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New term, new topic, new ways of learning. If you’re teaching Intro to IR this year, here’s some ideas (and a free resource) to help new students bridge the gap from bite size online shorts to deeper undergraduate learning. www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/mak...

Three years of production with a great team of colleagues and very excited to be at the start of our new IR module for @openuniversity.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social And an extra shout-out to @preciouschatd.bsky.social for being the best co-chair!

On the role of purges in perpetuating autocratic social systems

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

I thought dictatorships were meant to be good at sporting spectacles.

Has this half time show had been choreographed by ChatGPT?

Came on for snarky comments about the half time show, and BlueSky did not disappoint!

Two intense days in Paris, sharing findings from our War and Order project with @maudinet.bsky.social, Daniel Stockemer and featuring research from @gulnazsibgatullina.bsky.social 📈 Methods masterclass 🗣️ Conference on Russian influence efforts in the ‘Global South’ 📢 Stratcom Policy workshop

Preparing for the academic job market cycle but feeling a bit lost? I'm (re)sharing a piece I wrote for last year's @epssnet.bsky.social diversity panel. It includes my application data and qualitative excerpts. Main point: address a mix of person, project, and place. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...

Are you dreaming of studying music at Masters level but worried about the cost? The Margaret Wooder Studentships could cover your full tuition fees for our MA Music programme. ✅ Part One fees fully funded ✅ Part Two fees funded on passing Part One at merit or distinction level

I knew this text would not be welcomed by all. And that’s OK.

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📜 Programme overview now available | GCSJ Research Festival 2026 (2–3 June) Explore the 4th Annual GCSJ Research Festival—two days of global challenges research, panels & discussion (in person + online). @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social @colinlorne.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV asks faithful to remember journalists who have lost their lives pursuing the truth.

"We were honoured and very moved last week to receive a message of solidarity with the Truth Tellers Summit from His Holiness Pope Leo the 14th." A few of the opening remarks from @tinabrownlm.bsky.social #sirharrysummit

Our 2027 virtual conference #VirtualBISA2027 call & homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉 Submissions for papers open on 5 May 🌟 Find our call for papers here 👉 https://virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers Simon Rushton Jamie J. Hagen @julietdryden.bsky.social City St George's, University of London

New OA article: Russia’s low-level agents: characteristics, roles and organisational structure of covert operatives in Europe, 2022–2025 by @bartschuurman.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

A change is as good as a rest

Ever wonder how the #media influences #populism? I mean, beyond the tiring enemy-of-the-people shtick. Well, @preciouschatd.bsky.social and @rhyscrilley.bsky.social have got you covered. In chapter 4 of our book, they dig into the media ecology that makes populism go transnational. #MediaStudies

If you’re on a permanent contract, are hiring postdocs or fellows on the basis of a shiny new grant (hello ERC or UKRI FLF!), advise PhD students, and/or have any sort of say on hiring within your department, you should attend our report launch examining the UK politics/IR job market #psa26

I wrote about why this report is not business as usual in the current political moment open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

What if they opened their mouths and killer wasps came out but also the wasps were robots and the robots had nuclear bombs in them? What then?

Some entertaining solutions for a stupid problem. Exhibit A

Event link tinyurl.com/39zsat6y Feel free to share with your networks @gunjans.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social @preciouschatd.bsky.social @drdonnasmith.bsky.social @filippoboni.bsky.social @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @simonusherwood.bsky.social @drgholmes.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑: #𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 Folks, I’ve got some tremendous news. The second edition of my co-edited volume—alongside the great David B. Macdonald and Dirk Nabers—is out now: 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴.

My latest media interview based on my research for my new book, 'The Return of Russia' (@yalebooks.bsky.social) is this podcast, recorded with Gemma Ware for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-putin-tu...

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Political Trust Network: Call for papers (Barcelona, October 2026) The young and fast growing academic 'Political Trust Network' organizes yearly workshops, where scholars of trust can meet up, present papers, and exchange ideas. These workshop have been brilliant, socially and professionally!

Similar findings to what @stevhutch.bsky.social Tolz @preciouschatd.bsky.social @rhyscrilley.bsky.social Gillespie found with RT in: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... Do Western diplomats and embassies need to learn how to navigate ambient parapolitics?

1/2 Great article by Noordenbos & Tuters: Russia is v.good at using digital platforms to narrate resistance to the West across the Global South. Its not just narrative content but how narrative elements circulate that creates effects - #ambient #parapolitics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🤔Worried you don't have the experience to be a peer reviewer? 🧠 The MOST important requirement is that you’re knowledgeable on the specific topic of the paper 🙌 ECR use the methods they will be reviewing daily & are THE BEST placed to identify strengths & weaknesses! Any questions? 📧 prx@ecpr.eu

Feeling pretty darn smug about tomorrow’s lunchbox game #poliscibakes

Master’s students and PhD candidates, your favorite Russian human rights media project, OVD-Info, is taking submissions for an award recognizing scholarly research on state repression, surveillance mechanisms, and censorship in contemporary Russia. ovd.info/en/oi-prize-...

A propos, well, everything these days

I can tell it’s gonna be a productive day today since I have a research assistant on hand :)

Congratulations to @preciouschatd.bsky.social and @maudinet.bsky.social on their fantastic blog on RT India being published on @uk.theconversation.com last week!

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Re-upping this funded PhD - please share widely!

Short blog from me and @maudinet.bsky.social about last week’s launch of the new RT India channel and what to expect from it, written for @uk.theconversation.com @oupolitics.bsky.social @ou-gcsj.bsky.social theconversation.com/rt-india-how...

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.