On 16 September 1-2pm AEST Dr Michelle Rourke is giving a seminar on everything you need to know about taking a *One Health Approach to PABS in the Pandemic Agreement*. Not to be missed! Details 👇 #Pandemic #OneHealth #Equity #PABS #WOAH #WHO www.linkedin.com/posts/indo-p...

Congratulations @queenietomaro.bsky.social

🚨New online! "Preventing & countering violent extremism: the logics of women’s participation" by @queenietomaro.bsky.social, on participation of women in security spaces, using the Philippines as case study. ⬇️ #openaccess #academicpublishing #internationalsecurity
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why did Australia border earlier than most others for #Covid19? Diego Leiva Van De Maele, @drjesskirk.bsky.social, @cosmohoward.bsky.social, Mariel Verroya & @saraedavies.bsky.social examine Australia’s policy at the time: buff.ly/bJgFcDB (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

New research: More Australians consider Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

🔴 Trump (31%)
🟠 Putin (27%)
🟠 Xi Jinping (27%)

Almost half (49%) said they felt less secure since the election of President Trump. 17% feel more secure. #auspol

Something odd here.

CBS News confirms other media reports: "Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions."

The CBS News then notes that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said he's unaware of the directive.

Amid increasing backlash against #genderequity efforts worldwide, how and why should we seek to elevate women in #globalhealth leadership?

@saraedavies.bsky.social, @merusheel.bsky.social & co address this in @mja.com.au InSight+:

insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/8/reima...

#IWD25

In case anyone needs a break from reality (me, by 9 a.m. every day), my coauthor Anna Berg and I have a new, open access essay out in Perspectives! buff.ly/4gN6cFR. We describe the marginalization of qual methods in the study of American political behavior and make a case for their revival.

🚨🚨🚨Major job alert klaxon!!!🚨🚨🚨

In the Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social we are currently advertising for 3 permanent academic posts (2 Political Theory, 1 PPE)!

Details below. Happy to have an informal discussion with anyone interested.

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Yes! I saw this today. Weekend read

The overall story is of young Germans rejecting the established centre-right and centre-left, but while young men are shifting to both populist flanks, young women are shifting overwhelmingly to the populist left.

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:

Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.

www.ft.com/content/29fd...

🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Community update: 3 strangers gather together on a sunny Brisbane evening walk. “Careful, I think I saw a snake”. “Is it dead or alive?”. “I think alive”. “How about I go first & one of you watch out?”. “Ok, but walk by on the road. We will watch out for cars”. “Argh! It’s real. Brown and grumpy”.

Trumps attacks on reproductive health around the world (and health more generally, but make no mistake whose health his real target is - women) had me thinking about this piece @saraedavies.bsky.social & I wrote 5 (!) years ago
academic.oup.com/isq/article/... Still holds

Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne? Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

Hello! Nice to be here. Here to be nice. 😎