Clare Rice

Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not

Interesting work here confirming what all Politics ECRs have been experiencing in recent years with the academic job market - something that will only continue to get worse as unis move through crisis after crisis...

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If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

Great to join 'View From Stormont' last night for a wide-ranging discussion on welfare reform, VAWG in NI, Labour's first year, and standards in the NI Assembly

Available here on catch-up 📺: www.itv.com/watch/news/v...

25 June 2025 - Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 10:00 - Room 2, Palace of Westminster

Tomorrow at 10.15 we will be hearing from Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP and Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP for the final session of our inquiry into 'Strengthening Northern Ireland's Voice in the Context of the Windsor Framework' committees.parliament.uk/event/24410/...

What Executive should do to fix government by status quo It’s over 500 days since the Assembly and Executive were restored in February 2024. This marked the end of a second long-term government collapse within the past decade.

A useful summary article of @pivotalpolicy.bsky.social's recent report on 'Policy Delivery in Northern Ireland' in today's BelTel: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news...

Full report available to read here: www.pivotalpolicy.org/assets/files...

UCU members at the University of Edinburgh are striking today, with further dates planned for the start of next term 🗓

But the problems aren't just being seen in Edinburgh - UKHE as a whole is in a dire situation currently

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now published on @publiclaw.bsky.social

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Back home after a great few days with QUALREP colleagues at our annual in-person meeting.

Team members from all 5 countries - Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and the UK - came together in London to reflect on progress to date and to discuss the next stages of the project.

Exciting work ahead!

Lovely pic! Sending every best wish that he begins to feel better soon 🐾

The first 20-25min of this committee hearing are worth watching in full: www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...

ECN Annual Conference: Politics in an Age of Uncertainty | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Call for Papers Open!Closing date for applications is 5pm GMT Friday 20 June 2025 FREE, ONLINE EVENT!

*PSA EVENT - CALL FOR PAPERS* ECN Annual Conference - Politics in an Age of Uncertainty. Organised by PSA #EarlyCareer Network @psaecn.bsky.social‬
📆 21 - 24 July, Online.
🚨 Paper proposal deadline 20 June.
➡️ Full details online.

The PVV has left the Dutch coalition. What does this mean? Will there we be new elections? When? Who will win? Which government will form? 🧵

Great to join @vickihawthorne.bsky.social and Suzanne Breen from @belfasttelegraph.co.uk on View From Stormont to discuss some of the big news topics of the week

Catch it tonight on UTV at 10.45pm 📺

A quick reminder that the last seminar in our series for this term will be happening online tomorrow 💫

Join us to hear about the QUALREP project from PIs @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and @profsarahchilds.bsky.social

We hope you can join us!

@edinburghpir.bsky.social

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It really is astonishing that there isn't more attention being given to what is happening in UK universities at the moment

The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde

From Bluesky to the Guardian!

In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

cc @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social @ucdgender.bsky.social @cambridgegender.bsky.social @cwgpp.bsky.social @psawomenpol.bsky.social @winls.bsky.social @psaecn.bsky.social

QUALREP

💫QUALREP Gender and Politics Seminar💫

We're putting our own PIs in the hot seat for the final seminar this term - @profrosiecamp.bsky.social & @profsarahchilds.bsky.social!

Event details:

📆 Wed 28 May
⏰3-4pm GMT
📍Online - register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfd7b0...

www.qualrep.org

Some thoughts on the UK-EU “reset” deal announced today at Lancaster House (focusing on what was actually agreed , not the politics):

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#Eurovision time - hoping Bluesky becomes the hive of activity that the other place used to be at this time of year 🎶

📣 NEW REPORT 📣

Here's our latest report by @jreland.bsky.social on Regulating after Brexit. It examines how much the UK has made use of its 'Brexit freedom' to deregulate from the EU that formed a key part of the Conservative vision of Brexit

Take a look below for some of its key findings 👇

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We go live to the UK Govt (again and again) encountering afresh its legal commitments regarding NI in the immigration context:

Over last year I've been building a Senedd Election Simulator tool. It gives a useful (I hope!) visual explainer of how the new election system turns votes into seats.

🧵 on some of what it can do below:

jaclarner.github.io/senedd_ethol...

Meetings of the EU-UK Joint and Specialised Committees Find out about the meetings of the EU-UK Joint and Specialised Committees, Joint Consultative Working Group and Annual reports under the Withdrawal Agreement.

Brexit law

Joint statement from this week's meeting of the Joint Committee implementing the withdrawal agreement - along with adopted decisions applying some more EU law to Northern Ireland, and declarations on movement of parcels to Northern Ireland - commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

Edinburgh in bloom 🌸

Limits to the UK Supreme Court’s Reach: Northern Ireland, the Windsor Framework and Trans Rights Introduction The judgment in For Women Scotland (FWS) Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (‘FWS’) has sent a great many sectors across the UK scrambling to find out what, exactly, they are …

Me, @colinmurray.bsky.social , @anuragdeb.bsky.social & @sylviademars.me on the FWS judgment and the limits of its reach in Northern Ireland

administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/l...

UK university redundancies: latest updates As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...