Jennifer Thomson
@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath | ESRC New Investigator - Feminist Foreign Policy | https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/jennifer-thomson
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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🚨🎉 Briefly interrupting mat leave to share the publication of our edited book on Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), co-edited with @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ⬇️ bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/feminist-for... 📖 The book is available open access #FeministForeignPolicy
Feminist Foreign Policy
Feminist Foreign Policy - Energy and Resistance; Since Sweden launched the world’s first Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), the concept has become ubiquitous in foreign policy studies and practice. This b...
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‘Before being forced to flee their homes, the Romanians, some 20 families in all, had lived in the affluent (and reasonably mixed) Lisburn Road area of south Belfast.’ I wrote this in *2009* in the Irish times N I has had a racism problem for a long time www.petergeoghegan.com/2009/08/06/r...
Racist attacks on Roma are latest low in North’s intolerant history – Peter Geoghegan
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Our new open access titles cover topics such as feminist foreign policy, migration, climate change, diversity, economic justice and more. 🔓 #Feminist #Migration #ClimateChange #Diversity https://ow.ly/nEGa50Zalmq
27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.
‘We are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive sense that an assault could occur at any moment.’ New from Luqman Saeed in Belfast: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Luqman Saeed | In Belfast
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...
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"short of the arrival of some kind of Noah’s Ark, the British university as we know it is destined for extinction sooner rather than later." Lorna Finlayson in Sidecar, @newleftreview.bsky.social. 4/4
Lorna Finlayson, Irreversible — Sidecar
On Britain’s universities.
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“what happens at the BL is, mostly, the wrong kind of research. It’s about the dull old humanities, not the cutting-edge sciences. It mostly looks backwards, not forwards. So it’s regarded, not least by our political leaders, as a backwater.”
Graham Macklin@grahammacklin.bsky.social · 3mo agoShhh! The British Library is in crisis. Still struggling with the impact of a devastating cyberattack, striking staff and a lack of leadership have left the institution in disarray
🚨 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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Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
Lauren Fraser@walkyouhome.bsky.social · 5mo agoControversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban
High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’
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Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
A pleasure to contribute to this Forum on @drljshepherd.bsky.social and @paulcinnamon.bsky.social recent book
H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum@h-diplo.bsky.social · 6mo agoJervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who…
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who…
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace
Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who have been at the forefront of its study over much of that time. It argues that previous research on WPS has several shortcomings that get in the way of scholars having a full picture of the agenda’s complexities.
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US expands Mexico City policy to bar any aid going to projects that contain gender or DEI So almost anything on poverty, rights, climate, or health www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US to expand anti-abortion aid rule to cover 'gender ideology,' diversity
The Trump administration is set to expand the Mexico City Policy that blocks U.S. assistance to organizations that provide or promote abortions to cover groups involved in what the administration call...
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📢 ISA Members: The Women's Caucus is now accepting nominations for 5 executive comm positions, including Program Chair/Incoming Chair for 2026-2028. As current program chair/incoming chair, I'd be happy to answer any questions about our work. Join us! @isanet.bsky.social
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So while preparing slides was once again been reminded of this little mystery....Huge gender gaps in support for 2 parties - Reform and Greens. Both genders are more likely to support the Greens, and gender gap in Green support is larger. But all the discussion focuses on young men & Reform
30,000 jobs gone in three years. Before the national insurance increase and the international student levy hits. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
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Can’t imagine I’ll read a better book this year.
After her last interview in @theguardian.com just last week, it's immensely sad to announce the death of Diane Munday at 94. Patron of @humanists.uk (first joining 70 years ago!), friend and mentor. Her exemplary life as an activist will be a permanent inspiration. humanists.uk/2026/01/11/h...
Humanists UK mourns Diane Munday, leading campaigner for the Abortion Act (1931-2026)
Humanists UK is deeply saddened to announce the death of its patron, Diane Munday, who dedicated her life to social reform, most notably as the principal leader of the campaign for the Abortion Act 19...
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'Every woman knows what I’m talking about.' Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
Men Explain Things to Me
<p>Before there was <em>mansplaining</em>, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.</p>
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Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
Aubade
Not in remorse —The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total...
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📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy", @tonihaastrup.bsky.social explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/tbJwU3s
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America", Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP. gendersky polisky buff.ly/dk6nkZz
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their notes from the field, "Troubled Encounters", @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen outline the challenges of implementing a feminist foreign policy in the context of peacebuilding. gendersky polisky buff.ly/XFbx7St
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In her notes from the field "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy", @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so. gendersky polisky buff.ly/wPx0LsJ
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Claiming Historical Responsibility", @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/vwGJ9bg
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context. Available #OpenAccess buff.ly/d2sgM4V
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice. buff.ly/hHpXEiG
Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
Mona Lena Krook@mlkrook.bsky.social · 9mo agoExcited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325. All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Gendersky Polisky