I have said for more than a year now that we are going backwards And here's the latest evidence We are digging our own grave

Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!! Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk Participant registration deadline: 2 March See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️ @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social

The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse 1/

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

I feel that this is not yet being given the attention it should be

Berlins Bürgermeister Wegner spricht nach dem Brandanschlag aufs Stromnetz von Linksterrorismus. Aber das Bekennerschreiben wirft Fragen auf. Hinweise auf Russland sehen Behörden bisher nicht. Aktivist @tadziomueller.bsky.social fordert innerlinke Debatte über Sabotage. taz.de/Nach-Anschla...

Die Sparkasse und die GLS-Bank kündigen der Roten Hilfe alle Konten. Als Grund vermutet die linke Solidaritätsorganisation Druck aus den USA. Auf deren »Terrorliste« steht nun auch eine angebliche »Antifa Ost«. buff.ly/BevhORC

📆 One week left to apply for our PhD position on extreme climate adaptation in the field of defense and security All information below 👇

With Fiona Schrading, I will host the standing section "IR in the Anthropocene" at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Lisbon, 1-4 Sept. This year we will focus on "Stuckness in the Anthropocene and Landscapes of Destruction". We are looking forward to your contributions! Deadline 19. Feb

🛡️ We are hiring! Our partner @ifshhamburg.bsky.social is looking for a #PhD Researcher on Extreme Adaptation to #Climate Change, within #CLICCS. Research how security & defence actors adapt to severe climate futures. 👉 www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/career/jobs.... @delfrothe.bsky.social

Anno1933 release just announced

Es ging nie um die Hochschulen, nie um Wissenschaft, nie um die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre. Es ging immer schon darum, mit rechtem Kulturkampf Stimmung zu machen, die immer gleichen reaktionären Diskursmuster endlos zu recyclen, mit den immer gleichen Anekdoten Clicks zu generieren

Undichte Dächer, wegfallende Tutorien, eingeschränktes Angebot. Deutsche Universitäten in Zeiten der Austeritätspolitik. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

❓How is climate adaptation becoming a security practice – and what does that tell us about the future of governance? 🚨 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social is seeking a PhD researcher on extreme adaptation in the field of security and defence. www.ifsh.de/institut/ste...

Call for Papers: Dutch IPS Series Are you a PhD or early postdoc in (or associated with) the Netherlands engaging with themes in IPS? Then please send us your abstracts by 15 December 2025 to present your work, receive in-depth feedback, and become part of our supportive community!

The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

On my way to the annual conference of the @dvpw.bsky.social Critical Security Studies working group. You can still register for our roundtable "Ten years of critical security studies in Germany: Taking stock", tonight at 6:15 p.m., with a stellar lineup of speakers www.linkedin.com/posts/jochen...

Roundtable | 'Gaia’s Lifeboats & Its Stewards' Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social 🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET 📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE 🔽 More information 🔽

🌍 Come work with us 📢 We’re looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our interdisciplinary team on Varieties of Climate Agency at the University of Hamburg. We’d love to hear from you! 👉 Apply here: tinyurl.com/JobUHH 🔎 Learn more about the project: lnkd.in/epDC7PK7 ❗Deadline: 31.10. More 👇

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Alles richtig gemacht:

Oh mein Gott ist das spannend 😱 weiter Daumen drücken...

Am Sonntag fällt die Entscheidung über den Zukunftsentscheid in Hamburg. Geh zur Abstimmung und informiere Freund*innen und Bekannte – jede Stimme zählt!

“If we continue, however, with the policies that we have out there, we are clearly on a pathway now of 2.7 degrees or 3 degrees where adaptation is simply not doable anymore. This is just what it is. We cannot protect Amsterdam from sea level rise of 3m. This is just not doable,” Thallinger said.

Ja warum bloß? 🤔 Es ist ein Rätsel...

📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026! ⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R 🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025

❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? 📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Wie stellen sich Klima-Aktivist:innen die Zukunft vor, und welche Rolle spielen Bilder? Die Wissenschaftler Delf Rothe und David Shim haben dazu geforscht und stellen ihre Ergebnisse am 17. September um 18 Uhr in der Kunstklinik Eppendorf in Hamburg vor. Der Eintritt ist frei. ➡️ t1p.de/6kwxq

What would security look like if we moved beyond walls, borders, and exclusion? 🌍 Tomorrow we start our international workshop in #Hamburg exploring whether security can be reclaimed from far-right narratives - or if we need entirely new frameworks for protection & care.

Nuclear power plants are supreme! Enter #TeamJellyfish..

Funding from the Hans Böckler Foundation has been made available for up to eleven doctoral scholarships at the University of Erfurt for the doctoral programme ‘De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE)’. Application deadline: 2 November 2025 www.uni-erfurt.de/en/universit...

Rund 80 deutsche Neonazis feiern in Tschechien Sonnen­wende, singen Hitlerjugend-Lieder und beschwören das „germanische Volk“. Auch AfD-nahe Politiker sind dabei. Die taz war vor Ort.

And so my journey to #EWIS2025 begins… with a cancelled train. ☹️ Have a drink for me at the reception

Inspiring first day of our "Co-Laborating for Change: The future of peace and security in an age of crises" workshop hosted by @ifshhamburg.bsky.social in Hamburg.

After several years in the making, our report on participatory peace and security research has finally seen the light of day. Just in time for our @ifshhamburg.bsky.social workshop on Doing Peace at betahaus in Hamburg. You can access the report here: ifsh.de/en/news-deta...

Join us for the next CDC Climate Futures Talk, "Common-Sensing: The Politics of In/Visibility in an Age of Planetary Crisis", with @delfrothe.bsky.social on July 1, 2 to 4 pm in C40.530 at #Leuphana and on Zoom (contact us for details)! More information at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Fünf Jahre lang hat sich ein Forscher:innenteam rund um @uschroeder.bsky.social in verschiedenen Projekten mit Bürger:innen ausgetauscht. Unser neuer Research Report fasst die Ergebnisse zusammen und skizziert wie neue Formen der partizipativen Forschung aussehen können. ifsh.de/publikatione...

Dear Americans, on behalf of all Canadians and citizens of the free world, thank you to everyone who turned out, for standing up against tyranny! 🙏

If you are still considering flying to the US in the near future...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👉Deadline reminder! Submit your abstracts for the annual @dvpw.bsky.social critical security studies section conference by 7 June at the latest. Link to the official CfP: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us... We are looking forward to your proposals and please share widely - thanks!

Das #IFSH freut sich sehr: Im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie hat die #UHH den Zuschlag für vier Exzellenzcluster erhalten, darunter ist auch das Exzellenzcluster für Klimaforschung „Climate, Climatic Change, and Society“ - kurz #CLICCS: ⬇️ tinyurl.com/mr2chdem

Sonntag gibt's an über 50 Orten in Deutschland Demos für ein Verbot der gesichert rechtsextremen AfD. Wer ist mit dabei? (Bitte teilt das und leitets weiter, je mehr wir sind, umso besser stehen die Chancen, dass was passiert)

So I know a lot of people get kind of perturbed when those of us on the academic and research side point out that the Republicans and the techno fascist goal is to purposely crash the market so their friends in venture capital can pick the bones of American government. But… Trump just posted this

🎉 #EISAPEC25 in Bologna has received a record-breaking number of submissions this year! We are pleased that EISA is seen to provide a positive space for the European IR community in these turbulent times. Thank you for your support!

Great job opportunity for postdocs in Hamburg...!