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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-...

This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Article accepted! 'Great Britain? Constructing great power status through online news reporting of foreign conflict' will be published in Media, War & Conflict.

I turned 35 a few weeks ago and suddenly I'm being advertised all sorts of crap. Apparently this will help my sagging face to be less hideous. I apologise in advance for making you look at my haggard visage until I can purchase whatever this is

Had a lovely day in Montpellier, but my goodness it is hot there!

Just saw three dogs wearing hats (one big, two small). An excellent day

reading recommendations, please! looking for scholarly accounts of the use of the phrase 'concentration camp' in pre-1937 British (NOT GERMAN!) media and novels. How was the phrase being used? What was it understood to mean?

🚨New Article🚨 From the special forum Technologies of Armed Violence “Racial Capitalism Must Be Defended: Reading the Arms Trade through Critiques of Policing” by Chris Rossdale Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

I am currently in the "brain feels like soup" stage of writing where translating thoughts into words just makes me more confused. I know that I will get through it but it is so painful every time it happens!

Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

surely there must be some good examples out there of utopian academic conference organizing. i mean ‘what would a genuinely utopian conference look like?’ not ‘conferences about utopianism’. hmu with your manifestos etc

The mass killing of civilians, targeting of homes and vital infrastructure, obstruction of food and aid, starvation as a weapon, and the forced displacement of millions. This is genocide. The UK has a legal, political and moral responsibly to act. Silence and inaction amounts to complicity.

Agyemaaaaaang! #ENGITA

Today's ask: does anyone have any favourite examples of policy analysis within the social sciences? I'm running a session on this for the first time and am keen to ensure a variety of approaches are shown!

🎉 Best Article in the @risjnl.bsky.social winner this year was @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social for: 'Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes' with judges finding the 'theoretical approach original & highly relevant' 🌟 Summary - buff.ly/Rvd09Wk DOI -

I absolutely love Matt Berry and recently discovered that he makes music, too. Imagine my surprise to find a signed copy of his latest album at Rough Trade this afternoon. No idea what to expect but I'm already delighted with the purchase!

Wow, that was quite a game. The German team won't be winning any fair play awards, that's for sure, but they held off a French side who made us look awful. Can't believe how many of these games are going to penalties as well! #GERFRA

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Anyone else think Riesen looks like Alessia Russo? It's a bit confusing! #ESPSUI

If you ever worry about feeling like an intellectual fraud or impostor in academia, never fear - you will never be as much of an impostor as Sartre was when he met with Herbert Marcuse.

Good lord, that was not ideal! Some bad passing from us and we looked weak at the back in the first few minutes. Also need to up our penalty game. Glad to see some new blood come on, think that made a big difference. Agyemang especially was fantastic #SWEENG

This is going to penalties, isn't it? *sigh* #NORITA

Had a series of quite strange songs stuck in my head lately, by far the best of which has been the Jurassic Park theme tune (less a fan of today's choice of Love Me For a Reason). Who knows what will be next!

What are other social scientists doing in their research methods modules these days? I'm wanting to refresh things a bit. How do you find policy analysis? Am considering a session on this, in addition to decolonial & creative methods. I also run a session on digital methods which students often use

Someone nominated me! It was for this piece, written with Rosie Walters academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

Here are some random thoughts no one asked for, about the Euros: 1) Spain are a magnificently entertaining team 2) like rugby, the clock should just stop. No added time nonsense, which disrupts the flow 3) they need concussion substitutes (I hope Snerle is OK, she looked reeeally dazed) #ITAESP

I'm evaluating the submissions for our first ever faculty research awards and they are so good! It's really nice to see what my colleagues are up to and to take a moment to celebrate our hard work

Really looking forward to running this event for my faculty shortly! Lots to think about here

Women receive more than 3x more service requests at work than men. AND colleagues view them more negatively if they say no. More than forcing victims to say "no", orgs need to compensate equally for actual work and ensure equal service requests.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Well. Thank god that's over. The subs were good but otherwise we were completely outclassed. France were faster, more cohesive, and more accurate. Not ideal! 😬 #FRAENG

Once again it’s amazing that the government intervenes about 1,300 jobs at risk at Lotus cars who sold a piffling 12k cars to rich people last year but is happy to let the Higher Education sector with 400,000 employees die on its arse. Labour intervene when MANLY jobs are at risk you see

Six weeks ago, I submitted major revisions on an article that I found really challenging, both emotionally and intellectually. Yesterday the journal notified me that I've been given minor revisions AND the reviews were lovely! It will be great to (hopefully) see this piece out there in the world...

Me going for a walk this evening:

I returned to a nice post-BISA message! My Sage Research Methods Case Study has been published. I wrote this because I noticed that a huge number of students now want to analyse online news articles in their projects, and some need a bit of help with design methods.sagepub.com/case/methodo...

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

Just sent a legit work email with the subject "Zombie apocalypse (not spam)"

My reward for a long week of conferencing: a trip to the Giant's Causeway! Sunshine, Guinness and a Fleetwood Mac soundtrack have made this a perfect day