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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Don’t politicize it,” is the refrain from some quarters. Or “this book was important to me growing up.” If you ever *actually* grew up, and aren’t still 12 years old inside, someone in their 30s should be able handle hearing people dissect Harry Potter’s reprehensible class politics.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turn your historical argument into a meme:

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For those that don’t know, mental health issues, stress, imposter syndrome, insecurities of all kinds are very, very common in academia at the best of times.

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Finally got my copy of this excellent volume. It's open access, and my chapter can be found here: academic.oup.com/book/62553/c...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/06/2026

I wonder what social media would be like if people were taught in k-12 school to name and identify logical fallacies

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Justice Ben Caguioa's opinion ought to be taught in law schools not only for its legal clarity, but also for its moral clarity sc.judiciary.gov.ph/278747-concu...

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Texting with my mom and comparing omelette recipes. I just realised I've forgotten the Tagalog word for "oyster", had to Google it 😳 the horror!

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Philippines media now reporting that Bato dela Rosa has fled the Senate premises, continuing to evade ICC arrest for his role in Duterte's deadly "war on drugs" How could this have happened when he was supposed to have been under Senate protective custody? www.rappler.com/philippines/...

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Bato dela Rosa no longer inside Senate premises – source

(1st UPDATE) Senator Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa's exit comes after gunshots were fired inside the Senate premises

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

All eyes on the Philippine Senate today. Watching the news and yet to be confirmed whether Bato is even still inside the premises. The guy has been evading arrest re: ICC warrant of arrest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Gunshots in Philippines senate where senator is holed up to evade arrest

Ronald dela Rosa, accused of crimes against humanity by international criminal court, in standoff with authorities

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

ICC judges unseal arrest warrant against Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa for alleged crime against humanity in connection with the situation in the Philippines Meanwhile, he has been placed under the Philippines Senate protective custody www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Woke up to surprising news re: Philippines case in the ICC

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

An excellent example of feminist strategic litigation: ✅seeks to enhance gender equality ✅builds community involving local activists, NGOs & lawyers, plus an int'l NGO ✅while using a local forum, also uses international resources (IACHR Advisory Opinion 24/17) ✅tells a story of justice.

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Peru's Supreme Court Ruled That Pathologizing Trans Identities Is Unconstitutional — and Invoked Happiness to Explain Why

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Sick Times: 'We need masks in healthcare. Now.' Written by Tesla Bellina-Gustafson 'As a person with Long COVID, losing consciousness was a terrifying experience made worse by a potential exposure risk.' thesicktimes.org/2026/04/24/w...

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We need masks in healthcare. Now. - The Sick Times

As a person with Long COVID, losing consciousness was a terrifying experience made worse by a potential exposure risk. I quickly put my mask back on and thankfully managed to escape unscathed. But thi...

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In this chapter, I argue that the process of negotiating power-sharing with Bangsamoro armed groups entrenched notions of Bangsamoro ancestral domain and self-determination, all while indigenous peoples' claims to their ancestral domain and self-determination were being sidelined.

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Awesome freebie from Oxford University Press #Chi2026

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So apparently Johnson and Vance are Just War Theory experts now. As someone who used to lecture on this, I'd be interested in their detailed explanations of: jus ad bellum and the legitimacy of the attack on Iran in the absence of an imminent threat...

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm in Barcelona for #CHI26, presenting my paper "Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media" Friday in the 9am "Community Governance and Moderation" session. @chi.acm.org dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Looking forward to your presentation!

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm in Barcelona all week to attend CHI 2026 - the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Happy to meet up with anyone interested or doing work on tech and governance, public policy, and human rights. Send me a quick note here if you are around! chi2026.acm.org

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Welcome to CHI 2026 in Barcelona! - ACM CHI 2026

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take place in Ba...

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My chapter examines the tension between the pursuit of negative peace & the achievement of a post-conflict political order that respects and promotes human rights, particularly indigenous peoples' rights, looking at the Bangsamoro peace processes in the Philippines. academic.oup.com/book/62553/c...

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Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights and Peacemaking: The Minoritization of the Lumads in the Bangsamoro Peace Processes

Abstract. Almost forty years of successive peace processes addressing the Bangsamoro armed conflict in the Philippines have led to the creation of a Bangsa

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This law is a straightforward case of apartheid. Apartheid is an international crime. Every legislator who voted for it, every military police office who prosecutes a crime under it, every judicial officer who applies it, is committing an international crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groups

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Markus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We must all start calling out the absurd breaches of international law by the current US Government- this one clearly breaches UN obligations but few seem to call it out: Judge never reconsidered working at ICC despite sanctions www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

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Judge never reconsidered working at ICC despite sanctions

Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge sanctioned by the US, says she has never reconsidered working at the International Criminal Court, even though it has led to her being shut out from most of the intern...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Maybe this is too international law of me, but you can’t liberate women by slaughtering school girls.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Calculus Social, Economic, and Political Thought Performance for Radio Non-Western Literary Criticism Basic Lifesaving/Lifeguard Training

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"All the stories about alien abduction and spaceships? They already happened. Entire mass populations moved; forcibly dematerialised. How much more alien do you think it gets than slavery?" Kodwo Eshun in The Last Angel of History

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Looking for specialist medical negligence solicitors in the UK. Is there anyone here who could help or who could make a referral? Thank you!

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 11/01/2026

"The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them." Miodrag Sukijasović, American Journal of International Law 1971. Gentle reminder that international law is always in crisis.

A CAUSE OF THE PRESENT CRISIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

I. International law is at present obviously facing a crisis. With the exception of the diplomatic and consular fields, almost all the rules of public
international law have been constantly violated. Particularly subject to
violation have been the rules concerning the use of force in international relations. The weak or weakened norms on the prohibition of the threat
or use of force are not complied with; their binding force is not established. These phenomena reflect a lamentable truth of our age, that international relations are not governed by international law but by the balance of power.
The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that
states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them. They treat the law as recommendations or as non-binding rules of international courtesy or morality. Such an attitude by states toward international law is dictated by many causes, the main one being the priority given to individual political interests. However, one of those causes is also the over-politization of intemational law in terms of denying independent existence to international legal norms

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Read @yusrasuedi.bsky.social's newest explainer: The U.S. has only stepped back from parts of the UN system, and withdrawn from one treaty: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The U.S. remains bound by the UN Charter. open.substack.com/pub/simplela...

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Has the U.S. really “Withdrawn” from 66 International Organisations? A 2-Minute International Law Explainer

By Yusra Suedi (PhD, Assistant Professor of International Law at University of Manchester)

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"Unapologetic defiance of law is much more dangerous – for the law and hence for global stability – than violations couched in, however implausible, legal apologia, as previous US military interventions often were." www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

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Expert Comment: The illegality of the US attack against Venezuela is

Professor Janina Dill, Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government, outlines why the biggest problem for international law is not the invasion of Venezuela

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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Revisiting this article from last year: 'As we spoke about the condition of international law writ large, he slipped into the past tense: “It was a way of challenging brute uses of force, and that is no longer there.”' www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

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Are we witnessing the death of international law?

The long read: A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it

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