We have a new article! 'Doing world politics and social media: Digital practice and open education in international relations' in @epsjournal.bsky.social Written with the fantastic @apapamichail.bsky.social, @mlebourdon.bsky.social & @louisepears.bsky.social

There is still time to sign up for this - rebellion is a really important topic at the moment!

The next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event features the brilliant @crossdale.bsky.social! It is on 25 March at 2pm, online. To read more and register, follow the link below www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Exciting news! The University of Gloucestershire has joined forces with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to launch a Master’s programme in sustainability. I am v excited to be part of this team. Do share with your networks! www.glos.ac.uk/content/uog-...

Happy International Women’s Day! Please enjoy this article I wrote with Rosie Walters in 2024. We explore the IWD communications from arms manufacturers, arguing that these function as a form of gender washing (whereby discourses of progress obscure violence) doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC. We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU

Watching The Muppet Show and eating garlic bread: the perfect evening.

📢📢We are very excited to announce our first virtual seminar as a BISA working group! 📢📢 Join us for this excellent talk with Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.

I've thought a lot about whether or not to post this, because I wasn't sure it was my place, but it occurred to me that people may never know otherwise: I'm very sorry to say that my wonderful colleague Vicky Randall passed away unexpectedly recently @vrandall.bsky.social

I'm doing a writing retreat and have reached my writing goal a day early! My chapter now stands at 8,025 words. I guess tomorrow can be an editing day now!

Starting 2026 as I mean to go on: by watching Muppets Treasure Island

Happy new year from the UK! My next new year's resolution is to eat pasta shapes I have never tried before (suggestions welcome...)

Please enjoy this outstanding fact

Out now! This new article, by @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social is well worth a read, I highly recommend it: Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

Google Scholar tells me that I've just reached my 150th citation 😃

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Please enjoy the Christmas decorations on the @wshed.bsky.social tree

One more day of writing retreat left and it needs to be a good one 😬 4,000 words written so far!

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Didn't win the research award I was nominated for, but I did get something better: a Students' Union award for exceptional support beyond teaching, decided upon following nominations from students across the whole university! 🥹

This sounds very cool!

Voluntarily inducing Whamageddon myself today, because Last Christmas is an excellent song and I will not stand for any anti-George Michael sentiment in this house

Dear Microsoft Word, If I start to type "cal" in the font box, I do not want Calibri Light. I have never wanted Calibri Light, which is inferior to its Calibri sibling. Love, Me

I've been shortlisted for a University of Gloucestershire Staff Award by my colleagues and the statement is really lovely 😭

RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts. Sign the petition here to save jobs: www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

Yesterday was a University of Gloucestershire open day, and it was lovely!

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

This is devastating news. Alice Wong was such a fantastic thinker and advocate for disabled people. Like others, I learned a lot from her, and the world is a lot poorer without her

It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3

Ah, we've reached the time of year when UK trains are all cocked up. Almost all my journeys recently have been late and absolutely rammed full of people. Not what you want after a three hour class.

When I submitted a paper to AI & Society the email confirmation sent me to a website that told me my language quality score was only 3/10 but RUBRIQ could fix it. I study this stuff, so uploaded my paper to RUBRIQ, which proceeded to introduce scientific fabrication and change scientific terms.

Huge thanks to our wonderful audience (and BISA staff) for making this such an enjoyable event. We're so excited to be convening this working group and hopefully there are lots of good things to come...

This is today! Come say hi! If you've not yet registered, we can probably sort out a link for you

“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've been following this race for a while and I am so happy to see him win! Good things can happen! We don't have to pander to bigotry to make ground. BBC News - Mamdani seals remarkable victory www.bbc.com/news/article...

Come and see us online on Thursday!

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

MEET THE TEAM 👋 Introducing: Natalie Jester Thrilled to have @nataliejester.bsky.social as our co-convenor at at the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group! Read more about her research below 👇 and come meet her at next week's 'Meet the Working Group' event!

I'm attending 'A Global History of Elon Musk' this evening - lots of other great talks in this series though, take a look!

Q (data collection): if your UK-based HEI (employer) employs students on student visas, do you know what kind of checks they need to undergo, and how often? Please respond in comment (ideally with links) or DM. Thanks in advance 🙏🙏

MEET THE TEAM 👋 Introducing: Leah de Haan We are so happy to have Leah with us at the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group as our new PhD convenor!

Is anyone else having problems with the Outlook phone app? It often doesn't show me what's in my diary or allow me to see messages I've been sent (sometimes for hours). It's much easier to access this info on my phone a lot of the time, but I can't figure out how to fix it! Any tips?!

Meet our new BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group working group convenors! 🎉 Leah de Haan, Uygar Baspehlivan Dr Natalie Jester and Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ will be live on zoom to answer questions as they continue to establish the WG! 🌟 Register! 👉 https://ow.ly/Vw9h50Xifp8

This is absolutely shameful, a stain upon humanity

We have fantastic books in our series! (Creative Interventions in Global Politics). Please join us! Happy to chat about your book proposal ideas. 📕 share.google/VVLRxEY1G8n8...

What?!> BBC News - Mystery donor gives $130m to US military for paying troops during shutdown www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am currently writing a book chapter and aiming to fulfil a long-held ambition: making reference to Star Trek in a piece of academic work.