What (hu)man wears a three piece tweed suit (flat cap included of course) on a flight to Edinburgh?
My money is either on an American, or an English lit PhD student. The only rational explanations.
04.06.2025 08:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
20.05.2025 11:04 — 👍 12991 🔁 3828 💬 773 📌 1885
"At academic conferences, only pregnancy and recovery could explain someone not drinking."
This book is utterly insane and I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say I'd recommend it, but there's some real gems.
25.03.2025 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New article out in Security Dialogue: "Exceptional (In)security: The Vernacular Turn and Chronic Crisis in Sierra Leone."
This particular article, written with a fab colleague, has been quite a journey. They don't all just happen, but lovely to see it out!
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20.03.2025 09:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me: Don't be mad. I bought/ordered a lot of books while in Chicago.
Tim (my partner): Sigh. I know by now that this is a book-buying time of year ok? I’ve made my peace with it.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
07.03.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unneeded academic phrase for today: "always already." Literally, it does not make sense.
13.02.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Glasgow: the only airport lounge with a drinks limit.
Good to be back Scotland.
20.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Top 5 books of 2024 (heavy on Irish this year):
1) The Rachel Incident, Caroline O'Donoghue
2) My Friends, Hisham Matar
3) Service, Sarah Gilmartin
4) Glasgow Boys, Margaret MacDonald
5) The Amendments, Niamh Mulvey
22.12.2024 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History Lecturer at UniStrathclyde. USSR in Africa, Cold War, secret intelligence, Empire and decolonisation. Author ‘Cold War Liberation’ (UNC Press, 2022).
dropped here in the pits, december 2024 🛸
theorising ideal (non harmful) justice spaces
Assistant Professor at LSE International Development | Research on humanitarianism, conflict, health, displacement 🇨🇩
Assistant Professor at LSE Gender, feminist curious about knowledge, pedagogy and (in)security.
Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. Jewish. Parent. They/them.
ALiGN (Advancing Learning & Innovation on Gender Norms) brings together global gender norms research & lessons for transformative change
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Smashing the patriarchy one logframe at a time.
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A #SocialChangeNetwork working to end patriarchal power, achieving gender & social justice for the shared vision of a world in which gender justice & human rights are promoted & protected, where all people are equal & free from discrimination & oppression
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Training and resources to support survivors, hold offenders accountable, and end gender-based violence.
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Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. I curate the afripolsky feed for those studying or interested in African Politics (broadly conceived). Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
In our ‘HigherEd Heroes’ podcast series, we discuss ‘what works’ in the uni classrooms in a jargon-free, non-technical manner. Co-hosted by Seb Kaempf and Al Stark from the University of Queensland.
All episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/813707
Assoc. Prof. at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. Sierra Leone. 🇸🇱
Research Associate - Participatory Research Network
Project Coordinator - @coprofutures.bsky.social
Editor-at-large - E-IR
Global Dialogues Book Series Co-editor
IR, local peacebuilding, decoloniality, participatory research, South Africa
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at #UniGlasgow | PI at www.theunrulyproject.org, #GenevaUniversity | Critical IR, Statehood, Urban Stuff, Visuals, Radical Feminism, Post/Decolonial Theory, Political Violence #DRCongo #IvoryCoast
IWPR gives voice to people at the frontlines of conflict and transition to help them drive change.
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Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
A/Prof Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy & Psychology (ctsy), National University of Singapore. Director, Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society. Co-Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)
