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Carla Winston

@carlawinston.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne. AmeriCanadian in Oz. NTEU member (join your union!). Human Rights, International Law, Norms, Complex Systems, and dogs named Monkey.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · Aug 27

Attention UniMelb people! You might know me. You might not know that I'm a member of the Branch Committee of the @nteuunimelb.bsky.social union. We're gearing up for the next round of bargaining, and we want to hear from you. What are your needs at work, and what do you want us to fight for? DM me!

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 3d

Joke's on them, we're not increasing higher ed or research funding either.

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Ebony Young @ebonyyoung.bsky.social · 4d

Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries

A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 6d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 8d

Take part in a groundbreaking workplace psychosocial safety census of all university staff in Australia, run by Pyschosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory. This an independent survey from University management and only open to staff.

Start here: nteu.info/census (takes 5-6min)

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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 8d

Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal

bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 8d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 8d

I am but I have US citizenship, so...

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 8d

American Political Science Association 2025 was scheduled for Vancouver (yes, that's Canada) but was made partially virtual bc non-US-citizen academics currently in the US were worried about getting back into the US after leaving it for the conference.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 9d

Closing soon!

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 19d

To my UniMelb colleagues: if you haven't already done it, please take a look at the NTEU's pre-bargaining survey. You would have received an email on 17 Sept, member or not. We really do want as many different perspectives as we can get to make sure we fight for what staff really need. Thanks!

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 9d

Competent security sector reform (SSR) includes lustration and vetting processes, policy change, human rights education, independent oversight, possibly trials for the worst offenders, and yes maybe abolishing whole institutions.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10d

It wasn’t an accident, it was Made this way, not just by years of policy and culture, but turbo charged by the second Trump era. It is not an organization of just a few bad apples there is something desperately sick and depraved about what we are unleashing on our neighbors today

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 11d

One more reason to tax billionaires out of existence.

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 11d

TOO MUCH GO BACK.

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

Every piece of that memo appears to be completely wrong by even John Yoo standards of legal interpretation.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

Time for every single military with a SpaceX contract to shred it

ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

www.propublica.org

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

And no, I'm not neurodivergent and I don't have 'issues' stemming from being classed as a smart kid. Other than being a professor now, of course.

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

Its use in early grades is debatable (I had 'gifted' English and Math starting grade 3 or 4), but given continued time in the accelerated classes, I completely tested out of like a year of Uni with AP credits. Still did the rest of it with everyone else.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

Honest answer from a former gifted kid: People learn at different speeds and that varies across subjects, not just people. It's a way to keep the kids who learn faster from getting hella bored in those subjects (not necessarily creating separate entire classes).

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 13d

I wonder what Greenblatt is atoning for this year...

Reuters @reuters.com · 13d

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

The FBI has cut ties with advocacy group Anti-Defamation League, Kash Patel, the bureau's director, said on Wednesday.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 14d

Lieber code says what

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 15d

Russia has officially withdrawn from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture after Putin signed a law denouncing the treaty. By pulling out, Russia blocks the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture from monitoring its detention facilities.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 15d

I seem to remember AOC making an early effort to link immigrants/immigeation and prices but haven't heard it much since then.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 29d

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16d

JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture.

He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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