New from Free Movement: Trading in human lives: unpacking the UK/European transfer scheme | Basma Kamel freemovement.org.uk/trading-in-h...

#OpenAccess - How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder - cup.org/3U5QLQk "Our engagement with the evolving debates in Global IR seeks to fulfil the promise of a more global and diverse discipline." - Yong-Soo Eun, Peter Marcus Kristensen & Deepshikha Shahi #FirstView

What should Global IR try to be, and where should it go? Read the exchange in IT, hot off the press!

My book series with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social - we're getting good proposals and welcome more: www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics

🏆 We are pleased to announce @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social as the author of the Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations. Congratulations! 👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira 🔗 buff.ly/hqpQJSz

Our Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2025 winner was Shirin M. Rai @uniofwarwick for her book 'Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring' @OxUniPress 🌟 Judges said: 'the book embodies the highest possible scholarly standards within our field' 📚 Read more 👉 buff.ly/Rvd09Wk

🎉 Excited to see my article ‘Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the EU Borders’ out in International Migration! Based on research from the ERC project 'Security Flows' @cearadau.bsky.social Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Can genAI start-ups really challenge #BigTech's dominance? 🧐 🔎 We analysed 12 start-ups' value chains and what we found is clear: They're highly dependent on Big Tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia. Read our full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-real-win...

🛡️ Join us online on 23 July at 7 pm for a panel discussion on the Digital Futures of Security, where leading experts will explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the global security landscape. Featuring Tony Reeves (Deloitte), @cearadau.bsky.social & @lucavigano68.bsky.social. Register ⤵️

Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social! Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026... Please feel free to share further 😊 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

The Call for Papers for next year's *8th edition* of the London-based DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series is now live at www.doingips.org/news-events/.... We welcome PhD students from all disciplines who work on IPS, broadly conceived. Please help us share far and wide!!

Fab read on solidarities from below, the Roma, the war in Ukraine and the 'right to have claims'. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Do read and share

Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>> www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...

Hopefully a couple of these 20+ AI fellowships will also go to AI ethicists and other scholars pointing a critical and skeptical lens on these new technologies and what they offer.

✨The first two papers in our Topical Collection on the 'Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation' are out in Digital Society! The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo. link.springer.com/collections/...

#AI fellowships across all disciplines at King’s College London. Deadline 19 May 2025 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/111205-...

The full issue is available here www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3.... Several articles are #openaccess. Get in touch if you cannot access a text you might like to read.

We are thrilled to welcome @cearadau.bsky.social to our Convention. Her expertise on the ethical – and political – dimensions of AI is essential for our understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by this rapidly evolving technology. #Humanists2025 humanists.uk/2025/04/10/p...

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

A few days left to submit your abstracts for the International Theory early-career workshop at #ISA2025.

Posted elsewhere w/ a better summary so: My essay on JL AUSTIN, political/queer theory, performativity, & language’s powers is out! W/ Hortense Spillers & Toni Morrison, Butler & Sedgwick, Arendt & Cavell, a new reading of Austin’s bull of desire and the sonic sabotage in Arendt’s speech acts

CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUES! As we celebrate RIS@50, we invite proposals for a 2025 special issue. Submissions should make an original contribution to IR research. Deadline 22 March! Apply Here ▶️ buff.ly/3PB5jna

Bayat to Habermas: "My concern here is not about how to judge “Israel’s actions” from a legal perspective, but how to fathom this moral coldness and indifference you exhibit in the face of such staggering devastation. How many more lives should perish before they become worthy of attention?"

Just published! 😊

Post-Brexit, there has been a huge increase in the number of worker visas issued and an associated increase in the number of people who are being exploited. Our write up of a new report from Work Rights Centre: freemovement.org.uk/increasing-n...

So delighted to have been awarded an honorable mention for the ISA PEACE Best Female Scholar Book Award for 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats'!! Paperback out next Spring 💫 check out the book here: tinyurl.com/yj9xe5ab

The fiction of Schengen and the not—so-temporary ‘temporary reintroduction of border controls’ with many variations on (in)securitisation home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/system/files...

So, this happened! Already, I can say that I'm absolutely delighted to be joining David Welch and Claudia Aradau as Co-editor of _International Theory_, and working with our new fantastic Associate Editor @profmarkraymond.bsky.social, and the Cambridge UP editorial team.