Jenny Mathers
@jgmaber.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
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Jenny Mathers
@jgmaber.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Ukraine Recruits Women Soldiers. Why Doesn’t Russia?
The changing lives of women on and off the battlefield reveal the very different futures for which the warring countries are fighting
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Introducing myself to new followers: I research and teach at Aberystwyth University on the west coast of Wales, focussing on Russian politics and security and on women and war. This article reflects my interests in gender and Russia's war in Ukraine 1/4
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There are studentships to do PhD research with my colleagues - or indeed with me! Check out the link below for details of how to apply - but don't leave it too long, as the application deadline is coming up next week
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
There are studentships to do PhD research with my colleagues - or indeed with me! Check out the link below for details of how to apply - but don't leave it too long, as the application deadline is coming up next week
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Nahoko Kojima, contemporary Japanese paper cutting artist #womensart
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Nahoko Kojima, contemporary Japanese paper cutting artist #womensart
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
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Two nights in a row, the Kremlin has been attacking #Kyiv and Kyiv region. There are casualties.
Are these crimes mentioned in your country’s media?
Appreciate your replies and if you could indicate your country. Thank you, friends.
📷 Yefrem Lukatsky
Kyiv today
Are these crimes mentioned in your country’s media?
Appreciate your replies and if you could indicate your country. Thank you, friends.
📷 Yefrem Lukatsky
Kyiv today
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Two nights in a row, the Kremlin has been attacking #Kyiv and Kyiv region. There are casualties.
Are these crimes mentioned in your country’s media?
Appreciate your replies and if you could indicate your country. Thank you, friends.
📷 Yefrem Lukatsky
Kyiv today
Are these crimes mentioned in your country’s media?
Appreciate your replies and if you could indicate your country. Thank you, friends.
📷 Yefrem Lukatsky
Kyiv today
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I wouldn't raise your hopes given the body language at the START of the US-Ukraine meeting in Miami.
November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I wouldn't raise your hopes given the body language at the START of the US-Ukraine meeting in Miami.
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Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter
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Autumnal views of the glorious medieval St David's Cathedral in coastal Pembrokeshire yesterday, dating from the C12th century & built in a wooded hollow below Britain's smallest city
📷 My own
📷 My own
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Autumnal views of the glorious medieval St David's Cathedral in coastal Pembrokeshire yesterday, dating from the C12th century & built in a wooded hollow below Britain's smallest city
📷 My own
📷 My own
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Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
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“Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble”
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble”
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Kyiv residents spent the night in shelters with their loved ones as Russia attacked the capital again.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Kyiv residents spent the night in shelters with their loved ones as Russia attacked the capital again.
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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
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How is this a shock to anyone who's been paying even the most minimal attention to what Trump has been saying and his admin have been doing all year? I posted this in February, for example. Officials who simply chose not to believe it because it's all too difficult might want to rethink their career
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
How is this a shock to anyone who's been paying even the most minimal attention to what Trump has been saying and his admin have been doing all year? I posted this in February, for example. Officials who simply chose not to believe it because it's all too difficult might want to rethink their career
Doing some Saturday afternoon essay marking and watching it get darker and stormier outside.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Doing some Saturday afternoon essay marking and watching it get darker and stormier outside.
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Interested in gender & military?
Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there.
This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there.
This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...
Sex and the Nazi Soldier
Sex and the Nazi Soldier
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Interested in gender & military?
Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there.
This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...
Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there.
This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...
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Students don’t need to go to university to use generative AI. They need critical thinking and analytical skills, the ability to understand complex ideas, to make connections and informed arguments, to cultivate creative thinking and develop original ideas. And yes it is hard work. The rest is SLOP
Universities are racing to incorporate AI into their curriculum—but there’s a better way to prepare students for the future, Michael Clune argues.
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Students don’t need to go to university to use generative AI. They need critical thinking and analytical skills, the ability to understand complex ideas, to make connections and informed arguments, to cultivate creative thinking and develop original ideas. And yes it is hard work. The rest is SLOP
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Brutal examination, agree fully: "Putin has just made one of his most cherished dreams come true: he has compromised the United States in his efforts to demolish international law. This is the primary objective of the Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan".
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The Witkoff/Dmitriev Peace Plan: Stupidity or Betrayal? • russian desk
Putin has just made one of his most cherished dreams come true: he has compromised the United States in his efforts to demolish international law. This is the
desk-russie.info
November 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Brutal examination, agree fully: "Putin has just made one of his most cherished dreams come true: he has compromised the United States in his efforts to demolish international law. This is the primary objective of the Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan".
desk-russie.info/2025/11/27/t...
desk-russie.info/2025/11/27/t...
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@telegraph.co.uk have generally been excellent on Russia's invasion, but this is a headline that belongs in the 19th century. The US president can't "hand" Ukraine's land to the Russian president, however much he wants to. Trump can only take a position on US recognition, nothing else.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@telegraph.co.uk have generally been excellent on Russia's invasion, but this is a headline that belongs in the 19th century. The US president can't "hand" Ukraine's land to the Russian president, however much he wants to. Trump can only take a position on US recognition, nothing else.
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It’s 6:42 am in Kyiv. Russia is attacking us 7 hours straight . I have slept just about couple of hours before tha attack and an hour during and now with all the explosions I can’t get myself to sleep , too much adrenaline I guess, brain too overstimulated when there are explosions
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
It’s 6:42 am in Kyiv. Russia is attacking us 7 hours straight . I have slept just about couple of hours before tha attack and an hour during and now with all the explosions I can’t get myself to sleep , too much adrenaline I guess, brain too overstimulated when there are explosions
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Explosions in Kharkiv‼️City is under russian glide bomb attack right now ‼️
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Explosions in Kharkiv‼️City is under russian glide bomb attack right now ‼️
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A year ago today, Georgians flooded the streets after Georgian Dream said it would suspend EU accession. The people haven’t stopped since — protests have taken place every day in 8+ cities.
Tonight, Tbilisi is packed with protesters marching toward Parliament.
🎥 Netgazeti
Tonight, Tbilisi is packed with protesters marching toward Parliament.
🎥 Netgazeti
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A year ago today, Georgians flooded the streets after Georgian Dream said it would suspend EU accession. The people haven’t stopped since — protests have taken place every day in 8+ cities.
Tonight, Tbilisi is packed with protesters marching toward Parliament.
🎥 Netgazeti
Tonight, Tbilisi is packed with protesters marching toward Parliament.
🎥 Netgazeti
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Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
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Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets