Precious Chatterje-Doody
@preciouschatd.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @OUPolitics.bsky.social. SFHEA. Russian foreign & security policy, soft power, narratives, ID, religion & disinfo, conspiracy theories. Associate editor, International Affairs. UK Young Academy member. Mum of 3.
Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
I thought dictatorships were meant to be good at sporting spectacles.
It's like a whole evening of Comic Relief compressed into 15 minutes.
More miming than if they'd booked Marcel Marceau #TheFootball
Came on for snarky comments about the half time show, and BlueSky did not disappoint!
Two intense days in Paris, sharing findings from our War and Order project with @maudinet.bsky.social, Daniel Stockemer and featuring research from @gulnazsibgatullina.bsky.social 📈 Methods masterclass 🗣️ Conference on Russian influence efforts in the ‘Global South’ 📢 Stratcom Policy workshop
Preparing for the academic job market cycle but feeling a bit lost? I'm (re)sharing a piece I wrote for last year's @epssnet.bsky.social diversity panel. It includes my application data and qualitative excerpts. Main point: address a mix of person, project, and place. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...
Are you dreaming of studying music at Masters level but worried about the cost? The Margaret Wooder Studentships could cover your full tuition fees for our MA Music programme. ✅ Part One fees fully funded ✅ Part Two fees funded on passing Part One at merit or distinction level
I knew this text would not be welcomed by all. And that’s OK.
The story of Pope Leo’s ‘landmark’ text on AI technology – by a member of its launch panel
I knew this text would not be welcomed by all. And that’s OK.
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📜 Programme overview now available | GCSJ Research Festival 2026 (2–3 June) Explore the 4th Annual GCSJ Research Festival—two days of global challenges research, panels & discussion (in person + online). @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social @colinlorne.bsky.social
Pope Leo XIV asks faithful to remember journalists who have lost their lives pursuing the truth.
On World Press Freedom Day, Pope honours journalists killed in war zones
Pope Leo XIV asks faithful to remember journalists who have lost their lives pursuing the truth.
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"We were honoured and very moved last week to receive a message of solidarity with the Truth Tellers Summit from His Holiness Pope Leo the 14th." A few of the opening remarks from @tinabrownlm.bsky.social #sirharrysummit
Our 2027 virtual conference #VirtualBISA2027 call & homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉 Submissions for papers open on 5 May 🌟 Find our call for papers here 👉 https://virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers Simon Rushton Jamie J. Hagen @julietdryden.bsky.social City St George's, University of London
New OA article: Russia’s low-level agents: characteristics, roles and organisational structure of covert operatives in Europe, 2022–2025 by @bartschuurman.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Russia’s low-level agents: characteristics, roles and organisational structure of covert operatives in Europe, 2022–2025
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin has increasingly supported its battlefield operations with covert actions against Kyiv’s European supporters. Executing many such ...
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Last few spaces available for our BISA-BFPG Undergraduate network event tomorrow on UK-EU relations at Warwick Uni. A fantastic line up of speakers including the always brilliant EU Ambassador to the UK Pedro Serrano. Open to all undergrad students across the UK. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
The future of EU-UK relations - BISA/BFPG Undergraduate Network (UGN) | BISA
- BISA/BFPG Undergraduate Network (UGN) Working Group
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Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
Ever wonder how the #media influences #populism? I mean, beyond the tiring enemy-of-the-people shtick. Well, @preciouschatd.bsky.social and @rhyscrilley.bsky.social have got you covered. In chapter 4 of our book, they dig into the media ecology that makes populism go transnational. #MediaStudies
donald trump is giving a speech at a podium in front of american flags and saying `` you are fake news '' .
Alt: donald trump is giving a speech at a podium in front of american flags and saying `` you are fake news '' .
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If you’re on a permanent contract, are hiring postdocs or fellows on the basis of a shiny new grant (hello ERC or UKRI FLF!), advise PhD students, and/or have any sort of say on hiring within your department, you should attend our report launch examining the UK politics/IR job market #psa26
PSA Early Career Network@psaecn.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhile both events are particularly interesting for early career researchers as well as prospective and current PhD students, the job market roundtable is going to be interesting for any political scientist working in a UK Higher Education institution. /3
I wrote about why this report is not business as usual in the current political moment open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...
Foreign Disinformation is the ‘New Warfare’ and Democracies are ‘Sitting Ducks,’ Says UK Parliament
Foreign Affairs Committee Report Tries to Maintain the Fight for Reality Amid U.S. Backsliding
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Nina Jankowicz@ninajankowicz.com · 4mo agoToday, the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee released a new report on foreign disinfo as “the new warfare," with evidence from me & @americansunlight.org cited throughout. It's gratifying to see a government take this threat seriously. committees.parliament.uk/committee/78...
What if they opened their mouths and killer wasps came out but also the wasps were robots and the robots had nuclear bombs in them? What then?
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4mo agoVance suggests Iran could have used nuclear suicide vests: “People who walk into a crowded supermarket and…blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest…can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”
Some entertaining solutions for a stupid problem. Exhibit A
Terrible Maps@terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
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Public Opinion & National Security in the UK: A People-Centred Approach
Global Challenges and Social Justice seminar series - Public Opinion & National Security in the UK: A People-Centred Approach
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𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑: #𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 Folks, I’ve got some tremendous news. The second edition of my co-edited volume—alongside the great David B. Macdonald and Dirk Nabers—is out now: 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴.
a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a crowd
Alt: Ridiculous guy with a tie that's way to long dances like an idiot
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My latest media interview based on my research for my new book, 'The Return of Russia' (@yalebooks.bsky.social) is this podcast, recorded with Gemma Ware for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-putin-tu...
How Putin turned Russia’s post-Soviet ‘national humiliation’ into military aggression in Ukraine
James Rodgers talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about why Russia turned its back on the west.
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Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.
‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question
The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think
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Political Trust Network: Call for papers (Barcelona, October 2026) The young and fast growing academic 'Political Trust Network' organizes yearly workshops, where scholars of trust can meet up, present papers, and exchange ideas. These workshop have been brilliant, socially and professionally!
Political Trust - RECSM Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology - UPF
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