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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Jul 14

New article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social w/ @michaellister.bsky.social & @apowelllaw.bsky.social on the naming of laws after exemplary victims of injustice. While opening space for addressing harm, such laws also, we argue, pose political & legal risks: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Jun 28

We could have written an entirely separate piece about Kneecap, frankly. It’s a really unusual to see a ‘showing support’ charge brought against someone who is quite clearly not a member of the proscribed group

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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Jun 27

New piece with @timlegrand.bsky.social on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK

The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

www.e-ir.info

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Jun 27

www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK

The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

www.e-ir.info

Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Jun 20

Fellow Australian political scientists and IR scholars - please share 👇👇👇👇

A new way of presenting your research at @auspsa.bsky.social for anyone who wants their paper to speak for itself!

AusPSA @auspsa.bsky.social · Jun 20

New at APSA 2025: Quiet Sessions
Share your research without presenting! Bring a printed slide deck and have one-on-one chats with interested attendees.

📅 Submit by: 4 July 2025
📍 24–27 Nov | Uni of Melbourne
🔗 Details & submission
📧 [email protected]

2025 APSA Conference: Call for Abstracts Now Open! - Australian Political Studies Association

Call for Abstracts – APSA 2025 Conference Now Open!We invite colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions, to submit abstracts and panel proposals that ...

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Nathan Manning @natemanning.bsky.social · May 14

🚨🚨 New funded PhD, looking at Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
@timlegrand.bsky.social
@tasayouth.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social

PhD Scholarship: Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces - Flinders University

www.flinders.edu.au

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · Apr 7

It was nice to chat yesterday with ABC WA Statewide Drive about our @aunz.theconversation.com piece on Gen-Z turnout in Australia.

If you want to have a listen, here is the link!

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (from 01:09:45)

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Mar 20

📣 Fully-funded #PhD alert 📣

Join my excellent team at the Uni of Adelaide investigating authoritarian repression & blacklisting.

📍Adelaide, Australia
🎓 3.5 year project
💰AU$32,500 annual scholarship
⏰ Deadline 20th April 2025
✉️ [email protected]

Please share!

The PhD project: This PhD project explores the international politics of exclusion and investigates the mechanisms by which authoritarian regimes pursue and persecute citizens they have blacklisted for their political beliefs. Its findings will be vital to revealing the cross border patterns and processes of exclusion by authoritarian states, and contribute to our knowledge of how such systems can be resisted by institutes and agents of global democracy.

Funding: This is a fully-funded PhD scholarship, which includes an annual stipend of AU$32,500 and a full waiver of tuition fees. The funding period runs for 3.5 years, and comes with additional research funds to support travel and other costs.

Location: This is a full-time PhD project based at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The successful candidate must be based in Adelaide for the duration of the PhD project. Unfortunately this position cannot be converted into a part-time role.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must have completed a Bachelor’s degree in Politics, Sociology, International Relations or a related social sciences discipline. You must also hold a Master’s degree that has a significant thesis component of 6,000 words or more. There are no nationality constraints.

Desirable (but not essential) qualities:
Fluency in one of the following languages: Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Hungarian, or Arabic
Experience in qualitative research methods

How to apply: Please email, with the subject line “ARC Blacklisting PhD Project”, the following materials to tim.legrand@adelaide.edu.au by the 20th April 2025

Your CV, indicating your qualifications and research experience;
A sample of your academic writing and/or a copy of your most recent thesis-length work; and
A statement (no more than 500 words) outlining your suitability for the project.

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Mar 18

Postdoc position alert! 🚨Based at Uni of Adelaide with the ever-brilliant Dr Nathan Manning and me, our focus is on digital extremism and young Australians.

🔥 Deadline is 3rd April 🔥

careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

careers.adelaide.edu.au

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Mar 10

Research Star ⬇️

Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · Mar 10

I’m over the moon that my 1st book, based on my PhD, will be published w/ Oxford University Press.

“Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right” investigates women’s involvement in PRR parties as party members.

I already have a full draft, so I hope I can share this labour of love w/ you soon 💜

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 31

2025-26 will hopefully see many many publications on youth wings.

A book on populist radical right youth wings in 10 European countries from this team:

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Dec 30

Finally started to read the manuscript that I worried would never be completed. Had forgotten what a cool, comprehensive, and original project this is.

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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · Nov 27

🚨Landing soon: the final edition of the year. It is a Special Edition on "Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities," guest edited by Professors Jagannath Panda and Daewon Ohn. Working on the final proofs now. 👀
#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Nov 27

Delighted to see this now out & open access in EJIS. The article explores what happens when seemingly critical ideas around counterterrorism achieve wider currency. Coauthored with @michaellister.bsky.social, huge thanks to the reviewers & editors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/eis....

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Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social · Nov 26

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

Yolande Bouka

#QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

www.queensu.ca

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Nov 24

I’m so sorry, Roland. Emma was such a wonderful person and academic. My deepest condolences to you and Emma’s family.

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Nov 23

The victory march of democracy has ended

What can we as researchers do?

In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies.

The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year.

A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hey Jack! 👋

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Mercedes Page @mercedespage.bsky.social · Nov 19

A starter pack of the Australian foreign policy, security and international relations community. As more accounts join, let me know if there's anyone that has been missed or if you'd like to be added 👇

go.bsky.app/VqMquA

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Gregory Manni @gregory-manni.bsky.social · Nov 18

This feature hasn’t been built in yet, but a user designed a feed that you can pin to home that is essentially bookmarking. Comment 📌 on any post and it’ll get saved for you in the feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Nov 18

Why is there no bookmark feature here? It would be really useful to save insightful posts, for our own learning and to refer to when challenging misleading claims and narratives especially those peddled by the ruling class. It’s an essential tool for accountability.

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · Nov 15

👋🏼 Hi all. I’m a Berlin-based journalist reporting on the rise of global authoritarianism and the defense of democracies. I’ve reported from Beijing, Moscow, Havana — even Pyongyang! Give me a RT and follow if you’re interested in these topics! 🌎🌍🌏

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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social · Nov 16

Haha, that’s exactly what I felt too! Flashbacks…

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · Nov 16

I’ve just added this cosy and aromatic Massaman Beef Curry to nigella.com, so of course it’s #RecipeOfTheDay! I cook this without the potatoes, then give it a day or two in the fridge before adding the potatoes and continuing, but you can cook it all the way through www.nigella.com/recipes/mass...

Massaman Beef Curry

This is another recipe inspired by my Thai travels — see Thai Noodles with Cinnamon and Prawns — and I have cooked it many, many times since. It is essentially a beef and potato stew, with all the com...

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · Sep 15

Flow of the vote, 2019-24, revised using @britishelectionstudy.com data.

Only a few minor alterations, but the shifts are still striking - without even getting onto non voters and demographic churn, over 10m voters voted for a different party in 2024 than in 2019.

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