I'm told "Washington Life" is DC's premiere lifestyle magazine. They did a feature on Erased in their "Diplomatic Issue". Surprising, but okay... They edited out some stuff from the original Q&A...

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Oxford Political Thought Speaker Series 👇

Everyone’s looking forward to this! Great way to kick off the new academic year!

Southwest friends: tomorrow at 3pm, I'm speaking in Exeter on the Erased tour, followed by reception. Do come by. @exeter.ac.uk @profalexp.bsky.social

“In twenty-three years at Harvard and fifteen as a tenured professor, I have seen a lot of tenure cases.... I have never been at such a total loss to explain Harvard’s decision,” said History professor Mary D. Lewis. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🥂 www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...

Podcast of the week! Thanks so much... 🎙️👇

Amy Goodman and Judith Butler chatting about Hannah Arendt 🔥🎙️ www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/ju...

On the train from Amsterdam to Groningen tonight for the first of three September "Erased" tour dates. Will speak to their very cool "Group on the History and Theory of International Relations" tomorrow afternoon @cirr-ug.bsky.social @berytia.bsky.social @jcostalopez.bsky.social

Queen

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

"The transfer of tens of billions of pounds to the owners of the privatised water, rail, bus, energy and mail services comes as families face soaring bills, polluted rivers and seas, and expensive and unreliable trains and buses". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Does anyone know anyone working on Arthur Creech Jones?

It's not just that there are lots of racist extremists on X (there are) or attempts to 'interact' with them are doomed to failure (they are), it's that your participation on the platform further enriches the racist extremist Elon Musk and amplifies his agenda. Why cannot people understand that?

Big news! #BISA2026 is already in the works, so be sure to submit papers and panels. The submission site opens on September 24 ⬇️

Zoom talk on "Erased" at 3pm on October 1st at the cool Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance research Network (SPIN) in Bristol. Details, including email address for invite link,👇 secrecyresearch.com/2025/09/01/b...

A friend was searching for an image for ‘International Relations’ for a powerpoint slide and among the usual flags and globes, she found... jump scare or peak hegemony?

New episode of the EPH Podcast I talk with @whitproject.bsky.social about how women were erased from the foundational narratives of International Relations 🎧 Listen ▶️ YouTube youtu.be/B96Txyaus9k?... 🎧 Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6mf1... 🍎 Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

BREAKING: Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act again, for a sign which said "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."

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can't wait to go see AWFC play at the Ems again today. 🏆❤️⚽❤️🏆 love these girlies.

Appropriate. Much of what he did as Science minister was represent business anyway.

Reform's stormtroopers in action

👏 Congratulations to Associate Professor in Quantitative Political Science Research Methods @rivb.bsky.social - one of the latest recipients of a European Research Council Starting Grant!: ow.ly/Uzwi50WRgOM

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Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

“It is important to get this right,” said Vallance. “We must not get bound down on measuring things that we cannot.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

The era of Bold Politics has begun. Watch out first episode on our new YouTube Channel. youtu.be/EY-8xoK6Yro?...

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Really enjoyed discussing Erased with Selma Sondern on the "Roots and Branches" podcast @standrewsiih.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

Guess what, my new book "The Art of Status" is out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social 📚💃🎉 It's about looted art and international status competition - why some states decide to return and some don't. I explore in detail Parthenon Marbles, Benin Bronzes, and Nazi-looted art. More info/pics soon.

Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

Letter of the day (in the Times)

MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Every accusation truly seems to be a confession these days

Nice review of Erased in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...

Devastating account of -the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza -our collective moral failure -applicable legal obligations right NOW by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

Cool! "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" is no.1 on the @iajournal.bsky.social summer reading list. 👇☀️😎🥂👇 @princetonupress.bsky.social

It is also a form of theft - taking more research time for themselves at the expense of other, more conscientious colleagues

Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

men protecting child rapists for gain

There's an apocryphal story about two decision theorists, A and B, talking about a big decision one of them faced. So B says to A: hey, A, you're a famous rational choice theorist - why don't you do some decision theory to settle the matter? To which A responds: for God's sake, B, this is serious.

Microsoft is so not mad about "AI" becoming synonymous bad writing that they hired someone to tell you that's actually very classist of you and you should check your privilege.

a man in Leeds was arrested for carrying a placard reproducing a graphic from Private Eye magazine, which said: “Unacceptable Palestine Action: spraying military planes. Acceptable Palestine Action: shooting Palestinians queueing for food.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Honoured to be in this company and grateful for the recognition as a foreign fellow :)

The Centre for Women's, Gender and Queer Histories @ox.ac.uk has a new website and a shorter title (WGQ). It's necessary times for historicizing work www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-w... #skyhistorians @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social