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Join us on 30th September - 6.30pm - 7.30pm, joined with Matt Staples and Dr. Edward Wastnidge will be sharing how the Open University’s teaching, research, and wider engagement in politics and international relations connect with the aims of our new society

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Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Just did a quick Q&A @justsecurity.org for journalists & others wondering what today's report that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza does (& does not) mean justsecurity.org/120762/coi-genocide-israel-gaza/ Please share with anyone covering the report.

I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate.

Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.

It also looks like he's reading a script. He has to keep peering down to get the words

I don’t think people in the UK realise the extent to which US elite are trying to make the UK shift to far right, mobilising white men

Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!

The United Nations General Assembly will no longer take place in New York.
Meetings will be held in Geneva instead, as Trump refuses to admit the Palestinian delegation to enter the US

🎙️This morning I spoke to Emma Nelson on Monocle Radio's The Globalist about the passing of another Trump deadline for Putin and what might come next in #Russia's war against #Ukraine. The interview starts at 3:30 in the recording
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Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline 14th August. Created by experts in International Relations, defence and security policy and practice AND distance learning and tailored to facilitate career development. What more could anyone ask for in an MA? www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate

It's not too late to apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline is 14th August. This course is special. 5 stars, says I!
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Really pleased my article on the election process of the UN Secretary General is now available in the Open University's Resources for Schools, created for secondary school age students across the UK. #UNSG #unitednations
tinyurl.com/2jut9xne @oupolitics.bsky.social

Genocide, not a genocidal act.

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On Tuesday 1 July, Dr Georgina Holmes and NGO Security Women ran an internal workshop for the UK @defencehq.bsky.social on the recruitment of women into the British Armed Forces, ahead of the new tri-service recruitment programme 2027.

Read here! fass.open.ac.uk/news/improvi...

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.

How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

I ask ChatGPT questions to see what the standard answer is, and to see how Ai frames it in as discourse. I look at it in a critical way. For example. I’ve asked it questions about its own company’s treatment of staff and it clearly covers up and provides a legal answer on behalf of the company.