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.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱 Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025 🧵Thread

MEET THE TEAM 👋 Introducing: Dr Chenchen Zhang We are very excited to welcome @chenchenzhang.net to the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group as our new co-convenor. 🥳

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Come and say hello! We're really looking forward to running events and meeting folks over the course of the next year

Call for Panellists! Are you researching the intersections of technology, violence, global politics, focusing on the colonial and gendered dimensions of power? Then consider submitting your abstract to the panel @sulagnabasu.bsky.social and I have developed for @mybisa.bsky.social 2026 conference!

I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

Do consider submitting your @mybisa.bsky.social 2026 conference proposals to CAWP! We are especially interested in work that pushes the boundaries of IR, including alternative formats.

Are you worried about the plans to increase the ILR qualifying period to 10 years? Complete this short 7 minute survey created by @praxisprojects.bsky.social to make your voice heard🔊 www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF

My latest article has been published today in @mwcjournal.bsky.social! Here, I argue that British media reporting on conflict abroad says just as much about domestic political identity, and how Britain still sees itself as a "great power" state. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Have any of you successfully secured transcription costs via DSA as part of your PhDs?

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

*PSA EVENT* TLN Webinar Series 'Teaching #PoliticalScience Through #Feminist Methodology to #GenZ by a #Millennial in a Cyber Classroom' with Dr Aruni Samarakoon @arunisamarakoon.bsky.social FREE and open to all. ➡️

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

I won a teaching award! I was nominated by my students, which was lovely. Thinking about my grandmas today, who I hope would be proud of me

Pals! @nataliejester.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social have launched the BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group. CAWP is an experimental, creative research space for IR. learn more here www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...; here @cawpbisa.bsky.social and twitter at @cawpbisa

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

How do you get a visiting lectureship? Do you ask people you know? People you don't know? Co-authors specifically? I'd really like to have one and feel like there are probably answers to this question!

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

Very excited to be attending this talk by Patricia Owens about Erased: a history of international thought without men. Thanks so much @researchspin.bsky.social for organising!

Submit your proposals to the new Critical Alternatives for World Politics stream! We aim to be a home for critical, non-mainstream work that pushes the boundaries of IR Please help us spread the word @cawpbisa.bsky.social

Receiving article proofs: 😃 Realising how many typos made it past all your proof reading: 😬

Join us (or help us spread the word)!

I'm on my morning commute for my first day of the new academic year and I just got to pet a dog. A+ start, I think we can all agree

I'm in Sicily and yesterday we visited Mount Etna. I loved it!

The women's rugby world cup is on now and, as I enjoyed the football so much, I'm giving it a go. Here are some unasked for opinions: 1) the ref should wear a mic, and clock should be stopped for injury in football too

‘Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. And many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about frivolities like ethics or ecology and love the bomb.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the defence tech industry: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is your reminder that Global Society has an open call for special issue proposals! Our most recent special issue was Global Society 39(1) on Authoritarian Governmentality. We'd love to hear from you, so please follow the steps below!

New BISA WG! 🎉 Critical Alternatives for World Politics - fostering a welcoming space for experimental, creative & non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of International Studies - join today! 🌟 Info here 👉 buff.ly/1Pxr7Bz @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social

Me coming back to an old piece of writing (to hopefully publish it) and seeing all the typos:

NEW on our Substack: Help your HEC reps decide what we should do next for our pay dispute! Please see the linked form, fill it in, & pass to your contacts. The form is open until 5pm Friday 27th Aug in advance of HEC on Monday 1st Sep. Please repost #ucu ucucommons.substack.com/p/help-your-...