Bruce contemplates #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Laila Shawa, Palestinian artist whose work has been described as a personal reflection concerning her heritage #WomensArt

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Looking forward to speaking at this event, about Russia's unconventional use of maritime asset to pose security challenges. ⚓

Shadow agrees. Humans are always in the wrong and should expect a disciplining bite from the cat at any time.

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Maybe one day they will also extend the variety of their speakers to include women 🤦

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

With the @aberuni.bsky.social Open Day coming up on Saturday, here is a reminder of some of the many great reasons to choose #Aberystwyth as a place to study youtu.be/zMsiFNzwFy8

🐾 I found safer homes for those Donbas cats this summer. They were taken in by a pensioner, two sisters displaced from occupied territories & a nurse 🐱 All the soldiers who saved & cared for them are deployed in the toughest directions at the moment, but they still regularly ask about each cat 🥹

Teresa here remembers her mother pinching her when she was small, to make her cry, helping her smuggle messages through checkpoints for the Polish resistance during #WW2… 🧵🪡 1/3

1/2 According to Flemish folktales, Die Gnydige was a witch who could shapeshift into a cat. The villagers grew tired of her gatherings to which hundreds of cats came, and burned down her den. The felines walked unharmed through the flames and chased the men away. #WyrdWednesday

It's giving nasty golf club vibes.

Russia purchased 18,000 combat drones for 500 schools to train teenagers in strike operations, Ukrainian intelligence says. By 2030, Moscow plans 1 mn drone specialists across 4,872 schools—building infrastructure for sustained warfare euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/05/r...

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Published - the latest issue of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology is now out - it is a special issue: Ukrainian society responds to a decade of Russia's war - which I was fortunate to co-edit with Anna Kvit ⬇️ journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/issue/v...

Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

So exciting that this article is now out - co-authored with Nataliya Danilova at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and published in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart

I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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❗️In 🇮🇳India, relatives of those recruited into the 🇷🇺Russian army have taken to the streets in protest, demanding that their loved ones be brought back home.

Not many people know this, but black cats have the ability to warp space and create black (cat)holes

Come and do PhD research with one of my wonderful colleagues - or indeed with me! We offer supervision on a wide range of politics and IR-related topics www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/...

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Sarah Bays,contemporary artist, printmaker, living in Norfolk, UK producing prints from a small etching press on a tea trolley her dining room and is inspired by local nature.... #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Halloween from Down Under I love Kangaroos Just had to share (sound up) 🎃🤣

Saturday afternoon on the sofa with Bruce #cats #catsofbluesky

exactly, nobody venerates the American diner waitress or the American hairdresser like they do the white American man who works in an auto shop or a factory

Just a terrific thread by a very sharp civ-mil scholar. Thanks, @carriealee.bsky.social

#Halloween quilt via Sylvia Schaefer, Flying parrot Quilts #WomensArt

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

How to scare people around the world: UK: Boo! FI: pöö! FR: hou! DE: buh! ES: uhh! JP: kekeke! CZ: baf! RU: oo-oo! MX: ¡Buu! NL: boe! IT: bù!

Happy birthday Shadow! Shadow was a rescue cat, adopted from #Aberystwyth @catsprotection.bsky.social and his real date of birth is unknown, so we celebrate it on #Halloween. This year it coincides with #CatsNoirFriday 🎃 🐈‍⬛

An annual event, Paddlebuard witches Oregon US #WomensArt (Photo D.Caslick) #Halloween #Samhain

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃

The US cancelled the planned meeting in Budapest after a memo from Russia’s foreign ministry was swiftly followed by a tense call between the two countries’ top diplomats ft.trib.al/5MyfI4n

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Meanwhile, Putin is dipping his pen into imaginary ink 🤦‍♀️

#Russia commanders executing soldiers or sending them to their deaths if they refuse to fight in #Ukraine Independent Russian outlet Verstka verifies 150+ deaths, w actual number far higher - 101 Russian servicemen accused of murdering, torturing, or fatally punishing their comrades #UkraineWar

🧵 Aviva Guttmann's new book is making quite a stir. It had a launch in Aberystwyth Waterstones earlier this month, with Jan Ruzicka in the chair, which was well-attended by staff and students from the university as well as members of the local community. 1/8

1/ 11 people were injured as a result of the Russian Federation's attack on Zaporizhzhia, — head of the OVA “Among the wounded are six children - three girls and three boys. The children are from 3 to 6 years old,” the report says. t.me/astrapress/9...

Last Friday, some of the MA students taking Catrin Wyn Edwards' module 'Race, (Im)mobility and Incarceration' attended the play, A Visit, at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre with Catrin. A Visit is a powerful play that explores themes such as the imprisonment of mothers, justice, and childcare. 1/2

Reading @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is always worth my time

Yulia Stanika, a Ukrainian, was sentenced to 12.5 years by a russian occupation ‘court’ for donating to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Forced into russian citizenship, she was accused of ‘treason’ for supporting her country. These sham trials reveal russia’s brutal repression in occupied #Ukraine

Short answer: yes! Here is a link to the charity for more info and instructions on how to donate www.greaterchange.co.uk