Exciting contributions from & massive thanks to: Craig Murphy, @olejacobsending.bsky.social, @mer29-cam.bsky.social, Madeleine Dungy, @mhochmueller.bsky.social, @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social, @therealisthom.bsky.social, @uribejuanita.bsky.social, and Geert Somsen. 2/3

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

Hear hear! And if this ain't enough time nerdery ... bsky.app/profile/ther...

How did Russia's 3-day “special military operation” become 4 yrs+ of near-total war, & how did time symbols contribute? Just published OA @gsqjournal.bsky.social in special forum on ritual action, ed. by Maria Mälksoo doi.org/10.1093/isag... @isatheory.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social

Submit your proposals to Review of International Studies for a new special issue! 🎉 To be published in a 2027 special edition the deadline to submit is 3 Feb 2026 🌟 Find out more information on submissions 👉 https://ow.ly/JfzH50XGS1e Seb Kaempf Andy Hom Dahlia Simangan

New Special Issue competition for @risjnl.bsky.social just dropped: www-cambridge-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/core/journal... Deadline 3 February 2026. If you have a cool IR idea + a diverse (but cohesive) collection of topics and authors, send it our way! @mybisa.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social

Trumpster fire or no, lefthand picture = mood for whole pod. Listen if you dare!

It's a humbling, thrilling trip to have my book, IR & the Problem of Time, reviewed so generously by him who directly inspired me to do IR, Brent Steele @utah.edu Thanks also to @h-diplo.bsky.social & @szarejko.bsky.social for commissioning issforum.org/reviews/jerv... @edinburghpir.bsky.social

Curious about environmental politics? Check out new @risjnl.bsky.social podcast with Poppy Winanti & @sebkaempf.bsky.social then hop over to our OA Editors Collection! www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis... www-cambridge-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/core/journal... @edinburghpir.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social

Check out this intro to our forthcoming special issue, by two scholarly forces of nature

🚨 Last chance to sign up for our Africa and International Studies event TOMORROW 🚨 'Meet the editors: publishing webinar' with Review of International Studies Maria Malksoo, Soumita Basu and Priya Dixit 🌟 Last chance to sign up here 👉 https://ow.ly/G8yJ50XpNHH Andy Hom @julietdryden.bsky.social

Interested or puzzled by the academic journal publishing process? Want to hear from journal editors working @risjnl.bsky.social and the chairs of the @mybisa.bsky.social Africa & Int'l Studies Working Group? Join us next month online! (Reg free but required) www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

📢Call for Abstracts📢 Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026! We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨ @mybisa.bsky.social

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

If you haven't already, say hello to @ejisbisa.bsky.social - welcome!!!

I’m striking today in opposition to planned £140m cuts at the University of Edinburgh. Less than three years ago, I left the University of Roehampton after all the academics in my School were sent letters telling us we were being put at risk of redundancy.

Attending our meet the editors event this week with @therealisthom.bsky.social and @ritafloyd.bsky.social will give you key tips on how to get your work into journals! #bisa2025 check our programme to find the events - conference.bisa.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Vandals wrecked it so you better check it — a great paper on the many ontological securities of a single iconic tree.

New @risjnl.bsky.social podcast episode is out. Here, Dahlia Simangan talks to Seb Kaempf about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of peacebuilding. Please tune in here: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis... @mybisa.bsky.social @therealisthom.bsky.social

And Soumita Basu will be lurking in the audience WWE style!

Speaking from a rink, natch. And does he look a little leaner and meaner already or is it just that Calder glow? GoHabsGo

First up we have our social media coordinator, Lauren Rogers! BISA is a great conference for early career scholars to test out new work and get feedback. Lauren's paper was later published in our sister journal, @ejisbisa.bsky.social. 📄 👉 buff.ly/3cfMh8d

Our editor @therealisthom.bsky.social's #MyFirstBISA was in Manchester. His story is a great reminder for #BISA2025 next week: be kind and on time 😅 Be sure to stop by the meet the editors panel on Wednesday at 1:15pm, where Andy will give publishing tips! indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...

Jacqui Cho's excellent new article 👇 dovetails nicely with our latest RIS podcast, in which Seb Kämpf and Dahlia Simangan discuss her editor's selection (all ungated) on peacebuilding. A feast for your eyes and ears and mind! www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...

🎉 Vol 51(2) is out!🎉 This issue includes TEN research articles. The articles are all free to read this month, so be sure to take a look and enjoy 👇 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/cSV8VwX

An update on university finances, from the Scottish Parliament's Education, Children, and Young People's Committee today (fast forward about a minute to get to the start of the discussion): www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...

🌟 New‪ @risjnl.bsky.social‬ editors selection w/ Poppy Winanti🌟 'Global Environmental Issues' inc. @peternewell.bsky.social‬ ‪ @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social‬ @mattkranke.bsky.social‬ & more All articles free to access until end of July! 🎉 Read more 👉 buff.ly/jpNR4vp ‪ @therealisthom.bsky.social‬

Really looking fw to these events - pop round if you're in Helsinki and interested in academic publishing, existentialism, or the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of the radical right @edinburghpir.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @gnobisa.bsky.social

If you're interested in topics ranging from 💻 #military innovation to 📜 doctrine and strategy, from 🤝 #alliance building to🖌️ arts and conflict, check out the #BISA2025 programme and look out for our #WarStudies Working Group Events! indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti... @mybisa.bsky.social

Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...

Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism.

Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism.

#GoHabsGo better was better than the #AllCaps better for much of the series, just got goalied, refereed, and couple bounces. Full marks to the rebuild.

This speech is the We didn’t start the fire of our times

The idea that cutting student migration will make you more popular is utter nonsense. Voters are in *favour* of student migration! They're not in favour of universities collapsing and cities turning into economic basket cases! Give me strength. 😡

#Allcaps Head. Hunting. Enabled by the National League. Only team playing hockey is #gohabsgo

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain" by Nick Caddick , Sarah Bulmer, Katie Davies, David Jackson, James Duggan and Shreepali Patel is now available online first! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/L3LCFKW

Dude was head-hunting all night, as was Ovi, and why shouldn't they when the refs haven't penalized them for much of anything all series (see cross-checks to face 1, 2, and 3)? Makes #allcaps half-dozen embellishments in game 4 all the more pathetic. #gohabsgo

Members are upset angry and frankly, absolutely disgusted by behaviour of management. We do not accept nor agree with the way management are approaching the current situation. Management need to stop targeting, stop redundancies, and negotiate on workload, health and safety, equality and precarity.

Give the #Caps credit — they’ve realized they can’t play with Montreal at 5v5, and their PK is bad, so they’re embellishing left right and center, clutching and grabbing wherever possible, and any other shenanigans to slow Montreal down. Paper tiger. #gohabsgo

NHL officiating needs no help embarrassing itself but the #WashingtonCapitals are making these refs look like amateurs with their diving

#Caps didn’t score a single goal that the refs weren’t directly involved in. What a travesty. #gohabsgo were playing against two teams.

#Caps looked like a team un-used to adversity.

Alexeev deserved that non-high stick #caps #gohabsgo

Hard not to love this team #gohabsgo

NHL refs really distinguishing themselves tonight. Just a travesty.

Really looking forward to this! In 2 days time, join us if you can! (registration required) @edinburghpir.bsky.social

The Time Team is going to Bologna! @malteriemann.bsky.social, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social, @therealisthom.bsky.social, Maria Mälksoo, Norma Rossi, and yours truly will deliver a cracking panel on ‘Temporal Security in IR’. Ciao ragazzi.

Montreal is the only city right now to have a team qualified for the NHL, AHL, and PWHL playoffs.

Are you kidding me #demidov #gohabsgo