A Joe Rogan x Jared Diamond podcast was not on my bingo card
Sibel Oktay
@sibeloktay.bsky.social
Faculty Fellow at American University SIS. Nonres. Sr. Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Award-winning author of Governing Abroad (University of Michigan Press, 2022) www.sibeloktay.net
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
Belgium playing with their hair on fire. Maybe something has angered them before this game and they want to send a message? No idea.
Hope to see you there, ISA friends! @isanet.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social
The deadline for the ISA-Midwest 2026 annual conference, to be held 20-22 Nov. at the Hilton at the Ballpark, St. Louis has been EXTENDED to 6 July. We welcome papers, panels, roundtables, posters, & workshops on all topics in international studies. Learn more & submit: buff.ly/r7uQKNF
There’s still time to submit!
📢 TODAY is the deadline for the ISA-Midwest 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held Nov. 20–22 at the Hilton at the Ballpark, St. Louis. We welcome papers, panels, roundtables, posters, & workshops on all topics in international studies. Learn more & submit: buff.ly/r7uQKNF
📢 TODAY is the deadline for the ISA-Midwest 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held Nov. 20–22 at the Hilton at the Ballpark, St. Louis. We welcome papers, panels, roundtables, posters, & workshops on all topics in international studies. Learn more & submit: buff.ly/r7uQKNF
In a seemingly endless horizon of darkness, I’m just a tiny bit more hopeful about the world tonight. And every bit counts.
If you like Eurovision, you will love this closing ceremony #MilanCortina it’s so kitsch, so euro, so camp
DCPS playing dead because we’ve run out of days to cover for snow days. 🫠
I have no business to give to a paper that’s obliterated itself. Proud to have canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription.
Anjali is an essential follow for UN analysis!
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries
the "Rachel's beef trifle" energy of this truly laid me out bsky.app/profile/laur...
My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
Spoiler alert: that vote in December to extend the ACA subsidies is going to fail.
100 Grand is the best Halloween candy. I won’t take questions.