Jenny Mathers
@jgmaber.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
Toot toot! 🐭 🎺 🎉 I’m delighted to reach the milestone of 15,000 followers! Thank you for joining me! Great to see so many of you interested in #Archaeology! Here’s a tiny Roman bronze mouse playing a trumpet! Perhaps too loudly as he’s covering his ear with a paw! 1st-2nd century AD #Archaeology
My latest book, Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, is available globally. www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/So... cup.columbia.edu/book/replayi...
Replaying the Second World War
Oleksa Drachewych explores how Russia’s use of WWII memory fuels its war against Ukraine. She traces parallels in rhetoric, war crimes, and ideology, linking Soviet history to present violence through...
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This table is reserved for those who fought and died for Ukraine. Today is the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine. Cafes, bookstores, restaurants, you name it, reserve one Memory Table for them. The bookstore I visited today had one, too. 🌻
An inspiring story in this thread - I have donated to groups listed on this website without knowing the full background to the wider project 👏
reed eliot 🤌 🤌@reedeliot.bsky.social · 9h agoShe spun up the website www.standwithminnesota.com It was basically a volunteer run emergency rent fund site at first, collecting everyone's disparate rent fundraiser links in response to Metro Surge. Then, people started personally adopting fundraisers to champion.
The baby bat Screamed out in fright, "Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light." -Batty Shel Silverstein #BookWormSat #InternationalBatNight
JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE: Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics. Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
LSE International Relations@lseir.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 We're #hiring at LSE! Join our Department of International Relations: 🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Geoeconomics) ➡️ ow.ly/Ggxs50ZxHFG 🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Global Environmental Politics) ➡️ ow.ly/oGHT50ZxHGv 📆 Deadline: 7 September 2026. #AcademicJob #AcademicSky #PoliSky
But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:
1/ Russia has shifted to a new air terror tactic in recent days — hitting Kyiv and other cities in small drone waves every 30–60 minutes around the clock. Retired Major Hetman warns alerts could last weeks with no all-clear at all, as Russia sends two or three drones every few hours.
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Over the past 15 hours, eight air raid alerts have sounded in Kyiv. During the night, the Russians terrorized the capital with ballistic missiles, then switched to jet-powered drones. It is incredibly exhausting – which, of course, is exactly what Russia is counting on.
🥰 Ukrainian serviceman Nikita Tulovskyi shared footage of rescuing a small dog from the occupied territories. He says the pup is doing well and has already chewed through almost his entire first-aid kit attached to his gear 📹: nikita_tulovskiy / Threads
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Important thread with a link to a petition to sign ⬇️
Alex Prichard@profalexp.bsky.social · 3d agoA thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
Sharing this after returning from Magdeburg in east Germany, and going to report at an AfD rally in the nearby countryside. People outside of Germany do not understand how urgent this situation is right now. The AfD have a nationwide polling lead + are tipped to win control of two states next month.
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 5d agoSharing this because it happened on Saturday.
The spacious interior of the largest reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse inside Castell Henllys hillfort, Pembrokeshire, for #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖 It sits perfectly on the excavated foundations of the original 👌 📷 My own, 2 weeks ago
Review of a new book about Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine and whether he really is a Russian asset.
Betrayal by Luke Harding review – could Donald Trump be a Russian asset?
A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it
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Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
On this day in 1968, eight Soviet citizens protested on Red Square against the invasion of Czechoslovakia. They were beaten and arrested. The banner read: “For your freedom and ours.” I wrote about the parellels between 1968 - and Kyiv in 2022. robjcameron.substack.com/p/the-prague...
UK Parliament illuminated in blue and yellow to mark Ukraine's Independence Day. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is visiting Kyiv on his first trip abroad since taking office
Haul hwyr ar y grisiau / late sun on the stairs -Bishops Palace #Tyddewi #StDavids #SirBenfro #Pembrokeshire #Cymru #Wales
Dr Jenny Mathers from our Department of International Politics spoke to BBC News at the weekend about controversy involving Ukraine's sacked defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. @jgmaber.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
Pallas's cats stalking prey always look like they're trying to get invited to a party but are too shy to just ask if they can come
Does baking count? Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 6d ago1 weird trick for fixing social media: we all go back to exclusively posting about our lunches
Just waiting to go onto the BBC News Channel to talk about Russia and Ukraine stories
So, according to the likes of Sam Altman, we are on the verge of AI genies that can make our wishes come true! Not if this political map of the UK is any example...
