Today is the day! Join us at 10:00 a.m. to discuss applying for funding in Gender and Inequalities at the University of Southampton. Building 100 in Room 8013 on Highfield Campus. We have ☕ coffee, tea 🍵, and pastries 🥐🍩! www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

Cat pumpkin hybrid www.instagram.com/p/CkTNgpprCsl/

ONE WEEK LEFT UNTIL THE DEADLINE Make sure to submit your excellent papers, panels, and roundtables to the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group! We can't wait to see you in June! 🥳🥳

"Email has become a crucible. I can no longer say 'Attached is the draft.' I must instead write, 'Enclosed—though, of course, enclosure itself is a problematic modality—please locate a text-in-process, emergent rather than concluded.'”

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at [email protected] so that we can get an idea of numbers!

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

🔊 Episode #3 out now! @whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations. open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Why must the framing of this article strike such a disapproving tone, when later it says: RCOG: "Caesarean births are common and the steady increase isn’t necessarily a cause for concern as long as future services are well-prepared..." Report: "there is no ‘ideal’ rate for births by caesarean"

Many congratulations to Johanna! Well deserved for a fascinating paper.

Your regular reminder that things can always get worse

💻🗳️ I’m presenting today at #ECPRGC25 on the Territorial Politics, National Identity, and Electoral Dynamics: Shaping Party Systems and Political Behaviour panel! Law School, Floor 3, Room 5 ✍️ I’m presenting a paper on how campaigns target 🎯 gender gaps in the event of a constitutional referendum!

✍️ @zuzanakrulichova.bsky.social just published a new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social: She presents a systematic literature review on narrative approaches in IR, introducing agency-centric and structure-centric approaches. @ims.fsv.cuni.cz

in any case, as Jana points out I think it's this same phenomenon at work re: "fascism". there are some whose primary concern with labeling is to try to shape politics (we call x fascism to help defeat it) and others for whom certainty is the priority bsky.app/profile/unso...

Nothing quite like an academic job rejection email 1.5 years after the last round interview

I'm giving a public lecture, “Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution” on Thursday 16 October 2025, 6-7pm. This is part of UCL's Current Legal Problems lecture series. More details here: lnkd.in/e2AJMzbW

This looks really interesting, link to the paper at the end of the thread too

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/...

📝On our blog, we reflect on the @psawomenpol.bsky.social y.social annual conference we hosted here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ! We were delighted to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who study gender and inequalities. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2025/07...

The number of grant applications assessed by UK Research and Innovation has almost doubled over the past seven years, while the award rate has almost halved, new data show. Trends prompt warning that system is "overstretched or broken". www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

4/4. It also examines the intersection of nostalgia, race, and the politics of innovation, urging us to critically assess who is celebrated as the 'great men' of science and progress. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

3/4. It delves into how nostalgic visions of Elizabethan England and mid-20th-century America shape political aspirations in post-Brexit Britain. It challenges the notion of nostalgia as merely backward-looking, revealing its role in crafting ambitious futures.

2/4. The article explores how Anglofuturism, through the lens of the UK's new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), seeks to transform Britain from crisis to a future of hope and innovation.

1/4. We're excited to announce the publication of: "A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism", by Francesca Melhuish. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @fransplains.bsky.social @sagepub.com

'We work in a variety of disciplines...generally known as Holocaust & Genocide Studies..we have witnessed the weaponization of Holocaust memory & accusations of antisemitism to justify genocide in Gaza...— not only by state actors but also by institutions & scholars in our field' www.ghscn.org/about

My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️ ✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism ✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias 💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain @sotonpolitics.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️ ✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism ✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias 💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain @sotonpolitics.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Rebecca Harrison, a former lecturer at The Open University, said that the extent of the deterioration of job security in universities was “alarming”, adding that institutions had not been transparent about the extent of the cuts occurring in the sector.' 1/3

The lowest number I've seen, at any time of year

The depressing trend since I got my PhD...And yet the discourse of politicians and UKHE leaders continues to focus on how individual excellence and competitiveness can game these structural conditions. h/t @bymyong.bsky.social

At @sotonpolitics.bsky.social we have two positions for Teaching Fellows: 1. EU politics, policy, human rights, gender: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX849/t... 2. (American) political theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX882/t... Not your specific area? Apply anyway!

"Alligator Auschwitz isn’t hyperbole. It’s location-specific horror...This is fascism with a swamp aesthetic — cruelty as spectacle, stripped of pretense, staged for applause".

I was glad to present my paper at this excellent workshop. Thanks to @cintranatalia.bsky.social @marianaborges.bsky.social and Antje for organising it, and to @fransplains.bsky.social for her generous insights. Congratulations to all presenters for such engaging and rigorous work!

Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, concludes that Trump's NIH/HHS "in their haste to appease the Executive, simply moved too fast and broke things, including the law" by cutting grants arbitrarily and capriciously.

Aka we can only imagine the future through competing visions of frontier masculinity

Luckily, *someone* (me) should have a paper on Anglofuturism out soon

Someone sound the @fransplains.bsky.social klaxon

Pls enjoy this pacarana

🚨Today is the LAST day to register for our conference 📝with @psawomenpol.bsky.social next week! 📅It's £20 to attend the 2-day conference, which includes a lunch🥪, coffee, and an evening reception 🎤celebrating Professors Fiona Mackay and Yvonne Galligan! Registration link here: tinyurl.com/3xnjn5at

The other thing with this REF news is that it’s telling those of us who are now falling through the cracks that nothing we’ve done counts, which is just really bad for anyone’s mental health, frankly

Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look! 🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a... 🧵👇

1) Our new article “Sun, Sea and Sexual Violence: The Political Economy of Party Tourism” in @iajournal.bsky.social with @nicolapratt.bsky.social digs into the dark side of global party tourism—and the political economy that enables it. academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

11 More days to register for our conference - Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century. More information here: www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

Proud that my article on Powellite nostalgia has been shortlisted, amongst great company, for the John Peterson prize for best paper published in @bjpir.bsky.social in 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

📣 BJPIR John Peterson Best Paper Prize - Shortlist announced! 🧵 Read this thread to discover the papers shortlisted for the John Peterson prize for the best article published in the journal in 2024. 📝 Discover the 5 shortlisted papers below... (1/7)

Proud that my article on Powellite nostalgia has been shortlisted, amongst great company, for the John Peterson prize for best paper published in @bjpir.bsky.social in 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

Reminder that our CfP is still open!

*PSA EVENT* Troubled Times: #Gender & #Politics in the 21st Century. 📆 17 - 18 June. At Gender & Inequalities (GAIN) Centre @unisouthampton.bsky.social Hosted by PSA #Women & Politics group @psawomenpol.bsky.social ➡️ Register online