My republican defence of the idea of wage slavery is now in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I do like how obvious it is that academics say "the ____ Turn" to avoid saying "the ____ trend"

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Spent all morning coming up with the perfect opening line for an article, and I wouldn't have it any other way

🔔 Postdoc vacancies 🔔 A project co-led by our academic, Udit Bhatia, is advertising for two postdocs (four-year positions). ➡️ A third post will be advertised in 2027. The positions will assist with work on popular government in the Global South popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-posi...

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

A friend lent me this and its nice to be reminded of the kind of writing AI is incapable of generating by itself

once you pop(gov) you won't stop (hiring postdocs)

🔈PopGov keeps hiring!

Just met a German professor whose name translates as “Don‘t Laugh”

The third set of postdocs in our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 will be based across the road from LSE at KCL with @uditbhatia.bsky.social and focus on popular government in the global south my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

1. Germany already said the war is illegal. 2. US now threatening "complete obliteration" of Iran's energy system and, maybe, of desalination plants – i.e., war crimes. 3. Reminder: The war is conducted from Ramstein, Germany: "the nerve center of America’s operations against Iran". What gives?

A little known fact is that every time you spell "America" with a "k" you make it 0.0001% more likely that there is a full communist decolonisation of Turtle Island (in a way that is, somehow, also good for Black people with a capital B) and if you do it with three "k"s you decolonise Australia too.

I saw this headline earlier today and assumed it was a more comprehensive report on the strike a month ago

Come join us! Four postdocs in history of political thought/political theory at LSE now being advertised

Our annual LSE Brian Barry memorial lecture will this year be delivered by Chiara Cordelli on 20 May who will be speaking on "Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None". Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

This has to be the definitive statement on Habermas 🍉

A super interesting research project. Post-Docs are invited to apply now.

Fantastic opportunity to work with Bruno and his team in a very exciting project. 👇

🔊PopGov is hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers to work on the history of popular government at @LSEGovernment

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

Es wird gerade viel diagnostiziert, dass die Arbeiter jetzt die AfD wählen. Problem ist, dass das fast ausschließlich über subj. Einschätzung als Arbeiter passiert. Verwendet man objektive Daten über Berufe ist die AfD keineswegs bei Arbeitern am stärksten. Hier mit Parteinähe und Daten des ESS.

Man sieht auch absolut keinen Rechtsruck unter Arbeiter:innen, wenn man Rechts-Links-Positionierungen anschaut. Der Teil der Arbeiterklasse, der vorher schon rechts war, hat in der AfD eine Partei gefunden. Linke Arbeiter wurden dagegen vergessen und demobilisiert.

One of the most ominous things in academia is when you get an email that you’ve been added to a journal’s “reviewer database” and you just know that that reviewer request is incoming

It's perhaps not everyone's idea of how to spend a birthday, but I think I'm pretty luck to spend the day teaching my favourite topic 🙂✊

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Remember hearing that John McDonnell joked that Ralph Miliband's "two sons went into politics to prove their father...right". Anyone know where/when/if he said it?

Perfect

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 ‘Wealth and Class Analysis’ by Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage and Maren Toft looks at addressing wealth inequality by using the work of Marx and Weber, where capital accumulation and property organisation had central stage: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Having been to a week of political science job talks I’m intrigued by the diverging disciplinary norms. Do we think political theory talks would be better or worse if we allowed questions during the presentation?

"If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure."

for real it works like this 😭

Crazy that this might be one of the only (the only?) permanent political theory jobs in the UK this year. Job market is really dire

We would have had democratic socialism by now if @yusufimaadkhan.com had been around to make our charts!

Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad...

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Looking into the Meidner Plan and came across his calculations for when workers would, under different scenarios, gain majority control of their company

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Brutal

We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

The London Political Theory Network is organising a professional development workshop on 11 May for PhD students and early career political theorists in order to broaden access to the discipline. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lptn-sprin...

Just opened: 2 calls for positions in political theory in the "Moralizing Politics" project led by C. Rostbøll @ucph.bsky.social 1️⃣PhD Scholarship, "The Dignity of Work": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... 2️⃣PhD Scholarship, "Cancel Culture": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... ⏰ April 13

Hegelslop

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

👇👇👇 3 post-docs in democratic theory

Our PopGov project is live! 📣 We’re recruiting 3 Postdocs at @UCLouvain! 🌍 Help us to disseminate the call! 🙏