Patricia Owens

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW

by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social

justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

Cool! "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" is no.1 on the @iajournal.bsky.social summer reading list. 👇☀️😎🥂👇 @princetonupress.bsky.social

ofc he was. i am so sorry, charlotte. 🤡polisci🤡

It is also a form of theft - taking more research time for themselves at the expense of other, more conscientious colleagues

Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’

Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

men protecting child rapists for gain

There's an apocryphal story about two decision theorists, A and B, talking about a big decision one of them faced. So B says to A: hey, A, you're a famous rational choice theorist - why don't you do some decision theory to settle the matter? To which A responds: for God's sake, B, this is serious.

Microsoft is so not mad about "AI" becoming synonymous bad writing that they hired someone to tell you that's actually very classist of you and you should check your privilege.

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told Intelligence assessment before proscription found that vast majority of group’s activities were lawful, court hears

a man in Leeds was arrested for carrying a placard reproducing a graphic from Private Eye magazine, which said: “Unacceptable Palestine Action: spraying military planes. Acceptable Palestine Action: shooting Palestinians queueing for food.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Honoured to be in this company and grateful for the recognition as a foreign fellow
:)

That's so cool. Thanks Jenny! i hope you enjoy it....

Centre for Women’s, Gender and Queer Histories WGQ is a thriving community of students and scholars engaged in research on gender, class and identity and the broad area of emotions, psychology and subjectivity.

The Centre for Women's, Gender and Queer Histories @ox.ac.uk has a new website and a shorter title (WGQ). It's necessary times for historicizing work www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-w... #skyhistorians @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Erased: a history of international thought without men Erased is a ground-breaking book. The discipline of International Relations (IR), long understood as a series of great debates concerning IR's purpose and

Review of Erased in @iajournal.bsky.social
"Erased is a ground-breaking book... a unique form of disciplinary history, committed to the idea that the identities, love lives and personal situations of those contributing to [a] field are inextricably woven within it".
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

What I wish public commentary about the killing of civilians near #aid distribution cites in #Gaza understood: short 🧵

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Shock study finds that women IR scholars are less likely to BS than male IR scholars... Who knew?

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

At the NATO Summit, "Trump did not repeat his expletive-laden criticism [of Israel and Iran], but... Rutte seized the chance to defend him for his F-bomb. “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language,”... The moment was so painful it was almost a relief when Trump started talking again"

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?”
Me: “I’m a writer.”
Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.

... thinker (Bello 2022–2024). Our “quality of engagement” analysis assesses how deeply a book engages with a global thinker’s thought across the dataset".

This is so utterly cool. 👇"Our approach draws inspiration from Owens’ (2018) seminal article... Building on her method of analyzing thinkers’ engagement through book indexes, we introduce an original tool to assess a work’s interaction with a global....

Warning over ‘surprising’ closures of vital historical ar... Authors and researchers dismayed by Kew officials’ increasingly restrictive policies on disclosure of public records

'Officials have placed a large tranche of the documents under indefinite review, while other previously available files have been closed either because they were said to contain “personal” information or...material that could damage the mental or physical health of unidentified persons.'

CEO’s Skill Set Transferable To Any Job That Requires Dumbass To Receive Big Salary

CEO’s Skill Set Transferable To Any Job That Requires Dumbass To Receive Big Salary theonion.com/ceo-s-s...

On Political Misogyny | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core On Political Misogyny - Volume 119 Issue 2

From our new issue: On Political Misogyny by SUZANNE DOVI www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Jewish faculty opposes University of Oxford Gaza protest proceedings The procedures against the 13 University of Oxford students involved in a Gaza protest commenced on Monday.

Very strong statement (unfortunately the full letter is not linked here but it’s very strong) from Jewish staff at Oxford rebuking claims that repression of protest protects Jews.

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