✅ 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...

Looking for ideas! I am designing a course I'm calling either "Urban Climate Futures" or "Urban Environmental Futures" to teach in spring 2027. I've decided that I am going to set aside 2-3 weeks in the class for students to "book club" a text of their choosing.

I just sent a letter to the German Attorney General, filing a criminal complaint for war crimes against people under the German Code of Crimes against International Law against #Trump, #Hegseth, Bradley and other unknown parties for the boat strikes in the #Caribbean. I'm not a lawyer, so I could be

Violence against women and girls has moved into our devices. From image-based abuse to coordinated harassment and non-consensual synthetic media, these attacks silence, intimidate and exclude women from public life. We must stop this. Read our full statement: https://loom.ly/ix2wXzw

People of London, come to my talk, today at the LSE, 4 PM.

New issue of the Czech Journal of International Relations is out and feautres, inter alia, this wonderful book forum on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Much recommended, and as usual, Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

Happy December! I'm excited to share three publications that dropped last week (and today) that have been in process for some time, and I'm thrilled that they are all out in the world and, more importantly, open-access!

Were former Japanese Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan security policy amateurs? Conversely, was Abe Shinzō an expert? How and why do reputations for expertise and amateurism emerge and spread? For some answers, see my new article with Björn Jerdén. doi.org/10.1057/s413...

Gerade unterzeichnet 👇 ✈️ Die Koalitionsspitzen wollen die Flugsteuer senken – gleichzeitig wird das Deutschlandticket teurer. Statt Billigflüge zu subventionieren, sollten sie lieber in die Bahn investieren und für günstige Zugtickets sorgen. Der Appell ➡️ aktion.campact.de/s/flugsteuer...

Two fully funded PhD positions in my department with a focus on AI and war. Please circulate widely and apply here before Jan 6: www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

Recent observations on students’ over reliance on AI/LLM cmjcksn.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...

New paper! Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am genuinely confused (and potentially concerned) as to why ISA is sending out different messaging and framing to different segments of ISA membership about traveling to the 2026 conference. These are screenshots from three different scholars I know of the "same" email we received today from ISA.

Currently trying to put a panel together on West African security for #BISA2026. We have 3 panelists and need at least another. If interested could you please inbox or email me? conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 @mybisa.bsky.social @samjarvis.bsky.social @drswhite.bsky.social

📣 Anyone working on creative methods in political research and attending @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2026 next year? We are looking for another participant in our roundtable on zine-making and creative methods as part of @cawpbisa.bsky.social if it sounds like you - please get in touch ASAP!

Putting together a panel for #BISA2026 on grassroots resistance. If you have a paper, get in touch! I'm keen to bring together diverse perspectives and approaches. 📧 DM if you're interested ⏰ Deadline: October 30th @mybisa.bsky.social

Consider this call for a BISA panel on state personhood ✨ - and share widely!🙏

Looking to put together 2 panels for #BISA2026 @mybisa.bsky.social on #Russia's war against #Ukraine - on Russian discourse/narrative and the war, and another on #gender and the war. If anyone has a paper or paper idea relevant to one of these themes that is looking for a home, please get in touch!

ONE WEEK LEFT UNTIL THE DEADLINE Make sure to submit your excellent papers, panels, and roundtables to the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group! We can't wait to see you in June! 🥳🥳

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

In this new piece for @ejir.bsky.social Stephan Klose and I discuss how US allies balance security and autonomy, focusing on 🇯🇵 and 🇵🇱 . 🙏 to @erc.europa.eu for the support 👇👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... cc: @michitotsuruoka.bsky.social @lanoszka.bsky.social @danielfiott.bsky.social

Consider this call for a BISA panel on state personhood ✨ - and share widely!🙏

🚨Deadline reminder🚨 The @jird-jour.bsky.social editorial board is looking forward to receiving your SI/SC proposals by 30 October at the latest 💥 All info below 👇

🌍 Come work with us 📢 We’re looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our interdisciplinary team on Varieties of Climate Agency at the University of Hamburg. We’d love to hear from you! 👉 Apply here: tinyurl.com/JobUHH 🔎 Learn more about the project: lnkd.in/epDC7PK7 ❗Deadline: 31.10. More 👇

At Volt, we demand freedom without borders. #freedomwithoutborders

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct. Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

Hello. Does anybody have any good recommendations for introductory literature on sanctuary cities? Particularly in relation to human rights or in the city’s relation to the state.

📢Call for Abstracts📢 Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026! We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨ @mybisa.bsky.social

Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries

🚨 We are hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher! 📝 How to apply: Send your motivation letter, CV, research outline, 2 academic texts + referees ➡️ [email protected] & [email protected] 📅 Deadline: 12 October 2025 You can find more information on: iir.cz/postdoctoral...

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

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💫📣Call for collaborators! Are you attending #ECPG2026 in Newcastle? I'm am organizing a panel on social media, influencers, & the manosphere, and their intersections with gender, feminism, & sexism. ✏️ If you are working on this topic, I’d love to hear from you! DMs open or contact me by mail.

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Came across this timely piece of research 👇 "What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide" doi.org/10.1080/0143...

New Study Indicates High Levels of Self-Censorship and Perceived Restrictions for Scholars Specialized in the Middle East since October 7, 2023. Official @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social press release: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...

#OpenAccess - ‘The Conduct of Inquiry’ in ontological security studies: scientific methodologies and their implications - https://cup.org/4pwr7CD - Lukas Grundsfeld #FirstView

Sorry, but disagree with @hausfath.bsky.social here. You open Pandora's box, you ain't closing it again. We've already seen with Paris that well intentioned international agreements do not translate into physical reality and SRM governance is a much harder problem. Zero is the only safe level. /1

"This ontological insecurity is both inside and outside of state, making ontological security for some while unmaking it for others." Check out Alexandria Innes's article in our latest issue 51(4)! 📘👉 buff.ly/hHugM2Z