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Ha. Just spent 3 months among the Squirrels. Good chaps.

Announcing the cfp for Pop Culture and World Politics at the End of the World hosted by the University of Glasgow, 19-20 November 2026. Please join us in Scotland for what promises to be an amazing event. For more info, visit: atomicanxiety.com/pcwp-v17/

The power of Trump-speak: populist crisis narratives and ontological security For most observers, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States (US) came as a shock. This has been widely recast as the culmination of the American public’s long-standi...

Got a chance to read 'The Power of Trump-Speak' by @alexhlar.bsky.social and Ronny Scholz - brilliant stuff that will definitely inform the book I am working on. See it at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research

Austria being saucy and wonderful:
1️⃣ Announced program for US academics on July 4 2025
2️⃣ Uses money originally seeded by the Marshall Plan
3️⃣ Funds 25 refugee scientists with €500,000.
4️⃣ Formal statement: "Thank Trump for this brain gain”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Can't wait to present my co-authored paper 'Irish (Americans) and the Performative Politics of the Great Famine' with @michaeltoomey.bsky.social as part of a panel titled Memory, Migration, and Affective Histories in Motion!

Looking forward to presenting 'A "nuclear bomb" of sexual assaults: a Fanonian analysis of the phallus in contemporary British anti-immigration discourse' with my co-author @harokarkour.bsky.social in June. Here's hoping for sunny, warm weather in Brighton!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!!
Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Participant registration deadline: 2 March
See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️
@simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social

1/2 Excited to announce our Call for Abstracts for the next Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop, hosted by colleagues at the University of Copenhagen August 20-21, 2026
This year, we also welcome work that looks beyond the North Sea. nors.ku.dk/english/cale...

Throwback to a simpler time when my co-author @comicpolitics.bsky.social and I penned this little gem - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Happy to launch on Bluesky with an update about my recent co-authored piece with Rhys Crilley in Place Branding & Public Diplomacy - link.springer.com/article/10.1...