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Scott Brown

@scottawbrown.bsky.social

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Dad, lecturer, cyclist, karateka - sometimes simultaneously. I work on EU/rope-US-China relations. IR + FPA. Usual disclaimers. PhD - Glasgow Postdoc - Nunn School @ GA Tech Now - Dundee

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm (slowly) putting together one of these for the Scottish IR scene. PhD students, ECRs and non-academics very welcome!
Apologies if I haven't added you yet - the list doesn't show bio info as I scroll to add names. Just let me know if you want to be added (or removed!)

go.bsky.app/RJPpLMy

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 10h

Just received terrible news

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 1d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Out-Trussed Truss

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month www.bbc.com/news/article...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month

www.bbc.com

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 4d

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 3d

I am so tired of waking up every day to learn about the government’s latest idea on how to make life worse for everybody.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said. The announcement, made the morning after almost 500 people were arrested in London for expressing support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, could allow police to order regular protests to take place at a different site. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 3d

Going to launch a campaign for
British withdrawal from the OECD, just for a laugh

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 6d

Nokia & Ericsson get squeezed out of the few crumbs they still had on Chinese market.

All the while, Huawei & ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market. Huawei 50%+ of German 5G access network.

Absolute economic security folly.

www.ft.com/content/7d08...

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 6d

That’s… uh…
what

Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 9d

Not only false, but it seems absurd that someone would even put that together.

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 9d

#DidYouKnow our latest issue is free to read right now on our website? These fantastic articles make significant contribution to both theory and empirics, so please take the time to have a read.

📘 👉 buff.ly/FLKl2kN

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 12d

“They’re not even trying to hide it anymore” final boss

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Alex Jones raises eyebrows by growing ‘Hitler mustache’

Alex Jones says he’s grown the mustache, similar to that of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, as a ‘social experiment’

www.independent.co.uk

Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 12d

As someone who was familiar with Navarro’s work long before he entered Trump’s circle - why would you give someone like this the platform?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13d

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Grogu. The Mandalorian. The way. Some high jinks.
Oh, you wanted it to have a plot?
Sorry 🤷‍♂️

Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Considering how terrible most of his policies are for US citizens and the world, why would you want him to?
Surely him being distracted by TV is the best case scenario?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15d

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor.

I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

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Lewis Miller @lewgmiller.bsky.social · 16d

Got a tshirt made for the first lecture with the first years

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 17d

The BBC’s Instagram page has six videos in a row from the Kirk event. Unclear why this level of attention is warranted.

Screenshot from the BBC’s Instagram account, taken on 22/09/25

Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 18d

Nostalgia overload today. Went with my kids, brothers and dad to watch two Thunderbirds episodes at the cinema. Then later watched Jurassic Park with my son for the first time. Pleased to say he loved it. Ended the day with an episode of S1 X-Files. Being a kid in the 1990s absolutely ruled.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 19d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 18d

How long until he decides opinion polls that don’t reflect well on him and his policies are also illegal? What about opposition political ads?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "When you have networks where I won an election in counties -- I guess it's 2,600 to 525, that's called a landslide times two -- when you have that kind of popularity or voter support, and yet 97% of the newscasts are against me ... I think that's really illegal."

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 18d

Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27d

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

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