Super excited to share the launch of a new book series: Contemporary Debates on Gender and Media with @uexeterpress.bsky.social which I am coediting with @krossings.bsky.social Details here: www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...

We are very excited to be part of #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 this weekend @SouthamptonGuildhall Sat 23rd Sun 24th August! Learn all about our #sotonbeans 🫘🫛 ☀️research @unisouthampton.bsky.social @rsb.org.uk Have fun play games & take a plant home 🌿 #citizenscience sign up below 2 👇 #sotonpride #scienceforall

Fantastic day yesterday first in series of #inyourbones workshops coproducing policy info & educational resources 4 skeletal health with local communities. Part science 🔬🧑‍🔬 part art 🎭 🎨 @artcareuk.bsky.social Gr8 timing with call 4 evidence in mens health now open 👇 👇🎉 www.gov.uk/government/c...

Can, and should, the principles of deliberative democracy be applied to how global citizens’ assemblies are organised? This week, @rikkidean.bsky.social, @melross.bsky.social and Flynn Devine tackle questions of values and practice in Research x Practice Exchange #2 ➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...

Helpful new GlobCit report on the global state of citizenship: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Tomorrow is our PSA Women & Politics 2025 conference: Troubled Times: #Gender & #Politics in the 21st Century. Organised by @psawomenpol.bsky.social. 📆 17 - 18 June. At the Gender & Inequalities (GAIN) Centre, Southampton. ➡️

We're excited that it is now less than a month until our symposium 'Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary'. With a keynote from Ariana Markowitz, ‘Now you see it: Using art to practise democracy amid violence’. You can still register for free at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdf-sympos...

“Prioritizing inclusivity in research will broaden our understanding of AD/ADRD, leading to greater awareness, earlier and more accurate diagnosis, and ultimately to equitable treatments and interventions that benefit all communities” I say BRAVO to this, refreshing to see this clarity&commitment

Join us at @cdfuos.bsky.social for a two-day conference on Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary, 3-4 July. Free to register. Just sign up here: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

Next #DSxHE MSK seminar #FortisNet 7th July 4pm GMT Dr Lucy Gates and Awa Touray @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Equitable Fracture Care Pathways in The Gambia #healthequity #fracture 🦴 🇬🇲 Register now! 👇 www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...

PhD opportunity 👇Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK health inequity @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social & Prof Kai Yang @winchesterschoolofart @unisouthampton.bsky.social Apply now ✍️ rolling deadline start Oct 25 cidns-cdt.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

You can join us for: 🧠 Mixed methods training 📝 Qualitative training 📊 Quantitative training See how 👇

Check out this qualitative methods workshop from our colleagues @polethnography.bsky.social. Get your proposals in by 30 May. #polisky @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

Tomorrow there's a big White Paper on immigration (www.gov.uk/government/n...). Whatever else it does, it's bound to refuel Labour’s internal debate about net migration -- a debate full of assumptions about public opinion. Strap in for a long thread about a survey testing some of those assumptions.

This year's Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture, delivered by our outstanding colleague and @britishelectionstudy.com Co-Director @profjanegreen.bsky.social, will take place a week on Monday in Edinburgh! 👩🏼‍🏫 Details and sign up below 🔽 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-e...

First post on an initiative that means a lot to our team! We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at @uhsft.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx... @uosmedia.bsky.social @biu-em.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Come and join us for a free summer school 🌞🌞🌞

very much looking forward to this (virtual!) event with @hertieschool.bsky.social and Columbia World Projects, where i'll be talking how to design & govern digital platforms to promote democratic practice, incl. new thoughts on things like decentralized platforms/protocols & crowdsourced moderation!

Just a few days left to apply for this postdoc position and come and join me at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social & @cdfuos.bsky.social. *The deadline is the 28th* (not the 30th as I wrongly stated in the original post).

Rebooting Democracy welcomed international guests and collaborators to a project workshop last week in Southampton. Sessions focused on climate democracy, using AI in deliberation, political behaviour, co-production, and democratic oversight of emerging technologies. www.rebootingdemocracy.ac.uk

Join us for the launch of Lala Muradova's (@lalamur.bsky.social) new book in the Cambridge Elements series, Empathy and Political Reasoning. With star discussants Florian Foos, Tereza Capellos and Konstantinos Katsikopoulous. 7 May, 12pm UK. Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Now that you are finishing up your teaching it is time to start dreaming about the exciting summer conferences. We have extended the deadline for abstracts for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary until 18th April.

Time for #Fortisnet 2025!🥳 Advancing Inclusive MSK Research First Social Factors in MSK from osteoporosis with Sarah Jarvis MBE🦴, then to lower limb conditions in Nepal and Adventures in prosthetics and orthotic design 🦿 #healthequity #inclusiveresearch @cdfuos.bsky.social

My article with @robjohns75.bsky.social, "Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future", is now out open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social. It's about the psychology of expecting good things to happen in politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC ✅ 3 years 📊 Mixed methods 💰 Resources for data & conferences 👥 Good group of people working on similar things www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...

🌾💡 #Bluesky Starter Pack of the Weizenbaum Institute 🚀 We've gathered the Bluesky accounts of Weizenbaum researchers for networking and connecting on #digitalization research: go.bsky.app/NH1NhmS @wzb.bsky.social @fokuspublic.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.

🎙️New podcast! A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy I spoke to @alondra.bsky.social about AI, democracy, DOGE, and how to plan for a different future: techpolicy.press/a-conversati...

A few spaces still remaining for #FortisNet 2025 Advancing Inclusive MSK health 🦶🦵🦴🏃 Registration details below 👇 Packed programme of brilliant speakers and pilot funding available on the day to kickstart new partnerships and ideas 2🤩 Join us! #healthequity

CfP: Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary. Join us 3-5 July for a symposium to discuss: - Fugitivity & the politics of refusal - Anticolonial imaginaries - Artistic practice & performance - Democratic innovations Deadline for abstracts: 4 April www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

Join us for 2 sunny* summer days at CDF (@cdfuos.bsky.social) for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary. Deadline for submitting your paper ideas is 4th April. More info on themes at: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve... *sunny weather not guaranteed.

Less than a week to go before our first event! Details below:

The 2025 national #ARCseminar series on: The healing power of creative arts 💃🏾🎷🎵 7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts 🎭🎤🖌️ 11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts 🎵🕺🎭 9 July: Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...

Inspirational collaborative event 2day hosted by @cdfuos.bsky.social on AI and Democracy with Simon Wallace #suffrago Nick Almond #Londonvoice Huge congrats esp @unisouthampton.bsky.social anniversary fellow Dr Yu Shan Tseng for organising 😍👏🙏 🎉 @r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social

Our final presentation is from Nick Almond, CEO of Factory Labs, on London VOICE. An attempt to create a community LLM controlled and owned by the people.

We now move on to Simon Wallace CTO at Suffrago, introducing their approach to using generative AI to build next generation polling.

Our third Lighting Talk is from Sebastian Stein, asking how we can ensure AI systems are citizen-centric. They need to be: citizen-aware, citizen-beneficial, citizen-sensitive, citizen-auditable, and citizen-owned.

Next up, Mbang Young examines the issues of data security in the AI present, from Syri to Deepseek. Who do we trust government or private companies? Who is control of this data?

Kicking off our AI and Democracy Knowledge Exchange event with @richardgomer.bsky.social discussing participatory visions for the AI city. How can we ensure that the adoption of AI has a citizen-centric rather than a corporate-centric design?

A vital new book on empathy and political reasoning. Congratulations Lala! 🎊 👏

Great work from our Co Director @r-mestre.bsky.social Huge congrats to all and @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social too 👏🎉👍

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨The Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre is live at Southampton! 🎉 Join our interdisciplinary community. 📢 Launch Event: 📅 Tues 18 March | ⏰ 3-5PM | 📍 100/7013 💬 Challenges of Studying Gender & Inequalities—a roundtable for all, esp. PhDs! Reception & refreshments from 4pm!

How can Citizens' Assemblies address our democratic predicament? In conversation with @jgastil.bsky.social, Marjan Ehsassi explores what it means to activate citizenship. Dive into their fascinating conversation at the @delibdemjournal.bsky.social⤵️ www.publicdeliberation.net/activated-ci...

We have two great speakers for our next Climate, Mobility and Migration Online Seminar on 4th March. You can register at t.ly/gv5ng.

It's official! We are so excited about the new Gender and Inequalities Research Centre at the University of Southampton. We have a special event planned very soon, so watch this space! @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social

We have two great speakers for our next Climate, Mobility and Migration Online Seminar on 4th March. You can register at t.ly/gv5ng.

Advancing Inclusive Musculoskeletal Health : Clinical Commerical & Community Impact - Register for free #FortisNet meeting now! 🦴🎉 20th March Southampton UK 👇 Join us! @r-mestre.bsky.social @messagetgi.bsky.social @fraje.bsky.social @cmcgwhp.bsky.social #dsxhe www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

OPEN CALL 🌈⁠ Southampton Pride is working in partnership with GO! Southampton, John Hansard Gallery and City Eye to gather Expressions of Interest from artists, designers and illustrators in the UK for artworks raising awareness of HIV/AIDS >>> bit.ly/JHGPrideOpenCall #ArtsJobs #ArtsOpps #LGBTQIA

And let's protect the current momentum in the UK for doing this: www.messageproject.co.uk