Today in male economists just saying the quiet part out loud….
Muireann O'Dwyer
@mergito.bsky.social
Feminist Political Economy in the European Union.
UK Govt. is out of its depth in contemporary politics On the one side: an international movement, ruthlessly pursuing its interests, buying up the means of communication & mobilising street violence. On the other: just desiccated & outdated language: “It is right that we look seriously at…"
our St Andrews colleague Antonis Vradis who bravely joined the Global Sumud Flotilla has also been captured by the IOF in international waters - please share / write to your MP/MSP www.writetothem.com
@ucustandrews.bsky.social · 3mo agoURGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share
URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share
"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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This is a welcome ruling, but lots of small policy changes have been made by universities, allegedly in response to the original and deeply flawed ruling. We must push to have them all changed back! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Sussex wins landmark free speech case against universities regulator
A record fine had been issued by the Office for Students over the university's trans and non-binary inclusion policy.
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"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way
John Hogan Morris@johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 3mo agoOne of our members is seeking to get medical visa for his father, who is currently in Gaza. Please sign the petition here www.change.org/p/help-me-sa...? @ucu.org.uk
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Help Me Save My Father’s Life: Grant Him an Urgent Medical Visa to the UK
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delighted that the brilliant Omar Khatib will be joining us here in St Andrews for “Queer Lives in Palestine: Settler Colonialism and Resistance” (Wednesday 15 April, 5-7pm, in School III). All are welcome! @ucustandrews.bsky.social
We are hiring at St Andrews International Relations! Looking for a lecturer with a specialisation in Russia. It's open to any methodological/theoretical approach, and it's permanent! See here for details www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY935/l... and do reach out for an informal chat if that's helpful.
Lecturer - AC2864 at University of St Andrews
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer - AC2864 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Almost too on the nose that political scientist come far right firebrand Matt Goodwin used genAI to hallucinate the following quote: “’The most dangerous experiments’ warned the economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, ‘are those conducted on entire societies.’”
Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Ice flight stopped at Shannon Airport on St Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians
Private jet hired by Ice agency also stopped on its return journey to Arizona
irishtimes.com
You know that episode of Community when the realise the "minus" part of their grades was made up? This article is like that, but for global governance - we are governed by statistical guesstimates, made to look much more precise than they are in reality.
Review of International Political Economy@ripejournal.bsky.social · 10mo agoGoverning through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Melinda Cooper offering up one of the best analyses of Epstein. This approach understands the deeply gendered nature of the economics of it all, and the deeply economic nature of the gender politics.
Lori Regattieri@followlori.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order." @melindacooper.bsky.social at Equator www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded
My article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Scylla and Charybdis — Sidecar
On the protests in Iran.
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Jason Blakely, "In the Land of the Data Blind" "Political scientists subscribing to the dominant approaches to American government face what philosophers of science call an epistemological crisis..." harpers.org/archive/2026...
In the Land of the Data Blind, by Jason Blakely
Why political science can’t grasp Trumpism
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UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Race Reports
In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published a wide-ranging ‘Review of Race and History’ that attempts to confront its legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Four months earlier, the Universi...
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We had such a great time at our Research Day this week, hearing about the fascinating work of our members. Learn more about our research here cglg.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Learn more about the Centre from our Co-Directors, @anettestimmer.bsky.social and @mergito.bsky.social youtu.be/VtdeVX-FDBg?...
WELCOME TO THE CGLG
YouTube video by Centre for Global Law and Governance
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Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...
