I am on the train to Oxford for #PSA26. Would love to see you if you are around! I'll be speaking today at 1:30pm for the RMI panel, and chairing a panel at 3:30pm. Do join if you have a free slot on your agenda!

The Bank of England is now on TikTok. … I was not prepared to comprehend Andrew Bailey justify the rate change to me on my FYP.

We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... deadline is approaching - July 31st. Please spread the word

📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢 Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality
Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025. Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

There is so little language to accurately reprimand such cruel and hateful practices.

Deadline to submit your abstract is TOMORROW! Don't miss your opportunity to contribute to this symposium with a view to publish in @psrjournal.bsky.social! Find the full call for papers and abstract submission link here: bit.ly/42tgmYC Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!

My terrific colleague @josephineharmon.bsky.social at the @psaamericanpol.bsky.social has a call for papers for the APG ECR conference- A New Era in America. Looks so good- get involved! Full CFP here mcusercontent.com/8ba9bc605e8e...

Still figuring out your schedule? See our six panels below! Our first is this afternoon at 1:30 at Lib of Birmingham room 102!

I’m in BHam for #PSA2025! If you’re around, it would be lovely to see you!

Listened to this interview with Oren Cass @vox.com where he's described as 'somewhat unusual for an economist'. Yes, in that he is not really an economist. Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...

“A truly open concept of ‘the people’ could be precisely what is needed to account for the injustices produced by the intersections of race, class, gender etc., which are often marginalised.” Well said.

Really excited to be chairing three panels next week in my first PSA conference as a co-convenor for the RMI specialist group. Come and visit me if you have a minute! @psa-race.bsky.social

Trump is not an aberration is American democracy. He is the embodiment of a tradition older than the nation itself - cruelty and violence towards minoritised groups with a promise of economic gains for the country’s racial majority.

“Vichy on the Hudson.” 👀 If the shoe fits…

I was trying to explain to my British husband that Trump voters may not even know this is happening. Fox News are running the stock market as the 11th story on its website. I couldn’t even find it on OANN.

CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions! Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online Limited ECR travel bursaries available Please share widely! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

NYT publishing these opinion pieces effectively equating 'pressure to conform' in universities with differently racialised people literally being deported, detained and driven into hiding by the US gov't. Author writes 'a caricature is an exaggerated portrait of something real'. Some caricatures:

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

Read the OpEd that Rumeysa Ozturk and her fellow graduate students wrote that led to her arrest. ‘We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people.’ This is what they are afraid of—the recognition of equality and dignity of all humans. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

I’m really fascinated by people who are now saying they won’t travel to the US because of border detainments. Each time it’s ’this poor girl from Canada’ or ‘that tourist from the UK’ or ‘the conference attendee from France’. *clutches pearls* Dear Lord, not the white people! 😲

🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

When political pundits tell social justice activists that we should reconcile ourselves to 'the reality that mass immigration is unpopular, that being tough on crime is a winner, and that the language of “wokeness” goes no further than the faculty lounge'...

The 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.

FWIW, the reason "academia had it coming" is usually some thinly veiled version of (1) my colleagues keep making fun of my shitty race science, (2) people called me an asshole for saying false things about COVID, or (3) mommy says I'm a very clever boy but my professors didn't appreciate my genius.

Wow. The political gender gap in Germany amongst young people.

*stares in historian*

They really banned TikTok before they banned sending weapons to Israel during a genocide.

Join Ben Richardson, Merisa Thompson, Natalie Langford & myself for a panel (P37) on 'Centring Race and Colonialism to Questions of Agrarian Change' at DSA 2025! We're keen to support authors working across diverse regions. Abstracts due: 28 Jan www.devstud.org.uk/conference/c...

Ok well, this was not on my 2025 bingo card.... #Canada #Trump #DonaldTrump #51stState #CDNpoli #USpoli #PoliSky

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... "misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary."

Exclusive here from Bloomberg News, which asked 84 of the biggest listed US companies to share their demographics data with us. We found that Black workers are losing share, all but erasing the progress they made after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

In my latest blog hosted by @sperishefuni.bsky.social, I provide analysis of the 2024 election with drawing more from scholarship of the political economy of race.

I had to break it to my husband today that the UK is out of Erasmus. Brexit. The gift* that keeps on giving. 😫

Tiny little souls. 💔 What kind of monsters let this happen?

The persistent material impacts of white supremacy.

Some people are using this graph to shame. All I see here is a reminder that many people don’t feel their participation is meaningful. That’s not a single issue problem. That’s a structural problem.

Off to the University of Warwick to join a panel on whether US democracy is doomed. 😩 If you’re on campus, join us 5-6:30pm in room S0.11.

This approach has a well-known consequence: it's called the minority tax that faculty of color often face as we're called upon to address inequities in the larger system. I just want to make sure we don't keep adding to that tax. 4/4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

My first blog looking at race, 'the economy' and the 2024 election. This one is for American #PoliSci scholars, looks at the perennial polling of 'the economy' as the most important issue in US elections. Please let me know what you think. #PoliSky wp.me/p3I2YF-exK

I was a child in Oklahoma City during the bombing, and I can tell you that so many in Oklahoma still *today* believe today in the 'Third Terrorist' conspiracy theory because white Americans just cannot believe a white, male military veteran could be a terrorist. WhiteSupremacy🤝🏻WhiteSupremacy

Y’all, the Race, Migration and Intersectionality specialist group landed on 🦋Bluesky🦋 Give ‘em a follow and a little love. #PoliSky #IRSky #academicsky

it’s not optimism or obsessing over norms to recognize that that the path from intent to execution is full of friction, that congressional majorities can be shakier and more divided than they look, that american-style strong federalism gives many actors a good deal of authority, etcz

So, apparently I need to email acquisitions editors if I want to convert my thesis into a book. That sounds awful. 😭 Does #academicsky have any advice for emailing publishers with book pitches? What are the dumb things PhD students do without thinking when approaching book editors?