‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities
Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research
Austria being saucy and wonderful:
1️⃣ Announced program for US academics on July 4 2025
2️⃣ Uses money originally seeded by the Marshall Plan
3️⃣ Funds 25 refugee scientists with €500,000.
4️⃣ Formal statement: "Thank Trump for this brain gain”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
10.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Can't wait to present my co-authored paper 'Irish (Americans) and the Performative Politics of the Great Famine' with @michaeltoomey.bsky.social as part of a panel titled Memory, Migration, and Affective Histories in Motion!
11.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to presenting 'A "nuclear bomb" of sexual assaults: a Fanonian analysis of the phallus in contemporary British anti-immigration discourse' with my co-author @harokarkour.bsky.social in June. Here's hoping for sunny, warm weather in Brighton!
11.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!!
Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Participant registration deadline: 2 March
See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️
@simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
12.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 12 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 4
Call for papers: Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea
Workshop.
1/2 Excited to announce our Call for Abstracts for the next Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop, hosted by colleagues at the University of Copenhagen August 20-21, 2026
This year, we also welcome work that looks beyond the North Sea. nors.ku.dk/english/cale...
10.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Throwback to a simpler time when my co-author @comicpolitics.bsky.social and I penned this little gem - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
11.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Image of article
Happy to launch on Bluesky with an update about my recent co-authored piece with Rhys Crilley in Place Branding & Public Diplomacy - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
11.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Official account for the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Chancellor's Prof. at Univ. of Tennessee, Former Pres. of AAG, Geographer of Memory, Race, Social Justice, Naming, Mapping, Tourism, SE USA http://mlkstreet.com http://tourismreset.com https://derekalderman.com/
Geographer. Geographical thought & practice, philosophy of geog, epistemic pluralism, geomorphology, higher ed.
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Cultural geographer, Humboldt foundation fellow at the HU Berlin. Writes on play, work, urban gardens, trees, multispecies commons, climate crisis, mobility, travel, ethnography, photography and participatory design.
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geopolitics, environmental change, border disputes and polar geopolitics. Hon Fellow of British Antarctic Survey.
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Assoc Professor of History - State University of New York, NCC - with an interest in travel, cultural geopolitics, nationalism, popular culture, potent potables, and the Oxford comma. Any foul language and all views expressed are my own.
Transactions is a geography journal which publishes high-quality papers and interventions that make a substantial theoretical or empirical contribution to the discipline. Edited by Beth Greenhough, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @kbrickell.bsky.social.
Political geography mostly
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Work = Professor. IR, security, terrorism. US, UK, Australia (so, AUKUS). Discourse, culture, narrative etc. Pro-Dean Research. Edit BJPIR. Own views. https://profjackholland.com
Life = Dad, mainly. Like Arsenal, running, beer, and 90's guitars
Professor of International Relations at @glasgow.ac.uk. But mostly hiking, cycling, and running around Scotland.
Professor of Environmental History at University of Stavanger, Norway. Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. Photographer, author, boardgamer. More at finnarne.net. Portrait photo: Kristin Aafløy Opdan.
Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff Uni. Researching populist parties and movements. New book out now: “Europe’s Populist Condition” https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-populist-condition
Canadian in Oz. IR academic. History of international ordering, history of international thought. He/him. Book, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination." https://bit.ly/3h86v4Y
Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University. Political Psychology. Polarization. Political Communication.
