My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵

Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy. Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

New article from RGCS PhD student Samantha Puzzi (Political Science), in Memory Studies "Monumental Empowerment: The vandalism of public mnemonic objects" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you are having a hard day just remember there are dogs

As we watch SCOTUS destroy civil rights legislation, today's bank note features a portrait of John McLean (on the left) who as Supreme Court Justice (1829-1861) was the only dissenter in Prigg v. Pennsylvania and one of two in Dred Scott v. Sandford. State Bank of Ohio, Marietta, $10, 18--. 🗄️

IR: liberal international disorder, hegemonic decline, apolarity, etc IPE:

Putin signed a decree today renaming the FSB Academy in honor of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the creator of the Cheka, responsible for political terror after the 1917 revolution and a predecessor of the KGB & FSB. The decree hails Dzerzhinsky's "outstanding contribution to state security."

After months of work, the FT's new finance history podcast is now finally live! 🥳 The first two episodes — hosted by Gillian Tett and yours truly — are on Mesopotamian debt and genius investors of yore. Pods on railway bonds, the Nixon Shock and the stones of Yap coming. www.ft.com/tsom?syn-25a...

Introducing: The Story of Money

A new video podcast from The FT exploring the history of finance

ft.com

Yes, all the policies are awful, but this entire article is full of the same litany of sweeping, hyperventilating claims about the End of All Things in regard to 🇺🇸 debt, the dollar, & our ability to borrow that we've read every 6 months or so for the last 20 years. Meanwhile, back in reality:

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4mo ago

The era of papering over America’s decline with cheap credit, imperial dividends, and toxic derivatives is over. The last Jenga block will eventually be pulled, and the tower that has loomed over us for 46 years will collapse in a heap. trib.al/XWyqKkF

ECRs in IPE, who are applying to the Political Economy Beyond Boundaries (PEBB) section of the @europeanisa.bsky.social for the PEC in Lisbon, September 1-4, 2026, may also be considered for the two RIPE-sponsored panels. See the call below for details.

Not that I'd ever defend Noem, Bondi, or Gabbard, but it is striking that only the women in the administration are under fire and it's not because Hegseth, RFK, Bessent, Burgum, Lutnick, etc are paragons of anything except stupid malice.

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I bet she starts a Substack when she gets fired. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Right here. Right now.

Palma Polyak@palmapolyak.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Orbán’s Ceaușescu moment. Booed at his own rally, ranting and pointing fingers. His final message: Ukraine hatred.

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians

SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

buff.ly

IR faculty with sabbaticals next year - McGill has a one-semester (Fall 2026 or Winter 2027) visiting professorship. It pays $21,000 CAD and entails teaching a small graduate course and hanging out with us. DEADLINE IS MARCH 27. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree....

Visiting Professor, International Relations

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

"Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free: Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy," www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

propublica.org

Hard to overstate how certain we can be that this is, in fact, going to end badly. @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on the gutting of the SEC. www.ft.com/content/b5d9...

Really excellent piece from @rajakorman.bsky.social, highlighting that the core barrier to the RMB rivaling the euro & the dollar as a major global reserve currency is that China's domestic financial markets are not remotely developed or globally integrated to the point that this is feasible.

Karthik Sankaran@rajakorman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In which I say that the most important aspect of currency internationalization is not being a reserve asset but being a denomination for cross-border borrowing (and secondary-market trading) at a huge scale in liquid securities markets. Leaving the Renminbi a wannabe.

Bad Bunny with *all* the American flags!

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

Fantastic nerd-forward analysis plus slightly unhinged Super Bowl commentary.

Robin Wigglesworth@robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 6mo ago

I gather some people think the FT has been neglecting its core for “woke nonsense” bla bla yada yada, which is news to this 12k word beast — an oral history of the Federal Reserve’s Covid-19 crisis made up of quotes from the recently released full transcripts. www.ft.com/content/cb9a...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

in which ... I summarise me and @himself.bsky.social 's paper for the @britishacademy.bsky.social on the global dollar system, suggesting that it explains the fascination with the digital Euro (a set of EU payment rails that's independent of the US and can't be acquired). www.ft.com/content/5b9a...

The juice, the squeeze and the digital euro

Finally, a question for the answer to a question nobody asked

ft.com

As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you! whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a …

whatever.scalzi.com

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://consumerfinancialbureau.gov Action taken by the nan (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) at or around 2026-01-29 06:23:52.

Love the Financial Times - we see your cute K-Pop Demon Hunters Golden reference.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

theguardian.com

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...