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Laura Considine

@lauracon.bsky.social
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Nuclear weapons, international politics, narrative politics, feminism at University of Leeds UK

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/11/2025
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social - Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - cup.org/4oqeyYD "survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation" - @lauracon.bsky.social
Logo for "Review of International Studies" featuring a partial image of the Earth on the right with the hashtag #OpenAccess displayed in the bottom right corner, set against a dark background with green text.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I only realized that it was Prime Day because Amazon must have spent a fortune on ads bombarding me. Then I checked other retailers. Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
@theguardian.com this is wrong on trident use. Not only used in ‘highly unlikely scenario where a surprise, all-out nuclear attack destroys the UK and its way of life.’ UK could use nukes first and in response to range of threats including to NATO allies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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How and why is Britain obtaining access to nuclear gravity bombs?
UK purchase of F-35A squadron means US nuclear warheads are likely to be stored on British soil once again
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Magnus Løvold @magnuslovold.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If there was ever any doubt why France 🇫🇷 tried to stop @who.int from revisiting the health impacts of nuclear war at #WHA78 last night—this is why. For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Meanwhile here in the U.K., extra concerning in the context of continuing gov attempts to limit legal public protest.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) article by @lauracon.bsky.social out now! @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?' link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx #openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm #CUPPoliSci
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What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?
Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨New First View Article🚨 "Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess! 📜➡️ buff.ly/vtAqdo7
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
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Horizons Institute @horizonsinstitute.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Polycrisis Network is a collective of people in and outside academia working together to understand the interconnection of crises in the world around us. Join the network for their launch: 📅 Weds 26 Feb 🕞 3.30 - 5pm 🗺️ @universityofleeds.bsky.social Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/polycrisis...
Polycrisis Network Launch graphic, depicting firefighters silhouetted against forest fires, and an image of melting ice caps.
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Taylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Oof. World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...
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Masud Khokhar @masudk.com · 20/12/2024
Doctoral scholarships alert for UK PhD applicants from minoritised ethnic backgrounds in the brilliant Faculty of Social Sciences at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social #Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/347-...
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Leeds University Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Scholarships for researchers from UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups
Project opportunity - Leeds University Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Scholarships for researchers from UK Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups at the University of Leeds
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
#nukesky request for help, the claim that in a future disarmed world, any state with a nuclear weapon/s would have an overwhelming advantage. Is there research that bases this in history, theory, strategy etc? Is there work that argues this through? I’d like to read it if anyone has suggestions?
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Taylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hi #NukeSky - we're still taking photojournalism pitches at @inkstickmedia.bsky.social for our call for nuclear weapons industry images. We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others! inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...
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Call for Pitches: Nuclear Weapons Industry Imagery
Help us understand what the nuclear weapons industry looks like today.
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Renata Dalaqua @redalaqua.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team). Deadline for applications: 25 November Help us spread the word! 👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
I wrote a commentary on the impacts of any further nuclear weapons buildup on people and communities in New Mexico. Recent recommendations ignore the human and environmental costs of more nukes. inkstickmedia.com/nuclear-arms...
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Nuclear Arms Buildup Isn't Just about War. It Also Harms People and Communities.
The prevalence of this acceptance of arms racing and nuclear war fighting talk does not simply reflect the world we are in, it has political power to influence the world and increase the risks we face...
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Dylan Spaulding @dkspaulding.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
I just listened to members of the new Strategic Posture Commission trying to explain the report to an audience in San Francisco. Some comments that stood out the most: 1/n
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
I had the privilege of seeing a screening of this film @Santafefestival It tells story of trinity downwinders @TBdownwinders who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico
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Erik Melander @erikmelander.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
The call for proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Alva Myrdal-centre for Nuclear Disarmament is now open! The cross-disciplinary conference takes place 18-19 June in Uppsala (online in parts). Call closes 3 Dec. I hope to see you in Uppsala in June! #nukesky www3.uu.se/alvamyrdalce...
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
#proofofcat also proof of the best cat ever.
A grey cat sits on a denim clad knee. She is relaxed and leaning to the side with her front legs stretched out. She is the most beautiful cat in the world.
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Laura Considine @lauracon.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
I should prob say something now I’m on here. 👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal. I also still don’t really know how this works.
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