Social Sciences Lab - MENA

Social Sciences Lab works to support research, training, and networking among Social Sciences researchers in the MENA region.

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✨ Your dreams deserve an incubator! 🎓

The Scholars Incubator Program helps junior scholars across MENA access mentorship, affiliation, academic opportunities, and a strong research community.

📅 Apply by 15 June
🔗 https://t.co/nd8ssUIKSe

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Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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❗️ NEW ❗️
📢 SSL-MENA PROGRAM ASSISTANT INTERNSHIP - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

🔗 For more details and to apply, please visit: https://t.co/OIYjp9dZNh

#InternshipOpportunity #ProgramAssistant #SocialSciences

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Are you passionate about the social sciences and the MENA region? Are you keen on gaining hands-on experience in project coordination, communications, and administration? SSL–MENA is looking for a Program Assistant Intern to support our research, editorial,and outreach activities

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🚨 Scholars Incubator Program – 3rd Edition is filling fast! 🌍🎓

More than half of the spots are already reserved.

⏳ First come, first served 📅 Deadline: 15 June 🔗 https://t.co/nd8ssUIKSe

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🚨 Starting shortly!

Join the Scholars Incubator Program 2026 Information Session Webinar 🌍🎓

🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏰ 13:00 UTC (GMT)
📍 Register now to receive the meeting link:
https://t.co/P5V2gmiZcf

#ScholarsIncubator #MENA #Research #Webinar

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READING SUGGESTION: 2025: The Humanitarian Movement’s Great Depression (Pierre Micheletti, 2025)

This article examines the 2025 Western aid cuts and the structural weaknesses they exposed in the humanitarian sector.

For more information : https://t.co/cYk7wrRG7E

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🌍 Interested in the Scholars Incubator Program? Join our Information Session Webinar to learn about mentorship, research support, academic opportunities, and networking for junior scholars across the MENA region.

📅 24 May 2026
⏰ 13:00 UTC
📍 Register: https://t.co/3ZlxDwo5Tq

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🎓 On 16 May, fellows joined a training with Dr. Oumaima Elghazali (Mohammed V University, Rabat) on: From Curiosity to Publication ✍️

The session explored academic publishing, journal rankings, impact factors, peer review, rejection, and building resilient research practices.

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🚨 Applications Open: Scholars Incubator Program – 3rd Edition 🌍🎓

For junior scholars in the MENA region seeking mentorship, EU affiliation, research support, and access to academic opportunities.

📅 Deadline: 15 June
🔗 https://t.co/nd8ssUIKSe

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📣 Call for Papers Extension - MENA Yearbook of Social Sciences 2026

📖 MENA at a Global Turning Point: Security, Economic Shocks, and the Future of Democracy

⏳ New Deadline: 31 May 2026
📚 To be published with De Gruyter Brill
🔗 https://t.co/xjEevhYCo4

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On 3 May, #MENAJuniorFellowship fellows joined a training with Dr. Myriam Benraad (Sciences Po) on Writing for Foreign Affairs ✍️

The session explored policy writing, diplomatic communication, analytical framing, geopolitical analysis, and mechanism-driven thinking in the MENA.

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📣 Call for Papers – MENA Yearbook of Social Sciences 2026

We invite interested scholars to submit abstracts on key political, economic, and societal developments in the MENA region.

📖 To be published with De Gruyter Brill

⏳ Deadline: 15 May 2026
https://t.co/UTuPcUpKGz

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🎉 Welcome to our 20 new fellows joining the 2nd Edition of the #MENAJuniorFellowship!

Selected from a highly competitive pool, this cohort brings together talented early-career scholars from the MENA region and beyond.

Meet the 2026 fellows 👇 🔗 https://t.co/8Q9xJKkbfT

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🎓 On 29 April, #MENAJuniorFellowship fellows joined a workshop with Dr. Steven Threadgold: Building a Research Narrative in a Precarious Academic Market.

Key lessons: build your narrative 📖, network 🤝, grow visibility 🌐, learn the system 🎯, stay strategic 💡

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🌟 After 4 months of growth, collaboration, and impact, the 2nd edition of the Scholars Incubator Program comes to an end. 🎓

Thank you to all scholars, mentors, and speakers. 🙏

🔧 The program now enters a renewal phase with new improvements for junior scholars across MENA.

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📢 EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITY ALERT: Call for Papers – The 11th International Conference on Modern Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences (ICMHS) 2026

Deadline: 12 June 2026

👉 Find out more: https://t.co/Ww7kNMXh0n

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🔍 Radical transparency: share full datasets, code, and methods 🧰 Open tools: GitHub, OSF, and reproducible notebooks 🔁 Value replication: reward confirming results, not just new ones 📌 Pre-registration: commit to methods before collecting data

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MENA Junior Fellowship Workshops, session of today: “Surviving the Reproducibility Crisis” led by Dr. Roxanne Connelly (University of Edinburgh).

Details in comments!

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On top of that, published papers often show only the polished final story, not the messy path that led there. In many ways, a paper is closer to an advertisement than a full record of the research process.

So what can fix this?

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So what is going on?

Research is full of small decisions that shape outcomes. These “researcher degrees of freedom” include choices like how data is cleaned, how variables are defined, or which results are excluded. Each decision can quietly shift the final conclusion.