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popgeopolitician.bsky.social
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Distinguished Professor, State University of New York - popular culture + world politics, IR, geopolitics, Anthropocene, beer, travel/tourism, and the Nordic realm
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Austria being saucy and wonderful:
1️⃣ Announced program for US academics on July 4 2025
2️⃣ Uses money originally seeded by the Marshall Plan
3️⃣ Funds 25 refugee scientists with €500,000.
4️⃣ Formal statement: "Thank Trump for this brain gain”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities
Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!!
Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Participant registration deadline: 2 March
See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️
@simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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1/2 Excited to announce our Call for Abstracts for the next Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop, hosted by colleagues at the University of Copenhagen August 20-21, 2026
This year, we also welcome work that looks beyond the North Sea. nors.ku.dk/english/cale...
Call for papers: Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea
Workshop.
nors.ku.dk
February 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Throwback to a simpler time when my co-author @comicpolitics.bsky.social and I penned this little gem - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Happy to launch on Bluesky with an update about my recent co-authored piece with Rhys Crilley in Place Branding & Public Diplomacy - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 PM