Hey, is anyone going to this tomorrow? Erasmus uni in Rdam campus is a maze I don't know well so if you want to go together, do let me know. Otherwise, I may go to this and then no one will ever see me ever again. www.eur.nl/en/esl/event...

First ESL Annual Lecture in International Law: Masterclass of Prof. Koskenniemi ‘The Search for the “Social” in International Law: Remarks on a Critical Theme’

Prof. Koskenniemi will inaugurate the ESL Annual Lectures in International Law series with a masterclass on ‘The Search for the “Social” in International Law’

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This was an interesting read. I'll see it as soon as I can. Public opinion and judicial reasoning are not the same, though, so we must remain mindful of that. #Naza #ICJ #ICC #InternationalLaw www.vulture.com/article/naza...

NAZA Is Selling Out Theaters. Can It Influence The Hague?

Whether the film can advance the case for genocide may be more complicated than convincing viewers.

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The morning #Mamdani read. #Democracy #Trust #Government www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/o...

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani Is Showing the World How It’s Done

The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.

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endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks

your email could have been a pic of a dog in a halloween costume

#Scholars should be allowed 2 individual papers and 2 co-authored ones per year to be #published. You are allowed to submit 4 papers for review per year. Like tokens tied to their ORCID. You simply cannot publish more. That could be a way to try to slow down this slop machine. #Academia #Research

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2d ago

I disagree with this post almost completely. Done right, a reasonable paper limit is not "asking scientists to slow down" because progress isn't measured in the number of "papers." It's the old salami. Write a good, thorough paper, instead of 10 padded slopbombs or inconsequential mini-pies

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

FFS. Do it or don't, just fuck off already. #ICC www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Trump plans sanctions against ‘evil’ International Criminal Court

The American president has already targeted judges and prosecutors in retaliation for an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu

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De datacentrumsector wil verbruiksgegevens niet delen: ‘Dat wij niet transparant zijn, is kort door de bocht’

De datacentrumsector wil verbruiksgegevens niet delen: ‘Dat wij niet transparant zijn, is kort door de bocht’

De datacentrumsector wil niet laten weten hoeveel energie de verschillende centra verbruiken. ‘Bedrijfsgevoelige informatie’, zegt Stijn Grove, directeur van de branchevereniging.

trouw.nl

Merz zooming in from a latop in his attic loft is by far the most relatable thing he's ever done.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit

I made it through September. After a few months of not #teaching and a summer of no #meetings, I came back half-feral. Not used to closed shoes or hard pants, not used to lots of people and meetings and everything that comes at the beginning of an academic year. Good job me. #Academia #HigherEd

lovely.

FRANCE 24@france24.com · 3d ago

🇫🇷 Mediapart a révélé avoir pu authentifier les messages antisémites qu'il attribue au président du #RN Jordan #Bardella. 👉 Le site a publié des captures d'écran des messages antisémites qu'il aurait envoyés à une autre personne sur la plateforme Messenger en 2013

Ik niet maar mischien iemand anders.

Chris Julien@chrisjulien.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Kan iemand mij helpen met een goede (=kritische, wetenschappelijke) geschiedenis van de crisis communicatie? 🥰

Interesting morning read on #Academia and us #Immigrants in #Nederland "The share of foreign academics at the very top of the profession has risen far more slowly than at the associate, assistant and PhD levels." alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/immigrants...

Immigrants: The Silent (Almost) Majority in Dutch Academia

Half of Dutch academics are now foreign, but almost no one talks about them.

alexandreafonso.substack.com

Here's an evening watch. Take a look. #Naza #Documentary #Gaza #Israel #Accountability #Justice www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

Why is Israel so afraid of the film NAZA? We spoke to its directors – Stateside with Kai and Carter

Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, the documentary NAZA is a haunting exposé of the tools that the Israeli military uses to carry out the remote killi...

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If someone, back in 2010, told me this was an American president speaking, I'd think they're lying. There were non-geniuses with this job, sure, but this is idiotic and child-like and unbelievably deranged when it comes to his own visions of grandeur. BATSHIT CRAZY. time.com/article/2026...

Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

“Her April 2025 charge against Harvard cited archived materials from the uni’a website… showing that the share of white men among tenured faculty had declined to 56% in 2023 from 64% in 2013… White men, in 2023, still >#, white women, men of color, + women of color…” Oh, those poor oppressed souls!

E.E.O.C. Sues Harvard for Data on Diversity in Hiring Practices

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Ugh. Something else nobody asked for. Most folks just want their passports as quickly as possible, at a reasonable cost, and without Trump’s image soiling it for the next 10 years.

A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.

Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

nytimes.com

It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?

Semafor@semafor.com · 4d ago

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Being a woman in this world is being pissed off about shit at least half of the time. #Misogyny #Women www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...

Eiffel Tower Chief Resigns After Female Staff Moved for Hindu Group’s Visit

Patrick Branco Ruivo, who ran the tower’s operating company, will step down after an internal inquiry cited “problems and shortcomings” over the moving of female employees.

nytimes.com

Jesus Christ Cornell

Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

This deserves an honourary knighthood

This is a cool coffee read, if you're into #books and #publishing. By @mollyquell.bsky.social. Super cool story. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/woul...

Would you read a book if it was printed like a newspaper? - DutchNews.nl

Typically, book formats are pretty standard. Hardback, paperback, e-book. But in the 1970s, a Dutch publisher tried a new configuration for novels: the newspaper. Theo Knippenberg attributes his publi...

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Marco has written a really convincing piece for all of you #ICJ #MonetaryGold and procedure afficionados. I absolutely agree that the significant risk is what needs to be established, and that is not a finding on #genocide or #IHL violations. opiniojuris.org/2026/09/28/t...

Symposium on Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Temporality: Nicaragua v. Germany Before the ICJ – The Monetary Gold Principle and Preliminary Objections in the Nicaragua v. Germany Case

[Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the School of Law of the University of Westminster. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University P…

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From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

For process and procedure enthusiasts, here's an informative post about the new round of electing #ICC #judges, by Michael Karnavas. Evening read (and especially relevant given the drama of this past summer). #ICC #ASP michaelgkarnavas.net/blog/2026/09...

COULD IT BE DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN FOR THE ICC: When the “high moral character” standard in judicial elections goes unexamined? - michaelgkarnavas.net/Blog

Can the ICC assess judges’ “high moral character” before misconduct allegations are fully vetted? A look at due diligence, integrity, and judicial elections.

michaelgkarnavas.net

Yes.

David Veevers@davidveevers.bsky.social · 5d ago

Every single September I’m taken by surprise at how physically and mentally exhausting a whole day of teaching can be. It’s a performance and it reduces me to a jibbering idiot by the end of the day!