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One of our members is seeking to get medical visa for his father, who is currently in Gaza. Please sign the petition here www.change.org/p/help-me-sa...?
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delighted that the brilliant Omar Khatib will be joining us here in St Andrews for “Queer Lives in Palestine: Settler Colonialism and Resistance” (Wednesday 15 April, 5-7pm, in School III). All are welcome! @ucustandrews.bsky.social

Lecturer - AC2864 at University of St Andrews An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer - AC2864 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

We are hiring at St Andrews International Relations! Looking for a lecturer with a specialisation in Russia. It's open to any methodological/theoretical approach, and it's permanent! See here for details www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY935/l... and do reach out for an informal chat if that's helpful.

Almost too on the nose that political scientist come far right firebrand Matt Goodwin used genAI to hallucinate the following quote:

“’The most dangerous experiments’ warned the economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, ‘are those conducted on entire societies.’”

Ice flight stopped at Shannon Airport on St Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians Private jet hired by Ice agency also stopped on its return journey to Arizona

Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians
So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

You know that episode of Community when the realise the "minus" part of their grades was made up?

This article is like that, but for global governance - we are governed by statistical guesstimates, made to look much more precise than they are in reality.

What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run

It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage

ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality?

Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive | Good Law Project We’re offering to defend the Women’s Institute and Girlguiding against trans exclusion

Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true.

We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course.

If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.

Melinda Cooper offering up one of the best analyses of Epstein. This approach understands the deeply gendered nature of the economics of it all, and the deeply economic nature of the gender politics.

ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality?

Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

But I thought he said the UK was full? 🧐

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Scylla and Charybdis — Sidecar On the protests in Iran.

My article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social:

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

In the Land of the Data Blind, by Jason Blakely Why political science can’t grasp Trumpism

Jason Blakely, "In the Land of the Data Blind"

"Political scientists subscribing to the dominant approaches to American government face what philosophers of science call an epistemological crisis..."

harpers.org/archive/2026...

Naoise has now been kidnapped by Israel.

Race Reports In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published a wide-ranging ‘Review of Race and History’ that attempts to confront its legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Four months earlier, the Universi...

UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

We had such a great time at our Research Day this week, hearing about the fascinating work of our members. Learn more about our research here cglg.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

WELCOME TO THE CGLG YouTube video by Centre for Global Law and Governance

Learn more about the Centre from our Co-Directors, @anettestimmer.bsky.social and @mergito.bsky.social youtu.be/VtdeVX-FDBg?...

University of St Andrews - End Link With Hebrew University Open letter from staff and students Link in bio

Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

Fascism in the UK:
- EHRC guidance that could ban trans people from public bathrooms, require service providers to 'guess' people's 'biological sex'
- An artist is charged with a terror offence for a performance
- period apps checked by police looking to prosecute abortions.

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

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Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out - with signatures To co-sign the statement, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiScaMEt5 (Please do not ‘request share’, rather, fill in the form ^ ^.) Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Sp...

Thousands of feminist academics and educators have signed this letter in support of trans rights and against the supreme court ruling (you can still sign!) - docs.google.com/document/u/0...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

St Andrews people - sign the letter calling on the University to condemn the Supreme Court ruling forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Rally for trans rights in St Andrews on Thursday at noon outside college gate.

See you there!

University Withholds Name of Donor Mentioned in Stella Maris Report Despite two Freedom of Information requests from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), the University of St Andrews continues to withhold the name of the “prospective funder” menti...

Is there a connection between the sacking of rector Stella Maris and the refusal to disclose the name of a University of St Andrews donor? Article worth reading from the University's magazine: www.thesaint.scot/post/univers...

University of Nottingham plans to cut more than 250 jobs Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a "critical moment for universities across the UK".

And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university.

But this is exactly why we have already started organising .