📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇

Check out this intro to our forthcoming special issue, by two scholarly forces of nature

New paper! Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🔔Reminder that there’s just one week to go to make your submissions for #BISA2026! Deadline: 3 Nov We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻

📢Call for Abstracts📢 Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026! We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨ @mybisa.bsky.social

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries

Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉 🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT @simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

One reason I am American by birth and British by naturalization is that my father faced such terrifying racial hazing in 1980s London that he emigrated. When I moved here as an adult, he was worried about me. I told him it'd be fine, it had all changed. Instead: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Big news! #BISA2026 is already in the works, so be sure to submit papers and panels. The submission site opens on September 24 ⬇️

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The various WWII commemoration events demonstrate just how important ritual is for international relations. Take a look at the special collection put together by our editor Maria Mälksoo on ritual in IR ⤵️ buff.ly/qQ3aS9C

I've followed defence tech industry (war tech?) narratives for a while - renaming of the DoD as Department of War, & the pivot to some crude ideation of war, victory and warriors is a longer-standing fantasy floated by figures like Alex Karp (Palantir) and Palmer Luckey (Anduril). 1/

This is *really* worth your time...

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Making sure my memes are on trend for the new academic year

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair @us.theconversation.com Louis P. Masur theconversation.com/bruce-spring...

As Colin Hay put it nearly 30 years ago: '‘Crisis then is not some objective condition or property of a system defining the contours for subsequent ideological contestation. Rather, it is subjectively perceived and hence brought into existence through narrative and discourse'.

Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! 🎙️ @sebkaempf.bsky.social looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟 ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more Find it here 👉

Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology! academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view! Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:

Hi folks, My new article looking at what happens to digital diplomacy after Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter is now published at JIRD. rdcu.be/ev4XQ If you’re interested in reactionary politics, digital diplomacy, and aesthetics, here is a short thread…

hm, shame. Anyways, here's a link to bookshop.org which is having a sale of its own.

Luke and I wrote a paper! Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Welcome to the archives.

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Reminder about the BISA - ISA workshop in Newcastle and our workshop on temporalities, improvisation and uncertainty. Might be particularly interesting to scholars working on practice theory, emotions, and ontological security. Further details👇👇👇

Honoured to be this year’s winner of the @epir-bisa.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social best thesis prize, and to share this recognition with the amazing @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ⭐️ Thank you to the judges!

🚨 New paper with @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social in @cambridgecria.bsky.social: In "Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective", we explore the prospects of IR theories, focusing on classical #realism, for studying #populism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure @meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

Congrats, @elifkalay.bsky.social!🔥👏🎉

This new article by @elifkalay.bsky.social on international recognition in the context of the politics of UNESCO world heritage looks fascinating 👇 #HistIR

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

There is still time to register for Thursday's Stevenson Trust lecture with @scga.bsky.social Join Professors @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social & Michael C. Williams to discuss the global impact of the radical right. Register here: tinyurl.com/yx4ra4p5

Everyone is welcome to this lecture by two leading experts on the global phenomenon of conservative nationalist populism - which has shaken the post-Cold War order at its foundations (many argue it has already destroyed the western alliance that has upheld European security for more than 80 years).

Evening wander

📢 Come work in the Department of International Relations at @sussex.ac.uk We particularly encourage those with expertise in Global Environmental Politics to apply. Apply here: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/b05183e2... @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social ‼️ Deadline: 12 May 2025

“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry

Hi All, just sent out this short, free piece on the implications of Trump blinking in this stupid tariff war. Its not the hurt feelings, its the destruction of the idea of the US as a trustworthy ally that will matter down the road. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

📢 Join us on April 24th! Professors @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social & Michael C. Williams discuss the Radical Right’s global impact, hosted by the Stevenson Trust & @scga.bsky.social. Open to all—don’t miss out! Register: tinyurl.com/yx4ra4p5

Scottish sun☀️

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

The Labour Party is apparently intending to kill the U.K. higher education sector — yes, this will contribute to universities going bankrupt — to get a reduction in net migration which will happen mechanically anyway, in pursuit of Reform voters they aren’t going to win.

For the past decade Emma Hutchison kept a blog - Dialysis Days - to chronicle her life with end-stage renal failure. She held back her last entry - which hints at her physical demise - but asked me to publish it after her passing. Here it is. www.rolandbleiker.com/finger-by-fi...

Very happy to see my first article out in the world. Thanks to my supervisors Ali Wedderburn and @tsolomon.bsky.social, and to @risjnl.bsky.social for the massive support!

I think our mistake was assuming they'd be smarter when it came to consolidating authoritarianism. I don't think anyone could anticipate the exponential effects produced by the combination of Trump's cognitive decline, his batshit cabinet, and Musk's ketamine-fueled excellent adventure.

look i understand the temptation to explain this was all foreseeable (it was!) but I’m sorry but if you had “armed takeover of USIP” and “tariffs on penguins” and “immediately gunning for social security” all on your list for the first 100 days, you’re either a clairvoyant or YOU should be president