Can't wait for our Wednesday, Nov 19, discussion with @tim-weiner.bsky.social about his super new book, "The Mission." This is going to be good! @lucatrenta.bsky.social @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @socintelhist.bsky.social .

New blog post - Public NIC statements on Australia’s threat environment: andrewzammit.org/2025/11/07/p...

It's been a big week of news for the Australian intelligence community! 🕵 Full links below, but we've seen addresses from three agency heads in the space of one week - ASIO's Mike Burgess, ACIC's Heather Cook, and AGO's Kathryn McMullan. Get your eyes and ears around it 🧵

Have you caught up with our recent 'Upheaval' series? Here's @andrewzammit.bsky.social on 'Countering violent extremism research and practice in a time of upheaval: the FBI’s Beyond Belief handbook.' It is open access & free to read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1833...

🚨MISRG is excited to announce that renowned intel scholar John Blaxland has agreed to be our 2025 MQ Intelligence Studies Research Group Speaker! John will be "Revealing Secrets" about the 5👁️ intel sharing relationship at 4pm Sydney time Mon 3 Nov on campus @mqsois.bsky.social & via Zoom Details ⬇️

If you have a recently published book or would like to review a new release that looks at policing/criminology, intelligence studies, or CT/CVE, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!

We are very pleased to be able to share some of our recently published book reviews with you all! First up, Niha Pandey reviews Amanda Chisholm's "powerful and nuanced" book 'The Gendered and Colonial Lives of Gurkhas in Private Security' from @edinburghup.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1833...

📖 Learn more about the Polly Corrigan Book Prize here: kcsi.uk/polly-corrig... 👉🏼 Submit a nomination for the prize here: tinyurl.com/corriganbook...

📚 Call for submissions: 2025 Polly Corrigan and Kjetil Hatlebrekke Book Prizes The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is pleased to open nominations for two distinguished awards celebrating excellence in intelligence and security studies.

🚨MISRG is excited to announce that renowned intel scholar John Blaxland has agreed to be our 2025 MQ Intelligence Studies Research Group Speaker! John will be "Revealing Secrets" about the 5👁️ intel sharing relationship at 4pm Sydney time Mon 3 Nov on campus @mqsois.bsky.social & via Zoom Details ⬇️

School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

I’m excited and delighted to share that I have signed a contract with @georgetownup.bsky.social for my first book - “Blind trust: secrecy and intelligence accountability in Cold War Australia.” More info to come - watch this space!

I have just published an article in The Bookseller - it is about a really strange, and somewhat unsettling, story about an AI-generated fake biography about me.  Have a read! www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...

University of Warwick are looking for a Professor of Intelligence Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ241/p...

🚨 JOBS!!! 🚨 2 lots of jobs advertised in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra 2.5 FTE positions in War Studies related disciplines - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... 1 FTE in Indo-Pacific Studies - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Cool job opportunity 🕵🕵️‍♂️ PhD in Modern History, Political Science, or International Relations or related field required.

Should be a great event for those interested in researching Cold War intelligence. Speakers are @deselv.bsky.social of the Institute for Historical Scholarship at Humboldt University in Berlin; Gary Keeley former historian at CIA; and Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at Harvard.

Part time research assistant position in Melbourne working with the incomparable Jordy Silverstein on statelessness, migration, and intergenerational memory! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Rarely seen photos that painstakingly document the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 serve as a reminder of the limitations of authoritarian solutions.

Great to see my latest article published on AJPH today! “It Is Vital That We Should Not Keep It to Ourselves”: The Rats of Tobruk Association and the Siege of Tobruk in Australian National Memory It's open access, too, so you can give it a read here: doi.org/10.1111/ajph...

📣 We’re on the search for our next Head of School and Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University! This is a fantastic chance to lead a vibrant school, work alongside brilliant colleagues, and become part of one of the world’s top unis. 👇 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

👀 SIS/MI6 are the last of the UK's agencies to join social media in an official capacity, following on from MI5 and GCHQ. Cheeky reference to spy fiction vs reality here ⏬️ www.instagram.com/reel/DOVSo5J...

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

New episode for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social This time, I chatted with Dr Aviva Guttmann about her latest book Operation Wrath of God. Episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n... Buy the book here: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/ope... @socintelhist.bsky.social

We have had two great new release books arrive in the office this week, just waiting for reviewers! If you'd like to review either of the following books send us a DM or reply letting us know. Remember, early career academics are always encouraged to write for us!

It is finally here! It is publication day of my new book about ‘Operation Wrath of God’ - My research reveals for the first time how Western intelligence agencies helped Mossad to hunt and kill Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist activities in Europe @universitypress.cambridge.org

All the links relating to the current campaign to repeal Job-Ready Graduates are housed here. Please feel free to share widely! We'd especially love people to sign the petition. Thank you for your support! linktr.ee/aushistorica...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing theconversation.com/top-australi...

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Many thanks Roger Boyes of The Times for this terrific review of my new book, Operation Wrath of God: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

🔊 We delighted to share the first two OPEN ACCESS articles on our new 'Upheaval' series! First up we have @andrewzammit.bsky.social on 'Countering violent extremism research and practice in a time of upheaval: the FBI’s Beyond Belief handbook'. Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1833...

The @uk.theconversation.com with some reflections from me - based on a @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project - on the politicisation of intelligence and partisanship in Congressional oversight. Bottom line: don't hold your breath. theconversation.com/congress-has...

InASA is delighted to announce that the 2025 ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme is open for applications! See below for more details and application form. Closing 8 September. inasa.org/blog/open-fo...

Can confirm - this is one of the best books I’ve read recently

This spring, I decided to try something new for my intelligence analysis students. It was a lot of work, but now that I've read through all the student papers, I feel that it was well worth it. The basic structure was a five-week on-campus module at the Master's level. THREAD 1/24

A short contribution on the subject of the limitations of intelligence: theconversation.com/row-over-dam...

📻 Big thanks to David Marr and @ABC's Late Night Live for chatting to me about SIS/MI6 Chiefs, spying, and the future of espionage. ⏬️ Link and interview are here ... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

In the last decade, Bletchley Park has become the site of dozens of works of romantic fiction. Dr Thomas Knowles and I wrote about it here. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #intelstudies #bletchleypark #history

👊 🇺🇸 🔥 Remember Signalgate? Finn and Ledger’s The Official Record from @manchesterup.bsky.social is ‘an uncannily timely' volume that details these ‘moments where the official, public and historical records have collided' writes @tonycraig.bsky.social in our latest review 👇 doi.org/10.1080/1833...

What a wonderful H-Net review for our own @aaronbateman.bsky.social 's Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative Weapons in Space! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

For anyone interested in public attitudes towards the ADF, the full report from the survey we conducted at UNSW Canberra is now out. www.unsw.edu.au/canberra/abo...

Decent reporting by the Saturday Paper on the return of ASIO, AFP, AUSTRAC etc to Home Affairs, with a range of views: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... I remain bewildered by Labor’s unwillingness to defend its own (earlier) positions.

This is an important article. I know Jess a little as we did our PhDs around the same time at the same place. The articles coming out of INS, in no small part thanks to Dr Drumhiller who led the way editing a special issue, are really moving us forward. #intel www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference in October. Tickets are now on sale, so grab one early to nab a spot if you're in Melbourne then!

Gender is never about bringing women back into traditional roles. It is about power and control. Read more my fieldwork note published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Open access for all.

Can we understand extremist organisations without understanding their ideas and practices of gender? #OpenAccess @nuriveronika.bsky.social shares research notes on gender dynamics and women's lives under Darul Islam in Indonesia. #extremism #gender👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📱If you use technology (social media, AI anything!) can you give me five minutes? 📝 I am working to better understand human-technology interactions to develop resources which increase user wellbeing, brain function and happiness. Can you respond and share this survey? www.surveymonkey.com/r/XJXV3P6

🚨🚨JOB CLAXON🚨🚨 Come work with us at UNSW Canberra. Full time continuing position Lecturer - International and Political Studies - specialising in politics, political philosophy, international relations, security studies, or a related discipline. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

A big thank you to @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity to develop and share my research on Australian intelligence history! I'm really looking forward to working with @miamh.bsky.social and the rest of the Fellows over the coming months. @mqsois.bsky.social