#OpEd Parents cannot just assume that their children will not be affected by attempts to brainwash them. They must take decisive action, recommends teacher Dima Zitser.

The militarization of Russian children continues: www.reuters.com/world/we-thr...

Lavrov wears a USSR sweatshirt, & people will still comment: "wHaT aBOuT NaTo?"

Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children. Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children. Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children. Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges...

Starting our ✨official✨ honeymoon off (only 10 months after the fact) with a wedding trip for friends! Looking less beaut, and much more travel friendly today as we start our journey to Chile! 🇨🇱

Last minute preparations are underway for my presentation at #IPSA2025 tomorrow morning. I'll be presenting mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work on a panel with my wonderful colleagues. If you're an early bird with an interest in Ukraine and Russia, come find us at 9am.

Attending Ban Ki Moon's keynote speech at #IPSA2025

I'm on my way to Seoul for #IPSA2025 to present mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on Russian youth militarization. This paper will eventually become the introduction to our book, and applies a feminist IR lens to youth militarization. Reach out if you want to meet for a ☕!

Who else is going to be at #IPSA2025 in Seoul? I'll be presenting mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on feminist approaches to Russian youth militarisation! Reach out if you fancy a coffee ☕

For the first time in years, I won't be at BISA 😭 will miss catching up with the BEST people. 💔

Oh noooo 🙄

🧵NEW research: How is the Russian state turning young people into patriots via Telegram? Spoiler: It’s not just about war—it’s about influencers. We analyzed hundreds of posts by two state youth leaders. What we found is disturbing.👇

A new Stalin monument in a Moscow metro station is not just historical revisionism — it is a signal. As Putin deepens authoritarian rule and isolates Russia from the West, the glorification of a dictator responsible for mass terror is no coincidence. Nearly 700,000 were executed under Stalin. 1/2

✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in @cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social! 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

My new favorite book

Ahead of #Russia's Victory Day celebrations tomorrow, my new piece co-authored with @jgmaber.bsky.social is out in The Conversation! It examines the Kremlin's obsession that its youth know and understand the #Kremlin's version of the past: theconversation.com/russia-looks...

"A celebration of military mothers", right up there with introducing patriotic education. Trump is taking another leaf out of Putin's book. 👀

I remember reading somewhere (though can't remember the exact source) that for fundamental change to happen, it needs to happen over roughly two generations (roughly 40 years).

Reform is pointing to Russia as a model. @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I study patriotic education in #Russia and it is not a harmless way of teaching young people about their history. You can read some of our research here - it's open access (free)! ⬇️ academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Just submitted a piece of mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work, so I've awarded myself by doing three loads of washing & spending some time reading in the garden.

ursula von der leyen tells zeit newspaper: “the west as we knew it no longer exists.” "europe is still a peace project. we don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. we don't invade our neighbors, and we don't punish them."

Eating & walking in a new city! ☀️🥶

I love my job, but by god I'm crawling towards the end of today and spring break 🌟

Here's a reminder that mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social 1st article from our joint research was published w/ @iajournal.bsky.social! If you're interested in youth militarisation in #Russia, political (ab)uses of history & role of emotions - then this could be for you: academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

It's been a busy day of writing, editing & cutting ✂️ BUT we've submitted our article @jgmaber.bsky.social ✨ 😴

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

I was really pleased to have Dr @lucatrenta.bsky.social deliver a lecture this week at @bathspauni.bsky.social to final year IR & History students taking my 'Cold War on the Periphery' module on his new book 'The President's Kill List' 🌟

we shouldn't be altering our behaviour as democratic citizens. I expect freedom of speech and the rule of law and won't adjust to creeping US autocratization by self-censoring. We should be exposing and confronting autocratization in whichever form we encounter it.

Does anyone have access to the chapter 'Multimodal discourse analysis' by Gunther Kress and Jeff Bezemer (2023) in the Routlefge Handbook of Discourse Analysis?

Just paid my IPSA registration 🤢 Need some time to recover, both emotionally & financially.

A lot of cherished values, institutions and communities are under threat around the world, but it’s a bright sunny day in #Aberystwyth and the daffodils are blooming. 🌼

It's been a week since our article 'Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia' was published in @iajournal.bsky.social ✨ Interested in #youth & #Russia & want to take a look? It's 🔓! academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Democracy can't be saved from our couches.

New publication! Delighted to see the first academic publication from the research collaboration with @allysonedwards1.bsky.social on youth militarization in Russia out in print. A short 🧵 (link to the article in the next post in the thread) 1/5

🚨 New publication alert! Very pleased to see mine & Dr @jgmaber.bsky.social work in @iajournal.bsky.social ✨ The work focuses on youth militarisation in #Russia through the concept of heroism. (🧵 1/3)

Hi there! 👋 I've had a few new followers, so thought I'd reintroduce myself. I'm Allyson, a feminist IR scholar working on #Russian & #Ukrainian youth militarisation & peace, patriotic education systems & (ab)use of history/ memory. (1/)

This is exactly what the meeting looked like.

Guess it's just Putin's world, and Trump is living in it.

Decent people thank Ukraine.

We need more empathy in politics, not small-minded assholes who feel the need to berat and ambush others on live TV. Trump's alliance with Putin shows weakness, not strength. His actions today show he's a coward.

Journalists, please do not describe what happened at the White House today as a "spat", "heated exchange" or as Zelensky-Trump "going at each other". Zelensky was ambushed by Vance while very calmly explaining why Ukraine needs security guarantees and doesn't trust a ceasefire...

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Outraged by what happened today in the White House? Support Ukrainian charities, like this one ⬇️

The insistence by Trump and Vance that Zelenskyy should be thankful & grateful for US support is v. uncomfortable. Zelenskyy has often shown his gratitude in speeches & official messaging. What they want is for him to bow at their feet. (1/)

Zelenskyy is the anti-imperialist leader of the century! Withstands russia's imperialist assault for 3yrs and now stands up to the American imperialists. Vance and Trump are a disgrace to the American people.

The treatment of Zelenskyy at his meeting with Trump is disgusting & disrespectful. It's very uneasy to watch.

Hmm, where have we seen this before?

”Several European diplomats speaking to Euractiv didn't mince words. One of them described the UN/G7 debacle over Ukraine wording as ‘total clusterfuck,’ while another went as far as to call Trump ‘Putin’s bitch.’” @alanderminna.bsky.social has written something every European should read

Do we get it now? Do we really understand what Trump 2.0 really is?

Three years on from #Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, I continue to support the notion: Nothing about Ukraine, without Ukraine. Paired with my (nearly 3-year old) favourite socks