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Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I was treasurer and president for ISA Asia-Pacific Region (term limited) and participate in business meetings. Regions are an important component alongside sections and caucuses that are often overlooked.

I see. I was referring to the ISA regions outside the USA.

So then the Annual Convention is essentially ISA USA during this time. The virtual component is a tough angle tried in the pandemic and for those of us in the Asia-Pacific timing and low participation were significant issues.

On the point of ISA conferences in non-US locations, this is fine if it is led by ISA regions. ISA central organising competing conferences to ISA regions is problematic. ISA regions could use additional resources from membership dues to support these efforts particularly when they can’t attend AC.

Fair. It’s all such a mess and sad that I imagine we’ll all ending up focusing on outside opportunities in our own regions or others. No winners.

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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

Does Hilton not have locations in Canada for #ISA2027, #ISA2028, #ISA2029 to pivot to given that the immigration concern overrides the other considerations in exceptional circumstances? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

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

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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.

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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

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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.””

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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A distinctly Australian approach to civil-military relations

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

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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...

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Myanmar’s Earthquake Exposes Political Fault Lines

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

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Al Cook @adbcook.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

www.caut.ca/latest/2025/... Imagine more of these. There will be fewer international participants so perhaps there is an online option for those outside USA, but domestic participants are in-person somehow allows for contract and inclusivity as a hybrid mix?

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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou