Eamon Aloyo
@eamonaloyo.bsky.social
Interests include IR, political philosophy, effective altruism (🔸). Assistant Professor at Leiden University. Senior Fellow at https://powerfordemocracies.org/ www.eamonaloyo.com He/him
"We should have the fortitude to speak up about human rights outrages whether the responsible party is Russia, China, Israel, America or the Emirates; if you care about human rights in only some places, you don’t actually care about human rights." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o... Thoughts?
Opinion | In Sudan, a Preventable Atrocity (Gift Article)
Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan are bracing for their city to be overrun by a militia notorious for committing atrocities.
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The U.S. meat industry wants to erase basic protections for farmed animals in the few states in which animals have these protections. @ASPCA has made it easy to oppose it here: secure.aspca.org/action/fsfp-... #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #SaveOurBacon
USA: Oppose New Attack on Animal-Protection Laws
The Food Security and Farm Protection Act is a dangerous bill that was just introduced in the U.S. Senate. Despite its new name, this bill is identical to the dangerous Ending Agricultural Trade Suppr...
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"In any outbreak, the single most important question is: How does it spread? Get it wrong and everything else breaks down." Me, writing for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
How Does It Spread?
Answering this question is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.
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Front page of the print NYT: Trump Revels in Making Emphatic Threats to Commit War Crimes. He said he'll send Iran back to the "Stone Ages." Today he argued he can destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure to pressure the government because "they're animals." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
Latest V-Dem Report: "The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." p. 5. "Nearly three quarters of the world population (74%, or 6 billion) live in autocracies." p. 7 v-dem.net/documents/75...
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🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨 AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp 🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK 🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks) 🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy 🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
My take on the UAE-backed slaughter now unfolding in Sudan, and the refusal of the US and others to call out the UAE for its role. This was preventable, but neither Biden nor Trump cared enough to try: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o... Thank God some members of Congress are speaking up.
Opinion | The World Has Again Failed to Prevent Atrocities in Darfur
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Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment
Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...
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The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
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As debate boils over allegations of genocide in Gaza, there’s another place where all sides in the United States seem to agree a genocide is underway — yet largely ignore it. That’s Sudan My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Opinion | Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response Either
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If you're looking for a novel to read, I recommend The Uproar not only because a friend wrote it, but more importantly because it's a terrific, timely, and captivating book.
The Uproar
A “raw, tensely plotted, profound high-wire act of a book” (Téa Obreht) on the intricacies of marriage, class, and race, and just how far ...
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Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.
Erica Chenoweth@chenoweth.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:
It's not just that Israel is imposing a policy of starvation on Gazans; it's also that the U.S. is underwriting this horror and is utterly complicit in it, in both the Biden and Trump administrations. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...
Opinion | The World Must See Gaza’s Starvation
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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
Billions of animals are tortured for meat each year. Millions of slaughterhouse workers suffer too -- physically and mentally: www.vox.com/future-perfe... This quote really stands out: “Public demand for meat creates ongoing, present, and future exposure to trauma and continual retraumatization.”
What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind
The meat industry has a PTSD problem.
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Universitair Docent in de Politieke Wetenschap (2x) Vragen? 👉 Ik beantwoord ze graag, of vraag het @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University is currently looking for at least two (2) assistant professors in Poli...
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Today, everyone knows what’s happening in #Gaza. Israel has been committing atrocities - war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of genocide… The new plan makes Israel's intentions even more obvious. Other countries have obligations that are just as obvious… www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...
An Escalation of Extermination : Daily Brief
If Israel’s abhorrent plan to “destroy” #Gaza is implemented, the future question will be, “How could world leaders have allowed that to happen?” – “And everyone will know the answer,” writes Andrew S...
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Always read @stevelevitsky.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social & @lucanway.bsky.social: "No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines." Gift link here:
Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
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We're welcoming @geoffdancy.bsky.social and Timo Thoms to Leiden University on 27 May at 16:00: "Prosecution of Heads of State: What Happens After?" Register here www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... @polscileiden.bsky.social @lucir.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social @buitelaartom.bsky.social
LUCIR lecture: Prosecution of Heads of State: What Happens After?
Is it beneficial to prosecute current and former heads of state for atrocity? Some argue that prosecutions are a necessary response that affirms the rule of law and sets boundaries of appropriate beha...
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Join us for what promises to be an inspiring exchange with two leading voices on human rights in our dark times. All welcome, but prior registration is required. @amnesty.org @franceskalbs.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International Dr Agnès Callamard is Secretary General at Amnesty International. She leads the organization’s human rights work and is its chief spokespers...
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths
