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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

📣 Don't miss this #openaccess #BJPIR article! 'Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s use of myth diplomacy in the United Kingdom' by @thomaseason.bsky.social & Artur Nadiiev 🔗 buff.ly/EUPIFw8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s use of myth diplomacy in the United Kingdom' by @thomaseason.bsky.social & Artur Nadiiev 🔗 buff.ly/EUPIFw8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨[Open access] publication alert🚨 Pleased to share my latest article, Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s Use of Myth Diplomacy in the United Kingdom, authored with @arturnadiiev.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1369...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📣 Fully funded PhD at Aston University in Intelligence Studies & Forensic Linguistics 📣 Study how UK governments make accusations of espionage & covert action without revealing evidence, and how credibility is built through language. More info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Earlier this week I took two of our amazing @astonpress.bsky.social students to a model COP climate negotiation organised by @mybisa.bsky.social at Chatham House. They did a great job representing the EU in the simulation, and learnt a great deal about international diplomacy and COP. #ClimateSim

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Oh turns out it’s on preorder. Loving the blurbs from early readers: “Often laugh out loud”; “Monty Python meets le Carré”; Fun, fascinating and absurd; “Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers” Can’t wait to share it! www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Had the pleasure of attending my second Graduation ceremony at Aston University yesterday with my wonderful colleagues. As ever, big congratulations to our PIR graduates! Also a big thanks to my colleagues for being so kind, generous and supportive in my second year here. It is a very good job!

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In all clips of the young Reform Councillors they all do the little Farage bounce and string puppet arm movements while talking to camera. They’ve clearly watched no end of his videos and have tried to style their delivery on him. He’s their reference point of how to do political communication.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Increasingly certain of my opinion that “democracy” and “algorithmic social media” cannot coexist in the long term

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

More @nottspolitics.bsky.social jobs. We are seeking to appoint 3 Teaching Associates in Politics and International Relations. These full-time, fixed-term posts are available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2026. 1/2

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nottspolitics.bsky.social @nottspolitics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community' Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas @uonresearch.bsky.social

Poster which states 'new publication from Dan Lomas' with book cover

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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

👀 @NottsPolitics are looking for a fixed term Teaching Associate in Security Studies. Fancy joining us? Applications close on 28th April 2025. More details here ⏬️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN031/t...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Finally hit the big time and got a review back that accused me of not engaging enough with my own work, or understanding what it did.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Tax rises will be unpopular, but I will keep arguing to the hilt that if you were going to do it, DO IT NOW. Trump dragging the US into appeasement and kleptocracy; Ukraine being abandoned, Europe on the edge. The case for tax rises and even radical reform is now, whilse these are at the forefront.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A lot of people are going to have to get used to the reality that America is no longer our closest ally.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Let’s start a bottom up movement on this - if you’re asked to be a discussant, either decline and say the panel will be better without it, or agree but then just go to Q&A on the day. No one wants to listen to what the discussant thinks about every paper on the already overrunning panel.

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If this isn’t a humiliation for Britain and its decision to send troops and “stand shoulder to shoulder” with the United States in every war they’ve fought since 1990 then I don’t know what is.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Petition to scrap discussants from conference panels, just eats onto Q&A.

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Laura Southgate @lsouthgate.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Come and join my research team at Aston University! We are hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for a new ESRC funded project on ‘Disaster Impact, Risk Reduction and Regime Type in Southeast Asia’. More details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV236/p...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Had a great time presenting our paper ‘Myth Diplomacy: Ukraine’s use of myth as a diplomatic tool following the Russian invasion’ at #ISA2025. Very happy it went down so well with the Public Diplomacy scholars. Will be around all week so if you see me do come over for a chat or drop me a message.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/03/2025

Yeah... I'm not sure the US is going to scramble F-35's and the 101st Airborne to defend their partial ownership stake in an as yet hypothetical Lithium mine that won't generate any minerals for at least a decade.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In Chicago for #ISA2025 and struck by two things: 1) While there is plenty of coverage, different news channels are not reporting on what happened between Zelenskyy and Trump as much as expected. 2) Different news channels all regularly platform the narrative that Zelenskyy was at fault.

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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

That sound you can hear is a state visit being booted hard and, one would hope, very far into the long grass.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The idea the US would be a backstop to a European tripe wire in Ukraine was always a non starter, events in the Oval Office show that Europe cannot rely on the US for defence. The US is not a reliable ally and any policy that is built on different assumptions is for a different word.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Agreed. Yesterday shows us the gulf between the US and Europe on Europe’s biggest security threat, there really is no way to bridge this. Starmer will need to drop this idea and start pushing narratives in favour of European integration as a national security issue. This is not 2016 or 2020.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Maybe I’m feeling depressed from the scenes yesterday, but the number of things the UK will need to radically change course on makes me very skeptical about the future.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Agreed. Building strategic independence from the US will be such a colossal activity that buying time to do it is a strategic imperative in itself. bsky.app/profile/robe...

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ISA ICOMM @isaicomm.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The last panel of #ISA2025's 1st day is the traditional #EmergingScholar panel. Co-hosted by R.S. Zaharna & @zhaoalexhuang.bsky.social, discussed by Ilan Manor, the panel includes exciting works by @thomaseason.bsky.social , Keyu ,Glanz Maria Simaioforidou, Francisco Zepeda Trujillo, Rui Wang et al.

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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It looked set in stone that Kemi Badenoch was on this trajectory when she dedicated so much time to the far right podcasting space. These echo chambers melt brains and once people are in they almost always spiral. Im sure this is just the start of the slippery slope the Conservative’s are on.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yes, but it also requires consciously challenging some of the ways in which the internet is currently changing society, and therefore being willing to upend some of the cultural, economic, and technological scripts by which we have come to live our lives

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If Starmer is serious about upping defence spending, it seems now is the perfect time to commit to some unpopular moves to do it. Can easily build a narrative justifying tax rises and unpopular cuts to get defence spending up now without opposition parties having much room to attack.

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Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Agreed. I think we are witnessing the end of the American ‘ally’. But this means that Europe has to now contend with a belligerent America alone. The ‘west’ is over. In the Trumpian era, Europe is on its own www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The ‘west’ is over. In the Trumpian era, Europe is on its own | Alexander Hurst

Trump and JD Vance are clear: the US is no longer an ally, but an antagonist to democratic values, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The shock the tankies must feel when they realise it was never about Nazis, both for the Russian dictator and the far right podcasters in the US

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I see a lot of people are coming back at the ‘is this the end of the special relationship?’ question with the off the shelf response that it goes deeper than leaders and is built on connections across government organisations. This is true, but I can’t help but feel this is short-term thinking.

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Tomorrow Never Dies rapidly rewritten to be about a meddling civil servant's unjust persecution of a put-upon global media tycoon www.bbc.com/news/article...

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James Bond's long-serving producers give control to Amazon

Barbara Broccoli and co-producer Michael G Wilson annouce they are stepping down.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As the US abandons, or even harms, European security, the UK has little choice but to make some unpopular spending decisions to direct money into the MoD. Vague and often poorly evidenced claims about UK international aid being essential to soft power and our global reputation don’t really cut it.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Anyone who uses the term 'DEI' in British politics is clearly importing their culture war labels from America. 'EDI' is the much more common version here in my experience. Going to start my campaign for British language for British culture wars.

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