Caroline M. Brandt
Berkeley Ph.D., Sylff Fellow at Uppsala University
Scholar of civil conflict peace agreements and international interventions. Lost southerner. She/her.
- hive mind: help me find for a lecture a good demonstrative peace and conflict paper that uses testing of an interaction effect as a first cut test of causal process
- its pretty funny its a survey about harassment
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtIs social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
- I am excited to announce that Lisa Hultman and I have been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) grant for a three-year project to study why publics support war crimes. www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtIt's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/
- Reposted by Caroline M. Brandt📢 New publication! 📢 Why do ordinary citizens participate in election violence in democracies? Kathleen Klaus and @meganturnbull.bsky.social argue that such violence is often jointly produced by elites and citizens, enabled by threat-based narratives and social networks that legitimize violence.
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtTenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer: -Join your campus AAUP chapter. -If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont
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- for scholars using LLMs to classify/analyze/do anything with news sources - does uploading news to commercial LLMs somehow not violate the newspapers' terms of service? what am I missing here?
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtFans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtI am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!
- We are looking for 1–2 postdoctoral researchers to join the project “Political Violence in Democracies”, led by @hannefjelde.bsky.social 📌 Full-time, 2-year postdoctoral position 📆 Start Date: Dec 1, (or by agreement) 📍 Location: Uppsala ⏳ Apply by: Oct 1 Read more: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtWondering about submitting your proposal to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference? See 👇🏻 and its exciting new panel formats.
- its pretty funny how consistently AI thinks I should be using more emojis in this response memo
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtEPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵
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- Letting down important coauthors 🫠
- hats off to whoever required the EU to update the rules of this grant application to specify "The individual researcher and the supervisor must be two different people."
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtWant to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."
- I’m at NEPS! Come say hi!!
- Have to say, who ever had the idea - what about Peace Science, but make it in Barcelona; that was a good idea
- okay, you have to admit, a correction that reads "The name of the author Amy N. Arndt was incorrectly omitted from the author list in the original article" is pretty funny for an article titled "I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap."
- jesus christ
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtWith unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim? @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtImportant message from @ethanvporter.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @emmaspiro.bsky.social “NSF has accepted a dangerous myth that misinformation research (and research more generally) is really just partisan activism […] Nothing could be further from the truth” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtThe immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP
- On the USAPP blog @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social look at the #Trump administration's harsh #immigration policy. They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
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- @mirya.bsky.social could you point me towards the person who made the MHAWS logo? I remember reading about it but can't find the email !
- We at @uupeace.bsky.social we’re honored to have Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social present her new book project on Return without Refoulement - I learned SO MUCH
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtDecision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
- Reposted by Caroline M. Brandt🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtMany “savvy” folks argue protests can’t work. Evidence suggests otherwise. “Muslim ban set off a fury of protests across US, garnering tremendous media attention and discussion… Portraying ‘Ban’ at odds with inclusive elements of American identity prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes…”
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtNEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
- Would honestly love to see a survey experiment comparing the two
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtThe OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
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- Reposted by Caroline M. BrandtI'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
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