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“William’s story was one of intergenerational trauma & of the lies Scotland tells itself about its treatment of its most vulnerable children.” My @londonreview.bsky.social longread on the Polmont suicides & our failing youth justice system is the culmination of 6 years’ work & means a lot to me.

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Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

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‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

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A recent blog we wrote with colleagues on the role of minority media in shaping perceptions of Europe in borderland regions! @euracminorities.bsky.social www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/und...

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📣 is anyone aware calls for papers/special issues on any of the following themes: border studies, identities, visual methods?

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Join us on 6 February for an insightful talk and discussion on "How Platforms Fail Democracy" with visiting Professor Daniel Kreiss from the University of North Carolina. 🎙️ Speaker: @dkreiss.bsky.social 📖 Book your space here: edin.ac/4iI52Og

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📣 Applications open until the end of this month to take part in our border studies summer school here in Bolzano: 👉 : www.eurac.edu/en/institute... !

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🚨 Only 3 weeks left to apply! 🚨 Postdoc position in Advertising Democracy. An excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and do impactful research.

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Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵

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An utterly damning and horrific image.

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We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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📢 Applications Are Open! 🌍✨ Are you passionate about #borders and #European studies? Join us at the B-Shapes Summer School next May in Bolzano! 🏫🌿 Engage in: 🔹 Thought-provoking lectures 🔹 Hands-on methods workshops ❗️20 funded places ➡️ More info here: www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

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How do political #narratives shape #identity negotiation processes for young adult #migrants? Read 'Transnational identities and agency: navigating everyday life as a young adult migrant in Glasgow, UK' by @mnicolson.bsky.social From #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070...

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📣Job alert (postdoc): Immigration, Information, and Technologies @irms-concordia.bsky.social Open to all #migration researchers, particularly those working with text-as-data, NLP or computational social sciences approaches. www.concordia.ca/artsci/resea... #Polisky #Migcitsky #poliscisky

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New report - Young Muslims in Scotland: politics, racism and the media @robinfinlay.bsky.social @joeljoel.bsky.social Press release @newcastleuni.bsky.social www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

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Tucked into this column, a detail I wasn't aware of: one of the cops accused of running spies to collect dirt on the Stephen Lawrence campaign went on to write the recent Policy Exchange report that recommended tougher sentences for environmental protesters. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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📣 My very cool colleague, Dr Francesca Scrinzi, is hiring a postdoc for a @ec.europa.eu Horizon Project at Glasgow Uni. You-DARE: Debunking the Gendered Arguments of Far-Right Extremism. The project explores gender discourse and practice of the far-right in Europe. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU133/r...

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📢📢📢New article out! On violence and insecure #migration status in Globalization and Health journal: read it here rdcu.be/d1gTT Reporting of violence victimization should never result in immigration enforcement. Everyone deserves to be free from violence. W/ Annie Bunce, Hannah Manzur & Natalia Lewis

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Have you read the latest issue of #Identities? #NewIssue #LatestIssue @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social Explore 31(5) ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/...

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We've made some additions with new people we've seen/come across. Let us know if you can think of anyone missing! go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

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I have many new followers (thanks!). @mesarovicha.bsky.social and I are running this workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions in Prague and we’d love you to submit your paper. Yes, yours! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓 go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX

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1/🔉Quick Intro post: I'm a postdoc researcher working at Eurac research in Bolzano, Italy. PhD studied at Glasgow Caledonian Uni on #migration #narratives in Scotland and the #ontologicalsecurity of young adult migrants in Glasgow. Here is a quick blog overview of the project: tinyurl.com/54sw3x68

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 What is the relationship between fear, agency, and the unconscious in securitisation processes? @charlieprice.bsky.social and I discuss this in our new #OpenAccess article. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #polisky #IRsky

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My new #OpenAccess article is out in @identitiesjournal.bsky.social "Transnational identities and agency: navigating everyday life as a young adult migrant in Glasgow, UK" Really happy to publish in this journal where I found a lot of inspiration during my PhD. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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View from an evening run around Bolzano last night

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