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Can more conferences do this please? It opens up opportunities for parents that either wouldn't exist, or would be too difficult to balance.

Manifesting who I want to be in 2026: the kind of person who crochets protest art on the train (I don't know how to crochet)

Last month the Aus Gov committed to phase out fossil fuels, signing the Belem Declaration. Today, Aus Gov publishes list of 97 new fossil fuel projects under development. Details on @thepointau.bsky.social .... thepoint.com.au/news/251219-...

Cannot emphasise enough how intensely fascist / violent it is to criminalise the act of being publicly opposed to civilian murder on false pretences It is not hyperbole at all to present these government actions as something that will cause serious harm in a bunch of different ways

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

A reminder: you cannot stop bigotry with more bigotry. Solidarity is key to ending all forms of institutionalised racism.

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

15 now dead at Bondi, including a child. Nobody should be afraid to practice their religion. Thinking about the families whose lives are broken because they dared to celebrate Hanukkah 💔

Almost half of the non-European population of New Zealand is Maori. There's no way to pretend that this kind of racial thinking in that context is anything but exterminationist.

60,000 is the *low end* estimate.

"Well over 90 percent of Indians are worried about global warming. Indian leaders must tap into this extremely high level of social awareness to respond to the demands from youth movements for socially just climate resilience and adaptation." #COP30 #ClimateAction thediplomat.com/2025/12/indi...

"The world’s military is estimated to produce around 5.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions. This is more than the total emissions of Japan and double that of the worldwide civil aviation sector." www.tni.org/en/publicati...

This just in: Calibri is woke.

This is pretty cool. I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work? interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...

The 'soft bigotry' of novel research: "research that is genuinely creative, interdisciplinary, or theoretically disruptive struggles to find space simply because it does not fit the polished template of “novel contribution.”" Great piece in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Authoritarianism needs the death of academic institutions because it needs the death of free discourse. And in a lot of places in the world, including where I’m from, they *did* destroy it with awful consequences. Here too it’s been a steady progression of turning universities into hedge funds.

📣 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2026 📣 We are now accepting submissions for this annual prize, which is a collaboration between RIS and the BISA CPD working group! Find out more ⤵️ buff.ly/3TsqMig

It's been far too long but I've finally joined @dslc.io on Slack and what a wholesome community it is with people helping each other with data and coding challenges 📊

Alarming news/perspective for many social scientists here.

Today is International Men’s Day. So here’s to refugee men fleeing abuse, trans men denied healthcare, queer men bullied for being different, Black men racially profiled, disabled men excluded from work, and all the other men who fail at being “real men.” May we continue to cultivate our humanity.

What’s wrong with America

Just another day being a woman on the internet

Love this in some ways (e.g. revolutionary parenting), but generational wealth is also generational wealth. Who gets to practice nervous system regulation in an unequal, capitalist world? Probably those with time, money, safety, and their basic needs met. Especially those with...generational wealth.

Emerging from early childhood parenting mode to re-enter the conference circuit next year. First stops (hopefully), #EPSS2026 and #ECPG26. Offering childcare is an optimal way to include parents and ease the burden of competing priorities. Any plans, @epssnet.bsky.social and @ecprgender.bsky.social?

Lovely and cosy PhD mini-conference on gender research with @killedbyproxy.bsky.social and more yesterday. Gained so much from hearing from people with completely different projects from queer culture to AI ethics, with methods from regression to ethnography, and still finding common threads.

Real-life implications of aid cuts by a "pr0-life" administration: maternal and infant deaths due to insufficient obstetric care www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I need to re-establish a network here since I no longer use That Other Platform so here's a picture of my dog wearing a headband, hope it helps, thanks

Hey @isanet.bsky.social this is probably on the minds of many prospective international #ISA2026 attendees, including myself—especially since we work in a field that's designed to be critical of governance structures. Any plans to reconsider the conference location? www.science.org/content/arti...

"The people most vulnerable in our society in terms of health and public safety are now even further at risk" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Timely post in the wake of the latest efforts to claim P@lest*nian territory

I asked Gemini to help me with R code. It gave me code that returned an error. It 'fixed' it then that returned a different error. It 'fixed' it then that returned the first error again. An infinite loop of errors, each one corrected with the deepest apologies. Eventually, it seems, I broke Gemini.

The hardest part of parenting in your 30s is putting your sleeping child down gently and attempting to sneak away while avoiding the sonic boom caused by your knees cracking

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

An excellent piece by Priya Vijaykumar Poojary in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on what it'll take to achieve a true #globalIR. The title got me ready to argue, but the message is clear: we need to move beyond cultural essentialism. theloop.ecpr.eu/potential-pi... #poliscisky #ecpr #academicsky

Big social science news! The International Studies Association pulls its X presence, moves to Bluesky and will monitor meta social media to decide whether to pull out from there too. @isanet.bsky.social

Haven't been here much since the app formerly known as Twitter blew up. Anyone still around? 👋🏾 What's the vibe?