🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨
What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered?
In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25
#PSA26
Delighted, as Head of Division for Politics & IR, that our department is recruiting a Lecturer in Environmental Politics on an open-ended teaching & research contract.
If anybody wants to chat informally about the position, I’ll be @ PSA Annual Conference next week.
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
A pleasure to contribute to this Forum on @drljshepherd.bsky.social and @paulcinnamon.bsky.social recent book
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace
Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who…
US expands Mexico City policy to bar any aid going to projects that contain gender or DEI
So almost anything on poverty, rights, climate, or health
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
📢 ISA Members: The Women's Caucus is now accepting nominations for 5 executive comm positions, including Program Chair/Incoming Chair for 2026-2028. As current program chair/incoming chair, I'd be happy to answer any questions about our work. Join us! @isanet.bsky.social
So while preparing slides was once again been reminded of this little mystery....Huge gender gaps in support for 2 parties - Reform and Greens. Both genders are more likely to support the Greens, and gender gap in Green support is larger. But all the discussion focuses on young men & Reform
30,000 jobs gone in three years. Before the national insurance increase and the international student levy hits.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
Can’t imagine I’ll read a better book this year.
After her last interview in @theguardian.com just last week, it's immensely sad to announce the death of Diane Munday at 94. Patron of @humanists.uk (first joining 70 years ago!), friend and mentor. Her exemplary life as an activist will be a permanent inspiration. humanists.uk/2026/01/11/h...
'Every woman knows what I’m talking about.'
Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
Notes from the field titled "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa" by Toni Haastrup.
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy", @tonihaastrup.bsky.social explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
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Notes from the field titled "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America" by Daniela Sepúlveda
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America", Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP.
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Notes from the field titled "Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding" by Niklas Balbon and Younna Christiansen.
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In their notes from the field, "Troubled Encounters", @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen outline the challenges of implementing a feminist foreign policy in the context of peacebuilding.
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Notes from the Field titled "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada" by Katrina Leclerc
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In her notes from the field "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy", @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so.
gendersky polisky
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Research article titled "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber and Madita Standke-Erdmann
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In "Claiming Historical Responsibility", @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
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Research article titled "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden" by Jennifer Thomson and Leslie Wehner.
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context.
Available #OpenAccess
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Editorial titled "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power" by Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Toni Haastrup, and Jennifer Thomson.
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice.
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Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access!
@tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
“…if you really want to know a nation, and to experience its collective mind, instead of tying tatty flags to lamp-posts you might want to get thee to a library, any library, but especially the British Library.”
From a speech Zadie Smith gave on the BL picket line. 👏👏
"Only five objects we have crafted here on Earth are now drifting towards infinity, and four of them tell a lie about half of humankind"
#astronomy #nasa
A hilarious and terrifying read about Facebook (although Facebook have spent lots of money ensuring their name is removed from the cover and blurb.) Recommended reading for anyone who has ever used social media!
Also all sounds v reminiscent of Scottish politics of last ten years - Labour rested on their laurels to the gain of nationalists.
Anywhere but Westminster remains some of the best political journalism in the UK. Well worth watching.
