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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love to get adult content warnings for sharing the artwork on display inside the Vatican Museum before you reach the Sistine chapel.

A photo of my last skeet with an adult content warning. It contains photos I took of the gallery at the Vatican museum, on display outside the Sistine chapel, too adult for this website.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The incredible ‘modern’ art collection is right before the Sistine chapel when you’ve already seen so much museum so it’s easy to pass through quickly. Very glad I didn’t.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yesterday's selected readings . . .

Photo of a bookshelf displaying 10+ Wendell Berry books

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I would also watch the spinoff about his father, also named Roger Casement. . .

Casement’s father, also named Roger (1819-77), had led a romantic career as a young captain serving in the Third Dragoon Guards in India. His views, however, were not always orthodox; among his surviving papers, a long essay on Hindu mysticism indicates an interest in the eternal nature of ‘spirit’. Invariably, these views would have influenced his children but they were. . .

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Up early to catch the 4th quarter and the sunrise over Valletta. #Knicksin5

Selfie while wearing a 90s era Champion branded blue Knicks road jersey (with Starks 3 on the back) in front of the sun rising over Valletta / Sliema off in the distance.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Lousy European time zone so inconsiderate for watching sports in America, but will do my best to wake up 5amish for the 4th quarter. #knicks #nynfy

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Really sad to have lost my friend colleague and mentor Bill Herbert this week to a sudden heart tragedy. Huge loss for #cunyhunter, labor law academia, and his family. Sharing some amazing 2013 memories when we saw the Mets win a World Series game (and Scherzers no hitter). Will be missed.

Selfie from upper deck of Citi Field where Bill and I watched the Mets win a game of the 2013 World Series.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

A scan of an NHL trading card (Upper Deck, 1991-92) featuring the three members of the New York Rangers at the 1992 All-Star Game: Brian Leetch, Mike Richter, and Mark Messier (with hair). The Campbell Conference won 10-6, Brett Hull was named MVP.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Interested in studying law in Berlin? Humboldt Law School is now offering a general Master / LLM program in English, and applications for next year's cohort will open soon. Join Prof. (Dr.) Philipp Dann next Thursday, 6 Nov, 6:30pm IST for an info session and Q&A. Also I'm happy to answer any Qs

Flyer for Humboldt Law School information session on the Humboldt Master of Laws on 6th Nov at 6:30pm IST, with a link to the zoom meeting: https://shrtn.io/OTISI

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I have a Colombian colleague who picked me up this gem. (This photo is from the article, not my actual kit - and yes, I like it slightly less now that he's at Bayern and not Liverpool, but its still such an awesome jersey)

The back of a Colombian Football Team 100th anniversary off-white home kit with yellow, blue, and red stripes of the Colombian flag, featuring a large number 7 and the name Luis Diaz, who is from Barrancas, and came to score came to score came to score score score score.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Panelists for the first law and governance panel exploring polar climate change law.

Medy’s key messages on climate change becoming a common concern of humankind.

Sara’s constitutional law approaches to cultural rights pathways for environmental protection.

Sara’s diagram on environmental rights jurisprudence.

Chhaya’s way forward on exploring polar approaches to climate law through the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Lunch break panorama from the ICIMOD balcony.

Beautiful day panorama looking NW at Lalitpur and Kathmandu from the ICIMOD balcony.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Fascinating presentation by Dr. Bing Chen (Memorial University) on the expanding proliferation of forever chemicals in polar regions.

Slide showing growing rates of PFAS contamination on the Tibetan Plateau

Slide showing chemical contamination as a result of oil spill cleanup on the Mackenzie River

Slide showing graphs of increasing rates of PFAS contamination in the Arctic.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Attending the Second Inter-Polar Conference at ICIMOD in Kathmandu with @chhayabhardwaj this week.

Self with Prof Bhardwaj in front of a screen at ICIMOD showing the title banner for the Second Inter-Polar Conference.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Had lunch at “India’s first Breaking Bad themed cafe” and outside saw a street dog that was unlike any other I’ve seen in India.

This pug without a collar was wandering around the streets of Delhi.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Here’s a panorama I took on my 2018 visit to its now former location.

Panorama of the old wooden church in Kiruna Sweden from 2018, prior to its present move across town.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Wishing a very happy 76th birthday to the Geneva Conventions today, especially Art. 47 undertaking to disseminate widely and study in civil instruction so that the principles become known to the entire population.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Back from Paris and sharing vertical panoramas of the Pantheon Dome (and Foucault's Pendulum) along with the Royal Chapel at Versailles.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Excerpt From- The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 Peter Weiss

“Inseparable from economic advantage was the superiority of knowledge. Ownership involved greed, and the advantaged tried as long as possible to block the road to education for the have-nots. The privileges of the ruling class could not be eliminated until we gained insight into the conditions and acquired fundamental knowledge. We kept getting repulsed over and over because our ability to think, deduce, and conclude was insufficiently developed. This state of affairs began changing with the realization that the upper classes essentially opposed our thirst for knowledge. Ever since, our most important goal was to conquer an education, a skill in every field of research, by using any means, cunning and strength of mind. From the very outset, our studying was rebellion. We gathered material to defend ourselves and prepare a conquest.”

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The battles of Narvik, which began 85 years ago this week, marked the first Nazi defeats in WWII. Even though it took another 4-5 years to fully defeat the fascist war machine, this Arctic action proved to be a key turning point that first showed their cracks and weaknesses.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

The cover of “Extinction” by Thomas Bernhard

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The Sibley Guide to Birds" - written and illustrated by David Allen Sibley

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The Sleepwalkers" by Hermann Broch

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of “Year of the Hare” by Arto Paasilinna

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The Weight of Things" by Marianne Fritz

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14/20 #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "Admiralty and Maritime Law: Second Edition" Published in 2013 by the Federal Judicial Center, written by Robert Force, Niels F. Johnsen Chair of Maritime Law, Emeritus, and Director Emeritus, Maritime Law Center, Tulane Law School

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

The cover of "Slow Homecoming" by Peter Handke

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The Queer Art of Failure" by Jack Halberstam

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The Timeless Way of Building" by Christopher Alexander

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Relatively recent work, but felt like it opened my brain up to a whole new field of personal thought and research at the intersection of two of my interests: doi.org/10.1093/chin...

Sailing with TWAIL: A Historical Inquiry into Third World Perspectives on the Law of the Sea, by Endalew Enyew

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "A Dream in Polar Fog" by Yuri Rytcheu, translated from the Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of "Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of the Revised and Expanded edition of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin D.G. Kelley, with Forward by Aja Monet

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of the Book 'The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1" by Peter Weiss

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1/20 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Cover of the book "The Loser" by Thomas Bernhard.

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Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Update: speech went well, I was presented with a plaque of appreciation.

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