If a computer can do higher education, then why do we need HE? We need to get better at explaining why- she says, while commenting how much of AI shows the weakness of HE to be begin with.

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza

We failed the people of Gaza. In every single way. And history will not forgive us.

Check out our new research Nicola Pratt: 'Sun, Sea and Sexual Violence: How Party Tourism Promotes and Permits Sexual Assault' -birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/sun-… POLSIS Birmingham POLSIS Birmingham

Why does sexual violence in party resorts often go unchallenged? Nicola Pratt & Columba Achilleos-Sarll (POLSIS Birmingham) reveal how “tourism bubbles” enable predatory behaviour: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…

One of my dear colleagues in Gaza, Ahmed Junina, wrote about what it’s like to teach while starving. theguardian.com/global-develop…

My BISA - British International Studies Association prize-winning article is out now, open access in RIS. I argue that an affective sovereignty forms the molten heart of Palestinian struggle, which cannot be extinguished by overwhelming violence. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, Toni Haastrup in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy" explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas. buff.ly/BPtbILd

New BISA WG! 🎉 Critical Alternatives for World Politics - fostering a welcoming space for experimental, creative & non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of International Studies - join today! 🌟 Info 👉 buff.ly/1Pxr7Bz Dr Natalie Jester Uygar Baspehlivan

thanks to WIIS Italy first for having me as a mentee in their mentoring program of last year, and secondly to accept this short blog post that explores in a bit the PhD investigation I'm developing these past years. Comments, doubts, questions, curiosities are all welcomed ✨🤲

I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. So many feels!

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on feminist foreign policy, Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP. buff.ly/6KMiKCi

Was reading the brilliant introduction to Anjali Nath’s new book « A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic War » that traces a cultural history of FOIA « accounting for the imperial pathways and ideas that made it possible » Really looking forward to this book…