our St Andrews colleague Antonis Vradis who bravely joined the Global Sumud Flotilla has also been captured by the IOF in international waters - please share / write to your MP/MSP www.writetothem.com

URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

This is a welcome ruling, but lots of small policy changes have been made by universities, allegedly in response to the original and deeply flawed ruling. We must push to have them all changed back! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

One of our members is seeking to get medical visa for his father, who is currently in Gaza. Please sign the petition here www.change.org/p/help-me-sa...? @ucu.org.uk

delighted that the brilliant Omar Khatib will be joining us here in St Andrews for “Queer Lives in Palestine: Settler Colonialism and Resistance” (Wednesday 15 April, 5-7pm, in School III). All are welcome! @ucustandrews.bsky.social

We are hiring at St Andrews International Relations! Looking for a lecturer with a specialisation in Russia. It's open to any methodological/theoretical approach, and it's permanent! See here for details www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY935/l... and do reach out for an informal chat if that's helpful.

Almost too on the nose that political scientist come far right firebrand Matt Goodwin used genAI to hallucinate the following quote: “’The most dangerous experiments’ warned the economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, ‘are those conducted on entire societies.’”

Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

You know that episode of Community when the realise the "minus" part of their grades was made up? This article is like that, but for global governance - we are governed by statistical guesstimates, made to look much more precise than they are in reality.

What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true. We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course. If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.

Melinda Cooper offering up one of the best analyses of Epstein. This approach understands the deeply gendered nature of the economics of it all, and the deeply economic nature of the gender politics.

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

But I thought he said the UK was full? 🧐

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded

My article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Jason Blakely, "In the Land of the Data Blind" "Political scientists subscribing to the dominant approaches to American government face what philosophers of science call an epistemological crisis..." harpers.org/archive/2026...

Naoise has now been kidnapped by Israel.

UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

We had such a great time at our Research Day this week, hearing about the fascinating work of our members. Learn more about our research here cglg.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Learn more about the Centre from our Co-Directors, @anettestimmer.bsky.social and @mergito.bsky.social youtu.be/VtdeVX-FDBg?...

Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

Fascism in the UK: - EHRC guidance that could ban trans people from public bathrooms, require service providers to 'guess' people's 'biological sex' - An artist is charged with a terror offence for a performance - period apps checked by police looking to prosecute abortions.

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign More details 👇 #transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thousands of feminist academics and educators have signed this letter in support of trans rights and against the supreme court ruling (you can still sign!) - docs.google.com/document/u/0...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

St Andrews people - sign the letter calling on the University to condemn the Supreme Court ruling forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Rally for trans rights in St Andrews on Thursday at noon outside college gate. See you there!

Is there a connection between the sacking of rector Stella Maris and the refusal to disclose the name of a University of St Andrews donor? Article worth reading from the University's magazine: www.thesaint.scot/post/univers...

And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university. But this is exactly why we have already started organising .

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

CGLG RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH 🔍 For her ongoing work on world leaders' personalities, Prof. Juliet Kaarbo @jkaarbo.bsky.social is the CGLG's March 2025 researcher of the month! We spoke with her about her wider research and views on global governance 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2YZ...

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport. New online by Melinda Cooper: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

I'm very happy that my book 'The Politics of International Norms: A Rhetorical Approach' is out now! Thanks to everyone @cambridgeup.bsky.social, and to all those who have supported me in this journey. You can find more info in the link and this thread (1/6): cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Huge solidarity to @ducuuo.bsky.social who are out on strike this week, fighting against cruel and unfair redundancies.

Abundant finance and a dependence on scarce skilled labor helped create a culture in tech where professional employees have more voice and more exit options than elsewhere, even without formal representation. The goal here is to roll that back - the functional equivalent of union busting.

The headline of this Financial Times piece spells it out clearly: Tech Titans Stand with Donald Trump to Kill Activism in Silicon Valley on.ft.com/41c1hsl

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

CGLG RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH 🔍 For his ongoing work on postcolonialism and the nation-state, Prof. Sanjay Seth is the CGLG's February 2025 researcher of the month. We caught up with him in his office to ask about his wider research and views on global governance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibZ...

The hallmark of totalitarianism at this stage isn’t genocide or extremes of violence. It is doubled or twofold organization. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

In a just world, the Trump/Musk coup would receive the wall-to-wall coverage granted to James Comey’s firing or, for that matter, Hillary Clinton’s emails. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Unusually, nostalgia is also relevant for us methodologically. It allows us to develop the concept of simulated authenticity and show how being white, male and suit-wearing confers authority in gendered expertise regimes (cf. @mergito.bsky.social)

My latest article, written with @benclift.bsky.social and @benrosamond1.bsky.social, is out #OA in Economy & Society. We use Brexit discourses as a window into the gendered politics of economic expertise. @sotonpolitics.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/0308...