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Anne Cousson
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MCF civilisation britannique Université de Poitiers / Associate professor British studies Université de Poitiers.
I study British political discourse, human rights, relationship with Europe.
Paris lover, music fan, I also answer to "Mamaaaan"
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Anne Cousson @acousson.bsky.social · Jul 26
Quick #introduction skeet! I'm associate professor in British Studies at the Université de Poitiers. I focus on political and parliamentary discourse in the UK, particularly on human rights and constitutional issues.
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timbale.bsky.social
PREACH!
albertsonb2.bsky.social Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 1d
When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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chuckbraz.bsky.social
Il est enfin sorti ! Mon livre "L'Alternance codique : structurer le sens en conversation bilingue", édité par les Presses Universitaires de Rennes, est disponible partout. A labor of love!
Couverture du lire "L'Alternance codique", sorti aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes le 13 novembre 2025.
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform."

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/
Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe
Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely to turn to the party, the evidence does not support this.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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uaces.bsky.social
APPLICATION TIP #1: Budget Realistically

Show genuine research needs:

✓ Specific flight routes + prices
✓ Actual accommodation rates
✓ Real visa fees
✓ Necessary research materials

Reviewers appreciate honest budgets.

UACES Scholarships close 7 Nov 2025: www.uaces.org/funding/scho...

#PhDTips
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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saes2026.bsky.social
[🚨!!! NEWS !!!🚨]

Le SITE WEB du Congrès SAES 2026 est en ligne : congres2026.saesfrance.org.

Vous pouvez d'ores et déjà consulter le texte de cadrage du congrès, et les appels à communication des différents ateliers. 🔽🔽🔽

#SAES #ESSE #angliciste #EtudesAnglophones #SAES2026 #emancipation
Accueil - Congrès SAES 2026
Bienvenue sur le site du 65e Congrès de la SAES Nous aurons le plaisir de vous accueillir à Poitiers du 3 au 5 juin 2026 autour du thème « Émancipation » [Les… Lire la suite
congres2026.saesfrance.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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simonusherwood.bsky.social
Last chance to sign up for our discussion about how we might study cycling and Europe: even if you can't make it, do share your details and we'll tell you about what we thought we'd do
simonusherwood.bsky.social Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · Oct 8
Interested in cycling and Europe?
Fancy talking with other researchers about how we might develop our work?

Then sign up for the launch webinar of a new network, Cycling Europe Study Circle, with me and @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social, on 24 October, 14-16 UK time

forms.office.com/e/SsXKNb1gvC
October 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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cas-ut2j.bsky.social
Les 3 et 4/11, venez assister au colloque "Connexions transimpériales : hommes et femmes de terrain dans les empires français et britannique (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)" (org. CAS, LERMA, 3L.AM)

🚩 F417 + E412 - MdR - UT2J
⤵️ Programme
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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saes2026.bsky.social
Toutes les infos (cadrage, organisation, invité d'honneur etc.) seront dévoilées au fur et à mesure alors...

🐐 Grab your #chabichou et suivez nous pour plus d'infos sur cet évènement ! 🐐

#SAES #ESSE #angliciste #université #poitiers #EtudesAnglophones #SAES2026 #univpoitiers #emancipation
Bannière de l'évènement SAES 2026 à Poitiers. Le titre, "Émancipation", les dates (du 3 au 5 juin 2026), sur un fond de vitrail brisé (le vitrail d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine qui se trouve dans l'hôtel de ville de Poitiers.
October 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social
Stark warning from the Council of Europe today about how the EHRC’s proposed guidance on the Equality Act will conflict with the UK’s international human rights obligations.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Oct 14
Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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maheo.bsky.social
Merci au jury du prix de la recherche @afea.bsky.social
et @saesfrance.org d'avoir sélectionné mon livre pur-editions.fr/product/9745...
aux @editionspur.bsky.social aux côtés du prix 2025, A-F Gillard Estrada et de J. Zarifian, une occasion de le présenter en ligne saesfrance.org/prix-de-la-r....
Olivier Mahéo, présentation de 'De Rosa Parks au Black Power'
YouTube video by SAES
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October 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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cfrancoisdeneve.bsky.social
Et alors justement, si vous avez envie de faire une thèse sur cinéma et décadence (avec moi, mais payée)
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Contrat doctoral de 48 mois en cotutelle entre l'Univ. Bourgogne Europe et Goldsmiths University
Contrat doctoral de 48 mois en cotutelle entre l'Univ. Bourgogne Europe et Goldsmiths University Horizon Europe Framework Programme – MSCA Présentation : DECADOCS (Decadence for Doctoral Studies) est ...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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esthercyna.bsky.social
🔈 10 octobre: "Discrimination & éducation. Regards croisés États-Unis/France" UVSQ @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @telemme.bsky.social @noranafaa.bsky.social avec le soutien de la Graduate School Education Formation Enseignement @parissaclay.bsky.social
@uvsq.bsky.social ⤵️ drive.google.com/file/d/1Mjiz...
September 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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simonusherwood.bsky.social
Very much not the point of Reform's announcement, but existence of this and ECHR withdrawal in UK political debate will make EU cautious about entering in more commitments with a UK that doesn't look like it's got back on board with good faith implementation of treaty commitments
stevepeers.bsky.social Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Sep 22
If the Reform Party plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain also abolishes settled status for EU citizens, that would be a breach of the withdrawal agreement, liable to lead to the EU retaliating by removing trade preferences.
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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vgravey.bsky.social
Come work with me, we've got two permanent lectureship (aka assistant prof) to join our politics & IR group:

- lecturer in IR

- lecturer in Public Policy
September 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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patrickbijsmans.bsky.social
As a faculty in the humanities and social science, we @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social engage with contested contemporary issues on a daily basis in #learning, #teaching & #research. We are therefore happy to host the new Viewmaster exhibition PROTEST which opened yesterday. See: tinyurl.com/viewprotest
September 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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chrismarsden.bsky.social
So brilliant. RIP Conor Gearty, the British government's essential critical friend
September 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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lrb.co.uk
Conor Gearty, a professor of human rights law at the LSE and a regular contributor to the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, has died at the age of 67.

In 2022, he wrote a piece for the paper on the UK Supreme Court; a follow-up will be published in a future issue.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conor Gearty · In the Shallow End
Boris Johnson’s Brexit administration is in many ways an exercise in nostalgia, a search for a lost England, and the...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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uaces.bsky.social
UACES Virtual Conference Day is TOMORROW.
After an amazing week in Liverpool, we're continuing the research conversations online. Join us for flexible sessions across 14 panels covering everything from EU security to digital policy.
Liverpool attendees: check ConfTool for access links.
#UACES2025
September 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
For a clear explanation of The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its relationship with the UK, take a look at this explainer by @joellegrogan.bsky.social and @alicedonald.bsky.social 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/e...
Explainer: Compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights: the UK and Europe - UK in a changing Europe
Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald explain the The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its relationship with the UK.
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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turnbulldugarte.com
The takeaway:

👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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tommenger.bsky.social
Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
acousson.bsky.social
Back home after five days in the UK, including 3 days of conferencing. Great presentations, very interesting colleagues, fun conversations. This is a fantastic way to start the academic year! Thanks to everyone at #UACES2025 ! @uaces.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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alexsippel.bsky.social
I've re-read passages from the Putney debates to use them as an introduction to my new class on a (more or less) comparative/parallel history of voting rights and voting rights militancy in the US and UK, and it's still as amazing, even askin the question of foreigners' voting rights.
September 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM