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John Ip

@ipster.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in law at Auckland University; counterterrorism law and public law. Dad. Husband. Obsessive about my obsessions. Views personal. P(Repost=Endorsement)≈0.5 profiles.auckland.ac.nz/j-ip

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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A major security breach is when your national security advisor puts military plans on TikTok.
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Trump brands major war plan security leak to a journalist a ‘glitch’
The US president stood by his national security adviser saying “Michael Waltz has learnt a lesson, and he’s a good man" - however, inside the White House they're using other not-so-rosy words.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Marsden funding application 2026: “I’m a Really Useful Scientist.”
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Responding to government funding incentives, and drawing upon the German legal tradition, my new title is: Associate Professor of Purposeful Legal Science with Tangible Economic Benefits.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You can stop asking me, and also purposeless scientists, why we don’t have Marsdens.
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Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You say “driveway”; Auckland Transport says “vehicle crossing”.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Let’s face it - the first, third and fourth are basically coterminous with “Academics”.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Reacting to every Trump cabinet pick.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Aka the Thomas rules.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
What does it say when one experiences a twinge of excitement upon the publication of the University Calendar?
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
More flipping than in an IHOP amongst Trump’s former legal team. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/u...
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Don’t recall this ratio of followers/following ever happening at the Bad Place. Snap-shotted for posterity.
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John Ip @ipster.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
This like the first day at a new school. Time for some blue sky thinking.
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