Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social - Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - https://cup.org/4oqeyYD "survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation" - @lauracon.bsky.social#OpenAccess

I only realized that it was Prime Day because Amazon must have spent a fortune on ads bombarding me. Then I checked other retailers. Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:

@theguardian.com this is wrong on trident use. Not only used in ‘highly unlikely scenario where a surprise, all-out nuclear attack destroys the UK and its way of life.’ UK could use nukes first and in response to range of threats including to NATO allies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

If there was ever any doubt why France 🇫🇷 tried to stop @who.int from revisiting the health impacts of nuclear war at #WHA78 last night—this is why. For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Meanwhile here in the U.K., extra concerning in the context of continuing gov attempts to limit legal public protest.

New Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) article by @lauracon.bsky.social out now! @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?' link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx #openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm #CUPPoliSci

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess! 📜➡️ buff.ly/vtAqdo7

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

The Polycrisis Network is a collective of people in and outside academia working together to understand the interconnection of crises in the world around us. Join the network for their launch: 📅 Weds 26 Feb 🕞 3.30 - 5pm 🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...

Oof. World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...

Doctoral scholarships alert for UK PhD applicants from minoritised ethnic backgrounds in the brilliant Faculty of Social Sciences at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social #Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/347-...

#nukesky request for help, the claim that in a future disarmed world, any state with a nuclear weapon/s would have an overwhelming advantage. Is there research that bases this in history, theory, strategy etc? Is there work that argues this through? I’d like to read it if anyone has suggestions?

Hi #NukeSky - we're still taking photojournalism pitches at @inkstickmedia.bsky.social for our call for nuclear weapons industry images. We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others! inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...

📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team). Deadline for applications: 25 November Help us spread the word! 👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...

I wrote a commentary on the impacts of any further nuclear weapons buildup on people and communities in New Mexico. Recent recommendations ignore the human and environmental costs of more nukes. inkstickmedia.com/nuclear-arms...

I just listened to members of the new Strategic Posture Commission trying to explain the report to an audience in San Francisco. Some comments that stood out the most: 1/n

I had the privilege of seeing a screening of this film @Santafefestival It tells story of trinity downwinders @TBdownwinders who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico

The call for proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Alva Myrdal-centre for Nuclear Disarmament is now open! The cross-disciplinary conference takes place 18-19 June in Uppsala (online in parts). Call closes 3 Dec. I hope to see you in Uppsala in June! #nukesky www3.uu.se/alvamyrdalce...

#proofofcat also proof of the best cat ever.

I should prob say something now I’m on here. 👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal. I also still don’t really know how this works.