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Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE.

Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters.

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Delighted that a paper written by Wai Weng and myself won the Critical Asian Studies Collaborative Research prize. Speaking for myself, I would love to think that the recognition of this highly polemical topic speaks to the challenges of our times. criticalasianstudies.org/annual-prize

Please join us in this upcoming online talk with @quahsayjye.bsky.social that reopens an interesting period of Southeast Asian (intellectual) history.

It feels like for MAGA the Epstein List is supposed to be a gender reveal party. But when they turned up they were told gender is socially constructed.

As someone who studies far right writings, this happened more than you think. I often end up feeling like an idiot looking for numbers that don’t exist on the papers they cite.

Breaking News: A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave. It's the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming, experts said.

For those podcast inclined, Nick Cheesman's Interpretive Political and Social Science podcast series on the New Books Network is an excellent resource, with interviews of exemplary authors and editors of interpretivist works: newbooksnetwork.com/category/spe...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

Upcoming Zoom event for our seminar series, do register if you are interested!: seasiainstitute.anu.edu.au/event/green-...

Re-reading Gatsby and I can’t imagine why this line stood out:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Prepublication online version of my new co-authored (with Kate Tietzen-Wisdom) article is out in Diplomatic History. “Iraqi Archives and post-Cold War Continuity: A View from the Global South”

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It looks at the post-Cold War through Iraqi archives. It is ... 1/

Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.

eduroam is the perfect metaphor for academia – a globe spanning wonder of connectedness that’s almost impossible to permanently join

This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

Also sharing this here: Wai Weng and I looked at the Malaysia piece of a global trend where emancipatory language used by the left such as “decolonialisation” is increasingly channelled into right-wing authoritarian power projects. /1

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I guess migrating here is the closest I will ever come to this concept of conscious uncoupling.