CFP: Looking forward to our next conference with @techpolicy.bsky.social, January 12-13 at City St George's in London. Theme is 'Dis(mis)information and the Public Sphere in the Age of AI', paper and panel submissions related to any aspect of media and/or technology and politics are welcome.

📣 Call for papers 📣 We’re excited to launch the call for papers for 'Teaching in the In-Between: Postgraduate Perspectives on SoTL, taking place at the University of York on Friday 17 July 2026.

Join us as we stand up and fight back against the unnecessary cuts to the language centre! Let's show the university what solidarity looks like and that we will NOT back down! #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Very happy to see The Safekeep win the Women's Prize for Fiction. It's been discussed a lot online given its multiple prize-listings, and I've been interested to see how people's experiences of reading it have been shaped by how much they know (or not) about The Netherlands in/post WW2

KCL's Department of Political Economy is advertising two permanent Academic Education Pathway (AEP) lectureships (grade 6/7) in politics - one in Research Methods, and one in Comparative Politics. Hopefully, more AEP posts will follow in the next two years. Links & further details are below. 1/5

Under the eye of the Pomodoro Kitty

Really excited that our @politicsjournal.bsky.social article on the Joy of the Teaching Track ✨ is out! Co-authored with the brilliant @ellenfelicity.bsky.social, Keith Smith, Kalina Zhekova, @rosegann.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social – we advocate for enjoying our jobs! Polisky SoTLsky

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I used an Apple TV trial to watch Severance and I now feel permanently on edge

My (stolen) mantra that teachers should also be students has been stretched to a new level of karma this year, after I enrolled in an evening class without realising that I would also be required to complete the assessments.

@vgravey.bsky.social and I will be convening a #UACES2025 themed track on #teaching and #learning - see screenshot for details. To find out more about the conference, please visit the @uaces.bsky.social website #EduSky #SoTLsky #TeachLearnSky

if you are an academic who specializes in pop culture (movies! tv! music! books! the internet!) i want to know you!! i am ALWAYS looking for sources and story ideas for my work at yahoo entertainment. get in touch here or at [email protected] <3

Respect to the Politics colleagues who made the argument to me - in the early 2000s - that celebrity politics was the coming thing. The two realms are now fused. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...

🚨Warning: Elon Musk A record of Musk's commentary on UK politics since 13 Nov, when he was appointed Trump's efficiency tsar The analysis suggests an uptick in vitriolic commentary from the preceding period, and a return to the conspiracy-laden remarks that characterised Musk's summer criticism 1/

In seeing my millennial cultural references no longer land, I've apparently decided to go back much, much further. My students were spared my obsession with Dracula in a lecture on the development of democracy in Europe, because I was sicker than a vampire separated from their dirt boxes

Jobs: 1 PhD student, 1 Post-doc to work with me on the project "Parliamentary Accountability and EU Action Against Democratic Backsliding". Both positions are for 3 years, starting 1.4.2025. Happy to answer questions. See below or here: www.hhu.de/die-hhu/kont.... PSJMInfo

I wrote about Moldova's presidential elections and EU referendum, the Kremlin-financed vote buying, and the lessons that PAS is taking into the parliamentary elections next year for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Was lucky enough to see this final episode of Taskmaster being recorded, and it's fascinating to see it speed by with 75% less chat. Be grateful for some of the stuff cut from Rosie's prize task discussion... #Taskmaster

My take on the #BookerPrize this year is that Stoneyard Devotional absolutely slaps. The Safekeep could be better, but slaps. Orbital will be marmite, captivated me for the first half. Held is for those gifted with patience.

In memory of badass University logos, rebranded too soon

This week I'll be talking to students about celebrity endorsements during UK GE2015. This will be the third year in a row. The first time, it felt a bit like guiding students through a faded map full of names they didn't recognise. Now, it feels like opening a cursed time capsule.