Prof Katy Parry

Why Trump’s speech to US military top brass was such a disaster | Sidney Blumenthal The president of the United States seemingly does not understand what the military is for

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📘 Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler — edited by Stephen Coleman, Frank Esser @esserfrank.bsky.social, Julie Firmstone, Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social and Chris Paterson. Part of the Palgrave/IAMCR series

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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

Repeal the 20th Century www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Teaching and Learning Network Webinar – ‘Prior Attainment Affects Uptake of genAI-Based Learning Activities’ with Dr Barbara Piotrowska | The Political Studies Association (PSA) ‘Prior Attainment Affects Uptake of genAI-Based Learning Activities’ with Dr Barbara Piotrowska, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy, Department of Political Economy, King's College…

*PSA EVENT* How do #students with different academic backgrounds engage with #genAI when given equal access? Join us and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social online for this #Teaching & #Learning Network webinar
📆 15 October, 2.30 - 4.30pm
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Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities

✍️ Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism

Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities

New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men.
You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation.
The job: 18 months full-time, London or remote qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Race and Media Conference A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies

New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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.

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Programme now online🚨for our Teaching & Learning Network Conference, Bringing together the teaching and learning community to share practices, ideas and experiences @psateach.bsky.social
📆 4 - 5 September @royalholloway.bsky.social.
➡️ book your ticket

PSA Early Career Network - Call for New Committee Members | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Expressions of interest are invited by midday GMT, Monday 7 July Do you want to enhance your project management skills? Grow your professional development? Make new contacts and build your networks?…

*PSA OPPORTUNITY* 🚨 Seeking new members to join PSA Early Career Network Committee. @psaecn.bsky.social‬
📆 7 July for expressions of interest. Open to all.
➡️ Full details online. buff.ly/tQSYJSF
#MondayMotivation #EarlyCareer

Honoured to have our article with @olgarithmic.bsky.social in the 15-Year Anniversary SI of the @mwcjournal.bsky.social. In the introduction, @katyjparry.bsky.social looks back on the developments of the field, featuring @richardstupart.com's reflection on the emergent critical ethics towards war.

Trump ‘harming’ US IQ with attacks on education – Percival Everett Acclaimed American writer Percival Everett is best known for his sharp satirical takes on race and American culture.

Trump ‘harming’ US IQ with attacks on education – Percival Everett

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Exciting! @katyjparry.bsky.social with the introduction for the special issue of our 15th anniversary issue of Media, War and Conflict - trends in the field over 15 years, and what these new articles offer: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you for this brilliant chapter, Curd!

✨NEW BOOK CHAPTER OUT✨
The Phantom Counter-Public:
Liberal Responsiveness to Far-right Information Networks as the Next Crisis of Public Communication.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In: Coleman et al.: Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler.
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‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival The theme of this year’s celebrated photo bonanza is ‘humanity’ – and Kyoto is bursting with images

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UK journalists in the 2020s This analysis of original survey data reveals the profile, practices, and perceptions of UK journalists in the 2020s, including a shift away from permanent contracts and lingering inequalities.

📣It's out!📣
- Who are UK journalists?
- How do they work?
- What do they think?
Answers now in our major new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...

Huge, heartfelt gratitude to all 1,130 journalists who took the time to answer our substantial survey!

By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!

Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.

📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)

More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

Marketing and Audience Development Manager at University of Leeds Find your next professional services job in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now for the Marketing and Audience Development Manager role and more.

“Working collaboratively with our cultural producers, you will help us to develop a coherent, audience-focused programme that reflects our unique offer.” #AcademicJob www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM370/m...

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

Social Inequality and British Documentary Style: Bert Hardy’s photographs for Picture Post magazine, 1940-57 at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Social Inequality and British Documentary Style: Bert Hardy’s photographs for Picture Post magazine, 1940-57 at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Dr Tom Allbeson will be co-supervising an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded studentship in collaboration with the V&A which will explore the work of photojournalist, Bert Hardy, for the photo-magazine Picture Post.

More information⤵️
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Installation by Sarah Roberts of pastel green home care room

Lavender medical equipment used to care for someone at home

Phenomenal installation piece by Sarah Roberts @lulgalleries.bsky.social equal parts joyful and heart rending on the concept and construct of care. It’s also really beautiful. One not to miss.

Responsible-ish GenAI dos and don’ts: text edition — Careful Industries Seven things to bear in mind and three responsible-ish AI strategies

Because of what I do at work, people quite often ask me about "more responsible" ways to use GenAI, so I've written a blog post with 7 things to look out for and 3 ways of making intentional choices when using text generators
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

The harmful consequences for humans of getting rid of ‘woke’ in AI Trump’s Big Bang of executive bans has prohibited federal use of certain words: it will have an impact on the future of us all

✍️ The harmful consequences of getting rid of ‘woke’ in AI

Trump’s Big Bang of executive bans has prohibited federal use of certain words: it will have an impact on the future of us all

By Professor Juliet Lodge

@julietl.bsky.social

Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

Submission www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums:

"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"

Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Drone wars: how Ukraine can help Europe win the next conflict Ukraine will build millions of drones this year to help it fight its war with Russia.

Drone wars: how Ukraine can help Europe win the next conflict

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three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

literally every time I talk to friends

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At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.