Simon Rushton
@SimonRushton8
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Professor of International Politics @ShefUniPolitics. Global health politics/policy; peace and conflict. Views my own.
Sheffield, England
Joined March 2018
🔊The deadline to register for #VirtualBISA is this SUNDAY! 'Global political imaginations: towards a more inclusive world' 🌍 This is our inaugural #online conference @ShefUniPolitics 🎉 Register NOW👉 https://t.co/IrRAtNONq0
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🔊Register NOW for #VirtualBISA2025! 'Global political imaginations: towards a more inclusive world' 🌍 This is our inaugural #online conference @ShefUniPolitics 🎉 Deadline 15 Oct Register NOW👉 https://t.co/IrRAtNONq0
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This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns. @elonmusk is a feckless billionaire whose algorithms pose an imminent threat to life. He won’t act. So it’s critical that we now do. https://t.co/o0fPgFTMzp
theguardian.com
Algorithms that send the most outrageous comments viral and a chain reaction of anger and disinformation made the riots that followed the Southport killings inevitable
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This seems right. And also @UKLabour politicians, who claim to be on the (centre-)left, will need to stop parroting and further legitimising the same anti-migrant discourse
Racism comes from the top down, not the bottom up. What is happening is the manifestation of decades of Islamophobia, anti-migrant and refugee racism and toxicity that has been peddled by media and political elites with the sole purpose of dividing people. Focus people on their
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Right-wing social media in meltdown over Muslim terrorist that isn’t Muslim and transgender boxer that isn’t transgender.
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MDs should talk with people from humanities and social sciences before writing stuff.
In this Viewpoint, the authors explore how artificial intelligence could support surrogate decision-makers while addressing some of the attendant epistemic and moral challenges. https://t.co/12NyyrgKXc
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🔊Deadline TODAY for Call of Papers! 📄 @CST_WG are hosting a hybrid conference @sheffielduni: 'The label of ‘terrorism’ and the permissibility of violence' This year's conference is centred on the theme of settler colonial violence Submit here👉 https://t.co/SKMqIjMsWG
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Great to find this on the doormat this morning. Looking forward to reading!
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Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...
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We are hiring for a new postition. 3 year Post Doctoral Research Associate Health in Humanitarian Settings and/or Global Governance for Health from a gender perspective at Imperial College London. Come and join our growing team!
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Last day to submit!
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢 We're introducing an annual virtual conference starting Jan 2025 *in addition* to our annual in-person conference. Submissions open May 14 Check out the call and more now: https://t.co/IrRAtNONq0
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EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢 We're introducing an annual virtual conference starting Jan 2025 *in addition* to our annual in-person conference. Submissions open May 14 Check out the call and more now: https://t.co/IrRAtNONq0
#VirtualBISA2025 @SimonRushton8 @BISAPGN @RISjnl @EJIntSec
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Blair should keep quiet. You won’t defeat the far right by buying into their anti-immigration rhetoric. You will only defeat them by changing the conversation on immigration. Value migrants and the benefits they bring to us all.
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Exclusive: former PM says immigration benefits UK but controls are needed to ‘close off avenues’ for populists
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We have a 3-yr lectureship going at @ShefUniPolitics with an interest in candidates who can teach methods (qual, quant or mixed) and working on elections and parties and/or comparative politics and/or political economy. Happy to chat about working here https://t.co/dNYxT0suNt
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Michelle Donelan gone: anyone working at a university will be celebrating that one.
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Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8
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you CAN use your photo id EVEN if it is OUT OF DATE. you CAN use your photo ID even if it is OUT OF DATE. you CAN use your photo ID even IF it is OUT of DATE. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. https://t.co/atz9vF7UJE
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