The latest in IR - Autumn book round up 📚 Check out the fascinating books our BISA members have published! 🎉 Including: Thomas Gregory, Rosie Walters, Dr Claire Yorke, University of Exeter Press Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies and so much more! 🌟 Find out more here 👉 https://ow.ly/PqE450Xp8Xu

“Do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now?”

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

Two or more Open-rank Professorships in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Spending #InternationalDayoftheGirl in Newcastle for the joint @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social workshop on the Global Politics of Hope. I'm presenting on Critical Hope and Girls' Everyday Resistance. Couldn't resist putting this print I made of my youngest daughter on the opening slide 🌸🏵️

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Quick reminder that fascism is almost always obsessed with the aesthetics of the male body—sculpted, uniformed, disciplined.

I hope women read the writing on the teleprompter here and get out. I hope everyone who isn't a fascist does. He is going to legitimise sexual assault as a locker room 'boys will be boys' thing. And there will be horrible misogynists, racists and fascists taking him up on that blank cheque.

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

TEN YEARS for settled status. Labour really do seem to have gone collectively insane. Just don’t play Farage’s game. Refuse. Try thinking about what you’re actually saying. And stop.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

How Gender Equity Schemes Might Inadvertently “Gender-Wash” Universities, Provoke Backlash, and Propagate Inequality Gail Crimmins, Sarah Casey, Kate Carruthers Thomas, Maria Tsouroufli onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages. #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 📷 Lilian Ladle

US painter Samantha French, Breathing at the surface, 2010 #WomensArt Stay cool people! 💦 #Heatwave

6. Fully fund scientific research and public health systems 7. Build strategies for clean air 8. Combat scientific misinformation 9. Reduce gun violence 10. Strengthen pandemic preparedness 11. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should be removed from office #IHAT

The 11 pillars of Defend Public Health’s IHAT Report are: 1. Ensure food safety, security and access 2. Improve Opportunities for Physical Activity 3. Ensure equitable access to vaccines 4. Expand access to healthcare 5. Support Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Care #IHAT

Really excited to be taking part in this - I'll be presenting a paper on critical hope and girls' everyday resistance as part of the workshop on the global politics of hope

Late 'Summer moon' by contemporary UK printmaker Carol Lander #WomensArt This weekend's #August #fullmoon is known as the #SturgeonMoon 🌕

Good news for Ireland and Austria....

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

“World Athletics asserts the SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex. But biological sex is much more complex, with chromosomal, gonadal (testis/ovary), hormonal and secondary sex characteristics all playing a role.” Sex testing is not only invasive, it’s also inaccurate.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

📣Our member The Young Women's Movement is recruiting for a "Communications & Campaign Co-ordinator" & a "Communications Worker" #JobSearchTogether #CharityJobs 🗓️Closing Date: Monday 4 August 2025 📍 Hybrid ➡️ buff.ly/Jsl2uzf

A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:

Imagine you and another man just having to go 'the jelly was nice' or 'the asparagus needed two more minutes' and both of you fucking it up this hard

"Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool."

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Nature's beauty is a popular subject for contemporary printmakers. 'Foxgloves and Finches' by UK printmaker Annie Soudain #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

“The fact that police are routinely dragging protesters off the streets for a crime they almost always fail to charge them with amounts to an abuse of their powers and an assault on the right to protest."

Do you have any idea how many hours the working class has toiled to sponsor this disaster though our tax dollars? According to a Washington Post analysis, Elon Musk's SpaceX has received at least $22 billion in government contracts since 2016.

Next week marks 9 years since the EU referendum; most Britons would now support rejoining Closer relationship without rejoining: 67% support Rejoining: 56% Status quo: 28% Further loosening ties: 18% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

british fan chat

From 'The writing in the sand' series by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, documenting life on the beaches in the North East of England, 1973-1998 #WomensArt #Summer

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