Daniela Lai

Going to use this video from now on when I try to talk my students out of using GenAI!

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.

My favourite bit about ethnonationalist Matt Goodwin complaining that he lost to Muslim sectarianism is that Muslims voted for a party led by a gay Jewish man.

Sectarianism eh.

1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

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What is...the Arms Trade? What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first episode of 2026, we explore why scholars of international relations should pay closer attention to the arms trade, and what its dy...

What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices episode of 2026, I talk to the indomitable @annastavrianakis.bsky.social to explore this question and much more…

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1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

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1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

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1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

⏰ The deadline for workshop submissions for #EISAPEC26 is coming up!

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So good to see this coming out soon - thanks to Aida and Jacqui's amazing work!

Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack.
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)

♥️

European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) Call for Editors, October 2025

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OnlineFirst - "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" by Daniela Lai:

#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy

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📢 Roundtable: Dayton Peace Agreement – 30 Years On
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Very happy to share that my article "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" was just published in Environment and Planning A.

This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC!

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Reform's defeat is a triumph for Wales Martin Shipton Lindsay Whittle’s triumph in the Caerphilly by-election is a victory not only for Plaid Cymru, but for Wales. Like many others, I had been seduced into believing that the Farage bandwag...

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🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

Congratulations Elliot! 🙌

Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine has finally been released! Please ask your local or university library to get it! You can also use my author code (BUP50) if you'd really like to get it epub or hard-copy
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Join us in Izmir next July for #EWIS2026!

Flotilla: "Ecco l'istante in cui la Family Boat è stata colpita dall'alto" La missione umanitaria afferma di essere stata attaccata da un drone in acque tunisine e pubblica un video. Le autorità locali smentiscono

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Thank you!

Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25

Happy news! Many congratulations Ellie!

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social

Very happy to have this article out with RIPE:
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you Polly! The plan is to sleep for the whole weekend

Also raise your hand if you
organised #EWIS2025 and then missed most of it because of tonsillitis 🙋 (secondary point compared to the fact I live in a country that thinks direct action is more dangerous than than committing genocide)

Nice to have landed back in the UK as it confirms its sure and steady decline into authoritarianism