As kids head back to school across Belgium today, I’m also stepping into a new classroom — but this time as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management at @ieseg.fr
Grateful and excited for the journey ahead.

💡 Meet @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social, Postdoc & Lecturer at KU Leuven. She studies public response to war & conflict, often working with sensitive, complex data. In our Q&A, she discusses her open science summer course & how transparency can strengthen trust & collaboration:
www.cos.io/blog/amél...

🎉 Long overdue announcement: I’m thrilled to join @ieseg.fr as Assistant Professor in Conflict Management!

Sad to be leaving @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social but excited to explore new intersections between conflict studies, international negotiation & organizational dynamics 🤝

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.

Academic mothers are much more likely to...

◾temporarily leave the labor force

◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.

scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

My dear friend and colleague @chrisdworschak.bsky.social is kicking off #NEPS2025, presenting fascinating work with @kmross.bsky.social on conflict forecasting using… music data! 🎶📈

“Rhythms to riot” is already setting the tone for a brilliant few days of peace science!
#conflictforecasting

Excited to be at the annual conference of the European Peace Scientists in sunny Barcelona! Looking forward to three days of inspiring research, new ideas, and great conversations on peace and conflict.

#PeaceScience #NEPS2025

As promised: I’ve just uploaded all course materials of the Open Science in Social Sciences summer school on @cos.io:
osf.io/s8mxd/?

🚀 Feel free to explore, reuse, and share (under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license).

#OpenScience @forrt.bsky.social

🚀 Day 4 of our #OpenScienceInSocSci summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social wrapped up with new tools, big questions & practical skills.

Here’s your (final) recap thread 🧵

#OpenScience #PhDlife #Reproducibility

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🔍 Day 3 of our #OpenScience summer school @gasparugent.bsky.social @ugentopenscience.bsky.social was all about:

✨ Reproducibility & Replicability—including a primer on power!

🧰 Expanding our **Reproducibility Toolbox**—beyond preregistration

😈 A cheeky #pHackathon

Recap below 🧵
#Reproducibility

🔐 Day 2 of our #OpenScience Summer School @gasparugent.bsky.social zoomed in on... preregistration !

Why? When? How? And... what if I mess up?

We tackled it with hands-on exercises and open, honest conversations.

🧵Thread below
#Reproducibility #PhDlife #OpenScienceInSocSci

🚀 Kicked off Day 1 of our #OpenScience Summer School at @gasparugent.bsky.social !

We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍

Thread ⬇️
#PhDlife #OpenScience
#Reproducibility

Our community must take this issue very seriously!

ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R

but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R

(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)

Excited to be at today’s Reimagining PEACE conference bringing together nearly 300 peace researchers from around the world! Grateful to be part of this global exchange of ideas and insights.

#ActionPEACE2025 | Organized by the Flemish Peace Institute

I'm a bit late to the party, but excited to finally join BlueSky!

Political scientist here—studying violence, peace, and public opinion. Always happy to connect, discuss, and learn. Come say hi! 👋

A quick 🧵 on what I study.

#Academia #PoliticalScience #PeaceResearch #PublicOpinion #NewHere