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The official bluesky account of The School of Social and Political Science - University of Edinburgh. This account is monitored Mon-Fri during office hours.
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A Decade of Understanding Gender: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of GENDER.ED’s Flagship Course

02 December 2025, 3.30pm - 5pm
Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Information and booking:
edin.ac/4r9ewWZ
Image of McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh. Text reads: A Decade of Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World. Join us as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World (UGCW), GENDER.ED’s flagship undergraduate course. This event will offer all those with fond memories of, and associations with, the course an opportunity to reflect on its history, its contributions to the University of Edinburgh, and its future.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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edcdcs.bsky.social
Coming up next week! Join us for our course on using API for Research. where we’ll cover what APIs are, how to read documentation, make requests and work with JSON.

Beginner friendly.

📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Ambedkar Lecture: Life, Labour, and Death: A Cartography of Caste under Racial Capitalism with Dr Srilata Sircar

02 December 2025, 5pm - 6.30pm
G.159 MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College

Information and booking:
edin.ac/43FII1X
Image of Ambedkar statue. Text reads: Life, Labour, and Death: A Cartography of Caste under Racial Capitalism with Dr Srilata Sircar.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Legends of South Asian Heritage in Scotland
Photography Exhibition, Documentary Screening and Discussion
Wednesday 26 November, 12.45pm - 2.15pm
Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Information and booking:
edin.ac/43cQUXd
Range of portrait photographs of South Asians in Scotland. Text reads: Legends of South Asian Heritage in Scotland Photography Exhibition, Documentary Screening and Discussion. You are warmly invited to view a photography exhibition and documentary film culminating from a community project led by Networking Key Services (NKS) on the oft-overlooked history of South Asians in Scotland, with a view to promoting awareness and understanding of its place in Scotland’s rich and diverse heritage. Over light refreshments, come find out from the project team what went into the making of the exhibition and the film!
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sharing on behalf of our @uoe-sps.bsky.social colleagues 🎉

Join a celebration of the work of the Equally Safe Online research project and launch of the Young People vs Gender Based Violence report.

📅 24 Nov, 4–6pm | School of Informatics, UoE

More details & book your place: edin.ac/4oTamjU
Celebrating Equally Safe Online Young People vs. Gender-Based Violence Room G.07 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh 24th November 2025, 4 - 6pm Join us to celebrate the work of the Equally Safe Online research project and launch the Young People vs Gender Based Violence report. The project has involved survivors. practitioners and academics in efforts to tackle online gender-based violence (GBV). We believe this project is the first to bring together computer and social scientists to work alongside GBV experts, including young people, to improve direction and mitigation of online misogyny and abuse. Opening remarks will be provided through a virtual address delivered by the Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise and Co-chair of the First Minister’s Taskforce on Online Harm, Ms Don-Innes. Young experts will launch the young people’s graphically designed report outlining the participatory project and the results, including their impact on AI development and their vision for the future. COSLA will recognize and welcome the commitment and work of young people to tackle online Gender-Based Violence. Computer scientists will then demonstrate methods to automatically detect harmful GBV content and potential AI-generated interventions and strategies to respond (counterspeech). This will be followed by a reflection from Professor Verena Rieser, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Deepmind who was the original visionary for the project. The event will be followed by a canape reception. All are welcome to attend. Spaces are limited so pleas register in advance.
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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spidermaani.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @markpetticrew.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social for partnership on a new review article: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health
Disinformation is a coordinated or deliberate effort to knowingly circulate misinformation (i.e., false information) to gain money, power, or reputation. While most public health research has focused ...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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3 Funded PhD Scholarships
Supervisor-led
Closing date for applications: 11 December 2025

WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Hoskins
PROFESSOR of AI, MEMORY & WAR
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social

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text reads: Supervisor-led 3 Funded PhD Scholarships WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War. This project will produce new interdisciplinary understanding of how and why digital participation is transforming how individuals and societies (including militaries and states) fight, experience, and understand (perceive, explain, and de/legitimise) warfare.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Thanks to @markpetticrew.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social for joining me on this new opinion in @bmj.com eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Proposed changes to alcohol licensing should make us question whose interests we’re serving in the name of growth
Increasing the consumption of harmful products is the opposite of healthy or productive growth, say Nason Maani and colleagues Preventable ill health is at the heart of the challenges facing this co...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ESRC funds Scottish Election Study for another five years

The Scottish Election Study project has received funding for another five years to continue its work examining the political attitudes and behaviour of voters in Scotland.

Read more:
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Image of a computer monitor displaying the Scottish Election Study Website. Text reads: ESRC funds Scottish Election Study for another five years The Scottish Election Study project has received funding for another five years to continue its work examining the political attitudes and behaviour of voters in Scotland. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) will support the ongoing study about changing trends in Scotland’s politics into the 2026 Scottish Parliament election and the years beyond, as well as the next UK General Election.
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Check out this super useful publication on #COP30. I’m delighted to be part of #EdinburghUniversity’s multidisciplinary team researching #sustainability and #climate action.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Social Policy expert co-authors report and actions aimed at reducing U.S. gun violence

Dr Nason Maani has joined another 40 international expert authors on a new report outlining how the United States could reduce gun deaths and injuries.

Find out more and read the report:
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Cover of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) issue title: Toward a Safer World by 2040. The JAMA Summit report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms. Text reads: Social Policy expert co-authors report and actions aimed at reducing U.S. gun violence. Dr Nason Maani has joined another 40 international expert authors on a new report outlining how the United States could reduce gun deaths and injuries.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨

Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉

Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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"The key to collaborative working is making everyone feel like they are winning."

A fascinating session with Prof. Devi Sridhar at #VHSConf25. Thanks for supporting our Annual Conference "Collaboration for Change"

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October 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Data from the Brexit Couples Project shows that young, highly mobile couples often struggle to meet these requirements when applying for a partner visa.

Join Katharine Charsley and Jasmin El Shewy on
Wed, Nov 12th, 2pm - 3:30pm

Part of the CRFR Seminar Series
Book your place:

edin.ac/42UCQBC
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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technomoralfutures.bsky.social
There's just over one week until our Technomoral Conversations event looking at how AI will change science!

Tickets are still available to join us in person or online for this free event:

🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures
During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🌍 Call for Proposals 2025–26 🌍The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) invites Scotland-based researchers to take part in our new project: The State of the World. With the upcoming Scottish elections on the horizon, this initiative will take stock of global challenges shaping Scotland today.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Registration is now open for our Autumn Showcase! 🍂🎉

📅 Friday 21 November
🕑 2:00–3:30pm
📍MS Teams

Join us to hear some of the most impactful mental health research at the University of Edinburgh.

🔗Register now: tinyurl.com/3ty3w5d6
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October 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels

This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food
The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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karengregory.bsky.social
Upcoming Critical Data Studies talk:

‘Auto-correct’ - A book talk by Dr Maya Indira Ganesh
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‘Auto-correct’ - A book talk by Dr Maya Indira Ganesh
A talk on the fantasies and failures of AI, ethics, and the driverless car.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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uoedivinity.bsky.social
#NCFestival starts on Friday 7 November at 11am with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on his newest books, 'The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt' and ‘Babylon: The Mother of All Cities’ – complete with Biblical Time Machine podcast co-host Helen Bond! Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4odknc3
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October 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Don't miss: Beyond Hoaxes: Scientific Evidence of Social Impact for the Prevention of Gender Based Violence at Universities, with Olga Serradell.

Organised by Social Work at @uoe-sps.bsky.social and co-badged by GENDER.ED

Thurs 6 Nov, 1.15-2.45pm, CMB & Online

Visit: edin.ac/4nBrcUk
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Our latest @safety-nets.bsky.social project blog is out. We reflect on spatial inequalities and disability benefit reforms. And the pickle UK gov changes might create for subnational and devolved authorities.
October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Event: Join community members, organisations & researchers to explore challenges & opportunities in ethnic minority ageing in Scotland
💬 Panel • Discussion • Collaboration
20 Oct 2025, University of Edinburgh
🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/e/aFbe4JX3pu
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October 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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mybisa.bsky.social
We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉

For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟

Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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spidermaani.bsky.social
Huge thanks to Emma Thompson for leading us on this paper with Jeff Collin in @jsadjournal.bsky.social on
how the alcohol industry frames conflicts of interest and partnership in WHO consultations. Timely considering the #UNHLM #UNGA @uoe-sps.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @acords.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM