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Emily Harmer

@harm365.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Media. Research/teach gender, media & political communication. (She/her). DigiPol: Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy @digipol.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/emily-ha…

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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New book by department members @rosalynd.bsky.social and @harm365.bsky.social out now with @brisunipress.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/boo...
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Women Politicians Online
"Women Politicians Online" published on 10 Sep 2026 by Bristol University Press.
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Emily Harmer @harm365.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nice the celebrate the publication of Women Politicians Online: The bad, the ugly and the good of digital media by @rosalynd.bsky.social & me at the beginning of the academic year! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/women-politi... @commmedia.bsky.social
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Quite a few universities have used this tactic recently and I simply can’t understand how it is legal — do our contracts mean fuck all?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse.
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Emily Harmer @harm365.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📢Job alert! @commmedia.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in Media and Culture (5 year post). Deadline to apply: 23 Sept. Please share! Full details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU894/l...
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Lecturer in Media and Culture - Grade 7/8 at University of Liverpool
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Media and Culture - Grade 7/8 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lecturer in Media and Culture (5 year contract), University of Liverpool www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU894/l...
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Lecturer in Media and Culture - Grade 7/8 at University of Liverpool
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Media and Culture - Grade 7/8 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/08/2026
‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women
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‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women
In the five years since the Taliban’s return to power, the walls have been closing in on the women and girls of Afghanistan. A dozen women and girls have, at great risk to their safety, documented their lives for the world to see
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Brilliant and far-reaching new investigation into George Cottrell and former Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami by @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"I am the most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician of modern times" is a quite a thing for Nigel Farage to say when two MPs have been murdered in the last decade, Stephen Timms was stabbed twice in the stomach in 2010 and there was a plot to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
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Brita Ytre-Arne @britaytrearne.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There is too much news, and Hallvard Moe and I wrote a book about it. Our analysis of news saturation, doomscrolling and information overload will be published this fall with @brisunipress.bsky.social, open access supported by @unibergen.bsky.social Check out the contents and cover here! #CommSky
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Too Much News
Too Much News - Understanding News Saturation; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Overwhelmed by the news? You're not alone. This book explores why news saturation is reshaping...
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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
55 short articles on everything you could ever want to know about the Scottish election! - academics from all over Scotland (& some from England & Wales) contributed to our election analysis report Please read and share Also has cute dog, Rio, on the cover 😍 www.electionanalysis.uk
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Scottish Election Analysis 2026 - UK Election Analysis
Report featuring more than 100 contributions from leading UK academics, with snap analysis and early research insights on the 2024 UK General Election.
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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Another comparative study by @harm365.bsky.social & @rosalynd.bsky.social examines how UK women politicians are received by social media audiences using replies. They find platform effects around incivility, insults and gendered othering and offer a generative framework for equity-focused research.
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Twitter to Yell at Them, Facebook to Ask Questions and Instagram to Show Support? Exploring Platform Effects in Responses to Women Politicians On Social Media
Previous research has shown that women politicians are often subject to more incivility, hate speech, and sexualized abuse on social media. Until now, studies tend to analyze one platform, and ther...
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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🚨We are so incredibly thrilled to announce that our Multi-Platform Research Special Issue in Political Communication is out now at www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcp20/4...! Special Issue Team: @meredithpruden.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Wei Zhong and me!!! 🎉
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Political Communication
SI-Multi-Platform Research. Volume 43, Issue 2 of Political Communication
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 30/04/2026
£53m in donations. £8.4bn in public contracts. Entirely legal. But is it what the public think is happening? @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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How political parties lost members but gained millionaires
Has politics evolved into a transaction where democracy is the product and the public is not getting a cut?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
TEASER! A new @thenerve.news has dropped into your favourite NHS contractor that’s also involved in blowing up schools in Iran. Any guesses which?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Reform UK's energy prize winners, Wigan-based Raymond and June Dibble "are the very same couple who nominated Lee Moffitt to become the Wigan branch chair of Reform UK." Moffitt appears in the publicity video posted by Farage of their miraculous win. Fancy that! bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/r....
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Reform UK Energy Prize Winners Had Nominated Party's Own Branch Chair
As Greater Manchester Police confirm they are reviewing a complaint into the prize draw, Byline Times can reveal that the party's Wigan branch chair – nominated by the winners – was present at the doo...
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Auspicious day to post this so here it is! 'Memes and politics in the UK: from piggate to partygate and beyond' is out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... I loved writing this and I hope you'll all love reading it. Check out the cover, description and endorsements here! 📖 Buy it!! 😅
Ros holding the book and smilingCover of book. It's purple with a picture of a woman's hand holding a smartphone with a black and white starburst behind it. The title and author name appear in white writingIn 2015, a story emerged alleging that then-
Prime Minister David Cameron had placed 'a
private part of his anatomy' into the mouth
of a dead pig's head during an initiation
ceremony at the University of Oxford. Upor
this allegation breaking, social media eruptec
with a plethora of memes and iokes about
the incident, which became known as
Piggate'. Although there had been a move
towards iovial talk of politics on social media
prior to this, the episode seemed to distil the
practice and precipitate a new era of near-
constant humorous online reaction to
political events. Considering this context, this
book assesses how memetic practices have
shaped political communication and culture
in the past decade-plus, and the
consequences thereof. It does so from four
perspectives, encompassing a focus or
ordinary citizens, a group of online activists
a key social media satirist and, finally,
focusing on how elites have deployed these
practices

"This landmark book is the first to fully
explain how memes have become a critical
part of UK politics. Through rich and
convincing empirical analysis, Southern
reveals how digital humour is transforming
citizen participation, elite communication,
and the very nature of political discourse. A
must-read for anyone seeking to understand
the evolution of digital political culture and
its profound impact on democracy."

- James Dennis, Researcher at Lusófona
University, Portuga

"From 'shitposts' to 'Karen memes', political
communication is changing and Rosalynd
Southern is a lively guide to the pithy worlo
of memes. A cutting-edge study that
deserves to be read.

- Stephen Coleman, Emeritus Professor of
Political Communication, University of Leeds

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/04/2026
Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split | Fatma Aydemir
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Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split | Fatma Aydemir
Many will recognise their own experiences of digital abuse in Collien Fernandes’s allegations – the sense that technology offers perps both tools and cover, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir
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Emily Harmer @harm365.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Fellow UK politics politics nerds, you're going to want to read this incredibly important book by the brilliant @rosalynd.bsky.social tracing how memes became a fundamemtal part of mainstream political communication for citizens and politicians alike!
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PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Starting day 2 with a fab panel on Fashion, Late Night Talk Shows and Memes :-) @rosalynd.bsky.social is talking memes, and how parties and politicians deployed them in GE2014. Ros has just published a book! link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
AMAZING presentation by @psuwantawit.bsky.social at the @psampg.bsky.social panel! Such important work based on her thesis which is brilliant. Can't wait to see this published 🙌
Ploy presenting her research at the front of a room with a clock, fireplace and stained glass window. The title of the presentation appears on a large screen by her and is from anger to solidarity. Emotional trajectories of Thailand's anti government protestersPloy presenting her research at the front of a room with a clock, fireplace and stained glass window. The title of the presentation appears on a large screen by her and is from anger to solidarity. Emotional trajectories of Thailand's anti government protesters
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 20/02/2026
It was proper dark arts of PR stuff. Commission your own report and make sure it includes a Russian hacking claim. Don't bother with evidence or any expert consultancy. Don't need them. Pass that report to GCHQ. Then you say GCHQ are looking into claims of Russian involvement. You made sure of it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/02/2026
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degrees
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
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Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We're recruiting! Please do spread the news far and wide. We're excited by the prospect of being joined by another great new colleague!
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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New publication in Political Communication by department members Dr. Emily Harmer and Dr. Rosalynd Southern! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Twitter to Yell at Them, Facebook to Ask Questions and Instagram to Show Support?” Exploring Platform Effects in Responses to Women Politicians On Social Media
Previous research has shown that women politicians are often subject to more incivility, hate speech, and sexualized abuse on social media. Until now, studies tend to analyze one platform, and ther...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'. It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
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DigiPol: Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy @digipol.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Dear colleagues, we are delighted to invite you to our DigiPol research seminar given by DigiPol visiting fellow Tomás Dodds. Wednesday 3.30pm to 5pm School of the Arts Library or email rsouth@liverpool.ac.uk to join online. Abstract below. Please re skeet!
The AI Turn in Journalism

 

Abstract: Unlike previous changes in digital media technologies over the past few decades, this AI “turn” in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with audiences. While AI complicates and challenges some existing professional, social, political, and economic structures, it also offers new ways to realize desired journalistic objectives that were previously considered to be impractical, if not impossible. Drawing on four orienting ideas—adoption and hype, power and dependency, audiences and democratic implications, and education and empowerment—I unpack the implications of this AI turn in journalism and the consequences for the future of the journalistic field.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 30/10/2025
When benefits are denied by data not humans: In a botched 'crackdown' on benefit fraud, a woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never got on the plane had her child benefit stopped by the UK government - because she didn't 'return'. HMRC told her their records showed she had emigrated!
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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New publication from faculty members Dr. Rudi Palmieri and Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Framing and Argumentative Strategies in Modern Slavery Statements: Debating Sustainability or Avoiding Responsibility?
This chapter develops an analysis of the linguistic content of modern slavery statements by UK-based businesses, which represent a genre of sustainability communication that has emerged in recent year...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
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Emily Harmer @harm365.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
You are pretty iconic though 😆
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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics? It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage Not in our name. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...
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Navigating Digital Democracy Conference – BU’s Media School
You are warmly invited to submit papers for presentation at the joint annual conference of the Political Studies Association’s Media and Politics Group (MPG) & Technology, Information and Policy Group (TIP).
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal. 📝 @desmog.com story 👇
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Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push
President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial records show that Warren Stephens’ family-owned inves...
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Dr Orly Siow @drorlysiow.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟 ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me @ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
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Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds
European Consortium for Political Research
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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Congratulations to Dr Antje Glück and her co-authors for winning Journal Article of the Year at MeCCSA 2025 for their Journalism Studies article 'Fighting Against the Machine: Inside a Solutions Journalism Campaign in UK Local Newsrooms'. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...
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#meccsa2025 | Dr Antje Glück
Very humbled to be awarded the best journal article of the year 2025 by #Meccsa2025 for "Fighting Against the Machine," an article having been a collaborative work with my fabulous COJO against COVID ...
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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We have an exhibition accompanying our events at the British Science Festival this weekend about the voyager space probes! It explores the ideas and legacy of the Voyager space probes. You can read more context (and view the exhibition!) here: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Actively resent the fact we’re expected to listen to a press conference on “mass deportations” as if this is a perfectly normal, mainstream thing and not the unhinged rantings of a racist who is somehow on my television.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Did Tommy Robinson put together this lead story? Half the British press seems to actively want pogroms
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Dr Natalie Jester @nataliejester.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
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