Dr Natalie Jester

Thought I'd make a thread of all of my publications, for easy access! First up is 'Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity?' in Media, War and Conflict doi.org/10.1177/1750...

Me watching the Star Trek Section 31 film:

☀️ June Issue 🎓️ Teaching & Learning @nataliejester.bsky.social, @apapamichail.bsky.social, @mlebourdon.bsky.social & @louisepears.bsky.social argue that teaching on global challenges should involve teaching with, through, & about social media as a place of politics. 👉 buff.ly/ybmtyPX

This is today! Sign up now and I can probably still grab you the link...

So, uh, the makers of Threads REALLY went for it, eh. Glad I watched it but probably never again!

Looking forward to watching Threads at @wshed.bsky.social this evening. Don't know much about it, so I can only assume that it is a nice, gentle film about sewing, and I will leave feeling all happy inside

Really enjoyed this workshop with Lisa Trainor today. Grateful to my UoG colleagues Ruffin and Sabina for organising it!

Over on Threads a woman is live-posting her first watch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is on season five and now knows about Dawn. From what I can tell, she is only a few episodes away from *that* huge surprise 😞 I am tense on her behalf!

Join us for our next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event! Title: Unsettling feelings: colonial archives, decolonial possibilities Speaker: Alice Finden (if we're lucky co-author Kavi Abraham will join, too) 2.00-3.30pm 23 June, online Register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @mybisa.bsky.social

That's a wrap on our first @mybisa.bsky.social conference as @cawpbisa.bsky.social! 10+ panels, lots of chairing, endless wonderful people and lots of ideas for next year. It has been a joy, though I may need a little while to recover...

Super excited for @mybisa.bsky.social conference this week. I'll be speaking at the ECR day on Tuesday and chairing a few @cawpbisa.bsky.social panels (in addition to co presenting my own paper on sexuality, militarisation and secrecy). Do say hi if you see me!

Really enjoying the @astropoliticswg.bsky.social event this afternoon! It's titled "Holding up the skies: is Starlink occupying low Earth orbit?" (by Mia M. Bennett and Zachary Cudney), and can be found here, for those interested: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I resisted the urge to work over the bank holiday, when I absolutely needed to rest instead. Please clap

Saw a preview of Sheep Detectives today and I absolutely loved it. Silly, weird, heartfelt fun - absurdly good cast, too. Would recommend! Two facts: 1) the sheep are CGI (not AI) and they used real reference sheep to design them; 2) it was written by Craig Mazin who also wrote... Chernobyl.

We have a new article! 'Doing world politics and social media: Digital practice and open education in international relations' in @epsjournal.bsky.social Written with the fantastic @apapamichail.bsky.social, @mlebourdon.bsky.social & @louisepears.bsky.social

There is still time to sign up for this - rebellion is a really important topic at the moment!

The next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event features the brilliant @crossdale.bsky.social! It is on 25 March at 2pm, online. To read more and register, follow the link below www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Happy International Women’s Day! Please enjoy this article I wrote with Rosie Walters in 2024. We explore the IWD communications from arms manufacturers, arguing that these function as a form of gender washing (whereby discourses of progress obscure violence) doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC. We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU

Watching The Muppet Show and eating garlic bread: the perfect evening.

📢📢We are very excited to announce our first virtual seminar as a BISA working group! 📢📢 Join us for this excellent talk with Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.

I'm doing a writing retreat and have reached my writing goal a day early! My chapter now stands at 8,025 words. I guess tomorrow can be an editing day now!

Starting 2026 as I mean to go on: by watching Muppets Treasure Island

Happy new year from the UK! My next new year's resolution is to eat pasta shapes I have never tried before (suggestions welcome...)

Please enjoy this outstanding fact

Out now! This new article, by @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social is well worth a read, I highly recommend it: Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

Google Scholar tells me that I've just reached my 150th citation 😃

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Please enjoy the Christmas decorations on the @wshed.bsky.social tree

One more day of writing retreat left and it needs to be a good one 😬 4,000 words written so far!

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Didn't win the research award I was nominated for, but I did get something better: a Students' Union award for exceptional support beyond teaching, decided upon following nominations from students across the whole university! 🥹

This sounds very cool!

Voluntarily inducing Whamageddon myself today, because Last Christmas is an excellent song and I will not stand for any anti-George Michael sentiment in this house