We @nclpolitics.bsky.social are advertising for a permanent teaching & research lectureship in Public Policy (deadline 7 Aug) preferably with a focus on international public policy. More details & contacts in the link: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Newcastle is hiring a Lecturer in Public Policy (T&R permanent), if anyone has any questions about the city or University feel free to get in touch! Closing date is 7th August

We @nclpolitics.bsky.social are advertising for a permanent teaching & research lectureship in Public Policy (deadline 7 Aug) preferably with a focus on international public policy. More details & contacts in the link: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

The latter point is why it needs to be a question of institutional policing not just the responsibility of journal editors. There are universities hiring and promoting these people, that's why they are doing it. If you're not a journal editor I don't think people realise HOW bad it's got.

Our OA article 'The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War' now has an issue 48(5). Thanks again to @brunoomartins.bsky.social & @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social for a great collaboration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@uaces.bsky.social, alongside the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social and the @mybisa.bsky.social, has written to the University of Lincoln urging it to reconsider proposed redundancies affecting Politics and International Relations. www.uaces.org/response-pro...

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tempting fate given the Ankara summer, but it feels good to have submitted the second edition of Contemporary European Security to the publishers! Huge thanks to my co-editors @djgalbreath.bsky.social & @laurachappell.bsky.social and to everyone who contributed a chapter!

Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.

Very interesting read.

New OA article: The Nordic States and the Arctic: contextually induced role change in a new geopolitical context by Douglas Brommesson, Ann-Marie Ekengren and Anna Michalski: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article: The war that redefined cyber war: Russia, Ukraine and the gap between theory and practice by Manuel R. Torres-Soriano: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We know this matters for some - so the 2025 citation stats are out, giving us an impact factor of 3.3 (JCR) and SCImago Journal Rank of 1.669 (Scopus). Both indexes agree that we are a Q1 journal for all subject categories. More importantly, we are publishing some truly excellent work! Send us more!

📣 To all the participants in the @sgeu.org conference in Catania next week: our two Associate Editors, @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social and @mariannalovato.bsky.social will be in attendance! So if you have questions about our Journal, please be sure to reach out (this goes out especially to ECRs)! 😊

This is really great to see! @nclpolitics.bsky.social

New article: Metrics of morality: reconciling technocratic governance and affective authority in peacekeeping training by Silvia Peirolo: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In full, here are the three job adverts, with details of the role we're seeking to hire - they are: i) T&S (three year fixed) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... ii) T&R (perm) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... iii) Research Associate (fixed) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT154/r...

AI-assisted text is deadly for academic journal editors and reviewers. I'm detecting a lot more of it recently as an editor. It's still there in the "Frankencitations" and those little linguistic "tells" like "AI is not the cause. It's the symptom of an underlying reality." But it's more, too. 1/

New OA article: Ordering EU internal security: Information sharing, code tables, and epistemic stabilisation by @matthiasleese.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Governing knowledge, shaping Europe: research security in the EU’s geopolitical turn by Cristina Pinna: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Discourses of legitimation in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine by @stenhansson.bsky.social @andreasventsel.bsky.social and Mari-Liis Madisson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To cover a colleague's grant buy-out, we @nclpolitics.bsky.social have a one year post to advertise in Political Philosophy! Newcastle is a great city and we have lovely students, so why not apply? jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

To cover a colleague's grant buy-out, we @nclpolitics.bsky.social have a one year post to advertise in Political Philosophy! Newcastle is a great city and we have lovely students, so why not apply? jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

📣📣📣 We are hiring @nclpolitics.bsky.social 📣📣📣 Fixed-term Lecturer in Political Philosophy (1 Sep 2026-31 Aug 2027) Don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions about this post. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

At #BISA2026 in Brighton this week? Got any queries about publishing in @europeansecurity.bsky.social? Two of our editors @laurachappell.bsky.social & @jocelynmawdsley.eurosky.social will be there & happy to answer questions.

'The analysis...suggests that the prevalence of hallucinated citations depends on the area of research. SSRN, a preprint server for social sciences research, had the highest rate of hallucinated citations at nearly 2%, almost five times higher than any other major repository.' 1/2

'Hallucinated citations are more prevalent in work authored by researchers with little pre-2022 publication history. When fake citations occur, they disproportionately credit already established, highly cited, often male authors, the study found.' 2/2 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Come and work us at the University of Leicester! 5 year Teaching Fellow in International Relations. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO007/t...

As a journal editor my heart sinks at this. But until there's actually some career penalty for AI misconduct, there's literally no downside for the perpetrators. Publishers' policies are just ignored and editors get the abuse for desk rejections.

New OA article: The EU civil protection mechanism in the 2024 Spanish floods: Europeanisation and multi-level governance in practice by Hasan Ogredik: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Russia’s low-level agents: characteristics, roles and organisational structure of covert operatives in Europe, 2022–2025 by @bartschuurman.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Behind closed doors: reassessing European participation in the Kosovo intervention through the case of Denmark by Mikkel Runge Olesen and Rasmus Brun Pedersen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article: European liberal policies towards Syrian refugees: providing dignity as well as security? by @catherinegegout.eurosky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Early bird registration is now open for the UACES 56th Annual Conference in Prague, 7–9 Sept 2026, with a Virtual Day on 18 Sept. Save up to £50 with early bird rates. Members save up to £160. Early Bird Registration Closes Sunday 31 May Find out more: www.uaces.org/prague #UACES2026

I teach the EU. I have difficulty persuading students that bibliographies need to be in alphabetical order. I don't think I'll be very good at brainwashing them...

IDOS and bicc are two great Bonn-based research organisations offering three great PhD positions 👇

New OA article: Virtual reality as strategic communication: cultural defence in wartime Ukraine by @cbjola.bsky.social & Francesca Liberatore Vaselli: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Dependence by design: decisive control in Royal Navy missions under US retrenchment by Jack Bonner and @djgalbreath.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the benefit of hindsight, it may not have been a great decision to sign a contract for a second edition of a textbook on European security to be delivered in May...

I needed to renew my Irish passport so did all the calculations about when would be safest etc - better allow 4 weeks etc. Count me as seriously impressed - applied online Wednesday, delivered this morning.

📢 Funding Opportunity: PhD Studentship in East Asian Politics at Newcastle Full UK home tuition fees + £21,805 annual stipend (3.5 years) + Fieldwork & research funding Open to home & international applicants 📅 Deadline: 15 April 2026 🔗 Apply: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

In the 1990s it proved rather difficult to convert arms factories into civilian production. I wonder if this will be as easy as they seem to think. Certainly a controversial one to start with.

New article: The EU’s fragmented defence governance: different rationales, different logics and different actors by Tuomas Iso-Markku & @nhelwig.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article: Hold the line: European adaptation(s) in a competitive conflict management and resolution market by Irene Constantini, @giuliolevorato.bsky.social & Ruth Hanau Santini: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Why does European aid to Ukraine vary? A nested analysis of domestic and international drivers by Lotte van den Boom & @ztruchlewski.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New OA article: Digital sovereignty and the means to European digital security: identification of the goals related to digital sovereignty from legal texts published by the European Union by Siraj Anand et al: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thinks about that reviewer 2 who was so adamant that this was not the case across the West, that we had to remove that section to get the article published...

It would please me immensely if every journalist, think-tanker & academic were banned from using the phrase 'left behind' when writing about Northern England.