Joseph O'Mahoney
@jomahoney.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Reading.
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.
https://sites.google.com/site/jpomahoney/
ORCID: 0000-0002-6316-1771
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.
https://sites.google.com/site/jpomahoney/
ORCID: 0000-0002-6316-1771
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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NYT today.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
NYT today.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
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Twitter/X is a story on its own:
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Twitter/X is a story on its own:
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Amazing to see this view from another world. Gale Crater on Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Amazing to see this view from another world. Gale Crater on Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
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The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.
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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)
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An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
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"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
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Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.
Grade deflation, overcrowding and ‘chaos’ as colleges scr...
Russell group hoovers up international students to stave off budget deficit fears
observer.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.
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Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me
#Archaeology
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me
#Archaeology
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me
#Archaeology
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me
#Archaeology
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Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly.
What then must we do?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
What then must we do?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly.
What then must we do?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
What then must we do?
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
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...I mean that even with careful prompts I would not be confident LLMs could perform the function I'd want. How do I know that any bland AI summary of a paper is going to extract what might be of value to *me* in it? I don't even know that myself before I read it...
September 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
...I mean that even with careful prompts I would not be confident LLMs could perform the function I'd want. How do I know that any bland AI summary of a paper is going to extract what might be of value to *me* in it? I don't even know that myself before I read it...
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For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…
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"academic writing is () a form of thinking, a mode of inquiry () a site of intellectual labor. To hand over that labor to machines is not just to risk the erosion of academic integrity, but also means to forgo the very practices through which knowledge is produced."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
AI and academic publishing - Journal of International Relations and Development
Journal of International Relations and Development -
link.springer.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"academic writing is () a form of thinking, a mode of inquiry () a site of intellectual labor. To hand over that labor to machines is not just to risk the erosion of academic integrity, but also means to forgo the very practices through which knowledge is produced."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Blog: US Funding of International Organizations Has Collapsed
With weeks left in FY, US has paid zero toward assessed (membership) contributions to WHO, WTO, FAO, ILO, UNESCO, NATO, OECD, WMO, WIPO & more.
FY26 budget suggests paying dues to only 7 out of 46 organizations under the IO account.
With weeks left in FY, US has paid zero toward assessed (membership) contributions to WHO, WTO, FAO, ILO, UNESCO, NATO, OECD, WMO, WIPO & more.
FY26 budget suggests paying dues to only 7 out of 46 organizations under the IO account.
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Blog: US Funding of International Organizations Has Collapsed
With weeks left in FY, US has paid zero toward assessed (membership) contributions to WHO, WTO, FAO, ILO, UNESCO, NATO, OECD, WMO, WIPO & more.
FY26 budget suggests paying dues to only 7 out of 46 organizations under the IO account.
With weeks left in FY, US has paid zero toward assessed (membership) contributions to WHO, WTO, FAO, ILO, UNESCO, NATO, OECD, WMO, WIPO & more.
FY26 budget suggests paying dues to only 7 out of 46 organizations under the IO account.
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#OpenAcces from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus - https://cup.org/42fbiGy
- Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney
#FirstView
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus - https://cup.org/42fbiGy
- Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney
#FirstView
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#OpenAcces from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus - https://cup.org/42fbiGy
- Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney
#FirstView
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus - https://cup.org/42fbiGy
- Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney
#FirstView
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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...
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
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...
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...