Jenny Mathers

@jgmaber.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.

@shannonvallor.bsky.socialReposted by @jgmaber.bsky.social

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

@terezahendl.bsky.socialReposted by @jgmaber.bsky.social

Just attended an interesting and much-needed event problematising the persistent invisibility of East European women—mainly Polish and Ukrainian—in the (armed) resistance, including against Nazi Germany. We also discussed the incredible contemporary and freely accessible‼️Archive of Public Protest

@alisonfisk.bsky.socialReposted by @jgmaber.bsky.social

Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought:

‘You know what this needs? A leg!’

Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆

Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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@margogontar.bsky.socialReposted by @jgmaber.bsky.social

‘Yeah it was loud and I can see smoke from the window so it probably hit close to us but we’re okay so don’t worry when you see in the news.’ Saturday talks with your loved ones, when you’re Ukrainian .

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Margaret Hamilton has died at 90. Her painstaking work helped turn an audacious national ambition into a working system: In the famous photo below, she stands next to a stack of her team's code for the Apollo missions—pages that carried human beings to the moon. RIP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

@sarahjyoung.bsky.socialReposted by @jgmaber.bsky.social

Heartbroken about this utter vandalism. I did my PhD at Nottingham and it was a powerhouse. Management has spent more than a decade attacking languages - this is active destruction, nothing else. Solidarity with colleagues and old friends.

@rprose.bsky.socialReposted by @jgmaber.bsky.social

Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in her Moscow apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006. Twenty years have passed. A memorial plaque outside her home has been destroyed repeatedly by vandals this year. Also today, Putin turns 74.

Anna Politkovskaya at Novaya Gazeta. Uncredited photo from the newspaper
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