Jonna Nyman
@jknyman.bsky.social
Teach and research international relations at the University of Sheffield. Working on security politics, China, & energy/climate issues. Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
https://jknyman.com/
https://jknyman.com/
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I've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well)
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
February 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
I've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well)
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
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Great to see @mybisa.bsky.social posting Alexander Borum's list of career and internship opportunities in international affairs on its website
IR career starters - January 2026- Postgraduate Network (PGN) | BISA
- Postgraduate Network (PGN) Working Group
www.bisa.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Great to see @mybisa.bsky.social posting Alexander Borum's list of career and internship opportunities in international affairs on its website
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If you wrote a book 10 years ago that started with, "...the year is 2026, European leaders scramble to prevent a US invasion of Greenland", the editor would tell you to calm down.
January 17, 2026 at 6:41 AM
If you wrote a book 10 years ago that started with, "...the year is 2026, European leaders scramble to prevent a US invasion of Greenland", the editor would tell you to calm down.
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Is there a “dating” app with more national security implications than Grindr? First it was that CFIUS ruling forcing its sale to a US owner, now this…
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Is there a “dating” app with more national security implications than Grindr? First it was that CFIUS ruling forcing its sale to a US owner, now this…
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Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
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Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/rea...
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 at University of St Andrews
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/rea...
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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A couple of years and a
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A couple of years and a
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
@leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order.
www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
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Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norweger stellen fest, dass China 850 ihrer Elektrobusse fernsteuern und sogar stoppen kann
Etwa 850 in Norwegen eingesetzte Elektrobusse können aus China vollständig kontrolliert werden. Das hat ein geheimer Test der öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe ergeben.
www.focus.de
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
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This is an interesting case. It does appear Sheffield Hallam were in a very difficult position if staff in China were being intimidated. Academic freedom vs responsibility to protect staff is not a no-brainer, from the point of view of university administration.
"a decision by the university not to publish a final phase of the research... was communicated to the National Security Service..." "China is not believed to have an organisation named National Security Service, so it is not clear who the individuals were".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police
Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This is an interesting case. It does appear Sheffield Hallam were in a very difficult position if staff in China were being intimidated. Academic freedom vs responsibility to protect staff is not a no-brainer, from the point of view of university administration.
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As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.
This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.
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This is a concerning situation with a lot to unpack. I note it's being dealt with primarily in terms of academic freedom, but what stood out for me is the additional issue of safety both for researchers AND wider communities/participants.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This is a concerning situation with a lot to unpack. I note it's being dealt with primarily in terms of academic freedom, but what stood out for me is the additional issue of safety both for researchers AND wider communities/participants.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
Worth your time:
"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation."
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):
No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
chinabooksreview.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Worth your time:
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Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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A meme for the modern university...
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A meme for the modern university...
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the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich
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we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome!
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
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A Chinese Studies research blog. Let's exchange ideas, tell stories, and keep asking better questions!
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome!
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
oddchinaout.wordpress.com
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think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.
also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
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❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change?
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Geoforum | Critical Climate Security | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? What conceptual, and critical, tools do we need to come to terms with the unequal geographies of climate insecurity in their temporal, spatia...
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change?
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) at Cardiff University
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September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
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I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi