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Fiona de Londras

@fdelond.bsky.social
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Law prof; tennis lover; food fanatic; LGBTQAI+. @fdelond in the other place

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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Marko Milanovic, who I am sure must never sleep, offers an early analysis of legality in re Israel's attack on Iran. In short "Israel’s use of force against Iran is, on the facts as we know them, almost certainly illegal" www.ejiltalk.org/is-israels-u...
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Is Israel’s Use of Force Against Iran Justified by Self-Defence?
This morning, Israel launched a major military operation against Iran targeting its nuclear programme, including facilities, individual scientists and military leadership. In this post, I will provide...
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As things escalate further in California, have a read of @sineadmceneaney.com on historical precedents (or the lack thereof) here theconversation.com/trumps-use-o...
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Trump’s use of the national guard against LA protesters defies all precedents
Presidents have used the national guard before, but only to protect civil rights, not to deny the right to protest.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
100 MPs have now signed NC20 to give women in England and Wales the human right women in Northern Ireland have to a safe and legal abortion. Swipe to see if your MP is one of them — and what to do if they aren’t! Here’s the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
You can now pre-order the second edition of Great Debates on the European Convention on Human Rights that I wrote with @fdelond.bsky.social. It covers many new things that happened since the first one including climate change cases, Russia’s expulsion and many more www.bloomsbury.com/uk/great-deb...
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Great Debates on the European Convention on Human Rights
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Criminalisation of abortion causes undeniable and deep harms. If you thought it was merely an historical artefact in England please think again. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
If you were involved in any way in the Repeal campaign and would be interested in speaking with a US-based researcher who wants to understand the referendum--not just the simple narrative but inclusion/exclusion, pragmatism, pain, joy etc--please drop me a line here. All involvement is relevant.
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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This
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Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis? Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇 www.transkribus.org/scholarship
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Absolutely would have been fine with it being less enthralling TBQH
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
An exquisite read to accompany lunch--theology, book history, social history, and critique in one tidy package www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Vexed by Sex | Erin Maglaque
A new history of how Christianity has met the problem of desire argues for more flexibility in proclamations on gender and sexuality.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Republicans want a disruptive president, but who’s being disrupted really matters — and if it’s the government or institutions that many Republicans believe are hostile to them...rationalizing their own constitutional violations as fighting fire with fire" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
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Opinion | Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why.
More registered voters think America is on the right track than at any point since 2004, a new poll says. What does that mean about Trump?
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
US Schools “are watching Columbia with alarm; many fear a demand for similar concessions. Their primary concern: without freedom to follow their intellectual curiosity, the discoveries and innovations that fuel the U.S.’s economy will decline or even grind to a halt”. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Worth reading these two pieces side by side www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Norms of restraint, flipped on their head" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is a dangerous, cruel move that will result in entirely foreseeable physical and psychological harm.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Anois teacht an Earraigh, beidh an lá dúl chun shíneadh, Is tar eis na féil Bríde, ardóigh mé mo sheol... Finally, spring arrives (at least for us Celts) #imbolc
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If this evening's launch at The Barber Institute of Fine Art is anything to go by, this book is a tour de force. I've just made my order and really look forward to learning much more about the artist and about the social histories of intimacy and domesticity in his art.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I’m very sorry to hear this. Like so many interested in how states work, I learned a great deal from his work
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This deranged, disgusting attack on Jess Phillips deserves a public rebuke, not just behind-the-scenes diplomacy
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Keir Starmer must slap Elon Musk down - before someone gets killed
This deranged, disgusting attack on Jess Phillips deserves a public rebuke, not just behind-the-scenes diplomacy
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WHO @who.int · 27/12/2024
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in North #Gaza out of service. Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid.
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in North #Gaza out of service. Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid.

60 health workers and 25 patients in critical condition, including those on ventilators, reportedly remain in the hospital. The patients in moderate to severe condition were forced to evacuate to the destroyed and non-functional Indonesian Hospital. @WHO is deeply concerned for their safety.

This raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes after escalating restrictions on access for WHO and partners, and repeated attacks on or near the facility since early October. Such hostilities and the raids are undoing all our efforts and support to keep the facility minimal functional. 

The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of health care.

This horror must end and health care must be protected. Ceasefire!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The little 'ding' on Teams when one 'completes' a task is strangely motivating when one has 1 hour 21 minutes left in the 2024 working year.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Beautiful, generous, strangely helpful.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
At the NIHR PRU on Reproductive Health, we are seeking 4 people with lived experience of accessing reproductive health services to help shape a public event on Reproductive Health Data in Summer 2025. Find out more and apply here by Jan 8 2025: www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/opportu...
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Opportunity to be part of a project about Reproductive Health Data | Co-Production Collective
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I haven't yet quite got out of the habit of clicking over to 'the other place' when need distraction, and the amount of junk is amazing. It's giving me a whole new insight into the kind of internet lots of people must experience: speculation, conspiracies, slander, and deep fakes. Astounding.
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Sinead McEneaney @sineadmceneaney.com · 05/12/2024
Me & @fdelond.bsky.social watching latest ep of Bad Sisters. Karaoke scene: “That is the capsule of irishness: death, abortion, infertility, alcohol and the cranberries.”
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"The human mind cannot imagine all the death and body parts and blood that surround us around the clock....We feel as if the rest of the world is wrapped up in a different world than the one we are in" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...
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Opinion | A Week Inside One of Northern Gaza’s Last Hospitals
Most of the medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital is gone. One of the last doctors working there shares his story.
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DeborahFSussex @deborahsussex.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Tbilisi tonight.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I suppose a time comes when an emigrant doesn’t go to sleep after an Irish election with the radio coverage on in the background, but if it does I haven’t reached it yet. #GE24
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Today is the first election in 80 years in Ireland that my grandmother did not have a vote in. She never missed the chance to exercise her franchise, and neither should you. There’s still some time before polls close… #GE24
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The next round of ESRC postdoctoral fellowships (12 months, fully funded) at the Midlands Graduate School is now open. If you did your PhD at a UK uni, finish by 25 March 25, have less than 12 months postdoc experience, and don't have a permanent academic role w/ research dimension you're eligible.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Using an AI programme combined with drones and human analysis, earth scientists have discovered "303 previously uncharted geoglyphs in only six months" in Peru. Extraordinary. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/s...
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Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert
With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm working my way through the glorious back catalogue of @charlottemendelson.bsky.social as I stumble across things in charity shops and online. This weekend I sunk myself into 'When We Were Bad'. Messy families at their best, as usual. www.charlottemendelson.com/when-we-were...
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When We Were Bad — Charlotte Mendelson
'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness' Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older ...
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Schona Jolly KC @womaninhavana.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu & ex Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Reasonable grounds to believe each bear criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for the war crime of starvation, & crimes against humanity incl murder/persecution. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
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Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
800 shekels is around £160. For flour.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"The trial was so big that the courthouse had to create what it called a “mega courtroom” to accommodate all the defendants...Instead of a jury, the case is being heard by three judges handpicked by the city’s Beijing-backed leader, as allowed by the law" www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/w...
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Dozens of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Sentenced in Mass Trial
The 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many had already been in jail for years.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There's a wealth of useful advice for anyone looking to move into an academic post from a PhD in the latest DFLW practice guide (including my ruminations on how to approach the REF, if you are pursuing a job in UK academia and need to be able to get your head round it): dflw.ie/wp-content/u...
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Stumbling across this unexpectedly thrilling exhibition was a great experience at Tate Modern today. Highly recommend it.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Anois teacht an Earraigh beidh an lá dúl chun shíneadh, Is tar eis na féil Bríde ardóigh mé mo sheol.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
Looks fantastic. I’ve just read “Male historians explain things to me”. It definitely has cross disciplinary application…
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
As usual, I'm v behind on my reading but this is v interesting. "This cycle of anti-colonial anger has taken on a ‘Pan-Africanist’ inflection. Or rather, the term Pan-Africanism has done the rounds...No one is on steady ground when they invoke the Pan-Africanist model" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Jeremy Harding · Zombie v. Zombie: Pan-Africanist Inflections
The strength of Pan-Africanism today lies not in its failed ambitions for a united Africa, but in the wealth of...
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Watched 'Past Lives' last night and was blown away by it. As the NYT review put it "The movie’s modesty — its intimacy, human scale, humble locations and lack of visual oomph — is one of its strengths". Greta Lee is immaculate, as always (see her brilliant Stella Bak in The Morning Show).
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
Joining the legions enamoured by Bee Wilson’s ‘The Secret of Cooking’. I was sceptical about her chicken stew for tired people. Can a stew without stock, softening, and onions be tasty? Absolutely yes, it turns out. I left out the cream, added a tin of white beans, and thickened with potato flour.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Albanese has lost his appetite for referenda www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
In what seems to be a record it appears our estate agent, rental agent, and conveyancer are all ghosting us. Funtimes.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
After a genuinely awful 2023 I have replenished myself over the holiday with lots of fantastic novels, @oldfortunatus.bsky.social lovely podcasts on Approaching Shakespeare, cooking multiple feasts for my family, proper pints, and a reminder of how much it rains in Ireland. Ready for 2024.
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Fiona de Londras @fdelond.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
"My father played the melodion, My mother milked the cows, And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned On the Virgin Mary’s blouse" No-one says it better than Kavanagh. Merry Christmas everyone.
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