Today's round-up features pieces on news produced for and by people with learning disabilities, a UK Labour 'think tank' investigating journalists, and an 'excruciating' Trump-NBC interview Click to read, subscribe and share www.linkedin.com/pulse/news-p...

Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre www.channel4.com/news/michael...

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

They’ve arrived! It’s out!

NEW book by Guy Woodward: Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing features chapter on special forces memoirs including accounts by Fitzroy Maclean and Jasper Rootham of their time in occupied Yugoslavia. Published today by OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I was asked to give a keynote on the future of soft power and strategic narrative, in a room in DC in 2025 where the intensity and stakes could not be higher. Please read here: blogs.gwu.edu/ipdgcsmartpo...

I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: [email protected]. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!

🚨 Deadline today! 🚨 Join us on 19 Nov at our OfcomxTIP in-person workshop on 'Future Directions of Academic Research in Online Safety, Tech & Policy' in London. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity for networking and future collaborations! Link w info 🔗 ofcom.eventogy.com/c/technology...

Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

‘The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’ Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📘 Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler — edited by Stephen Coleman, Frank Esser @esserfrank.bsky.social, Julie Firmstone, Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social and Chris Paterson. Part of the Palgrave/IAMCR series IAMCR members get 35% off 👉 iamcr.org/iamcr-book-s...

Repeal the 20th Century www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

*PSA EVENT* How do #students with different academic backgrounds engage with #genAI when given equal access? Join us and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social online for this #Teaching & #Learning Network webinar 📆 15 October, 2.30 - 4.30pm ➡️ Register your free place

✍️ Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities

New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men. You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation. The job: 18 months full-time, London or remote qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Programme now online🚨for our Teaching & Learning Network Conference, Bringing together the teaching and learning community to share practices, ideas and experiences @psateach.bsky.social 📆 4 - 5 September @royalholloway.bsky.social. ➡️ book your ticket

*PSA OPPORTUNITY* 🚨 Seeking new members to join PSA Early Career Network Committee. @psaecn.bsky.social‬ 📆 7 July for expressions of interest. Open to all. ➡️ Full details online. buff.ly/tQSYJSF #MondayMotivation #EarlyCareer

Honoured to have our article with @olgarithmic.bsky.social in the 15-Year Anniversary SI of the @mwcjournal.bsky.social. In the introduction, @katyjparry.bsky.social looks back on the developments of the field, featuring @richardstupart.com's reflection on the emergent critical ethics towards war.

Trump ‘harming’ US IQ with attacks on education – Percival Everett www.channel4.com/news/trump-h...

Exciting! @katyjparry.bsky.social with the introduction for the special issue of our 15th anniversary issue of Media, War and Conflict - trends in the field over 15 years, and what these new articles offer: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨ The Phantom Counter-Public: Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication. doi.org/10.1007/978-... In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler. 🧵⤵️

📣It's out!📣 - Who are UK journalists? - How do they work? - What do they think? Answers now in our major new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis... Huge, heartfelt gratitude to all 1,130 journalists who took the time to answer our substantial survey!

By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open! Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions. 📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7) More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

“Working collaboratively with our cultural producers, you will help us to develop a coherent, audience-focused programme that reflects our unique offer.” #AcademicJob www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM370/m...

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Dr Tom Allbeson will be co-supervising an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded studentship in collaboration with the V&A which will explore the work of photojournalist, Bert Hardy, for the photo-magazine Picture Post. More information⤵️ tinyurl.com/mr2xhwta

Phenomenal installation piece by Sarah Roberts @lulgalleries.bsky.social equal parts joyful and heart rending on the concept and construct of care. It’s also really beautiful. One not to miss.

Because of what I do at work, people quite often ask me about "more responsible" ways to use GenAI, so I've written a blog post with 7 things to look out for and 3 ways of making intentional choices when using text generators www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

✍️ The harmful consequences of getting rid of ‘woke’ in AI Trump’s Big Bang of executive bans has prohibited federal use of certain words: it will have an impact on the future of us all By Professor Juliet Lodge @julietl.bsky.social

Submission www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Drone wars: how Ukraine can help Europe win the next conflict www.channel4.com/news/drone-w...

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At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

A new issue of our journal Media, War and Conflict is out. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/mwca/18/1

BBC Newsround cover the marvellous filmmaking talent of young people from Ysgol y Gogarth: www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Brilliant event with Pauline Black this week: the new documentary about her life 'A 2 Toned Story', plus her Q&A w Profs Nirmal Puwar and Julian Henriques from @mediacomgold.bsky.social