EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢 We're introducing an annual virtual conference starting Jan 2025 *in addition* to our annual in-person conference. Submissions open May 14 Check out the call and more now: virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk #VirtualBISA2025 Simon Rushton BISA PGN RIS Eur Jnl Int Sec

Our Alternatives' special issue edited by Lisa Gaufmann, Dr. Jamie J. Hagen 🍉 and Anupama Ranawana, "Our Work is International Relations" is now published in the latest issue (vol 49, no 3). We rethink what it means by engaging with IR's disciplinary boundaries. journals.sagepub.com/toc/alta/49/3

🔊As #VirtualBISA2025 approaches please share info about the conference to your networks We look forward to hearing from scholars around the world 🌍 For more details👉 virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk Please share widely 🙏 RIS BISA PGN BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group BISA Global Nuclear Order BISA Global Health

Statements that make sense only to people who have never left the US, and have only ever consumed American media.

Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8

you CAN use your photo id EVEN if it is OUT OF DATE. you CAN use your photo ID even if it is OUT OF DATE. you CAN use your photo ID even IF it is OUT of DATE. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

Michelle Donelan gone: anyone working at a university will be celebrating that one.

" universities are falling back on conservative leadership appointments, dusting off efficiency programmes they have already run unsuccessfully ad nauseam, and shutting down opportunities for the talented students and staff." theguardian.com/education/arti…

We have a 3-yr lectureship going at Sheffield Politics and International Relations with an interest in candidates who can teach methods (qual, quant or mixed) and working on elections and parties and/or comparative politics and/or political economy. Happy to chat about working here jobs.ac.uk/job/DIP144/lec…

Blair should keep quiet. You won’t defeat the far right by buying into their anti-immigration rhetoric. You will only defeat them by changing the conversation on immigration. Value migrants and the benefits they bring to us all. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Last day to submit!

We are hiring for a new postition. 3 year Post Doctoral Research Associate Health in Humanitarian Settings and/or Global Governance for Health from a gender perspective at Imperial College London. Come and join our growing team! jobs.ac.uk/job/DIS372/3-y…

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

Join the BISA PGN committee for the 2024/25 academic year and have a say in expanding the research agenda for the PGR/ECRs in International studies. Click below to nominate yourself for one of the four positions ⬇️ BISA - British International Studies Association bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

Great to find this on the doormat this morning. Looking forward to reading!

🔊Deadline TODAY for Call of Papers! 📄 Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG are hosting a hybrid conference The University of Sheffield: 'The label of ‘terrorism’ and the permissibility of violence' This year's conference is centred on the theme of settler colonial violence Submit here👉bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

MDs should talk with people from humanities and social sciences before writing stuff.

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Right-wing social media in meltdown over Muslim terrorist that isn’t Muslim and transgender boxer that isn’t transgender.

This seems right. And also The Labour Party politicians, who claim to be on the (centre-)left, will need to stop parroting and further legitimising the same anti-migrant discourse

This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns. Elon Musk is a feckless billionaire whose algorithms pose an imminent threat to life. He won’t act. So it’s critical that we now do. theguardian.com/media/article/…