Bright and sunny for this afternoon’s walk down the lane at the start of a holiday weekend

Found a large enough chair

Trumpian craziness as POTUS threatens to deprive US defence industry of European purchases

Looking forward to Lisbon for @europeanisa.bsky.social, presenting the work that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social & I are doing on youth militarisation in #Russia and appearing on a roundtable about the new book War Economy edited by @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Miscalculation of Rheinmetall CEO fails to grasp that the combination of what some might call “low” tech civilian with conventional weapons & tactics is what makes Ukraine’s fight innovative. But what drives civilian engagement? - we have a NEW paper about that! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Not sure I’d read a book on Catholicism by a guy who keeps getting personally called out by the Vatican for not understanding Catholicism.

He just needs a bigger chair 😹

Our colleague @equusonthebuses.bsky.social is on research leave this semester and has been spending time in @searchlightarchive.bsky.social, going through materials that cast light on British far-right attitudes towards the Middle East from the 1960s through to the 1990s.

Congratulations @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social 🎉

A great permanent job at the University of Glasgow: Lecturer in the History of Intelligence and International Relations, post-1850

What happens to the Russian economy, if oil prices are much higher than we assume in our baseline forecast? My colleague Heli Simola assesses the situation. Even much higher oil prices would not turn Russia's public finances into surplus. www.bofbulletin.fi/en/blogs/202...

Combat cat will make sure no rodents infiltrate the supplies! Thanks to @jsargentr.bsky.social for sharing

It was a great day - and we got lots of positive feedback from the visitors, many of whom had travelled quite a distance to be with us.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Stairs that lead nowhere is quite the statement about this administration

Day 1496 of my 3 day war. It's the third time this week Ukraine has hit our oil terminals in Leningrad Oblast. To end this war I might have to accept that Russia is in the Ukrainian sphere of influence. I remain a master strategist.

Chess Set, 2005 by Rachel Whiteread #WomensArt

English stained glass artist Ann Sotheran, 'Isa's hare' (2011) #WomensArt

Felines Against Fascism are joining today's protest. #NoKings

Bruce has his #Caturday morning napping spot sorted.

Polka dot Cats by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama #Womensart

Are you ready for the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen? Across all 50 states and dozens of countries, millions of people will gather tomorrow to reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Please join us for a historic No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

For the first time, the title of Hero of Ukraine has been awarded to a woman serving in the National Guard. Oleksandra Davydenko is a machine gunner who has been serving in the Svoboda Battalion of the 4th Rubizh Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine since 2024.

A view into the 11th century. Look through this window. Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, built in 1037, is waiting for visitors after the war.

My latest article for Political Insight is out - considering Ukraine after four years of full scale war. Thanks to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social for inviting me to write it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Looking forward to being part of this event, talking about the Welsh women's peace petition of 1923-24 and hearing many other inspiring stories about women. If you are (or can be) in #Aberystwyth on Saturday evening, come along to the town library - it's free and open to all. Croeso i bawb ♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🕊️

US Women shipyard workers, WW2, Richmond shipyards. c.1943 by photographer Dorothea Lange #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Magdalen College's resident feline, Ozymandius, is "a ball of exploding grey fluff...who takes his work at Magdalen very seriously..." despite the "incongruous mismatch between his extreme fluffiness and his innate sense of self-importance. He... thinks he is the King of Kings."

Today is Annunciation in Ukraine. In Christian tradition, this is the moment when the angel tells Mary she will give birth to Jesus. In Ukrainian culture, it is also seen as the beginning of spring, the day when the earth awakens. Oleksandr Murashko, Annunciation, 1909

Time for a quick walk down the lane between hail showers.

Stormy day outside. Curled cat inside. #CatsOfBluesky

The historic Bernardine Monastery in Lviv, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, is on fire after a russian drone attack. 🎥 Xenia Gerke on Facebook

And is paid in massages 😹

This mosaic depicts snails in a basket (presumably waiting to be cooked and eaten). This may explain why one has already escaped and another is making a break for it. 🕰️4th century AD 🏛️📷Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia #MosaicMonday

What do we want? Pigeons on our money. When do we want it? Soon please… I need to feel something.

Duckling season has begun, and DucklingWatch is back for another year! Please submit your mallard brood sightings in GB to citsci.org/projects/ducklingwatch and share this post to spread the word 🦆

Buddies 💙💛

Timeline cleanse

🧵 On Saturday, our colleague @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social and Dr Arddun Arwyn (Department of History and Welsh History) presented their Pathways to #Peace Project to Academi Heddwuch Cymru's annual conference, 'Building Peaceful Communities'. 1/2

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

What I'm discovering during this war is that it's pointless to be a strategy expert if the main belligerent is not using strategy

The deadline for this year's CEEISA proposals - papers, panels, and roundtables - is April 10, 2026. The theme - Contesting Imperialism(s) - could not be more urgent, and Sarajevo and its history are an important vantage point from which to reconsider empires, their legacies, and their future!

Good morning team. We need a cat.

Cooler today but with signs of spring all around on this afternoon’s walk down the lane.

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested. She was executed by the Nazis, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after their first shots missed. #WomensHistoryMonth #WorldWar2 #History #WomensHistory🗃️

Bruce, king of the shopping bags 😹#CatsOfBluesky

This morning I spoke to @matthew-wright.bsky.social at @lbc.co.uk about #Russia's (failed) attempts to persuade (or coerce) more women to have more babies.

Fay Godwin (1931 – 2005) was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast. #WomensArt