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Dr Natalie Jester@nataliejester.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for our next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event! Title: Unsettling feelings: colonial archives, decolonial possibilities Speaker: Alice Finden (if we're lucky co-author Kavi Abraham will join, too) 2.00-3.30pm 23 June, online Register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @mybisa.bsky.social

So, uh, the makers of Threads REALLY went for it, eh. Glad I watched it but probably never again!

Dr Natalie Jester@nataliejester.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking forward to watching Threads at @wshed.bsky.social this evening. Don't know much about it, so I can only assume that it is a nice, gentle film about sewing, and I will leave feeling all happy inside

Looking forward to watching Threads at @wshed.bsky.social this evening. Don't know much about it, so I can only assume that it is a nice, gentle film about sewing, and I will leave feeling all happy inside

Really enjoyed this workshop with Lisa Trainor today. Grateful to my UoG colleagues Ruffin and Sabina for organising it!

Over on Threads a woman is live-posting her first watch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is on season five and now knows about Dawn. From what I can tell, she is only a few episodes away from *that* huge surprise 😞 I am tense on her behalf!

Buffy Summers: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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Join us for our next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event! Title: Unsettling feelings: colonial archives, decolonial possibilities Speaker: Alice Finden (if we're lucky co-author Kavi Abraham will join, too) 2.00-3.30pm 23 June, online Register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @mybisa.bsky.social

Unsettling feelings: colonial archives, decolonial possibilities- Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) | BISA

- Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group

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🚨ONE MORE WEEK till our book launch for Military Humanitarianism!🚨 @briandrohan.bsky.social 5.30pm — 17th June — Bristol We’ll be joined by fantastic speakers to celebrate, @asobocinska.bsky.social, Grace Huxford and @bennetthuw.bsky.social 🙌 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/military-h...

'Military Humanitarianism' Book Launch

Join us in Bristol to celebrate the launch of our edited volume 'Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations & Armed Forces'

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That's a wrap on our first @mybisa.bsky.social conference as @cawpbisa.bsky.social! 10+ panels, lots of chairing, endless wonderful people and lots of ideas for next year. It has been a joy, though I may need a little while to recover...

Super excited for @mybisa.bsky.social conference this week. I'll be speaking at the ECR day on Tuesday and chairing a few @cawpbisa.bsky.social panels (in addition to co presenting my own paper on sexuality, militarisation and secrecy). Do say hi if you see me!

Cute Penguin Chick Waving 'Hi'

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We at @cawpbisa.bsky.social are hugely excited to be holding a symposium titled '(En)countering violence: critical approaches to studying and representing violence, and dangerous and disposable subjects'. EoI deadline is 19 June, to be held 9 and 10 September in London - full details below!

Call for papers: (En)countering violence: critical approaches to studying and representing violence, and dangerous and disposable subjects- Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) | BISA

- Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group

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🚨 Should children be banned from social media, and on what legal, scientific, and democratic basis? The European Journal of Risk Regulation is calling for submissions on one of the most contested regulatory debates of our time and soon will publish a Special Issue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really enjoying the @astropoliticswg.bsky.social event this afternoon! It's titled "Holding up the skies: is Starlink occupying low Earth orbit?" (by Mia M. Bennett and Zachary Cudney), and can be found here, for those interested: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Holding up the skies: is Starlink occupying low Earth orbit?

Starlink is occupying low Earth orbit (LEO) with thousands of small satellites, which provide global high-speed internet. We calculate that the privately owned megaconstellation, which we contend f...

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I resisted the urge to work over the bank holiday, when I absolutely needed to rest instead. Please clap

Saw a preview of Sheep Detectives today and I absolutely loved it. Silly, weird, heartfelt fun - absurdly good cast, too. Would recommend! Two facts: 1) the sheep are CGI (not AI) and they used real reference sheep to design them; 2) it was written by Craig Mazin who also wrote... Chernobyl.

a sheep with its mouth open and the word baaa on the bottom

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We have a new article! 'Doing world politics and social media: Digital practice and open education in international relations' in @epsjournal.bsky.social Written with the fantastic @apapamichail.bsky.social, @mlebourdon.bsky.social & @louisepears.bsky.social

There is still time to sign up for this - rebellion is a really important topic at the moment!

Dr Natalie Jester@nataliejester.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event features the brilliant @crossdale.bsky.social! It is on 25 March at 2pm, online. To read more and register, follow the link below www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

The next @cawpbisa.bsky.social event features the brilliant @crossdale.bsky.social! It is on 25 March at 2pm, online. To read more and register, follow the link below www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Exciting news! The University of Gloucestershire has joined forces with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to launch a Master’s programme in sustainability. I am v excited to be part of this team. Do share with your networks! www.glos.ac.uk/content/uog-...

UoG joins forces with UNITAR to launch groundbreaking master’s programme in sustainability - University of Gloucestershire

The MSc Sustainable Global Futures degree is the world's only course of its kind.

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Happy International Women’s Day! Please enjoy this article I wrote with Rosie Walters in 2024. We explore the IWD communications from arms manufacturers, arguing that these function as a form of gender washing (whereby discourses of progress obscure violence) doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC. We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU

Watching The Muppet Show and eating garlic bread: the perfect evening.

miss piggy from the muppet show is wearing a pearl necklace and pink gloves and is asking a question .

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📢📢We are very excited to announce our first virtual seminar as a BISA working group! 📢📢 Join us for this excellent talk with Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.

I've thought a lot about whether or not to post this, because I wasn't sure it was my place, but it occurred to me that people may never know otherwise: I'm very sorry to say that my wonderful colleague Vicky Randall passed away unexpectedly recently @vrandall.bsky.social

I'm doing a writing retreat and have reached my writing goal a day early! My chapter now stands at 8,025 words. I guess tomorrow can be an editing day now!

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Starting 2026 as I mean to go on: by watching Muppets Treasure Island

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Alt: Kermit and Miss Piggy are standing next to each other and saying "well hello looooong John"

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Happy new year from the UK! My next new year's resolution is to eat pasta shapes I have never tried before (suggestions welcome...)

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Please enjoy this outstanding fact

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Out now! This new article, by @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social is well worth a read, I highly recommend it: Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

Google Scholar tells me that I've just reached my 150th citation 😃