Great turnout last night at Edinburgh Uni for “Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism” — a joint BGA & @ccc-research.bsky.social event. Thanks to @angusrobertson.bsky.social, Elke Heins, David Smith, and everyone who joined us! 🙌📸 #GermanFederalism #Edinburgh

Research-led teaching at @edinburghpir.bsky.social live in podcast form. Thanks @snellarthur.bsky.social for the chance to talk about several of my favourite topics!

Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Good to speak to #BBC_Radio Scotland this morning about #COP30 prospects and what the absence of a formal US delegation might mean. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good Morning Scotland - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds

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It's not too late to register for our upcoming event with Angus Robertson on what we can and can't learn from German federalism. More info here: edin.ac/46JYj2v

Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism

This event explores whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland and the UK.

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Centre on Constitutional Change@ccc-research.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Event rescheduled Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism The CCC & @britgerassoc.bsky.social welcome @angusrobertson.bsky.social to discuss whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland & the UK 11 Nov, 6-7:30pm Edinburgh Register: edin.ac/46JYj2v

Book Launch Friday 24th October 1pm-2.30pm Online Join us for the launch of Climate Assemblies New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World Edited by Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub Info and booking: edin.ac/4nKszjT

🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me. @edinburghpir.bsky.social

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🌎 #JavierMilei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling it's diplomatic institutions, argues @consuelothiers.bsky.social. 💭 As ideology replaces expertise, #Argentina is a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations. 👉 buff.ly/oJPgD5y

Delighted to see this excellent and very timely piece by my PhD student Sarah Cheung now published. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Generative AI, generating crisis: framing opportunity and threat in AI governance

The public release of high-profile generative AI models in late 2022 and early 2023 spurred widespread concerns over ‘existential threats’ to humanity from AI. This paper explores how this AI ‘cris...

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Excited to see our amazing @edinburghpir.bsky.social academics contributing to key debates at this year’s Festival of Politics! 🗣️📢 festivalofpolitics.scot

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Congrats to all @uoe-sps.bsky.social summer grads! 🎓 Great to see @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff celebrating your achievements. Well done, students! 👏

Elizabeth Bomberg@eebomberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Politics and IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff processing at today's @uoe-sps.bsky.social summer grad. Congrats students! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Wonderful Politics & IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff presence at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social summer graduation. Congrats to our fab students! @uoe-sps.bsky.social

📢We first hear from: - Prof Will Jessett CBE (SC Strategy) - Prof Paul Rogers (Emeritus, @uniofbradford.bsky.social) - Dr Claire Duncanson (@edinburghpir.bsky.social) 🍃Both Claire and Paul commented on the lack of acknowledgement of climate change in the new National Security Strategy.

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲! Making sense of 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 – insights from an 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🔓 Read the new #openaccess article by Eva-Maria Trüdinger, Achim Hildebrandt, Simon Stocker, @ajazajilirjana.bsky.social & @pbundi.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359... #federalism #democracy

Making sense of federalism – insights from an open-ended survey question

While there is much debate in research about nuances of federal governance, we actually know little about how citizens make sense of federalism. As several studies show, citizens often hold vague a...

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👏 A brilliant final contribution from @niceonecombo.bsky.social — this collection of blog posts from the political behaviour course is full of sharp, thoughtful insights. Well worth exploring! Thank you for everything — you'll be greatly missed! 💛

In response to the new UK National Security Strategy and SDR, here's my analysis of changing threat topics in UK national security and defence documents since 1998. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @scga.bsky.social @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org @rusi.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social

Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!

I’m thinking that my course next semester on authoritarianism (might need a week on authoritarianism in books and on film?! (Autocracy and Resistence in the 21st Century! @edinburghpir.bsky.social )

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · last yr.

Just watched ep. 8 of Andor. Filmed in 2023, but plot revolving around the Empire sending stormtroopers to a city, deliberately provoking demonstrations, and then ensuring that violence ensues as an excuse for imposing military rule/occupation doesn't exactly look subtle right now..

@uoe-cahss.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @stis-uoe.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoesocialwork.bsky.social #RefugeeWeek

University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science@uoe-sps.bsky.social · last yr.

Art Exhibition: Aesthetics of One Health In celebration of Refugee Week 2025, join us at the Chrystal Macmillan Building for a showcase of Syrian agricultural heritage through art and music. Exhibition: All week, Chrystal Macmillan Building Reception: Tues 17th, 3-4pm, Booking: edin.ac/4j9Gtcd

@alyssamartin.bsky.social joins us from @edinburghpir.bsky.social to discuss her observations from the Scottish Carers Parliament

Essay Prize 2025 📝 🧑🏻‍🎓 Undergraduate and school pupil competitions 📆 Deadline 6th July Fantastic judging panel of @simeonkerr.bsky.social, @yougov.co.uk's Abigail Axe-Browne and @edinburghpir.bsky.social's own Alan Convery! scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/06/09/e...

Really looking fw to these events - pop round if you're in Helsinki and interested in academic publishing, existentialism, or the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of the radical right @edinburghpir.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @gnobisa.bsky.social

EuroStorie@eurostorie.bsky.social · last yr.

📚 We warmly welcome you to join us for two events with Dr Andrew Hom (University of Edinburgh): a workshop and a seminar titled: "Anti/hero: The existential stories violent men tell themselves". More info via link in bio. 🕐 30.5.2025, 10-11 AM and 13-14 PM (UTC+3) 📍 Unioninkatu 33, room 247 / Zoom

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 ⬇️

Clare Rice@clarerice.bsky.social · last yr.

💫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

“We didn’t really get to hear what [English nationalism] is in simple language, but we were left in no doubt about what it is not – European.” Important read 👇 (includes h/t to @ailsahenderson.bsky.social’s research, ping @edinburghpir.bsky.social)

Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · last yr.

“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

A @uoe-sps.bsky.social, Staff Pride, BAME Network, & Queer.ED collab! Curtis Chin talks about growing up/ coming out as gay in a working-class immigrant community and first gen University student. ☕️🍵🍪 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everything... @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, with Curtis Chin

Join author Curtis Chin for his story of what it was like growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working class immigrant family.

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NEW ✨ How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture 👩🏾‍💻🇮🇳 Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India by ‪@hgupta.bsky.social‬ @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social‬ @ucpress.bsky.social‬ #BookReview by @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social‬ @gvagrad.bsky.social‬

How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture - LSE Review of Books

Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…

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💫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

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Huge congratulations to our PIR Superheroes! 👏🎉

University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science@uoe-sps.bsky.social · last yr.

News 📣 Three SPS academics have become founding fellows of the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Congratulations to Professor Sarah Childs, Professor Meryl Kenny and Professor Fiona Mackay. Read more: edin.ac/4kqA25v

Thank you Nicholas Hopton for visiting @uoe-sps.bsky.social - both events were packed and the audience highly engaged! Thanks to Dr Nida Alahmad and Dr Lucy Abbott for expertly chairing the discussions. Grateful to the Departments of African Studies and Sociology for co-sponsoring the events.

My review of Judith Butler's latest book is out in Contemporary Sociology! "Who's Afraid of Gender" is a must read for all, especially those on the fence about the attacks on trans folks/allies. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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