“I’m afraid there is a chance this child may become an academic.”

A year of building community, advancing research, and driving conversations on gender and inequalities. Our 2025–26 annual newsletter is now available, reflecting on GAIN's first full year at Southampton. Thank you for being part of it! Read it here: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2026/06...

Happening today! @johannarickne.bsky.social presents a study of ~25k Norwegians, which finds people are less likely to recognise sexual harassment when stories are framed as “accusations,” involve male victims, or describe verbal rather than physical behaviour. Join us in Bldg 100 Room 8011

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton@gain-centre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Join our next seminar at the University of Southampton with Professor Johanna Rickne (SOFI, Stockholm University), whose research explores gender inequality, labour economics, political representation, and diversity in politics & the workplace. 🗓 11 May 2026 ⏰ 1–2.15 pm 📍 Building 100, Room 8011

Accurate

Jaakko Husa@husajaakko.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Academia of today We publish articles nobody reads to build our CVs in order to get jobs that do not exist. Brilliant, just bloody brilliant.

📢 Join our next seminar at the University of Southampton with Professor Johanna Rickne (SOFI, Stockholm University), whose research explores gender inequality, labour economics, political representation, and diversity in politics & the workplace. 🗓 11 May 2026 ⏰ 1–2.15 pm 📍 Building 100, Room 8011

But you better not kill the groove

🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26

Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association

Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...

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Join us for our Spring Into Methods event! How does intersectionality frame methods in Gender Research? PGRs and PhDs are encouraged to attend. Thursday, March 5, 2026 from 14:30-16:00 (building details below!) Speakers include @emiliabelknap.bsky.social @silkeroth.bsky.social and Dr Matthew Hunt

Delighted to share my first single-authored article, now published in Parliamentary Affairs: “Targeting the cereal woman: Campaigns, gender & Scottish independence” 🆓 Open access: tinyurl.com/85cxsefm @hansardsociety.bsky.social @academic.oup.com #GenderPolitics #BritishPolitics (🧵👇)

Targeting the cereal woman: Campaigns, gender, and Scottish independence

Abstract. How do political campaigns construct and mobilize voter identities in high-stakes constitutional contests? This article examines the 2014 Scottis

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'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.' Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3

📢 CFP for: GAIN Gender and Inequalities Workshop — Tue 9 Dec, 10–12, Bldg 100/7013. A supportive space for PhD & Postdoc in the School of Economic, Social and Political Science to share work-in-progress & get feedback. Submit title + 250-word abstract to GAIN@soton.ac.uk by 14 Nov 2025.

This Anglofuturism shit is literally the opposite of Afrofuturism

Robert Heinze@rheinze.myatproto.social · last yr.

Not an original point by a long shot but the way Afrofuturism is about history and how necessary it is to invent futures

If you take a longer view then Anglofuturism is *already* mainstream doi.org/10.1177/0263...

A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism - Francesca Melhuish, 2025

Anglofuturism promises to deliver Britain from an age of crisis into one of hope, creativity, and technological revolution. This article uses the United Kingdom...

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Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

boy i'm not looking forward to this becoming mainstream (this was in the times (UK) a few days ago)

Today is the day! Join us at 10:00 a.m. to discuss applying for funding in Gender and Inequalities at the University of Southampton. Building 100 in Room 8013 on Highfield Campus. We have ☕ coffee, tea 🍵, and pastries 🥐🍩! www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton@gain-centre.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!

Cat pumpkin hybrid www.instagram.com/p/CkTNgpprCsl/

ONE WEEK LEFT UNTIL THE DEADLINE Make sure to submit your excellent papers, panels, and roundtables to the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group! We can't wait to see you in June! 🥳🥳

BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group@cawpbisa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS 📢 Critical Alternative for World Politics (CAWP) invites you to submit your papers, panels, and roundtables for this year's @mybisa.bsky.social in Brighton! This year's theme is: 🕶️ Images and Imaginaries of International Relations 🖼️ See the CfP below: 👇

"Email has become a crucible. I can no longer say 'Attached is the draft.' I must instead write, 'Enclosed—though, of course, enclosure itself is a problematic modality—please locate a text-in-process, emergent rather than concluded.'”

I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences

When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...

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Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

🔊 Episode #3 out now! @whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations. open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools

End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

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Why must the framing of this article strike such a disapproving tone, when later it says: RCOG: "Caesarean births are common and the steady increase isn’t necessarily a cause for concern as long as future services are well-prepared..." Report: "there is no ‘ideal’ rate for births by caesarean"

More than half of UK births now involve medical intervention, audit finds

Caesareans drive rise in assisted deliveries as experts warn of complex pregnancies linked to age, obesity and other conditions

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Many congratulations to Johanna! Well deserved for a fascinating paper.

BJPIR@bjpir.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2024 is Johanna Rodehau-Noack for her article ‘Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers’. 🎉 Congratulations to Johanna!

Your regular reminder that things can always get worse

Dr Fran Melhuish@fransplains.bsky.social · last yr.

The lowest number I've seen, at any time of year

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How to Keep Writing When You Hate Everything You’ve Written

Every good writer goes through their cringe era.

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💻🗳️ I’m presenting today at #ECPRGC25 on the Territorial Politics, National Identity, and Electoral Dynamics: Shaping Party Systems and Political Behaviour panel! Law School, Floor 3, Room 5 ✍️ I’m presenting a paper on how campaigns target 🎯 gender gaps in the event of a constitutional referendum!

✍️ @zuzanakrulichova.bsky.social just published a new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social: She presents a systematic literature review on narrative approaches in IR, introducing agency-centric and structure-centric approaches. @ims.fsv.cuni.cz

in any case, as Jana points out I think it's this same phenomenon at work re: "fascism". there are some whose primary concern with labeling is to try to shape politics (we call x fascism to help defeat it) and others for whom certainty is the priority bsky.app/profile/unso...

Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴@unsocialtheory.bsky.social · last yr.

a.k.a. YeAH BuT is iT FaSciSM sort

Nothing quite like an academic job rejection email 1.5 years after the last round interview