Brieg Powel
Personal account. World politics, theory, global history, conflict, football coach (UEFA C), Exeter Uni academic, Stoke Hill AFC, Swansea Jack 🦢🏴
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg PowelIf you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Er...buses? Trams? Metros? Come on @economist.com , you're better than this
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg PowelReform and X are not Britain, as John Curtice shows, though this loud minority voice thinks it is Migration bad for economy? 32% of public - but 73% of Reform Bad for our culture? 31% of public - 81% of Reform Rights for ethnic minorities have gone too far? 18% of public - but 49% of Reform
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg PowelA horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
- Just when you think the destruction in #Gaza can't get any worse. Good BBC investigation into deliberate demolition of entries Palestinian towns. Reveals that emolitions have significantly accelerated in the last 3-4 months in what are suspected "war crimes" www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- UN Special Rapporteur: #Israel has moved from an "economy of occupation" to an "economy of genocide" in #Gaza www.un.org/unispal/docu...
- This from the @nytimes.com on #Israel's bombing of the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. They targeted the visitor centre & the wing holding transgender prisoners. Around 100 transgender prisoners remain missing, presumed killed whilst 79 others from across the prison already confirmed killed
- Reposted by Brieg PowelReally insightful piece this, highly recommended
- Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook! Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Somewhat reassured that the man who I thought was a spitting image of George Monbiot I saw crossing the road in front of me, stuck at a traffic light by the Exeter university campus, was in fact, George Monbiot. BTW, interesting 🧵 from the man himself here 👇
- Marwan Al Sultan, cardiologist a & Director of the Indonesian hospital in #Gaza is *70th* health worker killed in last 50 days in the territory www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- Here's the text of the open letter protesting against the BBC's coverage of #Gaza. Robbie Gibb comes under particular scrutiny www.scribd.com/document/883...
- Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook! Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
- Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook! Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
- Reposted by Brieg PowelTerrific new handbook on International Political Sociology, a what's what and who's who in the field: "The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology" eds. Stacie E. Goddard, George Lawson, and Ole Jacob Sending global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Brieg PowelBook Launch: Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology Interested in all things IPS? Join us for our online book launch featuring Co-Editor Ole Jacob Sending and Discussant Ingvild Bode on June 16 at 2 pm (CEST). Details for the @dvpw.bsky.social event: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
- Not sure this profile quiz was designed for my diet... www.idrlabs.com/food-choice/...
- A reminder in @polstudies.bsky.social of how long the #Iran - #Israel conflict has been in the making and the implications for global order. By @shabnamholliday.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Congratulations to @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social from @cais-exeter.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva yesterday. Yazid explored legacies of colonial policing & migration in Europe & N.Africa Thanks to examiners @fionaadamson.bsky.social & Martin Thomas, and lead supervisor @irenefmolina.bsky.social
- Timely contribution 👇
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...
- Imagine if just 20% of that went to universities or the academics themselves ...
- 👀
- Ooh, look! The US Army is going full 18th century and allowing rich people to buy a commission (sort of)
- As a father, this is fascinating and makes a lot of sense 👇
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Watched Tora!Tora!Tora! (Japanese extended cut), coached son's football team in a tournament, and now reading Alastair Reynolds
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg PowelIt was a pleasure to speak to Exeter SSI and @cais-exeter.bsky.social yesterday about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations (open access: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...). Thanks to @blagdendavid.bsky.social and @profalexp.bsky.social for organizing
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Well put by @piercepenniless.bsky.social . Don't Labour know that there is a (information) war on? China & Russia do. They're investing $billions in their global media machines, as well as their troll farms e.g. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-chi...
- Indeed
- Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this sordid "gift" episode is that, given all the wider book burnings and cancel culture of his regime, #Trump is still keen on a library www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- A little #VEDay 👋 to my late grandfather who, leading an infantry platoon as 2nd Lt Powell, was yet to start his fighting in #Burma. Joined West Yorks in May, wounded by a mortar within 24hrs, returned to fight June-August. Fought at Sittang Bend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
- Good piece by @lukecooper100.bsky.social on the relative economic positions of #Ukraine & #Russia, as well as the "raw colonialism" and symbolism of #Trump 's minerals deal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
- I'm assuming that, to be consistent with their wider visa policy in relation to critics of Israeli policy, the Trump regime will need to deny the former head of Shin Bet, the Israeli security service, a visa if requested www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Excellent @financialtimes.com short film on the merits of a #wealth #tax youtube.com/watch?v=kHeY...
- Hard not to agree with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social here on the utterly pro-Russian terms of the #Ukraine ceasefire proposal. Incredible level of partiality towards Moscow that further weakens the US' standing among its allies. The architects of US global hegemony must be spinning in their graves
- OK, sent out this free piece on the details of the Trump "final" plan for Ukraine that has been seen by Axios. The 5 points have basically been dictated by Putin. They set up a process which would allow Russia to expand into all of its neighbors. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
- Reposted by Brieg PowelA short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky
- Labour may be worried about Reform, but their voters are more likely to leave to the Greens or Lib Dems. Labour needs to decide what it is and what kind of world they want to help create
- Reposted by Brieg PowelNot at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?
- If @teamlabouruk.bsky.social had the sense & strategic vision to take advantage of this, it might give the UK #highereducation sector a badly-needed boom. But that would be asking something from a party that won't distinguish students from other migrants in a race to the bottom with Reform
- Freedom of speech issues aside, a rational response to such threats is to simply not to use social media. Which, in turn, would hit Trump's tech bro oligarchy
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg PowelThis is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Brieg Powel[Not loaded yet]
- Add to that list that many/most of those white collar jobs were socially-focused in that they supported or promoted the infrastructure of society. However, people still assume that these people are there when, increasingly, they are either diminishing in number or too overwhelmed to function as was
