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Dean Cooper-Cunningham
@whereisdean.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. I research the visual, the body, sex(uality), gender, and their place in international politics. Recent work focuses mostly on queering peace & security. I run a lot. Scottish. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰
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shoot this straight into my veins
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Had the pleasure of thinking with and being probed by these wonderful minds as part of the #EWIS2025 opening sessions. Maybe there is some hope in these transitional, liminal times…
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In case you ever feel like a waste of space whose job is bullshit…

Jokes aside, how does shit always seem to float (into power)?
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Asked DALL-E to give me Moo Deng but Christmassy… didn’t expect a recipe 🦛🆘
December 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Are you doing simulations in IR? Consider using ChatGPT to help you design and run gameified learning exercises. It reduces time & resources, works as a sparring partner, and can be fully randomised. I wrote about this for the pedagogical course I took at Copenhagen Uni: curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfil...
curis.ku.dk
December 11, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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I would like to create a starter pack of LGBTQ+ scholars in the field of political science. But I only want to include people that opt in voluntarily. If you want to be included, please reply to this post and I will do so :) #PolSky
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning and in light of the revelations from the UK Covid inquiry about senior civil servants’ communications during the pandemic, it’s very clear that many of the UK’s political leadership are incompetent donkeys who can’t formulate independent arguments 🫏
November 1, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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Hard copies of my article with @whereisdean.bsky.social just arrived! It's on Queering the Responsibility to Protect and the need to integrate queer perspectives and persecution into research policy and practice on R2P. Article Open Access here! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
October 27, 2023 at 3:54 AM
Come join us in NYC on 23 Oct for the launch of our paper 'Queer Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations Independent Expert on SOGI' 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇳

Register: eventbrite.com/e/queer-peace-…

Paper: https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/369349432/Queer_Peace_Design_Report_v3_single_page.pdf
October 18, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Reviewing the final proofs for the outcome document of a truly collaborative venture. This one is something I’m really proud of and super excited to deliver 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 more soon…
October 8, 2023 at 7:14 PM