Daniela Lai

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

Congratulations Elliot! 🙌

Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine has finally been released! Please ask your local or university library to get it! You can also use my author code (BUP50) if you'd really like to get it epub or hard-copy
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...

Join us in Izmir next July for #EWIS2026!

Flotilla: "Ecco l'istante in cui la Family Boat è stata colpita dall'alto" La missione umanitaria afferma di essere stata attaccata da un drone in acque tunisine e pubblica un video. Le autorità locali smentiscono

www.rainews.it/video/2025/0...

Thank you!

Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25

Happy news! Many congratulations Ellie!

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social

Very happy to have this article out with RIPE:
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you Polly! The plan is to sleep for the whole weekend

Also raise your hand if you
organised #EWIS2025 and then missed most of it because of tonsillitis 🙋 (secondary point compared to the fact I live in a country that thinks direct action is more dangerous than than committing genocide)

Nice to have landed back in the UK as it confirms its sure and steady decline into authoritarianism

Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies

How the dismantling of Iran’s regional proxies paved way for Israel’s attack Netanyahu has been systematically and successfully weakening his regional foes, now Tehran is in the crosshairs

The original title of this article, straight out of 2003, was that Israel's attack has a "real chance of bringing about regime change" in Iran. With not a hint of criticism.

EISA statement on attacks to higher education funding across Europe

EWIS 2025 graphic reads: #EWIS2025. 12th European Workshops in International Studies. Hybrid, Liminal, Ambiguous? International Politics 'In-between'. 2-4 July 2025. Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

🎉 The full programme for #EWIS2025 is now available on our website: bit.ly/3TcCKjh

🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...

"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Took me a while to find time to read this, but I'm glad I did www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My thoughts on the government intervention to save British Steel

Many @europeanisa.bsky.social colleagues have received phishing emails from me.

Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.

Call for Papers Political Studies Association Teaching and Learning Network Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Theme: Teaching Well4th-5th September 2025 This year’s PSA TLN annual conference will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey. ...

Sharing the PSA Teaching and Learning conference call for abstracts! It's at Royal Holloway this year, send your abstracts by 17 April to Nat and Lyn: full info at the link! www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

This is us now. Happy days in UK HE!

Phew! I already feel better 🤦‍♀️

So lucky I got to spend time with these amazing, inspiring people in Liverpool! Thank you @matesuba.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social and Nina for bringing us together

Tuğba Bayar (Bilkent University) Samarjit Ghosh (Özyeğin University) Laura Horn (Roskilde University) Sibel Karadağ (Kadir Has University) Gustav Meibauer (Radboud Universiteit) Iratxe Perea Ozerin (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)) Francesco Ragazzi (Leiden University) Eric Sangar (Sciences Po Lille / CERAPS, University of Lille) Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England) Rens van Munster (Danish Institute for International Studies) Štěpánka Zemanová (Prague University of Economics and Business)

🗳️ 11 EISA members have been shortlisted for election to the Governing Board!

📩 Members will receive a voting link via email

🗓️ Voting is open until 21 April 2025 13:00 CET

⬇️ Candidate profiles below...

We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.

The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.

I’m grateful to @danielalai.bsky.social for such an insightful review of my book Reconciliation by Stealth & noting its relevance also for studies of colonialism, racism & climate justice @cornellupress.bsky.social