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Reed M Wood

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Professor of Political Science

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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Not just top in the UK, top 5 in Europe.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sometimes the world is a horrible place. All the more reason to count your blessings. Today I feel lucky to be able to have a morning run in a forest during English bluebell season. Rage depletes your batteries. Remember to recharge. It's going to be a long fight.
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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
An interesting and important read.
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Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
But, sir, every plant and tree will die. Owls will deafen us with incessant hooting. The town's sundial will be useless.... Dear UK government, are we really cribbing ideas from both Futurama and the Simpsons?
thetimes.com
Experiments to dim the sun given green light
A government research group will explore whether Earth could be cooled by bouncing away sunlight
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Chimps sharing boozy fruit may point to the origins of pub culture
Apes have been filmed sharing alcoholic chunks of fermented breadfruit — a glimpse, perhaps, of the evolutionary roots of bonding over drinks
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds
The pivotal ‘barbarian conspiracy’ of AD367 saw Picts, Scotti and Saxons inflicting crushing blows on Roman defences
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | An Interactive Map of Global Migration
Dive into a new data set released by Meta, charting immigration flows among 181 countries over four years.
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Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
From the UN: “Call for Inputs on the Human Rights Impacts of Administrative Measures to Counter Terrorism and (Violent) Extremism” www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
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OHCHR | Call for Inputs on the Human Rights Impacts of Administrative Measures to Counter Terrorism and (Violent) Extremism
Background“Administrative measures” to counter terrorism and (violent) extremism have proliferated in many countries. These measures involve coercive restrictions on human rights imposed outside of th...
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Kaschuta described internalizing tradwife ideas about women’s primacy in the home. When she tried to take on all the domestic labor in her own family, it nearly broke her. She started to realize that while the new right’s racism and misogyny were often delivered with an ironic smirk, it was no joke.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right
People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The lesson to voters is be wary of anyone selling a quick fix to complex problems. They are invariably charlatans, and they seldom care about the hardships of the people whose votes they are courting.
nytimes.com
How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy. Its impact is still reverberating.
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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Sharp decline in number of Europeans travelling to the US. (Charts by @financialtimes.com)
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"China condemns US protectionism". Now there's a headline no one in 2005 would have ever expected. Next up, "US declares war on the global order it created." Oh wait...we did that one already.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump is making relative gains great again. IR nerds reconize the big winner here is Joseph Grieco. Vindicated at last. Again.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Nice to see fare jumpers finally being fined on Greater Anglia trains. I was starting to feel like a chump for actually buying tickets.
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a group of people are sitting at a table with a man in a white uniform saying no ticket .
ALT: a group of people are sitting at a table with a man in a white uniform saying no ticket .
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Anyone else shocked that a man whose signature financial strategy is bankrupting his businesses and failing to pay his debts has ruined the previously prosperous global economy of his predecessors?
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I will be teaching our post-grad IR seminar in the autumn. Given current world events, I think I will load up on classics like EH Carr and Morgenthau. Does anyone have a new favorite from the classics list or an old favourite they're dusting off after years of neglect?
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I was just discussing the US admin being aligned with Russia in class Thursday and how that could alter Arctic (and other) relations
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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a brown bear is smiling with its eyes closed and its paws folded
ALT: a brown bear is smiling with its eyes closed and its paws folded
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Question of the day: How much poorer has Trump made you today relative to Wednesday?
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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a cartoon of a man saying " so professor would you say it 's time for everyone to panic ? "
ALT: a cartoon of a man saying " so professor would you say it 's time for everyone to panic ? "
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Just a reminder. Now is NOT the time to check how your 401k is holding up.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A great crew to work with.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Guardian may win the most accurate description of the impact of Trump Tariffs.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If we just remember to take the Trump tariffs seriously, not literally, we will all be fine. We have the best tarrifs.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... Looks like the next thing to add to my reading list.
theguardian.com
Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’
The epidemiologist who advised on Ebola and Covid discusses the value of evidence in light of AI and social media, and how the notion of fact has long been divisive
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
To be this comfortable. Ever.
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Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Curious about the latest research from our editorial team? 📖 Read @dingbatacus.bsky.social's article exploring how electoral turbulence and violence lead to gendered outcomes — and how they impact women's representation in legislative bodies 🗳️ Available open access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1065...
At the bottom of the image, the journal’s homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social)appear in white text against a navy blue background. The main background features an empty parliamentary chamber. A small image of the Political Research Quarterly cover is also included. Overlaying the background are the article title, “The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation,” and the author’s name, Reed M. Wood.
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Reed M Wood @reedmwood.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New analysis ranking Political Science departments' research output and impact. Strong evidence the Department of Government at the Univeristy of Essex is among the top 10 political science departments in Europe. Well done, colleagues! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments
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