Jeni Mitchell
@jenimitchell.bsky.social
Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London. Director, Future Threats Lab https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/future-threats-lab / Dep Director, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. Future war; 🚀 space; rebellion past and present; apocalypse(s)
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Today, the Trust Board announced the winners of the 2025 Leverhulme Research Centre competition. Congratulations to the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space and Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. Read more: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025LRC
Absolutely thrilled to be part of the team from @warstudieskcl.bsky.social and @rightslab.bsky.social to establish the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. I'll co-lead 'Forecasting Slavery in War', using satellite data and new futures methods to detect/monitor conflict-related slavery.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Recruiting now! Our first postdocs in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, at King's College London.
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Post-doctoral Research Associate in Slavery and War (Concepts and Laws)
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September 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Recruiting now! Our first postdocs in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, at King's College London.
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/123845-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/123566-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/123845-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/123566-...
Good piece from the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
I wrote about the ways different concentration camp systems have ended and how to stop the massive expansion of detention happening in the U.S. right now.
How does this end?
The key ways that concentration camps get shut down.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Good piece from the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
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Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.
August 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.
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This week's good news:
Drones clean up Everest, another country eliminates malaria, Italy's homicide rate plummets, Ecuador and Peru protect more area, China quietly converts hundreds of coal mines into solar, first regulated psychedelic medicine for depression.
fixthenews.com/303-superwood/
Drones clean up Everest, another country eliminates malaria, Italy's homicide rate plummets, Ecuador and Peru protect more area, China quietly converts hundreds of coal mines into solar, first regulated psychedelic medicine for depression.
fixthenews.com/303-superwood/
303: Superwood
Bulletproof, fire-resistant, stronger than steel. Plus, malaria vaccines get cheaper, global electricity access up, European air pollution down, genuine hope for coral reefs, and giant river otters re...
fixthenews.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This week's good news:
Drones clean up Everest, another country eliminates malaria, Italy's homicide rate plummets, Ecuador and Peru protect more area, China quietly converts hundreds of coal mines into solar, first regulated psychedelic medicine for depression.
fixthenews.com/303-superwood/
Drones clean up Everest, another country eliminates malaria, Italy's homicide rate plummets, Ecuador and Peru protect more area, China quietly converts hundreds of coal mines into solar, first regulated psychedelic medicine for depression.
fixthenews.com/303-superwood/
Very grateful to have received this funding, and be part of a terrific team of scholars from the US and Australia seeking ways to transform relationships between space actors and Indigenous communities worldwide. White paper out early next year!
Congratulations to FASI associate Dr Jeni Mitchell who has been awarded project funding via the 2025 @secdefenceplus.bsky.social Grant Scheme.
The project works to establish guidelines for successful collaboration between the space industry & Indigenous Communities
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...
The project works to establish guidelines for successful collaboration between the space industry & Indigenous Communities
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...
King's academics collaborate with Australian and US researchers to tackle security and defence challenges
Academics from the departments of War Studies and Engineering and the School of Politics and Economics have been awarded research project funding to collaborate with Arizona State University (ASU) and...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Very grateful to have received this funding, and be part of a terrific team of scholars from the US and Australia seeking ways to transform relationships between space actors and Indigenous communities worldwide. White paper out early next year!
"Around the world, there is an endless number of big energy projects that have not only led to the grabbing of the land of many communities, but by doing so, are also violating and attacking their cultural rights and identity." Captured well here on the new Total/China pipeline, Uganda to Tanzania.
The hidden cost of oil: Families fractured by the massive Uganda pipeline project.
The hidden cost of oil: Families fractured by a pipeline project
As the 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline project takes shape in Uganda, there is the promise of economic benefit. But it's shaking up the lives of some 100,000 people.
www.npr.org
July 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Around the world, there is an endless number of big energy projects that have not only led to the grabbing of the land of many communities, but by doing so, are also violating and attacking their cultural rights and identity." Captured well here on the new Total/China pipeline, Uganda to Tanzania.
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A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it
France could raise around €20 billion per year from this tax
That’s half of the €40B the government is looking for this year
Globally? $302–377 billion could be raised—every year
From the ultra-rich. Who currently pay very little.
gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report...
That’s half of the €40B the government is looking for this year
Globally? $302–377 billion could be raised—every year
From the ultra-rich. Who currently pay very little.
gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report...
July 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it
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Successful spaceports need to work not just for rockets — but for people and places, too.
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Excited to share our latest paper on spaceport site selection, co-authored with the brilliant Karen L. Jones & Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi @ Aerospace Corporation + expert contributors from across the sector.
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Successful spaceports need to work not just for rockets — but for people and places, too.
🚀🌏
Excited to share our latest paper on spaceport site selection, co-authored with the brilliant Karen L. Jones & Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi @ Aerospace Corporation + expert contributors from across the sector.
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July 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Successful spaceports need to work not just for rockets — but for people and places, too.
🚀🌏
Excited to share our latest paper on spaceport site selection, co-authored with the brilliant Karen L. Jones & Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi @ Aerospace Corporation + expert contributors from across the sector.
🧵👇
Successful spaceports need to work not just for rockets — but for people and places, too.
🚀🌏
Excited to share our latest paper on spaceport site selection, co-authored with the brilliant Karen L. Jones & Dr. Lindsay DeMarchi @ Aerospace Corporation + expert contributors from across the sector.
🧵👇
"...the Parties shall launch and/or expand cooperation on...transparent, formalized end-to-end mineral value chains (from mine to processed metal) that link both countries, in partnership, as appropriate, with the U.S. government and U.S. investors." Minerals For Peace trend continues.
Here's the full text of the Rwanda-DRC agreement. Obviously avoids linking Rwanda directly to M23 www.state.gov/peace-agreem...
June 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"...the Parties shall launch and/or expand cooperation on...transparent, formalized end-to-end mineral value chains (from mine to processed metal) that link both countries, in partnership, as appropriate, with the U.S. government and U.S. investors." Minerals For Peace trend continues.
Looks like an interesting read, by Gretchen Heefner
'Even decades after the first manned space flight, plans for human space exploration and extraplanetary colonization are still based on what we know about stark habitats on Earth.'
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
'Even decades after the first manned space flight, plans for human space exploration and extraplanetary colonization are still based on what we know about stark habitats on Earth.'
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Sand, Snow, and Stardust
A vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide—and beyond. Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospi...
press.uchicago.edu
June 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Looks like an interesting read, by Gretchen Heefner
'Even decades after the first manned space flight, plans for human space exploration and extraplanetary colonization are still based on what we know about stark habitats on Earth.'
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
'Even decades after the first manned space flight, plans for human space exploration and extraplanetary colonization are still based on what we know about stark habitats on Earth.'
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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May 2025 reads 💙📚 hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/m...
May 2025 reads
What I absolutely loved: Esperance x Adam Oyebanji Promises x Goretti Kyomuhendo Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas x Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o No Straight Road Takes You There: Essa…
hararereview.wordpress.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
May 2025 reads 💙📚 hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/m...
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Ten alarm fire
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Ten alarm fire
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The Children’s Gulag.
How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home.
My report
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home.
My report
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children
A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Children’s Gulag.
How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home.
My report
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home.
My report
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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The risk of state collapse in the Sahel is more real now than it has been since 2012, not just in one state, but several. While researchers may disagree on what the actual strategy at work for JNIM in particular is right now, the risk is incredibly high. www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
Le grand invité Afrique - Jihadisme en Afrique de l'Ouest: dans la région, «il existe un risque d'effondrement d'un État»
En cette année 2025, le péril jihadiste est en expansion dans les pays côtiers d'Afrique de l'Ouest, constate l'Institut de recherche stratégique (IRS), qui est basé en Côte d'Ivoire. Les groupes jiha...
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/le-grand-invité-afrique/20250523-jihadisme-en-afrique-de-l-ouest-il-existe-un-risque-d-effondrement-des-états-sahéliens
May 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The risk of state collapse in the Sahel is more real now than it has been since 2012, not just in one state, but several. While researchers may disagree on what the actual strategy at work for JNIM in particular is right now, the risk is incredibly high. www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
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Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal!
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal
Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch
www.desmog.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal!
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
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Exciting times indeed. Get in touch if you have a monograph on astropolitics in mind! Thanks to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for getting behind the idea of an Astropolitics book series!
🔭 Keep your eye out for this new #Astropolitics series edited by @bleddb.bsky.social coming later this year!
Details here 👉 bit.ly/4drqhlh
#Politics #OuterSpace
Details here 👉 bit.ly/4drqhlh
#Politics #OuterSpace
May 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Exciting times indeed. Get in touch if you have a monograph on astropolitics in mind! Thanks to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for getting behind the idea of an Astropolitics book series!
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Four months after seizing Goma, the M23 coalition is still struggling to take control of this city of nearly two million people. The city is awash with small arms and the thousands of former prisoners who escaped from Munzenze Prison in the chaos of Goma’s fall to M23.
Seizing is easy, ruling is harder
Months after seizing Goma, M23 is still struggling to control it. The city remains unstable due to widespread small arms and thousands of escaped inmates from Munzenze Prison
continent.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Four months after seizing Goma, the M23 coalition is still struggling to take control of this city of nearly two million people. The city is awash with small arms and the thousands of former prisoners who escaped from Munzenze Prison in the chaos of Goma’s fall to M23.
This has been rolled out in London for a few years as well, culminating in the first permanent LFRs in Croydon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate municipal guardrails around use of the technology…”
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This has been rolled out in London for a few years as well, culminating in the first permanent LFRs in Croydon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hoovering up the cake: The latest edition of the Sunday Times Rich List raises some uncomfortable questions about how much wealth in the UK is created - and how much is simply extracted.
Hoovering up the cake
The latest edition of the Sunday Times Rich List raises some uncomfortable questions about how much wealth in the UK is created and how much is simply extracted
www.faircomment.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Hoovering up the cake: The latest edition of the Sunday Times Rich List raises some uncomfortable questions about how much wealth in the UK is created - and how much is simply extracted.
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Retrospectively applying immigration rules in bad faith can ruin lives, as we saw with the Windrush Scandal.
It would be totally irresponsible for the government to pull the rug out from under people who have worked, paid taxes and built their lives here.
It would be totally irresponsible for the government to pull the rug out from under people who have worked, paid taxes and built their lives here.
1.5m foreign workers already in UK could face longer wait for permanent settlement
People who have moved to UK since 2020 may face extra five-year wait to stay indefinitely under Labour crackdown
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Retrospectively applying immigration rules in bad faith can ruin lives, as we saw with the Windrush Scandal.
It would be totally irresponsible for the government to pull the rug out from under people who have worked, paid taxes and built their lives here.
It would be totally irresponsible for the government to pull the rug out from under people who have worked, paid taxes and built their lives here.
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The Trust continues to support researchers at risk who have come to the UK from across the globe through a grant scheme delivered by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @cara1933.bsky.social.
Apply now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/brit...
Apply now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/brit...
May 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Trust continues to support researchers at risk who have come to the UK from across the globe through a grant scheme delivered by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @cara1933.bsky.social.
Apply now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/brit...
Apply now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/brit...
Even if one were to accept this argument, it ignores the fact that the UK version of 'great replacement' racism cites Bowling Alone in its pseudo-academic arguments. So it's still dog whistling.
Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
May 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Even if one were to accept this argument, it ignores the fact that the UK version of 'great replacement' racism cites Bowling Alone in its pseudo-academic arguments. So it's still dog whistling.