this is one of the slogans on the square I think often: "let's see who lives longer" even when all other hopes are exhausted, this is the last hope. individuals are fragile and temporary. the demand for justice and freedom will outlive us all. #June4th

The expansive national security agenda in #China is central to Xi's political project, with impacts beyond its borders. ➡️Join on Monday, 18 May 2026 to explore this agenda’s impact on policy and its global ramifications with @jknyman.bsky.social. www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

I thought our local “curriculum simplification” was bad but “minimum viable product” takes the cake

Looks like an interesting addition to aesthetic IR 👇 Movement, Space, and Torture: Exploring Contemporary Dance and Experimental Filmmaking as a Method for International Relations academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

Pleased to be in this conversation with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social and @dariuslongarino.bsky.social about queer culture in China for @madeinchinajournal.com

New article out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social ‘Taking the red pill: conspiracy theories, gender, and the “elusive epistemologies” of the “manosphere”’ Very pleased to have co-authored this with the brilliant Elisabeth Moerking and Harvey Dryer. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A very early book talk, on a project I’ve been working on for quite some time, out with OUP sometime later this year:

The map of "China" from the 3rd edition of Evariste Régis Huc's (1813-1860) L'Empire chinois (1857). Note how the provinces of China proper (in green) are distinguished from the broader Qing empire of which they were part.

“After having their first child, women are 29% less likely to be employed at a university than if they had not become mothers” #WomenInScience

A thread 🧵 on Polish palaeontologists in Harbin There used to be (~30k strong) Polish population in the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), during Russian occupation of North China & partition of Poland. The population was composed of Socialist Poles who were banished as punishment for anti-Tsarist uprisings.

I found Word at a very Chinese time in its life #chinamaxxing #microsoftword #territorialnatures

Eight Years Without My Mother: What I Carry, What I’m Learning, and What Still Hurts open.substack.com/pub/kashgart...

this means it is not open for transit

🚀 We're hiring postdocs/assistant professors for my @erc.europa.eu project, TECHORDER, exploring how companies and states struggle over tech and global order. The project is based at the Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Deadline: 20 April Apply: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

I think many scholars in this area have been quiet because the ethnic unity law is primarily a culmination of existing practices that have already been documented.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

If you're looking for an academic Chinese Politics job, apply to this one: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT568/a...

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

sometimes I'll watch a British TV show in the evening and think ah it's nice, this feels like home, I've been here for so long that this whole thing is a part of me now, and sometimes I'll watch a British TV show in the evening and think: oh come on, I deal with them all day long, and now this

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

Cannot wait to read this: keep an eye out for this beauty!

It's got a cover! Coming out in June.

Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧 🐎

The far right label is not easily applied in China, yet xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, and anti feminism are rising in online discourse and sometimes within the state. The global fight against fascism requires solidarity with grassroots resistance. www.tni.org/en/article/m...

I've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."

Great to see @mybisa.bsky.social posting Alexander Borum's list of career and internship opportunities in international affairs on its website

If you wrote a book 10 years ago that started with, "...the year is 2026, European leaders scramble to prevent a US invasion of Greenland", the editor would tell you to calm down.

Is there a “dating” app with more national security implications than Grindr? First it was that CFIUS ruling forcing its sale to a US owner, now this…

Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China. Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving: #everynightapoem

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/rea...

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

A couple of years and a @leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order. www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

This is an interesting case. It does appear Sheffield Hallam were in a very difficult position if staff in China were being intimidated. Academic freedom vs responsibility to protect staff is not a no-brainer, from the point of view of university administration.

As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.

This is a concerning situation with a lot to unpack. I note it's being dealt with primarily in terms of academic freedom, but what stood out for me is the additional issue of safety both for researchers AND wider communities/participants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

Worth your time:

Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A meme for the modern university...

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome! oddchinaout.wordpress.com

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

❓ 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...

🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in: 🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies 📝 Political theory inc history of political thought 📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR Apply here 👉

I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi