Just a reminder to uni students that buying model essays is in fact illegal 😱 in the UK, but research shows it also reduces your critical thinking skills... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

80% of Americans say we should prioritize regulating AI, yet Trump could soon enact an executive order blocking all state AI regulations. Why? Look no further than the AI industry's massive lobbying war chest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow. She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.

I am most interested in the claim in this letter that Serco are making vast profits and are not providing the asylum seekers the food etc the government has paid for. See also news stories from 2023 www.standard.co.uk/business/ser...

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Join us on 30th September - 6.30pm - 7.30pm, joined with Matt Staples and Dr. Edward Wastnidge will be sharing how the Open University’s teaching, research, and wider engagement in politics and international relations connect with the aims of our new society Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...

Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Just did a quick Q&A @justsecurity.org for journalists & others wondering what today's report that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza does (& does not) mean justsecurity.org/120762/coi-genocide-israel-gaza/ Please share with anyone covering the report.

I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate. Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.

I don’t think people in the UK realise the extent to which US elite are trying to make the UK shift to far right, mobilising white men

Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!

The United Nations General Assembly will no longer take place in New York. Meetings will be held in Geneva instead, as Trump refuses to admit the Palestinian delegation to enter the US

🎙️This morning I spoke to Emma Nelson on Monocle Radio's The Globalist about the passing of another Trump deadline for Putin and what might come next in #Russia's war against #Ukraine. The interview starts at 3:30 in the recording monocle.com/player/?uuid...

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline 14th August. Created by experts in International Relations, defence and security policy and practice AND distance learning and tailored to facilitate career development. What more could anyone ask for in an MA? www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate

It's not too late to apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline is 14th August. This course is special. 5 stars, says I! www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Really pleased my article on the election process of the UN Secretary General is now available in the Open University's Resources for Schools, created for secondary school age students across the UK. #UNSG #unitednations tinyurl.com/2jut9xne @oupolitics.bsky.social

Genocide, not a genocidal act.

Do consider registering for our MA in International Relations. It’s new and brilliant, tailored to support students who want to study part time, often while working, or who have a lot to juggle. See below 👇

On Tuesday 1 July, Dr Georgina Holmes and NGO Security Women ran an internal workshop for the UK @defencehq.bsky.social on the recruitment of women into the British Armed Forces, ahead of the new tri-service recruitment programme 2027. Read here! fass.open.ac.uk/news/improvi...

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics. How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

I asked Chatgpt a question. Do you think billionaires should redistribute their wealth?

Last week @securitywomen.bsky.social and me ran a workshop for UK Ministry of Defence on the recruitment of women into British Armed Forces ahead of the tri-service programme 2027. Maj Marcelle Grace presented her research & UK Fire & Rescue Service shared good practice. Briefing note to follow #WPS

about 70% of the world eats like this. This tweet is the most racist thing I've seen in years

As the lead up to the appointment of the next #UN #SecretaryGeneral picks up pace, here's my explainer article on the selection process & why there's momentum to appoint a woman, despite backlash/backsliding on gender #equality among some member states @oupolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n6w7ftp

All of the times Netanyahu said Iran is getting nukes Going back to 1995 The absolute failure of media outlets who continue to take Israel’s claims at face value is astonishing

«Rather than the dream of machine intelligence, we are witnessing the disastrous political consequences of a different dream, one of a total bureaucracy that operates in the all-but-invisible interstices of the software we have come to rely on.» @leifw.bsky.social

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“Brooke Nichols has launched an online tracking tool assessing the consequences of the USAID cuts. She estimated that 103 people were dying every hour as a result. Former USAID chief Andrew Natsios estimates that two million will have died by the end of the year.”

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...

Today was International Day of UN peacekeepers, honouring peacekeepers who have lost their lives. I was invited to discuss UN reform and implementing Women, Peace and Security at a high profile roundtable event organised by @rusi.bsky.social and #UNA-UK #WPS

This is a free online event you can register for via: tinyurl.com/2kt4j5yu @filippoboni.bsky.social @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @preciouschatd.bsky.social ‪@emmalclarence.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @drgholmes.bsky.social ‪‪‪@ckweatherill.bsky.social‬

Amid changes at the UN to ensure its survival: Here's our article examining how UN staff adopt neoliberal practices to enable business continuity during crises, and how new care ethics emerge, as staff build their own communities of care to support one other #UN #resilience tinyurl.com/mryf2s5e

TAX THE RICH. In a world where oligarchs use our tax dollars to have PISSING contests sending rockets into space & children STARVE on our streets, BILLIONAIRES 👏 SHOULD 👏 NOT 👏 EXIST 👏 but they want to privatize social security and hand our investments over to Wall Street FRAUDSTERS. #bluecrew #fbr

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

Fascinating research here linking visible decline in high streets (as measured by vacant shops) to rise in UKIP support

I don't think they realise that the Women Peace and Security agenda is based on a UN Security Council resolution written by UN member states 25 years ago. It is not a 'Biden initiative'. Everyone's objective should be peace, not war #UNSCR1325 #USdefence #womenpeaceandsecurity #WPS

Enjoying the beautiful weather on our 2-day research impact/writing retreat @oupolitics.bsky.social

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So the White House story is now: “We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.” The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The killing of 15 medics and humanitarian workers in Gaza after shots were fired at their ambulances by Israeli forces raise further concerns of 'war crimes by the Israeli army,' the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said