Jonna Nyman
@jknyman.bsky.social
Teach and research international relations at the University of Sheffield. Working on security politics, China, & energy/climate issues. Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
https://jknyman.com/
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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A couple of years and a
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A couple of years and a
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
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Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norweger stellen fest, dass China 850 ihrer Elektrobusse fernsteuern und sogar stoppen kann
Etwa 850 in Norwegen eingesetzte Elektrobusse können aus China vollständig kontrolliert werden. Das hat ein geheimer Test der öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe ergeben.
www.focus.de
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
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This is an interesting case. It does appear Sheffield Hallam were in a very difficult position if staff in China were being intimidated. Academic freedom vs responsibility to protect staff is not a no-brainer, from the point of view of university administration.
"a decision by the university not to publish a final phase of the research... was communicated to the National Security Service..." "China is not believed to have an organisation named National Security Service, so it is not clear who the individuals were".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police
Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This is an interesting case. It does appear Sheffield Hallam were in a very difficult position if staff in China were being intimidated. Academic freedom vs responsibility to protect staff is not a no-brainer, from the point of view of university administration.
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As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.
This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.
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This is a concerning situation with a lot to unpack. I note it's being dealt with primarily in terms of academic freedom, but what stood out for me is the additional issue of safety both for researchers AND wider communities/participants.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This is a concerning situation with a lot to unpack. I note it's being dealt with primarily in terms of academic freedom, but what stood out for me is the additional issue of safety both for researchers AND wider communities/participants.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
Worth your time:
"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation."
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):
No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
chinabooksreview.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Worth your time:
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Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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A meme for the modern university...
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A meme for the modern university...
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the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich
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we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome!
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
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A Chinese Studies research blog. Let's exchange ideas, tell stories, and keep asking better questions!
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome!
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
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think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.
also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
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❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change?
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Geoforum | Critical Climate Security | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? What conceptual, and critical, tools do we need to come to terms with the unequal geographies of climate insecurity in their temporal, spatia...
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change?
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) at Cardiff University
Apply now for the Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
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I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi
I’ll be presenting tomorrow at 14.00 on Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative and then at 16.00 I’m on a Global IR panel talking about my forthcoming OUP book, Securing China: Worlding Security Studies #EISAPEC2025 come join!
August 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I’ll be presenting tomorrow at 14.00 on Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative and then at 16.00 I’m on a Global IR panel talking about my forthcoming OUP book, Securing China: Worlding Security Studies #EISAPEC2025 come join!
Starting off my #EISAPEC2025 with a great panel on women, gender, and sex in the history of international relations 🥳
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Starting off my #EISAPEC2025 with a great panel on women, gender, and sex in the history of international relations 🥳
Worth a read:
"I think Xi Jinping is autocratic and self-serving.”
That’s quite a question for an eight-year-old girl to be confiding to her “Talking Tom AI companion” (汤姆猫AI童伴), an AI-powered toy cat with sparkling doe eyes and a cute little smile.
That’s quite a question for an eight-year-old girl to be confiding to her “Talking Tom AI companion” (汤姆猫AI童伴), an AI-powered toy cat with sparkling doe eyes and a cute little smile.
No AI Too Small - China Media Project
The safety test content for an AI-powered children's toy shows political safety figures heavily in even the most everyday applications of Chinese AI.
chinamediaproject.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Worth a read:
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South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)
August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)
Some thoughts on the UK China research survey:
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
some thoughts on this to put it into perspective. first of all I don't doubt the problems described are real and solidarity with colleagues who have been harassed or silenced for their research. if you read the report, you'll see that they emailed 469 scholars
some thoughts on this to put it into perspective. first of all I don't doubt the problems described are real and solidarity with colleagues who have been harassed or silenced for their research. if you read the report, you'll see that they emailed 469 scholars
UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds
Exclusive: university staff report being pressured to change teaching and are told that Chinese surveillance is rife
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Some thoughts on the UK China research survey:
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What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest
China’s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a....
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a....
China’s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?
Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
China’s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a....
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a....
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this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029
Important REF 2029 news: new people, culture and environment element set to have its weighting reduced, @resprofnews.bsky.social @chrisjparr.bsky.social learn.
Sector leaders had raised concerns about what they saw as delays/lack of clarity on PCE.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Sector leaders had raised concerns about what they saw as delays/lack of clarity on PCE.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Research culture element of REF 2029 set to be shrunk - Research Professional News
New ‘4-star plus’ research rating also being considered by Research Excellence Framework team, briefings suggest
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029
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Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.
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Deadline: 31 Aug
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Deadline: 31 Aug
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline: 31 Aug
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline: 31 Aug