If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

🔥 In this powerful account of land grabs & the weaponisation of hunger in Sudan, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social shows how Sudanese farmers & pastoralists organise to recover territory & build food sovereignty in the midst of devastating conflict: transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

BISA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 🎉 Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟 Get nominating today! 👉 https://ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Call for Abstracts🪧🪧🪧 Global Student Movements Against Coloniality: Entangled Praxis of Hope, Resistance & Solidarity This is for an edited book project we’ll propose under the “Decolonial Entanglements” series (Routledge). Deadline: 27 February 2026 🔗 www.southsouthmovement.org/global-stude...

Horrific news out of Australia today. Gah what is the world right now?!

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy", @tonihaastrup.bsky.social explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/tbJwU3s

After all the hilarity of #Trump falling in love with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, I wrote a few serious reflections about what we can learn from Mamdani's ability to engage with those we don't agree with. 👇🏽 @scotnational.bsky.social @educatorsforpeace.bsky.social

I know the US likes telling people what to do but this ‘peace deal’ is clearly BONKERS. I pray Ukraine is free from insane delusional men because 😡

The ninth paper in our EPAS series, authored by @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, discusses how approaches to peace have often been sidelined amid persistent insecurity in West Africa. Explore the brief here: afripoli.org/towards-femi... GIZ Nigeria & ECOWAS #ECOWAS@50 #Feminist

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice. buff.ly/hHpXEiG

Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended by two weeks. We encourage all interested contributors to take advantage of this extra time to finalize their submissions. We look forward to receiving your contributions by Nov 30

To mark the launch of Why the Social Sciences Matter - More Than Ever, by AcSS Fellows Prof Jonathan Michie & @profcarycooper.bsky.social, @kelloggoxford.bsky.social is hosting an event on 26 Nov to discuss how social science shapes human progress & policymaking.

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social

APPLICATION TIP #1: Budget Realistically Show genuine research needs: ✓ Specific flight routes + prices ✓ Actual accommodation rates ✓ Real visa fees ✓ Necessary research materials Reviewers appreciate honest budgets. UACES Scholarships close 7 Nov 2025: www.uaces.org/funding/scho... #PhDTips

I hope this encourages supporters to think more about the humanitarian dimensions of this war in their support plans/practices. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

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Something to read on the eve of the 4th FFP ministerial 2 yrs of work; from authors to editors really proud to have worked with so many awesome feminists++ on this & the best co-editors a girl could wish for @columbaachilleos.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social - the smartest minds! 🙏🏾

🇪🇺 #GGF: Are Team Europe's development, trade, and investment policies all speaking the same language? Maria Martin-Prat, Deputy Director General at DG TRADE, on the need for a unified approach - disconnected policies are simply "not effective, neither for us, nor for them".

Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.

Syria holds its first parliamentary election since ousting of Bashar al-Assad

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

#Sudan: UN human rights experts send wake up call on severity of crimes committed by RSF & SAF. @eudiplomacy.bsky.social: "There can be no justification for standing idle while atrocities continue" Urgent steps needed to ⛑️Protect civilians ⚖️Press for accountability www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Awful to see this, especially during a holy festival. This achieves nothing to create a peaceful society for anyone.

Horrified and angry by the violence in Manchester today. What are we when people cannot worship in peace?!

Aaaand, the research is done, yhe numbers are in, our ancestors weren't exaggerating. www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

This is….and imagine all the other ways this manifests… and across different contexts

Russia continues to be vile indeed. As if the sins are not plentiful enough, while pontificating in the UN, attacking civilians in Kyiv. Gah. No analysis just plain evil www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

Me at the state of the world!

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Call for Proposals for Special Issues of the Journal of European Integration to be published in 2027 Deadline for Submissions: 31/10/25 www.tandfonline.com/journals/geu... Feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions about the procedure or informal enquiries you may have.

“In a way, he was like the country he lived in. Everything came too easily to him, but at least he knew it. About once a month he worried that he was a fraud….”🥺

A tiny light in the perpetual sadness

Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

It’s my first #UACES conference as Chair & so great to see everyone! With over 300 folks chatting all things European studies, it promises to be a fabulous conference. All *solidarity* to many of our colleagues who can’t be here because university leadership would rather vandalise than build.

*PSA PRIZES* Closing soon! Mackenzie #BookPrize submissions. Awarded annually for the best book in #PoliticalScience. Nominations invited from publishers, individuals and PSA specialist groups. Deadline 5 September. Details -

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Sorry to interrupt your day. The genocide continues. How is this still happening??! Meanwhile Russia continues to kill and destroy with impunity. As if the destruction and violence is not enough Sudan is contending with a cholera outbreak. /1

The Israeli uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the Palestinian village. The Israeli army said uprooting the trees was meant to "deter" village residents and make them "pay a heavy price." mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra... #Palestine #Israel

This is actually evil: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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