Dr Viviane Gravey
@vgravey.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in European Politics, Queen's University Belfast - #Brexit #Environment #Devolution #Agriculture #Trade #EuropeanStudies and #teaching polsci/EU
Secretary @uaces.bsky.social
Co-chair @brexitenv.bsky.social
Also music, knitting and cats..
Secretary @uaces.bsky.social
Co-chair @brexitenv.bsky.social
Also music, knitting and cats..
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The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
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"We’re charging graduates a higher marginal tax rate than somebody earning £150,000" www.thetimes.com/money/family...
Can we fix the worst student loan system in the world?
As graduates from England struggle under crippling levels of debt, Mary Downer looks at how other nations do it better
www.thetimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:42 AM
"We’re charging graduates a higher marginal tax rate than somebody earning £150,000" www.thetimes.com/money/family...
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Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
February 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
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The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it
I see we're back to "Johnson resigned because of a party" and not because he employed a known sex pest, lied about what he knew, and more than half his cabinet resigned as a result.
Madeley. FFS.
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it
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'Where authenticity shapes the nature of the task...accountability addresses the nature of the evidence. An accountable assessment focuses on the extent to which students can substantiate, explain, and take responsibility for what they produce, regardless of whether AI tools were involved.'
What does authentic assessment mean in the context of AI?
To weather the AI storm, Charlotte von Essen argues that assessment needs to be both authentic and accountable.
wonkhe.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
'Where authenticity shapes the nature of the task...accountability addresses the nature of the evidence. An accountable assessment focuses on the extent to which students can substantiate, explain, and take responsibility for what they produce, regardless of whether AI tools were involved.'
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
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The moral panic about young men is the new version of “UKIP is winning over former Labour voters” (also a Goodwin argument). Both rely on anecdote more than data, and do significant damage to public understanding of the radical right. Young men are the second *least* pro-Reform group in the UK.
February 7, 2026 at 12:35 PM
The moral panic about young men is the new version of “UKIP is winning over former Labour voters” (also a Goodwin argument). Both rely on anecdote more than data, and do significant damage to public understanding of the radical right. Young men are the second *least* pro-Reform group in the UK.
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
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Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Free Images and Open Access | National Gallery of Art
Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. Close to 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images fo...
www.nga.gov
February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.
Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵
www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
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Interesting podcast on the far right in Belgium, why it barely exists in Wallonie and why it nearly fell apart in Flanders - I learned a lot. overcast.fm/+AABkOEQEgxo
L’extrême droite en Belgique — Un Jour dans l'Histoire
En Belgique, comme ailleurs, l’extrême droite connaît un nouvel essor dans ce premier quart du 21e siècle, particulièrement en Flandre où le Vlaams Belang s’est imposé comme un acteur incontournable c...
overcast.fm
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Interesting podcast on the far right in Belgium, why it barely exists in Wallonie and why it nearly fell apart in Flanders - I learned a lot. overcast.fm/+AABkOEQEgxo
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This works pretty well in academia too:
"I had a hungry ghost in a jar write this code" > sure, as long as u checked it works 🤷♀️
"I don't remember that paper, I fed it to a hungry ghost in a jar" > why?
"a hungry ghost in a jar did that calculus course for me" > you're paying to educate a ghost?
"I had a hungry ghost in a jar write this code" > sure, as long as u checked it works 🤷♀️
"I don't remember that paper, I fed it to a hungry ghost in a jar" > why?
"a hungry ghost in a jar did that calculus course for me" > you're paying to educate a ghost?
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
This works pretty well in academia too:
"I had a hungry ghost in a jar write this code" > sure, as long as u checked it works 🤷♀️
"I don't remember that paper, I fed it to a hungry ghost in a jar" > why?
"a hungry ghost in a jar did that calculus course for me" > you're paying to educate a ghost?
"I had a hungry ghost in a jar write this code" > sure, as long as u checked it works 🤷♀️
"I don't remember that paper, I fed it to a hungry ghost in a jar" > why?
"a hungry ghost in a jar did that calculus course for me" > you're paying to educate a ghost?
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We're pushing hundreds of thousands of kids back into poverty so a bloke drinking 20 pints a week can save a quid
February 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
We're pushing hundreds of thousands of kids back into poverty so a bloke drinking 20 pints a week can save a quid
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Space-based data centres are the CCS of big tech. They'll just be perpetually around the corner, there will be a handful of flimsy demonstration projects, and the concept will just suck up gov't subsidies for decades while serving as a rhetorical tool to fend off real regulation of industry
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Space-based data centres are the CCS of big tech. They'll just be perpetually around the corner, there will be a handful of flimsy demonstration projects, and the concept will just suck up gov't subsidies for decades while serving as a rhetorical tool to fend off real regulation of industry
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An important study on an underappreciated diversity concern in academia: by class background.
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
January 28, 2026 at 6:39 AM
An important study on an underappreciated diversity concern in academia: by class background.
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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Are you an academic already alarmed and upset by the prospect of Matt Goodwin MP?
Just think! If Reform wins the next general election, they'll probably make him higher education minister.
Just think! If Reform wins the next general election, they'll probably make him higher education minister.
January 27, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Are you an academic already alarmed and upset by the prospect of Matt Goodwin MP?
Just think! If Reform wins the next general election, they'll probably make him higher education minister.
Just think! If Reform wins the next general election, they'll probably make him higher education minister.
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Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.
ICE to conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium, official says
A government official says ICE will conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara. This comes just days after Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer.
abc7news.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.
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Stunned and betrayed to discover that Professor Matt Goodwin was not the wholly neutral and unbiased expert on the far right which I believed him to be!?!?!?
January 27, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Stunned and betrayed to discover that Professor Matt Goodwin was not the wholly neutral and unbiased expert on the far right which I believed him to be!?!?!?
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'Free to' and 'will' are, I'm afraid, two totally different things. And the idea that it was only the presence of these two jokers that has prevented the Tories turning away from culture-war populism towards the centre right before now is, I'm sorry to say, utterly preposterous. 1/n
With Suella Braverman’s defection to Reform, the Conservative party’s rejuvenation begins today | Justine Greening
Without Braverman and Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch is free to return to the political mainstream, says former Conservative MP Justine Greening
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 AM
'Free to' and 'will' are, I'm afraid, two totally different things. And the idea that it was only the presence of these two jokers that has prevented the Tories turning away from culture-war populism towards the centre right before now is, I'm sorry to say, utterly preposterous. 1/n
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This is shocking. New @jrf-uk.bsky.social report has found ‘very deep poverty’ in Britain has hit its worst level in 30 years.
Why is this not on every UK news show this morning?
Why is this not on every UK news show this morning?
Poverty is deepening.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.
People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.
This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
January 27, 2026 at 8:43 AM
This is shocking. New @jrf-uk.bsky.social report has found ‘very deep poverty’ in Britain has hit its worst level in 30 years.
Why is this not on every UK news show this morning?
Why is this not on every UK news show this morning?
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We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM
We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
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Confession: utterly bored by such a piece by a person in the position of the author.
1/ Why? Because it is in denial about what the Trump administration is creating, at home and abroad
Trade patterns and policies need change as geopolitics shift. So what?
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
1/ Why? Because it is in denial about what the Trump administration is creating, at home and abroad
Trade patterns and policies need change as geopolitics shift. So what?
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Case for Upending World Trade
How Trump’s vision echoes America’s traditional approach.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Confession: utterly bored by such a piece by a person in the position of the author.
1/ Why? Because it is in denial about what the Trump administration is creating, at home and abroad
Trade patterns and policies need change as geopolitics shift. So what?
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
1/ Why? Because it is in denial about what the Trump administration is creating, at home and abroad
Trade patterns and policies need change as geopolitics shift. So what?
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Do US liberals not pause to think about the rest of the world when they outragedly emphasise the CITIZEN part? Let me tell you how it sounds: it sounds like you think murdering mere foreigners is not that big a deal, something you are prepared to maybe forgive a little bit of from a Democrat presdnt
Did anyone actually vote to have masked Federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back?
January 26, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Do US liberals not pause to think about the rest of the world when they outragedly emphasise the CITIZEN part? Let me tell you how it sounds: it sounds like you think murdering mere foreigners is not that big a deal, something you are prepared to maybe forgive a little bit of from a Democrat presdnt
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
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We’re delighted to announce that registrations are open for our annual UK Trade Policy Forum!
This year’s forum asks ‘How much trade matters’ with keynotes by @dvalatsas.bsky.social, @meredith-crowley.bsky.social
When: Tue 24 Feb
Where: London
Register to attend 👉 citp.ac.uk/uk-trade-pol...
This year’s forum asks ‘How much trade matters’ with keynotes by @dvalatsas.bsky.social, @meredith-crowley.bsky.social
When: Tue 24 Feb
Where: London
Register to attend 👉 citp.ac.uk/uk-trade-pol...
January 22, 2026 at 3:50 PM
We’re delighted to announce that registrations are open for our annual UK Trade Policy Forum!
This year’s forum asks ‘How much trade matters’ with keynotes by @dvalatsas.bsky.social, @meredith-crowley.bsky.social
When: Tue 24 Feb
Where: London
Register to attend 👉 citp.ac.uk/uk-trade-pol...
This year’s forum asks ‘How much trade matters’ with keynotes by @dvalatsas.bsky.social, @meredith-crowley.bsky.social
When: Tue 24 Feb
Where: London
Register to attend 👉 citp.ac.uk/uk-trade-pol...