I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

‘Putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity. It remains unclear whether young men will do better under Trump, but at least they will feel pandered to.’ Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

🚨 Job @ Bath 🚨 The Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at @uniofbath.bsky.social is hiring a teaching focused lecturer w. experience in IPE & Enviro Politics (1 year fixed term) Closing date: 8 Sept Interview date: 18 Sept Start date: 29 Sept www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on feminist foreign policy, Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP. polisky gendersky buff.ly/6KMiKCi

Great piece of writing - really balanced attempt to understand a very complex political figure.

V important to call out the strategic use of gender in anti-immigrant politics. Our research shows femonationalism is growing across Europe -- used most (but not only!) by the far right, esp when party rivals converge on anti-immigration positions. Working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in: 🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies 📝 Political theory inc history of political thought 📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR Apply here 👉

It was a pleasure to review Elise Stephenson’s @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social fantastic new book ‘The Face of the Nation’ - important book for anyone interested in gender and diplomacy/feminist institutionalism: www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas. gendersky polisky buff.ly/BPtbILd

Great PhD positions at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the ERC PERIODS project for anyone interested in the politics of menstruation, focussing on South Africa/Roma www.wur.nl/en/research-...

Good step that Chevening scholars from Gaza will be supported in getting to the UK, and hopefully this can be extended to others with university offers and scholarships www.thetimes.com/article/bf52...

An unregulated 'market' like this is simply very dangerous for UK HE. And underneath the top line figures, departments apparently have little say in whether they 'expand'.

“Why now? Why, after twenty-two months of complacency and complicity, have some European and American elites suddenly changed their tone? The conceit that the basic facts or circumstances have changed—that real alarm was inappropriate until now—defies all serious analysis.”

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

One of the students in Gaza with a funded university place in the UK has written about her story for @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

🚨New on the Blog: After 25 years of bipartisan commitment to Women Peace & Security, the UK gov't suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @jamiejhagen.bsky.social make the case for gender equality & inclusion in UK policy. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/08/04/2...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so. polisky gendersky buff.ly/01CLkVj

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP. polisky gendersky buff.ly/Y9B4uMH

Cool! "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" is no.1 on the @iajournal.bsky.social summer reading list. 👇☀️😎🥂👇 @princetonupress.bsky.social

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde present an autoethnographic examination of Mexico's FFP asking who benefits and why. polisky gendersky buff.ly/h847vP3

‘it won’t be possible anymore for the liberal American intelligentsia to run up massive intellectual and moral deficits with American power as the invisible reserve currency.’ A gloriously, righteously angry piece of writing.

Fascinating - even if one of the students "suspects university authorities are unaware of how widespread the practice is." They're really not. They (we) just don't know what on earth to do about it.

Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.

New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men. You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation. The job: 18 months full-time, London or remote qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

I'm so happy about @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and my new article with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 🥰. We draw on @maxczollek.bsky.social and @mamjahid.bsky.social 's work to show how claims of historical responsibility in Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy towards colonialism sustain coloniality /1

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

The first article and Notes from the Field from our Special Issue with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social on #feministforeignpolicy is online now! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social The first Notes looks at how FFP has influenced donor funding on peacebuilding:

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ Extraordinary work by my colleagues here on.ft.com/4kE1EUn

My department at Lund University recruits 3 Associate Senior Lecturers (BUL) Gender studies: lnkd.in/dPzNNC7G; Social anthropology: lnkd.in/deXFaPXf; Sociology: lnkd.in/dK5BnZxz. Positions correspond to tenure-track (50/50 research/teaching) w/h permanent employment after 4 yrs. Apply by 31 August!

📢 Call for Papers WORKSHOP: Gender, Peace, and Security: Resistance and Resilience Nairobi, 1-3 December, hosted by British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) with @rvinews.bsky.social ➡️ Application deadline 13 August! @statsvitenskap.bsky.social #resilience #gender #climate #peacebuilding

Dani Garavelli once again being the only journalist to give a damn about Scotland’s national tragedy, drug deaths

“Statutory maternity leave allows most new mums and birthing parents to take up to 52 weeks off work. Statutory maternity pay is paid for up to 39 weeks” right yes I wonder if anyone in government can see the GLARING PROBLEM with this

Job! Assistant Prof in IR (Conflict & Security) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...

I have this pinned up in my office. I can’t remember where I first saw it. But it’s key to a lot of radical politics.

Shock study finds that women IR scholars are less likely to BS than male IR scholars... Who knew?

Hey academic journal editors: please set up systems to send reviewers automated reminders a week before, two days before, and the day a review is due. Why do not all do this? And why on *earth* do most not auto send you the article you have reviewed once it is published? Easy way to get citations.

As the lead up to the appointment of the next #UN #SecretaryGeneral picks up pace, here's my explainer article on the selection process & why there's momentum to appoint a woman, despite backlash/backsliding on gender #equality among some member states @oupolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n6w7ftp

The government response to this petition is infuriating. “Maternity and other types of Parental Pay are intended to provide a measure of financial security to support parents whilst they are away from the workplace; they are not a replacement of earnings” except they literally are??? Please sign:

A normative question here. If student evals are... -biased against women, minorities, etc.; -responsive to irrelevant information (remember the cookies study a few years ago?); & -at bottom feedback from inexperienced non-experts... ... do we really want profs being responsive to them?

I did an interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. We talked about contemporary feminism, masculinities, gender-based violence and abortion rights in northern Ireland. @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social Recording here - newbooksnetwork.com/womens-troub...

‪🧵Not yet peer reviewed. But also: decisions are already being made with no research. “What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Honoured to host an in conversation with Profs Fiona Mackay and Yvonne Galligan to celebrate the amazing contribution they have made to academia and specifically the study of gender and politics

What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]

Peter Krykant kept the lives being lost to drugs in the public eye & shamed the Scottish gov into action. His van prevented overdoses & and continues to so as, without it, The Thistle wouldn’t exist. It was a privilege to know him. I hope he’s at peace. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/peter-k...

Liverpool John Moores employs about 2,500 people, UCLan employs more than 3,300. If Dan Carden and Jonathan Hinder want to close those universities they’ll have a lot of people in their constituencies suddenly out of a job.

Also pretty important to distinguish between “workplace DEI” meaning “some bullshit training they make us do every year” and “workplace DEI” meaning “hiring women and people of colour and not firing people for being gay”

Sure Start was basically cost neutral (-£300m) and generated huge individual and social benefits. Are we sure there's no way of accounting for these preventative impacts in public accounting?

There's concern about "menstrual cycles & how they might disrupt or muddy the data & create noise. And yet, that’s the noise of real life – that’s the noise in which women take medicine, so we need to understand it." I spoke w @chemistryworld.com abt including women in research tinyurl.com/yjpx98mb