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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · 5d

@anda19.bsky.social @ecpr-tlp.bsky.social
@simonusherwood.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social @uacesgf.bsky.social
@maxinedavid.bsky.social @karolinapomorska.bsky.social @tomasweiss.bsky.social - please spread the word!

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · 5d

Call for Papers for @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprsgeu.bsky.social section “Teaching in EU Studies in the Digital Age”

to explore how AI, digitalisation & new pedagogies are reshaping #EU Studies

more info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
deadline: 10 December 2025

Teaching in EU studies in the digital age

European Consortium for Political Research

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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · May 1

📣New article: justification of digital transformation. Plz share dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Governmental Justification of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector | Digital Government: Research and Practice

This article presents an explorative study of how governments in EU countries publicly justify digital transformation in the public sector. By using Denmark as a case of a digital frontrunner among European Union member states, we focus on a new field of ...

dl.acm.org

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IOM Austria @austria.iom.int · Apr 10

💼 174.000 Jobs blieben 2024 in Österreich unbesetzt.

Welche Rolle spielt #Arbeitsmigration in Zeiten von #Arbeitskräftemangel?

Eine neue #EMNMigration Studie zeigt Herausforderungen & Good Practices bei der Fachkräfte-Anwerbung.

👉 Hier mehr erfahren: www.emn.at/de/publikati...

Cover der Studie Arbeitsmigration in Zeiten des Arbeitskrätemangels in Österreich.

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢 get your application ready

CALL: #MSCA #Postdoc Fellowships 2025 📢
on #DigitalDiplomacy & #EUGovernance Transformation

Department for E-Governance (UWK, Austria)
🔹 Expression of Interest Deadline: 11 April 2025
See: shorturl.at/JPz3K

CALL – Expression of Interest: MSCA 2025

Join Our Research on DIGITAL DIPLOMACY & GOVERNANCE TRANSFORMATIONAre you passionate about digital diplomacy or the digital transformation of governance and policy-making? Are you an early-care…

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Mar 9

📢 CALL: #MSCA #Postdoc Fellowships 2025 📢
on #DigitalDiplomacy & #EUGovernance Transformation

Department for E-Governance (UWK, Austria)
🔹 Expression of Interest Deadline: 11 April 2025
See: shorturl.at/JPz3K

@uacesgf.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprsgeu.bsky.social

CALL – Expression of Interest: MSCA 2025

Join Our Research on DIGITAL DIPLOMACY & GOVERNANCE TRANSFORMATIONAre you passionate about digital diplomacy or the digital transformation of governance and policy-making? Are you an early-care…

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Mar 9

📢 CALL: #MSCA #Postdoc Fellowships 2025 📢
on #DigitalDiplomacy & #EUGovernance Transformation

Department for E-Governance (UWK, Austria)
🔹 Expression of Interest Deadline: 11 April 2025
See: shorturl.at/JPz3K

@uacesgf.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprsgeu.bsky.social

CALL – Expression of Interest: MSCA 2025

Join Our Research on DIGITAL DIPLOMACY & GOVERNANCE TRANSFORMATIONAre you passionate about digital diplomacy or the digital transformation of governance and policy-making? Are you an early-care…

shorturl.at

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Leila Hadj Abdou @leilahadjabdou.bsky.social · Feb 3

Very happy that our article link.springer.com/article/10.1... with @andreapettrachin.bsky.social on Knowledge Formation in U.S. #migration #policy-making won the Laswell price for best article in Policy Science. Based on Migprosp project @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social @mpc-eui.bsky.social

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Jan 26

Local elections in lower #austria: despite federal coalition talks with #FPOE chancellor, no expected landslide for right-wing, early results suggest

orf.at/wahl/noe25/c...

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Eva Michaels @evamichaels.bsky.social · Jan 18

Great stuff, I've only now discovered this substack (after a longer social media absence last year). Very helpful reading recommendations, including for a special issue introduction by @heidimaurer.bsky.social @rgwhitman.bsky.social & Kolja Raube on the coming of age of EU foreign & security policy

Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · Jan 17

Geopolitical Europe Pulse is out!

This week: European security, Trump, and Ukraine in 2025

geopoliticaleurope.substack.com/p/geopolitic...

Geopolitical Europe Pulse: European security, Trump, and Ukraine in 2025

17 January 2025

geopoliticaleurope.substack.com

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · Jan 4

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)

Together we can change the world.

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · Dec 25

August: I've been enjoying @jwherrman.bsky.social‘s writing a lot and this piece on gen AI tools as universal shorteners has especially stayed with me nymag.com/intelligence...

The Future Will Be Brief

What happens when AI summarizes everything we do and say?

nymag.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Dec 21

Tbilisi, Day 24, Midnight, -1°C (30°F)

What’s happening in Georgia is historic. 24 days of protest.

Reports of 200,000 on the streets of Tbilisi tonight.

This is now a front line of resistance against Putin. The world needs see it & support the Georgian people.

#GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪

(🎥Ezz Gaber)

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Dec 13

Leaving Thailand with a lot of insights and inspiration about the #EU in region.

Thank you JM network EUIP and our hosts at Chulalongkorn University

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Dec 12

The proportion of teens who use X/Twitter has dropped by 26% since Musk acquired it, per new survey data from Pew

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Dec 4

Congratulations Dr @ofernandezfdez.bsky.social. A stellar performance and thanks for having the honour to be part of your defence committee.

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Nov 21

Indeed - creativity and new views/questions need to come from academic mind. But that‘s the fun part anyway

Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Nov 21

#AI self-experiment

can #chatGPT improve the formulation of my research questions?

not by itself, but

it points me in good directions on how to make them better understandable, more concise, and to say what I want them to say.

how do others experiment with #AI in #research?

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Sep 24

join us tomorrow 25 Sept. 13:30-14:30 CET
Zeitenwende as Coming of Age? EU Foreign and Security Policy through War and Peace
@europeansecurity.bsky.social SI launch 2 with @rgwhitman.bsky.social @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @evamichaels.bsky.social

Link: t.ly/t4Gwh

Join conversation

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Senem Aydın-Düzgit @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social · Sep 18

New Article Alert! How do we assess the role of EU’s global strategic partnerships in EU foreign policy? Now out in @European Security

Many thanks to @heidimaurer.bsky.social Kolja Raube and Richard Whitman for bringing this volume together

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The EU’s global strategic partner(ship): a tool for the maturation of European foreign policy?

The EU has been confronted with novel global challenges ranging from economic, migration and security related crises, to an interstate war on its Eastern and Southern borders. Strategic partnership...

www.tandfonline.com

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Sep 17

NEW PUBLICATION ALERT - so pleased to see this joint effort come online

we offer a new framework to assess the development of the EU as international actor, building on the concept of maturity and maturation

👇 does it work?

European Security @europeansecurity.bsky.social · Sep 17

33(3) OA “Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace by @heidimaurer.bsky.social @rgwhitman.bsky.social & Kolja Raube: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought war back to the European continent and led to considerable change in EU member states’ foreign policies. The consequential degree of EU foreign policy un...

www.tandfonline.com

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European Security @europeansecurity.bsky.social · Sep 17

33(3) OA Maturation by practice: shaping the EU’s international identity in the absence of formal institutional change by Federica Bicchi, @heidimaurer.bsky.social and Kolja Raube: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maturation by practice: shaping the EU’s international identity in the absence of formal institutional change

This article examines the interplay of the maturation of the EU’s identity as an international foreign and security actor with the institutionalisation of its foreign and security architecture. Whi...

www.tandfonline.com

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ECPR Standing Group on the European Union 🇪🇺 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social · Oct 25

🇪🇺 🔵 🇪🇺 The Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU) of ECPR is here! Follow for news about the SGEU and the broader community of EU scholars.

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Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · Oct 25

@profmusgrave.bsky.social please add me to the Polisky list - thank you

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