Laura Considine
@lauracon.bsky.social
Nuclear weapons, international politics, narrative politics, feminism at University of Leeds UK
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#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social -
Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - https://cup.org/4oqeyYD
"survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation"
- @lauracon.bsky.social
Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - https://cup.org/4oqeyYD
"survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation"
- @lauracon.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social -
Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - https://cup.org/4oqeyYD
"survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation"
- @lauracon.bsky.social
Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - https://cup.org/4oqeyYD
"survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation"
- @lauracon.bsky.social
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I only realized that it was Prime Day because Amazon must have spent a fortune on ads bombarding me.
Then I checked other retailers.
Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:
Then I checked other retailers.
Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
Bookshop.org
July 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I only realized that it was Prime Day because Amazon must have spent a fortune on ads bombarding me.
Then I checked other retailers.
Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:
Then I checked other retailers.
Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:
@theguardian.com this is wrong on trident use. Not only used in ‘highly unlikely scenario where a surprise, all-out nuclear attack destroys the UK and its way of life.’ UK could use nukes first and in response to range of threats including to NATO allies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
How and why is Britain obtaining access to nuclear gravity bombs?
UK purchase of F-35A squadron means US nuclear warheads are likely to be stored on British soil once again
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@theguardian.com this is wrong on trident use. Not only used in ‘highly unlikely scenario where a surprise, all-out nuclear attack destroys the UK and its way of life.’ UK could use nukes first and in response to range of threats including to NATO allies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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If there was ever any doubt why France 🇫🇷 tried to stop @who.int from revisiting the health impacts of nuclear war at #WHA78 last night—this is why.
For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If there was ever any doubt why France 🇫🇷 tried to stop @who.int from revisiting the health impacts of nuclear war at #WHA78 last night—this is why.
For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Meanwhile here in the U.K., extra concerning in the context of continuing gov attempts to limit legal public protest.
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Meanwhile here in the U.K., extra concerning in the context of continuing gov attempts to limit legal public protest.
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New Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) article by @lauracon.bsky.social out now! @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?'
link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx
#openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm
#CUPPoliSci
'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?'
link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx
#openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm
#CUPPoliSci
What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?
Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
buff.ly
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) article by @lauracon.bsky.social out now! @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?'
link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx
#openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm
#CUPPoliSci
'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?'
link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx
#openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm
#CUPPoliSci
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🚨New First View Article🚨
"Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess!
📜➡️ buff.ly/vtAqdo7
"Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess!
📜➡️ buff.ly/vtAqdo7
March 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨New First View Article🚨
"Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess!
📜➡️ buff.ly/vtAqdo7
"Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess!
📜➡️ buff.ly/vtAqdo7
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The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
Kemi Badenoch this morning: "A country cannot be successful if its people and intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds through higher education."
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
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The Polycrisis Network is a collective of people in and outside academia working together to understand the interconnection of crises in the world around us.
Join the network for their launch:
📅 Weds 26 Feb
🕞 3.30 - 5pm
🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...
Join the network for their launch:
📅 Weds 26 Feb
🕞 3.30 - 5pm
🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...
February 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Polycrisis Network is a collective of people in and outside academia working together to understand the interconnection of crises in the world around us.
Join the network for their launch:
📅 Weds 26 Feb
🕞 3.30 - 5pm
🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...
Join the network for their launch:
📅 Weds 26 Feb
🕞 3.30 - 5pm
🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...
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Oof.
World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...
World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...
Many military contractors donate to think tanks, but the top donor *by far* in recent years is Northrop Grumman - maker of Sentinel, our pointless new ICBM quincyinst.org/research/big...
January 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Oof.
World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...
World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...
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Doctoral scholarships alert for UK PhD applicants from minoritised ethnic backgrounds in the brilliant Faculty of Social Sciences at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social
#Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/347-...
#Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/347-...
Leeds University Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Scholarships for researchers from UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups
Project opportunity - Leeds University Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Scholarships for researchers from UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups at the University of Leeds
phd.leeds.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Doctoral scholarships alert for UK PhD applicants from minoritised ethnic backgrounds in the brilliant Faculty of Social Sciences at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social
#Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/347-...
#Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/347-...
#nukesky request for help, the claim that in a future disarmed world, any state with a nuclear weapon/s would have an overwhelming advantage. Is there research that bases this in history, theory, strategy etc? Is there work that argues this through? I’d like to read it if anyone has suggestions?
December 16, 2024 at 5:28 PM
#nukesky request for help, the claim that in a future disarmed world, any state with a nuclear weapon/s would have an overwhelming advantage. Is there research that bases this in history, theory, strategy etc? Is there work that argues this through? I’d like to read it if anyone has suggestions?
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Hi #NukeSky - we're still taking photojournalism pitches at @inkstickmedia.bsky.social for our call for nuclear weapons industry images.
We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others!
inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...
We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others!
inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...
Call for Pitches: Nuclear Weapons Industry Imagery
Help us understand what the nuclear weapons industry looks like today.
inkstickmedia.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Hi #NukeSky - we're still taking photojournalism pitches at @inkstickmedia.bsky.social for our call for nuclear weapons industry images.
We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others!
inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...
We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others!
inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...
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📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team).
Deadline for applications: 25 November
Help us spread the word!
👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...
Deadline for applications: 25 November
Help us spread the word!
👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...
unidir.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:04 AM
📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team).
Deadline for applications: 25 November
Help us spread the word!
👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...
Deadline for applications: 25 November
Help us spread the word!
👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...
I wrote a commentary on the impacts of any further nuclear weapons buildup on people and communities in New Mexico. Recent recommendations ignore the human and environmental costs of more nukes. inkstickmedia.com/nuclear-arms...
Nuclear Arms Buildup Isn't Just about War. It Also Harms People and Communities.
The prevalence of this acceptance of arms racing and nuclear war fighting talk does not simply reflect the world we are in, it has political power to influence the world and increase the risks we face...
inkstickmedia.com
January 12, 2024 at 12:42 PM
I wrote a commentary on the impacts of any further nuclear weapons buildup on people and communities in New Mexico. Recent recommendations ignore the human and environmental costs of more nukes. inkstickmedia.com/nuclear-arms...
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I just listened to members of the new Strategic Posture Commission trying to explain the report to an audience in San Francisco. Some comments that stood out the most:
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December 6, 2023 at 4:45 AM
I just listened to members of the new Strategic Posture Commission trying to explain the report to an audience in San Francisco. Some comments that stood out the most:
1/n
1/n
I had the privilege of seeing a screening of this film
@Santafefestival
It tells story of trinity downwinders
@TBdownwinders
who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico
@Santafefestival
It tells story of trinity downwinders
@TBdownwinders
who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico
October 23, 2023 at 3:08 PM
I had the privilege of seeing a screening of this film
@Santafefestival
It tells story of trinity downwinders
@TBdownwinders
who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico
@Santafefestival
It tells story of trinity downwinders
@TBdownwinders
who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico
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The call for proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Alva Myrdal-centre for Nuclear Disarmament is now open! The cross-disciplinary conference takes place 18-19 June in Uppsala (online in parts). Call closes 3 Dec. I hope to see you in Uppsala in June!
#nukesky
www3.uu.se/alvamyrdalce...
October 10, 2023 at 2:02 PM
The call for proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Alva Myrdal-centre for Nuclear Disarmament is now open! The cross-disciplinary conference takes place 18-19 June in Uppsala (online in parts). Call closes 3 Dec. I hope to see you in Uppsala in June!
#nukesky
www3.uu.se/alvamyrdalce...
#proofofcat also proof of the best cat ever.
October 3, 2023 at 9:55 AM
#proofofcat also proof of the best cat ever.
I should prob say something now I’m on here.
👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal.
I also still don’t really know how this works.
👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal.
I also still don’t really know how this works.
September 23, 2023 at 7:48 PM
I should prob say something now I’m on here.
👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal.
I also still don’t really know how this works.
👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal.
I also still don’t really know how this works.