Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

A brand new essay collection, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social, edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social & @joshaw.bsky.social foreword by @sarasheridan.bsky.social Join the book launch on Tue, 4 Nov 17:30 📍@iashedinburgh.bsky.social Free 🎟️(in person & online)👇womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk

Tue 4 Nov, 17:30 - "Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten" from @edinburghup.bsky.social. Edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social & @joshaw.bsky.social with a foreword by @sarasheridan.bsky.social Free tickets: womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk (in person and online)

Category capped at 40k visas a year. This will probably create backlogs and processing delays for aliens who actually have extraordinary ability

Good 🧵 by @jdzankic.bsky.social on the problematic 'gold card' in the US.

I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Delighted to have coordinated this book symposium, showcasing Engin Isin's important contribution to citizenship studies and citizenship theory. Thank you to all the reviewers!

What on earth is a "pause" when timescales remain the same? This is very difficult to understand as it stands.

Very very excited to see this out!

I find this action by the Council to be highly antisocial.

Got something for the newsletter? The *only* way to get something in The Edinburgh Minute is via this form: forms.gle/nn8TZzDCRcWi...

Having researched #Vote16 for 13 years, knowing the evidence and, crucially, meeting so many fantastic young people, I am very happy that #VotesAt16 will become reality across the UK! I hope that our research (@chuebner.bsky.social) has been useful to some. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The voting age will be lowered to 16 for all UK elections as part of an overhaul of the country’s voting system https://on.ft.com/4lznJVv

Hmmmm.

Turnout for the Italian referendum to reduce the residency requirement for #citizenship from 10 to 5 years was 30%, falling short of the 50% threshold needed for validity. A breakout of the results based on earlier discussions with @maartenpvink.bsky.social .and @yajnagovind.bsky.social.

‘Sword of Damocles’: Donald Trump’s Harvard attacks leave students anxious https://www.ft.com/content/57bf40d8-dc33-41a2-a22c-5fa3b7eb4034

'Great British Railways: coming soon' is a terrible strapline for a variety of reasons, but in particular for a railway service that has a history of not running trains on time and because 'coming soon' sounds like one of the half baked excuses we are all used to.

New from FM: Supreme Court dismisses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship by woman in Syria | Sonia Lenegan

You cannot placate the racists and those who stir up racist sentiments and actions. You can only embolden them to demand more.

A 'contributions-based' citizenship model is not a citizenship model, but a form of selective club membership. news.sky.com/story/new-en...

It is very obvious why the investment migration industry likes to think of citizenship as a club good (link below). There is always some profit to be made by mediating privileged access for the wealthy few. Why a Labour government would think so is beyond me. www.henleyglobal.com/publications...

Colleagues in @globalcit.bsky.social including @maartenpvink.bsky.social and @jdzankic.bsky.social may be interested in this online event. Please repost!

Join us online on 6 May, 2-3:30pm for our Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta (Investor Citizenship) Discussion Panel. Our online panel will provide an initial reaction to the judgment that Malta's citizenship scheme is contrary to European law and discuss its possible implications. edin.ac/42UQEv6

Our #FestivalofEuropeScotland2025 welcomes The Liberation Convoy 2025, travelling from Norway to UK to mark 80 anniversary of peace in Europe in 1945: including visits to Shetland, Orkney, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh. www.liberationconvoy.com

In her reflections on writing, Niamh Nic Shuibhne @uoelawschool.bsky.social examines the affect of Brexit on EU lawyers working in UK academia, as well as for her own practices. doi.org/10.53386/nil...

@uoelawschool.bsky.social is hiring a Teaching and Research Fellow (Grade 7) in Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law. This will include teaching responsibilities within @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social and opportunities to collaborate across @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! More info linked 🔽

We are hiring a two year Teaching and Research Fellowship at Grade 7 in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law. 1/3

Beyond delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Truly an honour, and I look forward to supporting the work of the Academy. Congratulations too to my @jcms-eu.bsky.social co-editors @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social & UACES chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

! major development: Italian gov restricts by decree transmission of citizenship abroad to 2 generations: From now on if you are born abroad only Italian if: parent or grandparent born in Italy. Or if parent has resided in 🇮🇹 2 yrs before you were born + other restrictions upcoming (see 🧵 & below)

@maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social

One of my kids has dyslexia. After a lot of effort, she can and does read every day. It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Very good letter

You can also enjoy this sneak peek into some of the women featured in the book: euppublishingblog.com/2025/03/07/5...

So excited for this third volume to emerge from the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Dangerous Women Project. Thank you to Edinburgh University Press for keeping the flame alive.

Hey @ec.europa.eu why is Eurostat not on bluesky and still posting on X? How can you promote high quality statistics and data about Europe on a platform that is owned and destroyed by someone who is actively undermining fact-based public discourse as well as the international order?

We are hiring a Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence. Deadline for applications is 31 March. Further details and applications via the University of Edinburgh jobs website. If you want further information or have questions, please contact me via email. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

It is that time of the year again! @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link today published data on citizenship acquisition updated to 2023 a 🧵 on a few things we learn from the data and some of the usual caveats to keep in mind ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...

Good to see new 🇦🇹 gov wh far-right. But soooo tired of this ‘citizenship as the end of successful integration process’ If making people wait 10 yrs, speak German B2 level, not draw on social assistance, then just say you’re ok w excluding most migrants from citizenship. www.spoe.at/wp-content/u...

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

Well over a 100k applications for Irish citizenship from post-Brexit referendum Britain. These are people with Irish grandparents or parents. A first wave after the 2016 referendum, a second one once the realities of Brexit started to sink in after 2020.

There's only one week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position on the project "Taming the Dark Energy of EU Law: The European Union’s Unwritten Constitution". Deadline - 28 February Find out more: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...

March 3rd 2025 at the @royalsociety.org. It should be *quite* the event… But more seriously, good on them for at least hearing the concerns of their membership and at least providing some sort of forum for discussion. I hope they have canapés 😋

This is an actual bill introduced into the US House of Representatives. I lack the words to describe what I feel. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Excellent write up of a marvellous event at St Andrews that I was privileged to attend yesterday. Much chat, also, of Brexit and how the conditions in 2025 differ sharply from 2016, with the EU now needing the UK much more both in security and economic terms.

We're currently recruiting two post-doctoral researchers to join an exciting interdisciplinary research project, "Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law". Find out more: www.law.ed.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

Today at 12, the Bundestag remembers the victims of the Nazi regime. Afterwards, the CDU/CSU will put forward resolutions for mass deportations, making German citizenship revocable for the first time since 1945, and the abolition of dual citizenship, and plans to pass these with Nazi votes.

Serbian Prime Minister resigns Doubt this will be enough to ease pressure on Vučić

Interesting indeed @bronwenmanby.bsky.social! You got my attention at ‘citizenship’ and ‘code category’ 😉

Thank you to @bronwenmanby.bsky.social and @pwnallthethings.bsky.social for reminding us of the law of diplomacy heritage of term "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the 14th Amendment. So many discussions of citizenship are ahistorical.

✨ Yaah! My paper w Luuk vd Baaren & @david-reichel.bsky.social introducing a new dataset on dyadic dual citizenship acceptance 🌎 is now out in IMR! Our dataset covers: ⁃ 1.8 million directed dyad-year obs - combi rules in origin & destination ⁃ 201 states ⁃ 1960-2022 a 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0197...