The Middle East - famously a geopolitics-free zone.
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The Middle East - famously a geopolitics-free zone.
The "family voting" talking point is probably part of a more long term play from the Far Right to delegitimise immigrant and minority involvement in political life
Iβm pleased to announce the article by Scott Lavery and myself: InvestEU: Neoliberal Lineages and Contradictions in the New EU Industrial Policy. You can read and download it for free here: 10.17645/pag.11257 #OpenAccess
An option that we are increasingly depriving us of over real inclusivity and accessibility issues of exams and a BS narrative of AI βskillsβ as an employability necessity whose development we would harm through exams.
Itβs like not fixing a leaky roof. Itβs bad from the start, but you kind of get away with it for a bit, then the damp starts, you get stains on the ceiling which then starts caving in, and then you realise your rafters are disintegrating. You then replace the roof but the dampβs now in the walls.
The next conference of the DVPW Section Political Economy takes place 24β25 Sept 2026 at Freie UniversitΓ€t Berlin.
Contributions in English and German are welcome. Please send us your paper or panel proposal by next Friday, 27 Feb 2026.
All info in our Call for Papers: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...
Article sound on the quote being wrong, but loses points for not saying the original translation was infinitely better
PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
How AI Can Support Your Research Efficiency Automate routine or repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for experiments, analysis, and discovery. Creativity Spark new ideas, explore alternative approaches, or generate first drafts to move past the βblank page.β Clarity Translate complex data, technical language, or lengthy findings into clear summaries for colleagues, partners, or broader audiences. Organization Turn research notes, articles, or meeting discussions into structured summaries, action items, or literature maps. Accessibility Develop research outputs that are more inclusive and easier to share with collaborators, students, and the wider UNB community.
Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."
unbcloud.sharepoint.com/sites/AI-at-...
Saw this on LinkedIn. Our immigration system is morally bankrupt and economically ridiculous. Shameful.
Alaaf uss London bei England noh KΓΆlle!
The wonderful @maltelaub.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on the theme of Austerity Militarism at EWIS 2026 in Izmir! If you are working on these themes then please consider submitting an abstract! We'd love to see you there.
The link to submit is here: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...
π¨ The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
ππ¨π©π’π: Finance & democracy
π³Μ²Μ²πΜ²Μ²πΜ²Μ²πΜ²: 4-5 June 2026
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We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
A hint that may or may not hold: if you have to name someone who won very many Olympic medals, it tends to be the Sir or Dame among the other options of commoners. Mostly.
Did this the other week. You will learn that the UK invented everything!
CfP for #EWIS2026 is open until 11 February and @jward232.bsky.social and I are looking forward to submissions from across politics, political economy, sociology, and beyond. We are especially interested in papers from ECRs. Get in touch if you have any questions!
I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.
Remember to submit your abstracts for our track (RN06) at the European Sociological Conference! β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
Deadline this Friday!
Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdingsβnow with the latest data.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
Join @jward232.bsky.social and me in Izmir at #EWIS2026 to discuss the causes and effects of we have tentatively called 'austerity militarism' - the end of austerity for (European) militaries, but continued restraint and new cuts for welfare/social care.
CfP here eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...
Let me introduce the concept of weaponising firesales
Massive crowds on the street in Copenhagen in solidarity with Greenland and against US aggression. Thousands of Greenlandic flags π¬π±πͺ
If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in βgenocide under digital darknessβ
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
It is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment".
No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
Point being, we should recognise that ICE is different, but it is very much grounded in American policing and explaining as well as countering it doesn't work without explaining/countering the wider policing project.
I'm not one for constant Nazi comparisons, but looking at how the Gestapo was staffed might be helpful. There were plenty of Nazi party, SA, SS members in it, but most officers were former Weimar policemen.
This is crucial to understanding what ICE is. It is increasingly a force of the regime (i.e. more centralised and directly connected to Trump & Co. than other forces), but it is reliant upon the vast American police apparatus, including for recruitment and 'training'.
Even more broadly, large organisations need to think very carefully whether they should be encouraging employees and customers to engage with them in any way on a platform where there is industrial scale production and distribution of CSAM and where the owner has shown no interest in tackling it.
Every single university in the country should be deleting or locking its accounts now. Itβs negligence to be posting photos of students, faculty, or staff on the site.