iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Al Cook

Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

** Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction ** is officially published today! Happy to have this new little book out in the world. For more info: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

19320

Reposted by Al Cook

Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

521540498

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@lowyinstitute.bsky.social how do you choose which interpreter articles to post on here?

010

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Latest op-ed in The Interpreter on the direction of travel in the humanitarian reset’: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

lowyinstitute.org

Drivers for the humanitarian reset

Proximity, legitimacy and capacity are the features of the new world for global aid.

000

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Martin Searle”s article “Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution: saving which lives?” Is free access for a limited time in special issue “Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia: Analysing Challenges, Exploring Opportunities” Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com

Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution: saving which lives?

The crossing of physical, biological and cyber domains that characterizes the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) threatens the independence of humanitarian organizations. This challenge increases t...

000

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Qiang Zhang , Lina Gong et al.’s article “South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake” is free access for a limited time in our special issue. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com

South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake

The literature on the internationalization of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under-appreciates the experience of those originating in the Global South. This article addresses this gap in the...

000

Reposted by Al Cook

Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

684658940

Reposted by Al Cook

Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

2 PhD scholarships in politics, University College Dublin: www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

ucd.ie

Ad Astra Doctoral Scholarships - UCD School of Politics and International Relations

032

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Max Planck post-docs on political economy and economic sociology. Deadline: 15DEC25 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...

career.mpifg.de

Postdoctoral Program 2026

030

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Brown University post-doc opportunity at Watson School of Public and International Affairs. Deadline: 15JAN2026: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69514/b...

networks.h-net.org

Brown University - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs and Department of History 2026-2028 | H-Net

001

Reposted by Al Cook

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Short piece by Tobias Ide on how horribly wrong AI bots are when asked to analyze research, in this case around climate security. I found when dealing with environmental security, it keeps referring back to ideas from the 1990s, most long since discredited www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/hall...

newsecuritybeat.org

Hallucinating Climate Security: A Cautionary Tale about Generative AI

Recent studies indicate that over 90% of all students – and an increasing number of policy makers – are using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to process large amounts of data and [...]

412174

Reposted by Al Cook

The National Bureau of Asian Research @nbr.org · 30/07/2025

JUST RELEASED! The July issue of NBR's quarterly journal ASIA POLICY features content on #nontraditionalsecurity, #SoutheastAsia, #UStariffs, #ChinaMiddleEast engagement #NorthKoreaRussia relations, #Taiwan's #DefenseIndustry, the #IndianOcean, and more! www.nbr.org/publication/...

011

Reposted by Al Cook

Ruji Auethavornpipat @ruji-aue.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Great catching up with @adbcook.bsky.social over spicy Indonesian food!

071

Reposted by Al Cook

Ruji Auethavornpipat @ruji-aue.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social! Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026... Please feel free to share further 😊 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

13012

Reposted by Al Cook

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Hang on, Bartholomew Roberts was Welsh too. You're telling me a Welsh pirate went out on the high seas only to get captured by another Welsh pirate? Ni ellir dianc rhag Hon etc.

3145

Reposted by Al Cook

Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

10408140

Reposted by Al Cook

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The UK child citizenship fee is one of the highest in Europe: £1,214. Many kids who have British citizenship rights are missing out because their families cannot afford the fee. I’ve tabled an amendment that would stop children being priced out of citizenship in the country they call home.

An image of Bell's amendment.

To move the following Clause —
“Children born in the UK: British citizenship
(1) The British Nationality Act 1981 is amended as follows.
(2) After section 1(3A) insert—
“(3B) A person (“P”) born in the United Kingdom on or after the relevant
day who is not a British citizen by virtue of subsection (1), (1A) or (2) or
section 10A shall be entitled to be registered as a British citizen if, when
P was born, P’s father or mother—
(a) had previously entered the UK whilst holding leave to enter the
UK; and
(b) was subsequently, and at the time of P’s birth, subject to UK
immigration control.”
(3) The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 are amended as
follows.
Friday 9 May 2025 REPORT STAGE 31
(4) In Schedule 1, Table 20A, insert—
“No fee is payable in respect of an application for registration as a
British citizen under the 1981 Act where the application is made under
section 1(3B) of that Act.””

25823

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

S. Nanthini and I have published an RSIS Policy Report analysing Southeast Asian humanitarian responses to the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria in February 2023, and the potential for One ASEAN One Response outside the region. rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...

rsis.edu.sg

Southeast Asian Responses to the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes

Executive Summary This policy report analyses the humanitarian responses of Southeast Asian countries to the 7.8 magnitude earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria in February 2023. It traces the emergi...

020

Reposted by Al Cook

Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This article probably won’t excite readers as much as stories about drone warfare, Ukrainian battlefields or Chinese naval task groups. However, civil-military relations are more important than any of these subjects. My latest at @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

lowyinstitute.org

A distinctly Australian approach to civil-military relations

Examining a neglected but crucial aspect of Australia’s national security debate.

522622

Reposted by Al Cook

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing @kyawhsanhlaing.com · 17/04/2025

Here is my piece for @foreignpolicy.com on Myanmar’s earthquake and its political aftershocks “Myanmar needs more than charity: It needs solidarity and sustained pressure for the freedom that its people have died for.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/16/m...

foreignpolicy.com

Myanmar’s Earthquake Exposes Political Fault Lines

The junta has exploited past crises to reinforce its power—and it can do it again.

094

Reposted by Al Cook

Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Wait until they found out how many economist plagiarized "We leverage a novel instrumental variable that is plausibly exogenous."

423427

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Touchdown in Chcago for #ISA2025 with S. Nanthini. If you have time to catch up, let us know. Presenting on Southeast Asian (SEA) responses to Turkiye and Syria EQ 2023, SEA Military cooperation in HADR, Military Humanitarianism in SEA: Through a Women Peace and Security lens. @isanet.bsky.social

010

Reposted by Al Cook

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"If you stay in Myanmar, you will be drafted into the military & die. If you flee to Thailand because you fear being conscripted and are arrested by Thai police and deported, you will be sent to the military & die" Grim choice for many from Myanmar & the thai amnesty scheme is expensive & has risks

frontiermyanmar.net

Hard grind: Migrants in Thailand face steep costs to stay legal

An amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Thailand offers hope for many Myanmar workers operating in the shadows, but the costs are high, and migrants then face burdensome tax demands from the My...

1168

Reposted by Al Cook

Shahar Hameiri @shaharhameiri.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Really looking forward to speaking soon as this SSA Sri Lanka event in Colombo on some of the research I've been doing with Prof Lee Jones on China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt restructuring.

031

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Ian Holliday, Aung Kaung Myat and I investigate recent #humanitarian engagement in #Myanmar. We conducted key stakeholder interviews to capture internal and external perspectives on the dynamics of humanitarian action. For free e-copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DXFZJ... #Burma

tandfonline.com

Humanitarian engagement with Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup

The article investigates humanitarian engagement with Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup. It opens by examining humanitarian action in Myanmar before 2010, during the 2010s, and after 2021. Drawi...

0103

Reposted by Al Cook

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/01/2025

What Facebook called “fact-checking” was a pale imitation of the real thing, @ibogost.bsky.social writes. Good riddance!

theatlantic.com

Facebook Is Done Pretending

The social network has given up on fact-checking. That’s a good thing.

2029259

Reposted by Al Cook

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

timeshighereducation.com

Universities failing academics targeted by online abuse – paper

Research found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly

14320188

Reposted by Al Cook

International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 28/12/2024

Why do we talk to all sides of a conflict? Because it saves lives.

094

Reposted by Al Cook

Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Since this platform is new-ish, I will post the stuff that I published this year and I am not terribly ashamed of. Alongside the wisely offline Asli Bali and the amazing Chisato Kimura we wrote a short framing piece for our symposium on TWAIL and sanctions yjil.yale.edu/posts/2024-0...

yjil.yale.edu

Third World Approaches to International Law & Economic Sanctions

This series of Features Essays is an extension of YJIL’s 2023 symposium, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.

15313

Reposted by Al Cook

Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I filled in for @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social this week with a Data Points column on why fears that deepfakes would cause election chaos this year turned out to be - mostly - overblown on.ft.com/4gy9i1c

on.ft.com

How we were deepfaked by election deepfakes

[FREE TO READ] The panic over AGI disinformation in this year’s political cycle seems to have been overblown

46217

Reposted by Al Cook

Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A regular reminder that if you are new here, and interested in #digitalrights in #humanitarian response or #tech in #conflict and #disaster, I have a starter pack to help you putting together a nice feed go.bsky.app/JSerFH6

1145

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Things I didn't know: Henry Lloyd (1718–1783)..."ended his career as a general, commanding an army for Russia’s Catherine the Great. His legacy is that it was this Welsh-speaker who wrote the first theoretical study of military strategy, establishing it as a subject that could be taught."

000

Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Here's the second article in Special Issue on Humanitarian action and policy. Lina Gong on #China #humanitarian engagement and Beijing's moderate shift to using humanitarian affairs as #diplomacy. Will put in a thread once all are available. doi.org/10.1080/1751...

doi.org

China “striving for achievement” in the humanitarian space?

The scholarship on Chinese foreign policy has extensively discussed the shift from ‘keeping a low profile’ to ‘striving for achievement’ under President Xi Jinping. However, humanitarian engagement...

041