Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack. I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)

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📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027! 🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN

OnlineFirst - "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" by Daniela Lai: #steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Roundtable: Dayton Peace Agreement – 30 Years On Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995. 🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM 📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool 🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace… Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis

Very happy to share that my article "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" was just published in Environment and Planning A. This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC! doi.org/10.1177/0308...

Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙌 nation.cymru/opinion/refo...

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine has finally been released! Please ask your local or university library to get it! You can also use my author code (BUP50) if you'd really like to get it epub or hard-copy bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...

Join us in Izmir next July for #EWIS2026!

Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social

Very happy to have this article out with RIPE: Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nice to have landed back in the UK as it confirms its sure and steady decline into authoritarianism

Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies

The original title of this article, straight out of 2003, was that Israel's attack has a "real chance of bringing about regime change" in Iran. With not a hint of criticism.

EISA statement on attacks to higher education funding across Europe

🎉 The full programme for #EWIS2025 is now available on our website: bit.ly/3TcCKjh 🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...

"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/

Took me a while to find time to read this, but I'm glad I did www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My thoughts on the government intervention to save British Steel

Many @europeanisa.bsky.social colleagues have received phishing emails from me. Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.

Sharing the PSA Teaching and Learning conference call for abstracts! It's at Royal Holloway this year, send your abstracts by 17 April to Nat and Lyn: full info at the link! www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

This is us now. Happy days in UK HE!

So lucky I got to spend time with these amazing, inspiring people in Liverpool! Thank you @matesuba.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social and Nina for bringing us together

🗳️ 11 EISA members have been shortlisted for election to the Governing Board! 📩 Members will receive a voting link via email 🗓️ Voting is open until 21 April 2025 13:00 CET ⬇️ Candidate profiles below...

We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop. The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.

I’m grateful to @danielalai.bsky.social for such an insightful review of my book Reconciliation by Stealth & noting its relevance also for studies of colonialism, racism & climate justice @cornellupress.bsky.social

I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

My review of @denisakost.bsky.social's book Reconciliation by Stealth is now out on Southeastern Europe doi.org/10.30965/187...

There is still time to register for this important event on mobility injustices in academia

It's deadline day for #EWIS2025!

🚨 Remember to submit your abstracts for #EWIS2025 workshops by Tuesday February 11th! 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and more information here: https://buff.ly/3XOXyk1

Keep the abstracts coming! The deadline for #EWIS2025 submissions is Tuesday 11 February!

We should stop treating things Trump says as crazy banter. He hosted someone under an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, and they are plotting more crimes together? It's not mad or surprising, he will keep pushing until people let him. People in Gaza need us to take this seriously.

I read Burawoy's extended case method article when I was a first-year PhD student, and since then his work has had a huge influence on me. Very sad to hear of his tragic passing.

⏰ Reminder: there's just one week left to submit abstracts for #EWIS2025!

Got to show clips from Derry Girls in class today ✨

Have a paper on agri/food you want to workshop?? Alex and I are organizing a panel on just transitions and agri food systems. This is a great opportunity to get feedback. Submit via the website!!

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS A) 'How Matters Come to Matter': Thinking/Practising In-Betweenness Through Posthuman Method Configurations

🎉 Congratulations to Aino Korvensyrjä - winner of EISA's Best Graduate Paper 2024! 🔗 Read more about the paper and committee comments here: https://buff.ly/4hdJ8RT

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS FA) Feminist Visual Methodologies: ARTivism and Body Mapping in Liminal Spaces

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS G) Geopoliticization of European Security

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS GA) In-between Contingency and Change - New Theoretical Approaches to Norm Contestation in International Politics and International Law

Solidarity with colleagues affected by redundancy announcements at Cardiff today. Is anyone in Westminster reading the news? Are they just hoping to keep quiet throughout the destruction of the entire university sector, or what is the plan here?