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Titus Alexander

@titusa.bsky.social
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Working on education for democracy, social justice and nature. Developing Dynamic Social Theory. Teaches practical politics. leadership & management. Author 'Unravelling Global Apartheid'. Father. Lives in Scotland.

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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Using Dynamic Social Theory to Create a More Equitable Society by Disrupting Higher Education bit.ly/4xFgEs0 presented at the American Sociological Association (@asanews.bsky.social) in August 2026. This paper has had 13,000+ views and 1200+ downloads: bit.ly/DSTFront - check it out!
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v3 ASA 2026 Public Sociology - Using Dynamic Social Theory to Create A More Equitable Society
Using Dynamic Social Theory to Create A More Equitable Society by Disrupting our Models of Higher Education - https://bit.ly/4xFgEs0 Abstract Universities have a major responsibility for the state ...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
When the Pope Declared War on America: Part 8 - What happens in the knitting circle & the synagogue? #Israel, #Palestine, #Chicago, #Knitting, #WhiteHats open.substack.com/pub/titusale...?
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When the Pope Declared War On America: Part 8
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Planning a thesis in social science? Check out “Dynamic Social Theory” - a novel approach to increase relevance & impact of research. Download, share & discuss: bit.ly/DSTFront - read by more that 83% papers this year in @frontiersin.bsky.social @frontiersmedia.bsky.social #openaccess
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
This paper explores the hypothesis that institutions are “dynamic social theories” that embody accumulated knowledge from everyday social experiments about h...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When the Pope Declared War On America Part 7 - Day 2 Chicago: - assassination attempt, & Vatican communications campaign. A story for our time. open.substack.com/pub/titusale...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
When the Pope Declared War On America: Part 6 - Shoel Follow this intriguing new story for free. Read from first episode here: bit.ly/PopeWar
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
When the Pope Declared War On America: Part 5 - The journey begins (Read from first episode here: bit.ly/PopeWar) open.substack.com/pub/titusale...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
When the Pope Declared War On America: Part 5 - The journey begins (Read from first episode here: bit.ly/PopeWar) open.substack.com/pub/titusale...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This article has more views than 90% of all Frontiers articles @frontiersin.bsky.social - a new model of social science: @socialsciences.bsky.social @socsci.ox.ac.uk @bsatheory.bsky.social check it out: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
When the Pope Declared War on America: Episode 2 - Preparations for Holy War open.substack.com/pub/titusale... Episode 1: bit.ly/PopeWar
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When the Pope Declared War On America
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
‘When the Pope Declared War on America’ next instalment Wed 4 Feb: bit.ly/PopeWar - then every Sun & Wed
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When the Pope Declared War on America: a fable for our time open.substack.com/pub/titusale...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Australia's experiment w Social Media Minimum Age (SMMA) will be tested by critics, young people, families, & Stanford Social Media Lab, reviewed by citizens in a general election as a Dynamic Theory of esafety bit.ly/DSTFront @stanfordsoc.bsky.social y.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Dynamic Social Theory on Wikipedia w.wiki/G8Tv - hypothesis that institutions are everyday experiments & social models = social science equivalent of theories in the natural sciences. This could increase ability of social sciences to solve real-world problems & increase impact impact.
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Dynamic Social Theory on Wikipedia w.wiki/G8Tv - hypothesis that institutions are everyday experiments & social models = social science equivalent of theories in the natural sciences. This could increase ability of social sciences to solve real-world problems & increase impact impact.
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"We believe that greater openness will ultimately facilitate better public participation and healthier local democracies." Our blog on @lgiu-local-gov.bsky.social based on recent report on how to make #localgov financial information more accessible, and why it matters: lgiu.org/blog-article...
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How to fix the accessibility of council finances – for the good of local democracies - LGiU
New research from the University of Sussex and Research for Action has explored barriers to the public understanding and scrutinising council financial information and made calls for improving transpa...
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media co-op @mediaco-op.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It's been a wee while! We've been very busy with exciting new projects, which is exactly why we're now hiring for a new Studio and Production Manager! Read the full job description and find out how to apply at mediaco-op.net/news/studio-...
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Great studio/production manager job going with our pals @mediaco-op.bsky.social in Glasgow! mediaco-op.net/news/studio-... #workercoops #coops #ethicaljobs etc
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Hiring: Studio and Production Manager - media co-op
Media co-op is a team of award-winning media professionals who create digital media and films for the third sector and broadcast television.
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Planning a thesis in social science? Check out “Dynamic Social Theory” - a novel approach to increase relevance & impact of research. Download, share & discuss: bit.ly/DSTFront - read by more that 83% papers this year in @frontiersin.bsky.social @frontiersmedia.bsky.social #openaccess
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
@scinews.bsky.social - check out “Social Models as Dynamic Theories: How to Increase the Impact of Social and Political Sciences” Frontiers in Political Science, pub. 1 May 2025 - Read, respond & share: bit.ly/DSTFront Could it change how we do social science?
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/10/2025
We are at the "Anne Frank" stage of the US immigrant raids campaign. Neighbor hid a 7-year-old and her mother during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As EU leaders claim to support Ukraine, many of them continue to buy energy from Russia : - France with a 40% jump - the Netherlands’ imports surged 72% to 498 million euros. Belgium, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, and Portugal also raised their imports. kyivindependent.com/seven-eu-sta...
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7 EU states increase Russian energy imports in 2025, Reuters reports
Among the seven nations increasing their purchases, France saw a 40% jump, importing 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion), while the Netherlands’ imports surged 72% to 498 million euros ($579 million). Be...
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Many thanks from all our authors to the 12,000 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter this year so far. We are hugely grateful! It’s open access, always. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Should be useful for leaders & managers in public service
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Productivity Pitches @instituteforgov Tues 21 Oct 12:30 — 13:45 (GMT) online & in London, on outstanding examples (social models) of innovation in public services with @foundationsww.bsky.social @local.gov.uk & @njdavies.bsky.social instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/produc...
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Productivity Pitches #8: Spreading innovation across public services | Institute for Government
Productivity Pitches highlights outstanding examples of innovation across public services.
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Productivity Pitches @instituteforgov Tues 21 Oct 12:30 — 13:45 (GMT) online & in London, on outstanding examples (social models) of innovation in public services with @foundationsww.bsky.social @local.gov.uk & @njdavies.bsky.social instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/produc...
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Productivity Pitches #8: Spreading innovation across public services | Institute for Government
Productivity Pitches highlights outstanding examples of innovation across public services.
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Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families @foundationsww.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
✨ How do we give every child the best start in life? We’ll discuss this & more with @bphillipsonMP on Sunday evening at #Lab25, with our partners at @CfYoungLives. Join us for a fireside chat followed by a drinks reception and speeches from @NDIronsMP, @JoshDeanMP & more 👉 t.co/SI8cq8iQJA
Promotional graphic for an event titled “Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life: In Conversation with Bridget Phillipson MP” at the Labour Party Conference 2025. Event details: Sunday 28 September, 19:00–21:15, The Beatles Story Museum. Featured speakers include Dr Jo Casebourne, Chief Executive of Foundations; Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education; and Baroness Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives. The background is orange with headshots of the three speakers in circular frames. Logos for Foundations and the Centre for Young Lives appear at the bottom.
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Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families @foundationsww.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Schools Minister Georgia_Gould and Opportunity Mission Champion sarahsmithlab will join us at #Lab25, to explore how schools and children and family services can work in tandem to support children to have the best start in life. foundations.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Promotional graphic for a Labour Party Conference 2025 event titled “Inside and Outside the School Gates: How Can We Give All Children the Best Start in Life?”. The event is scheduled for Monday 29 September, 10:45–11:45, in Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool. Five speakers are shown in circular photos with names and titles: Avnee Morjaria (Associate Director for Public Services, IPPR, Chair), Georgia Gould MP (Minister for School Standards), Sarah Smith MP (National Opportunity Mission Champion), Dr Jo Casebourne (Chief Executive, Foundations), and Ed Davies (Research Director, Centre for Social Justice). Logos of Foundations, IPPR, and CSJ are displayed at the bottom. Background is blue with white text.
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Experimental Political Science and the Democratic Method: Can Universities Revive the Civic Mission of Education? #DemocracyDay2025 Presented at APSA 2025 Vancouver @apsa.bsky.social Short link to paper bit.ly/4mOFAZa
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
#DemocracyDay2025 - check out the "democratic method" in social science, democracies as experiments and social models ("dynamic theories") www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol... @frontiersin.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Planning research in social or political science? Check out “Dynamic Social Theory” to increase impact. bit.ly/DSTFront @socsci.ox.ac.uk @4sweb.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @isa-sociology.org @sociological.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social @prxjournal.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Experimental Political Science and the Democratic Method: Can Universities Revive the Civic Mission of Education? #DemocracyDay2025 Presented at APSA 2025 Vancouver @apsa.bsky.social Short link to paper bit.ly/4mOFAZa
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
@geoffreypleyers.bsky.social Learning is humanity’s superpower. Knowledge can be liberating or devastating. Current models of higher education are polarizing. See Manifesto for Social Science for how sociology could do better: bit.ly/SocSciManife... #ISAForum25
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Manifesto for Social Science How Social and Political Sciences can Support Human Flourishing By Titus Alexander FRSA This Manifesto summarises recommendations arising from my paper on Social Models a...
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Planning research in social or political science? Check out “Dynamic Social Theory” to increase impact. bit.ly/DSTFront @socsci.ox.ac.uk @4sweb.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @isa-sociology.org @sociological.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social @prxjournal.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Important paper by ‬Profs ‪@tompepinsky.com‬ & @mcopelov.bsky.social Money creation & management are powerful institutions ("dynamic theories") in society's operation system, central to our political economy: "the future of cryptocurrency is a battle over the future of sovereign authority itself"
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European Political Science Review @epsrjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📢 Heads up! EPSR is taking a summer break ☀️ 🛑 No submissions will be accepted during August — we’ll be back in action come September! Perfect time to refine your manuscripts! ✍️📚 But stay tuned for our August Issue! ☀️
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
@cris-sciencespo.bsky.social - Treating institutions as Social Models & Dynamic Theories can help researchers work with citizens & practitioners to reduce inequality: read, respond & share paper in Frontiers in Political Science. bit.ly/DSTFront Could it change how we do social science?
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IPSA @ipsa.org · 11/08/2025
🚨 Today is the last day to register for the IPSA–Antalya ONLINE Summer School for Social Science Research Methods! This program offers advanced training for graduate students and academics seeking to enhance their methodological expertise. go.ipsa.org/8nIElR
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in TPM:
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Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In the US, #ElonMusk has announced the start of a new party. Interested in new party success and failure, worldwide? Check the dataset compiled by Stuart Bramwell and colleagues & myself. If Musk's #AmericaParty survives, it'll be one of the few. If it dies, it'll be one of many. @erc.europa.eu
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📢APPLY NOW!: DPIR seeks a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative European Politics to provide teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate level and contribute to the Departmental examining and graduate admissions processes.🗓️ CLOSES: 12pm, 5 Aug: ow.ly/brXi50WpZav
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This is what a police state looks like.
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The stone age didn't end because people ran out of stones....
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
At #IPSA2025 presenting on why we need to teach about global apartheid.
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Great tob be here #ipsa
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
@ipsa.org Dynamic Social Theory is a challenging hypothesis on how political science can benefit humanity better. Could you review it in your favourite journal? Read bit.ly/DSTFront & Manifesto for Social Science: bit.ly/SocSciManife... #IPSA2025
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
@isa-sociology.org Dynamic Social Theory is a challenging hypothesis on how sociology can benefit humanity better. Could you review it in a journal? Read bit.ly/DSTFront & Manifesto for Social Science: bit.ly/SocSciManife... & McDonald’s model: bit.ly/LSEmcDon #ISAForum25
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Frontiers | Social models as dynamic theories: how to improve the impact of social and political sciences
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Titus Alexander @titusa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
@geoffreypleyers.bsky.social Learning is humanity’s superpower. Knowledge can be liberating or devastating. Current models of higher education are polarizing. See Manifesto for Social Science for how sociology could do better: bit.ly/SocSciManife... #ISAForum25
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Manifesto for Social Science How Social and Political Sciences can Support Human Flourishing By Titus Alexander FRSA This Manifesto summarises recommendations arising from my paper on Social Models a...
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