Come and join our Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2026 🎉 A great way to meet and network with fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs in a relaxed and welcoming environment! 🌟 Sponsored by the PGN on Tuesday 2 June at The Mesmerist 👉 https://ow.ly/hRLL50Z5239

We at @cawpbisa.bsky.social are hugely excited to be holding a symposium titled '(En)countering violence: critical approaches to studying and representing violence, and dangerous and disposable subjects'. EoI deadline is 19 June, to be held 9 and 10 September in London - full details below!

neben den neuen Repressionen gegen die Opposition wurde per Mitternachtsdekret die Istanbuler Bilgi-Universität geschlossen, eine der letzten relativ unabhängigen akademischen Institutionen mit über 20.000 Studierenden bianet.org/haber/istanb...

"...the world being reduced to abstract and quantifiable calculations of individual gain. AI is simply the next stage, and logical corollary of, the commodification of everything. It reduces the qualitative richness of the world" 🔥👇 doi.org/10.1332/2635...

I'm looking forward to visiting @nupinytt.bsky.social in a few weeks to present my forthcoming book on #Nordic defence cooperation! If you're in Oslo on 1 June, come by, and if not, feel free to follow on YouTube. www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

I'll be presenting my ongoing work on security and Existentialism in the Anthropocene at the University of Tübingen next week! 🤗 🎉 Wednesday, 13 May, 4pm CET. Anyone can join - Zoom link below 👇

📣 Call for Papers - Special issue on Peacemaking, Recognition, and the Politics of Statehood in Protracted Conflicts! We invite contributions that examine the relationship between peacemaking and recognition from multiple perspectives! See details below. Deadline: 30 June 2026!

So happy that a paper from the special issue I edited on "Grappling with the climate crisis in IR" won the journal's best article award! Check it out!👇

☺️@paulinesophieh.bsky.social and I won a prize for this article: www.ceeol.com/search/artic... Thanks to @michelpoiccard.bsky.social and the editorial team! Are you seeing actors use bad faith, for what, and do they get away with it?

This European Citizen Initiative on the "suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement in view of Israel's violation of human rights" is nearing 1 mio signatures. 👀 Check it out if you haven't already 👇 citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

So much AI propaganda about “saving time” is capitalist propaganda. You need to do things faster so you can make more money because work has been devalued and full-time jobs are harder to come by. But AI isn’t going to make YOU rich. It’s already devaluing the work and the jobs even more

All ten of our articles are freely available now: @ejisbisa.bsky.social. All new work on politicized captivity from @toddhall.bsky.social @daniellegilbert.bsky.social @minseonku.bsky.social @rogerpetersen1.bsky.social @profgustafsson.bsky.social Jade McGlynn, Simon Koschut, Barak Kushner,

The Czech Journal of International Relations is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue titled Small States in Turbulent Times, which is scheduled for publication in August 2027. For more information please visit: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

How did Russia's 3-day “special military operation” become 4 yrs+ of near-total war, & how did time symbols contribute? Just published OA @gsqjournal.bsky.social in special forum on ritual action, ed. by Maria Mälksoo doi.org/10.1093/isag... @isatheory.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social

🎧 Reminder: RIS has a podcast! 🎧 We now have EIGHT episodes of the Review of International Studies podcast - well worth a listen, friends! buff.ly/CJdduct

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

🚀🇷🇺 "Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories" by @drjademcglynn.bsky.social & Anastasiia Romaniuk is our article of the month! 📚👉 Read, for free, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for special issue contributions on the theme of "Small states in turbulent times" - see below 👇

A world with #international #law is by no means perfect. But a world in which those who can do ignore international law is even worse. I am grateful to colleagues for initiating this open letter to the German government. verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Imperialism, war and violence are connected to climate change. But analysis needs to go deeper than just making an argument for detaching from fossil fuels. This endless violence is about who and what is valued, it's about US militarism, it's about white christian supremacy.

The 8th article from our special issue on captivity passions is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! Jade McGlynn and Anastasiia Romanyuk show how Russia's child deportations seek to pressure local families, disrupt Ukrainian identity and facilitate demographic restructuring. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

The 7th article in our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Barak Kushner explores how authoritarian states in 20th-century East Asia sought to reeducate captives for security reasons. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

if you think this or are acting upon it you don’t deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how they’re too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers

"Users will skim AI summaries. The real science is the question, the pre-analysis plan, and the analysis." I'm sorry but don't you do your THINKING while READING and WRITING? Research questions don't appear out of nowhere!!! alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...

Four more weeks to submit your proposals for this amazing conference!👇

My co-authored article with @nckc.bsky.social is published in @ejisbisa.bsky.social with #openaccess! We theorize captivity/kidnapping as a sovereignty violation, and states respond with emotional performativity to protect their dignity, constructing personhood. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's publication day!🎊🤗

One of the best analyses of Israel's post-Oct 7 actions I have come across. Highly recommend!👇

New paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?

Call for Papers, Contesting Imperialism(s), CEEISA Annual Conference, Sarajevo 17-19 June 2026. Submit your papers or panels until March 2026! Program chairs: Aida Hozić and Dženeta Karabegović ceeisa2026.com

I’m very excited to share that my co-authored article with Todd Hall is now published in the @ejisbisa.bsky.social ! Many thanks to @profgustafsson.bsky.social and @rjsamuels.bsky.social for organising the special issue and for their guidance throughout the process. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

📚Book promotion day 📚 Here is a 30% discount code for my book AND the first chapter is ungated to read for free.

🚨 The Czech Journal of International Relations has just published a new article that provides a dataset of all instances when diplomatic missions raised rainbow flags 🏳️‍🌈. May seem unlikely now, but the US leads the pack. Full access here: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

My co-authored (with Richard Samuels) special issue introduction 'Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security', has just been published open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. The forthcoming special issue will contain 9 articles that will soon be published. cup.org/45Q7Q7i

There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

New article of mine with Tizian Metzner: "Worrying about the bomb? – Nuclear proliferation fears & China's foreign policy": www.oiip.ac.at/en/publikati... - #proliferation risks rise (no #disarmament, nuclear #threats, no trust in #US) - official / expert debates in #China @infooiip.bsky.social

RIS has over a dozen special collections on our website. These collections show the breadth of research in our journal, and they are put together by excellent scholars around the world. A great resource for students! buff.ly/McqAzI5

Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✅ WS EB - Ontological Security in Geopolitical Times 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate ⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content ⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps ⬆️ Second warmest troposphere ⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs ⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

News from CEEISA. Save the date!!

Join us in Izmir for #EWIS2026! eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...

In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...

“The particular rage women elicit when they undermine male authority figures, and the way they are then read as bitches who deserve to be shot, is an archetypical example of a distinctively gendered dynamic that we ignore to our peril.“ - @katemanne.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

Consider CJIR for your special issue!👇 It has excellent and engaged editors, and a smooth and efficient workflow! 🤗

Here are the reasons NOT to join Volt in 2026, so feel free to keep scrolling... or join Volt today https://volt.team/simple-join/en 💜

🚨 REMINDER – APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON! You can still apply until 10 January 2026 and become part of the Institute of International Relations Prague as a Researcher / Senior Researcher! 📚 www.iir.cz/job-offer-jo...