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Pontus Odmalm

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SL in Politics. University of Edinburgh, PIR #PoliticsOfMigration. #MS #Leither 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Own account/(re)posts=interesting https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/pontus-odmalm

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · Aug 4

What a great start to the sabbatical! Tri-write with @slsalo.bsky.social and @jensrydgren.bsky.social 95% there - “We would like to accept the article for publication, but before we go ahead, we would like to give you the opportunity to make some further minor changes//…//.”

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 14m

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2h

Stop the Boats (A Place in the Sun edition) 👇

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2h

Important reminder why humanities matter 👇

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 8h

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 4h

a baby is screaming in a crowd of people while sitting in a stadium .

ALT: a baby is screaming in a crowd of people while sitting in a stadium .

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 5h

“What followed was a detour into semi-coherent ideological abstraction.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 9h

Important read 👇 #PublishOrPerish

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10h

Constant, morale-sapping, self-doubting rejection throughout their careers is one thing that all but the luckiest/most talented academics, no matter how supposedly senior they are, share with each other! I rather liked this advice about staying positive regardless - I just wish I could follow it!

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

www.theguardian.com

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 9h

a child is pushing a blue tricycle down a hallway

ALT: a child is pushing a blue tricycle down a hallway

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 9h

Point 👇

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 21h

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 23h

a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says good point ..

ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says good point ..

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Important read 👇

University of Southampton News @uosmedia.bsky.social · 1d

"Without trust, things fall apart."

@drjennings.bsky.social has written for @bigissue.com about the global crisis in public trust and how we can get it back.

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?

As The Celebrity Traitors comes to our screens, academic Will Jennings looks at why we've lost trust in our institutions, and each other.

www.bigissue.com

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Important read(s) 👇

Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 1d

New SI "Cleavage Politics in Western
Democracies" @wepsocial.bsky.social!

If you're interested in transforming social & political divides in advanced democracies, this is for you.

The intro by @davidattewell6.bsky.social & me maps contributions around 3 challenges for contemp. cleavage research.

David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Point (3) 👇

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Under any other leader Jenrick would have been sacked for saying this.

Under Badenoch he'll probably get a promotion www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Important read 👇

Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Point (2) 👇

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Point 👇

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 1d

Racism and authoritarian nativism have become normalized in British politics in warp speed. Not only rhetorically but as guiding principles of policy. Yet, many still talk about "populism" as if it were 2016. The idea that "this isn't Britain" is keeping people from clearly assessing where we are.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

See also 👇

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 1d

Important read by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social 👇

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3d

This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

democracyamericana.com

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2d

Important listen (if I may) 👇

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d

coming up on the podcast:

- new 'writing the bible'
- @profyolonda.bsky.social on bioethics
- deepra das acevedo on tenure
- @podmalm.bsky.social on immigration politics
- @goodlawproject.org on trans rights in the uk

links to follow/ subscribe -

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2d

From my advanced middle age perspective the below couple look fairly similar 🤷🏼‍♂️

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Swag gap: Does it matter if your partner has a different style to you?

People on TikTok are lamenting past relationships they've described as having swag gaps - an obvious style difference.

www.bbc.co.uk

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2d

Point 👇

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2d

Important read by @adambienkov.bsky.social 👇

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 2d

The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account.

On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!

They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources

Share the news 🔁

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 2d

Layperson here but thought Vietnam was a case of conventional-warfare-against-an-unconventional-enemy?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."