 Aug
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Deadline: 31 Aug
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline: 31 Aug
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline: 31 Aug
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We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
📢APPLY NOW!: DPIR seeks a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative European Politics to provide teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate level and contribute to the Departmental examining and graduate admissions processes.🗓️ CLOSES: 12pm, 5 Aug: ow.ly/brXi50WpZav
July 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
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🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
July 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
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📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025):
•International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...
•International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...
#PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs
•International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...
•International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...
#PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs
July 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025):
•International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...
•International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...
#PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs
•International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...
•International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...
#PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs