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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Had the pleasure of thinking with and being probed by these wonderful minds as part of the #EWIS2025 opening sessions. Maybe there is some hope in these transitional, liminal times…

In case you ever feel like a waste of space whose job is bullshit… Jokes aside, how does shit always seem to float (into power)?

Asked DALL-E to give me Moo Deng but Christmassy… didn’t expect a recipe 🦛🆘

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Are you doing simulations in IR? Consider using ChatGPT to help you design and run gameified learning exercises. It reduces time & resources, works as a sparring partner, and can be fully randomised. I wrote about this for the pedagogical course I took at Copenhagen Uni: curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfil...

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Listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning and in light of the revelations from the UK Covid inquiry about senior civil servants’ communications during the pandemic, it’s very clear that many of the UK’s political leadership are incompetent donkeys who can’t formulate independent arguments 🫏

Hard copies of my article with @whereisdean.bsky.social just arrived! It's on Queering the Responsibility to Protect and the need to integrate queer perspectives and persecution into research policy and practice on R2P. Article Open Access here! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

Come join us in NYC on 23 Oct for the launch of our paper 'Queer Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations Independent Expert on SOGI' 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇳 Register: eventbrite.com/e/queer-peace-… Paper: https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/369349432/Queer_Peace_Design_Report_v3_single_page.pdf

Reviewing the final proofs for the outcome document of a truly collaborative venture. This one is something I’m really proud of and super excited to deliver 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 more soon…