Farage: "most migrants rely on benefits" Reality: migrants without a settled status do not have recourse to public funds, which means no access to benefits; not even access to refuge for some migrant victims of domestic abuse. If I lose my job, I've 60 days to find a new sponsorship or I'm out

After an elaborate process of assigning everyone who reposted a number based on the order in which reposted and asking my husband for his favourite number within the range, I'm delighted to say that the free copy will go to @malgault.bsky.social! 🎉

🚨🚨🚨my bestest best friend’s book is available to pre-order in the uk & you should absolutely drop everything you’re doing and go order it rn. it’s brilliant & got a ton of awards in ex-yu countries before being translated into English🚨🚨🚨 www.waterstones.com/book/say-fir...

"Girlhood At War" made it home! Unlike anything I’ve written before, this book is a personal story about growing up during Serbia's war against Kosovo and about finding myself, at 14, translating for US NATO troops in its aftermath. (Yes, the young girl in these pictures is me.)

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

Go, tell your libraries, quickly! www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:

'One can believe that Elvis Presley is alive and well and living in Moscow. However ... one’s conviction doesn't make it a legitimate opinion or ‘other side’ of a debate ... we must not succumb to the silly view that every idea is of equal validity and worth.' D. Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust

Serbia has steadily been "killing" the truth about the Srebrenica genocide and many other atrocities of the 1990s. This is state-sponsored violence. Youth Initiative for Human Rights and I trace the trajectories of denial and revisionism in Serbia since 2004 1/2 yihr.rs/en/killing-t...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Being a Balkan person in the West = a constant mismatch btw lived experiences back home v media discourse here For example When the Western media speaks of 'potential conflict resurgence' in Bosnia, we know it's just Dodik's empty threats But when we say Vučić is finished, nobody believes us

Vučić's regime has never been so weak. The protestors are now calling for civil disobedience across the country. Watch this space. www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

Now in English: "IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present."

If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further. The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic. This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

The book proofs have arrived—along with all the excitement and trepidation of sharing this deeply personal work with the world. Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo — coming soon from Rowman & Littlefield.

IUD insertion is the most painful experience I've ever had (and I've had quite a few). Once I was told to take Ibuprofen, the second time no pain relief at all. If I hear another medical/cosmetic professional compliment my pain threshold or say 'beauty is pain' ...

And regarding Starmer's speech: Immigration is already *a privilege* not a right as the NHS surcharge alone costs skilled workers more than £1,000 per year per person + visa fees. Permanent residence is already not automatically granted after 5 years. E.g., if you studied in the UK 1/

The "island of strangers" comment hurt me deeply. It makes it clear how this government wants to present us migrants: as exploitative leeches who do not integrate while reaping the benefits of the system. This is such a far right speak. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Recently I saw a disabled neighbour lying on the street with a head injury, bleeding. The ambulance took 4+ hours to arrive. Neighbours, nurses, passers-by came and went but the only person who stood by him the whole time, in scorching sun, was his Nigerian carer. This is such a harmful decision.

This Air France magazine is not giving me much confidence is their knowledge of maps 🫠

Why end-of-term student evaluation surveys are not a measure of anything and should be abolished exhibit 976 - a student's comment addresses my male colleague as Dr. First Name Last Name and me as 'Maja'. Classic.

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

New publication in the Journal of Strategic Studies (part of a special issue on "Reimagining COIN after Afghanistan): What lies over the Horizon? In this, I question the meaning of "over-the-horizon" counterterrorism, and what kinds of futures it points towards. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Correction: April 4!

As hundreds of my university colleagues across Wales lose their jobs, I wrote this for @nation.cymru - do please share nation.cymru/opinion/yes-...

The EU lost popular support in Serbia a while ago and some commentators blamed the regime's pro-Russian rhetoric for this. But it takes two to tango. If the EU had any hope to regain support, its silence on student-led protests has killed it. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

www.bbc.com/news/article... That would be one out of 20 Serbians

The largest rally in Serbia’s history is currently taking place in Belgrade. People are demanding the rule of law, democracy, and government accountability. The authoritarian regime of Aleksandar Vučić cannot provide this. It must go!

All eyes on Belgrade today. If you want to learn more about how to fight for democracy and dignity, pay attention to Serbia today for might as well be the biggest and most important protest in Vučić's reign. www.euronews.com/2025/03/14/t...

Six weeks ago today I and 1806 other academics @cardiffuni were told our jobs were at risk of redundancy. Six weeks on, and the University has failed to give us information promised in the consultation document which is crucial to the submission of critiques by Friday. nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

Tenure track professor (lecturer) in European and International Politics at our Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-T... Deadline to apply: March 30!

Gender is at work in Trump's bullying as he seeks to emasculate and dominate Zelenskyy by treating him as a woman he pays for sex who should be docile and thankful, whose physical appearance is up for a discussion, and who - and by extension here Ukraine too - he can own.

It seems like Transport for Wales has discovered time travel...

Zelenskyy disses the entire UN peacekeeping “I will be open with you, I don’t think that UN troops or anything similar has ever really helped anyone in history." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

So, coffee and cigarettes?🤔 www.vogue.co.uk/article/balk...

With all provision of modern and ancient languages to be cut, this signals a broader issue in the UK whereby arts and classics are a privilege accessible to the few who get to go to Oxbridge. The working class students - of which Cardiff has many - are to become 'workers', not 'intellectuals' 😱

Solidarity with hundreds of colleagues who have learned today that they are at risk of redundancy. This does feel like a direct attack on humanities. I hope we can fight and resist this together. ✊

Serbian PM resigning may be breaking news in Western media as a sign of appeasement or even accountability but he is largely irrelevant - Vučić's sacrificial lamb. The protestors' key demands still stand. Onwards and upwards! www.google.com/amp/s/www.rf...

Students who have been protesting and blockading all public universities in Serbia since last November have announced a 24-hour blockade of the Autokomanda interchange, starting on Monday at 10 a.m. (CET).

My first book, Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project is forthcoming with CUP in August 2025. I'll be on sabbatical in the fall semester and available for as many book talks, guest lectures, panels as you can think of! www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Extremely happy to be living in a land here addressed as 'a rampaging nightmare's favoring 'drugs, binge-drinking and Marxism.' 😌 If we are too woke for The Spectator it means we are doing something right.

Thousands of people gathered today in #Belgrade to demand accountability from the Vučić regime for the 15 lives lost in Novi Sad, in what appeared to be yet another corruption scandal. The protests are led by university students. More here: apnews.com/article/serb...

CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of @ceemr-journal.bsky.social edited by Bolaji Balogun, Kasia Kubin and myself - please share widely and send us your abstracts: 'Race-Making in the East of Europe: Understanding Imperial and Colonial Histories and their Afterlives': ceemr.uw.edu.pl/news

In the olden days Twitter helped me create a network of mentors/mentees with women and minority scholars. If we knew each other there or have just met here and you think your work on transitional/epistemic justice, norms, could benefit from my thoughts, let me know. It's my favorite kind of work.

I challenge The Guardian to publish one travel piece about the Balkans that doesn't reek of orientalism. Just one. www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...

Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague! @uupeace.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... and here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Conflictsky