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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 10h

“Germany knows from its own history where it leads when state power flouts the law and humanity. So supporting the ICC... is also part of our historic responsibility." Germany’s foreign minister visits the #ICC, pledging full support despite Trump’s sanctions: apnews.com/article/icc-...

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Germany’s foreign minister visits the ICC, pledging full support despite Trump's sanctions

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has visited the International Criminal Court to show support for the tribunal. The court faces criticism from U.S.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We use our car very rarely and I just bought a bike to use the car even less. Wasn't a very controversial choice to begin with, but feeling good about it.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 03/10/2026

💯 The great strategic mistake was letting an oil soaked dictatorship reconstitute its war machine. Ukrainians, Georgians, and many others have suffered for NATO’s mistake.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026

y'all i'm working on this data collection project looking at dissertations & sometimes I get reminders that we are not all playing the same game (1999 edition)

not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents, for buying me a lovely condominium at Harvard Street so that I could concentrate on my research with out worrying about paying rents,

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything is gender cc @cwolbrecht.bsky.social

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UPDATE: Late yesterday, the court granted former US Institute of Peace employees’ motion, which prohibits the Trump administration from carving his name into the side of the building while litigation over control of the space is ongoing.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Inbox: USIP Plaintiffs Seek Emergency Court Order to Prevent Trump Name from Being Carved into Building storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I stopped reading after the lie in the first sentence: "Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing." "<only> by writing"? Literally, no one thinks this. Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The second day of #ISAWest is about to begin! Thank you to the panel of International Relations Scholars and Their Forthcoming Books: On Wrong, Researching, and Publishing for the engaging discussion yesterday, and to Maria Ortuoste and Ricardo Crespo for their hard work in organizing #ISAWest2026.

Group photo of some panelists from ISA West 2026 conference.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 24/09/2026

There will be a day that markets gain object permanence, but it is not this day.

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If Putin accepts, every European leader (at least) should boycott the event. The G20 no longer serves the useful purpose it had during the global financial crisis, when it was founded, so nothing that matters will be lost by not being there.

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, if the job search doesn't pan out this cycle...

Scam text message recruiting for special ops roles with the Navy

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stop submitting AI-generated papers. Polishing a sentence or two is fine, but submitting crap papers with little substance and chunks of word salad is wasting my time as a reviewer. And I will reject it with a three-line review. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the legion of reasons why I could never be a university president is that I would simply refuse to participate in the entire farce, whereby schools’ rankings fluctuate wildly by dozens of slots from year to year, & would tell regents, donors, & the media that it was all utter bullsh*t.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 22/09/2026

Amazing story

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I guess teaching Global Governance is gonna be "fun" tomorrow

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every day I think “well, surely everything can’t get stupider.” And every day events prove me wrong.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026

*person finishing PhD perusing job postings*: Let's see, History of AI at Rice, Political Science and AI at BU, Governance and AI at Northeastern, Government and AI at Hopkins...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, invading & kidnapping the leader of another country, & then seizing its material assets, is an egregious violation of the UN Charter &, because we should take the law, Constitution, & our signed, ratified international treaties seriously, should immediately end his presidency.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

It's not clear to me why Denmark is keen on signing an agreement with Trump that he clearly views as a first step toward conquering Greenland

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it I had to cite a key moment from Trump's speech, it would be this one. it is a threat not just to the Iranian government but to the Iranian people, and in that sense it contravenes both the international laws prohibiting war and the international humanitarian law that protects civilians

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Instructional design killed teaching.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Adopting a radical approach to education in which pride of place is given to reading, discussion, and academic exchange through a medium we call “courses”, a long forgotten adjunct to extra-curricular activities

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Submit your #APSATLC proposals for track panels, workshops, and roundtables. Topics to be discussed include AI in the classroom, civic engagement, and America's 250th! 2027 APSA Teaching & Learning Conference 📍Portland, Oregon | February 5-7 Submit by October 7, 2026! buff.ly/zr2pTD2 #polisky

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APSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2027

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/09/2026

This is now confirmed. For the first time ever the CDU does not make it into a regional parliament, not making it over the 5% threshold.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The USG crusade to destroy the ICC seems primarily motivated by a desire to shield Israeli officials like Netanyahu and Gallant from accountability. Worth recalling that those two face charges related to using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 17/09/2026

this is loser shit government should govern

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Ralf "Der Tankwart" Raths @ralfraths.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man fragt sich, was trauriger ist: Dass sie das faschistische Playbook Seite für Seite durchgehen (Antiintellektualismus, Zerstörung von vertrauenswürdigen Institutionen, Dekonstruktion gemeinsamer Realität) oder dass sie es so dämlich tun wie die Panzerknacker bei Donald Duck es täten.

Eine Meldung: "The Trump Administration says it is preparing a dozen signs for its Washington, D.C., museum sites that will warn visitors about the Smithsonian Institution in general, and the National Museum of American History in particular.

In letters to U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Merkley, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote that a "commitment to public transparency" and "academic honesty" required the administration to advise visitors that "the leadership of the Smithsonian and NMAH have altered the museum's role from accurately and coherently telling America's story to using the museum as a tool to advance personal, radical ideologies."

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nothing makes you realize the kids are alright more than sitting & talking with a couple dozen of them for a couple hours at office hours. It would be great if the Ranting Pundits convinced that they know What Is Wrong With Higher Education could meet these students full of great questions & ideas.

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There is a very obvious main villain in this story, but it also makes Ed Sheeran look like a pathetic coward

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good news: extraordinarily productive lately (compared to my admittedly atrocious normal) Bad news: obv not nearly enough to make up for all the stuff you usually get to do *during* the PhD program

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump proposes killing babies with a hack saw. But is the blade too expensive?

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It would be great if the job market was such that candidates could apply selectively to only those institutions not hell-bent on destroying themselves/higher ed. But then we would likely not be in this position in the first place.

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In other words, they don't have the money

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this post is the perfect mirror for the reader’s positionality. whether or not you felt a shared bond with all Americans in the immediate weeks after 9/11 is almost entirely a function of who you are and what position you held. maybe for a lot of people it was true. for others…nearly the opposite.

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Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Exhibit number i-don't-even-know-anymore of other actors have agency too. Also, just how thoroughly the Trump admin has destroyed what was remaining of US influence continues to be absolutely shocking.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There simply is no plan for how we're going to fund our universities without federal funding and foreign students. Everyone is pretending otherwise, & our leaders are totally absent from the public square in explaining this to voters, parents, students, & alumni. It's maddening.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really feel that, as someone who finished his undergrad in 2008, that I deserve to experience economic growth at some point. Just to feel something.

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