Erin Lockwood
@erinkaylockwood.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | fan of plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | she/her
A world in which the most wildly optimistic promises of AI obtain is not a world where the bubble bursts!
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A world in which the most wildly optimistic promises of AI obtain is not a world where the bubble bursts!
You're absolutely right. When we start second-guessing the value of empathy and care, we're part of the problem.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
You're absolutely right. When we start second-guessing the value of empathy and care, we're part of the problem.
Yes, it is. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yes, it is. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"Think of the children!" is pretty cringe, but also, I want better for my children and for all of us. The name-calling, the misogyny, the racism, the antisemitism, the attacks on every program meant to ease our burdens even a little ... it's all grounded in such meanness in both senses of the word.
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Think of the children!" is pretty cringe, but also, I want better for my children and for all of us. The name-calling, the misogyny, the racism, the antisemitism, the attacks on every program meant to ease our burdens even a little ... it's all grounded in such meanness in both senses of the word.
I'm literally writing about this for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social this afternoon lol
CDS written on highly correlated debt contracts and traded by unregulated, highly leveraged "non-banks" who are themselves highly intertwined with increasingly weakly supervised banks is Not Great!!!
CDS written on highly correlated debt contracts and traded by unregulated, highly leveraged "non-banks" who are themselves highly intertwined with increasingly weakly supervised banks is Not Great!!!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm literally writing about this for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social this afternoon lol
CDS written on highly correlated debt contracts and traded by unregulated, highly leveraged "non-banks" who are themselves highly intertwined with increasingly weakly supervised banks is Not Great!!!
CDS written on highly correlated debt contracts and traded by unregulated, highly leveraged "non-banks" who are themselves highly intertwined with increasingly weakly supervised banks is Not Great!!!
@bentleyallan.bsky.social's book touches on this, especially ch. 5 on growth narratives in the post-war order.
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders
Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Scientific Cosmology and International Orders
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@bentleyallan.bsky.social's book touches on this, especially ch. 5 on growth narratives in the post-war order.
Today feels a lot like the Kavanaugh hearing day in that respect.
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today feels a lot like the Kavanaugh hearing day in that respect.
I have to largely set aside my both experiential and professional knowledge of how much some men hate women to, you know, exist and function, but days like today sort of force that knowledge back into my field of vision. It's nauseating.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I have to largely set aside my both experiential and professional knowledge of how much some men hate women to, you know, exist and function, but days like today sort of force that knowledge back into my field of vision. It's nauseating.