“The Arctic is the first region where climate change is changing the geopolitical map. If we didn't have climate change, we wouldn't be talking. Russia would not be producing oil and gas in the Arctic. China would not be sending container ships through the Arctic.” www.politico.eu/article/chin...

The tide is (ever-so-slowly) turning

Ah, Estonia news.err.ee/1609787322/a...

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - The spectre of statelessness - cup.org/42wNYDJ "stateless people have broad prima facie moral permissions to resist the state system’s constitutive norms, practices, and institutions..." - @lrafanell.bsky.social#OpenAccess

“White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus – in Our Cells, in Our Food and in Our World” by Jack Lohmann.

Fantastic and much needed article. Sad we are realizing that this matters only in times of conflict/war. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Tako! #stopgenocide

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. "Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories" - Oxford University Press, November 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Episode 195 is live and to wrap up Season 13 we're taking a deep dive into Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil." (Cover art from Jonathan Glazer's 2023 film "The Zone of Interest") hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/aren...

Aro Velmet's perspective on Estonian media and the genocide in Palestine in #Sirp. I am mentioned too re the poor Delfi article trying to smear me. We need more of this. www.sirp.ee/meedia-ei-tu...

I swear, #Tallinn public transport is an enemy of AC! The same goes for other Baltic cities. Like, it’s hot people!!!

This is important! The University Represseion League Table assesses UK universities based on repression of free expression. Proud of @aberuni.bsky.social - but more to be done! si4j.org/universityre...

I was targeted by media in Estonia, #Delfi, for speaking out about Palestine. Linkedin post, including TL;DR: shorturl.at/sskZd My long response: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Essays are truly dead

Bunz called it ‘we do not want to be governed like that’

Ovo što se događa u Hrvatskoj je strašno. Hrvatska postaje zemlja taoc braniteljima. www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrva...

Ecce homo!!! Beautiful

They’re now explicitly opening the door to government subsidized political church operations. It’s part of their theocratic coalition strategy.

Well played, mamdanitimes.com, well played.

Do not want to see this but will because people’s realities are much more important than BBC’s asinine sensibilities.

Last PhD pre-defence before my summer vacation, which will be spent on thinking and writing. Still very excited, even though #Croatia is burning like most of Europe. I think I might miss the light Estonian summers for the next month or so!

Behind all this 'centrist' and supposedly 'neutral' language that wants to 'democratize' science stands an insidious anti-science regime of RFK Jr. This man is the epitome of the banality of evil. How many more people will his negligence kill? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Interesting narrative coming from folks at #X that internet culture originates from there. Twitter was never the global consciousness Jack claimed it to be nor is it the breeding ground of the internet and yet the narrative is strong.

Lol

A MAGA supporter seeking common ground between Trump and Musk. #RadioFreeAmerica

Allegations levied by the Gaza Health Ministry that Israel is spiking aid shipments with oxy. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250628-gaz...

Once you thought "well, once they start disappearing people-" -- these disappearances have begun. Once you thought "well, if the heat goes beyond survivable-" -- it is killing people now, in the privileged areas of the global North. What you thought you would do, if it came to this -- do it now.

Hello #bsky folks, if interested in relational thought, critical security, and critical IR, come to the dark side! #conference #tallinn #security

@birgitpoopuu.bsky.social let's read this

It has been a pleasure to talk to @faloulah.bsky.social from e-ir at the recent @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Thanks, Marianna.

Fascinating

IS THE FORM of philosophy dominant in English-speaking universities covertly resistant to radical thought? Does it present as the work of pure reason what is in fact the function of an ideology complicit in oppression? lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

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The EU review found that Israel breached human rights in Gaza, and hence is in violation of the Association Agreement. Foreign Ministers meet Monday, and you'd expect sanctions to be on the table (suspension of elements of the association). I doubt it 1/ www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Mahmoud Khalil has been released after being held as a political prisoner for over 3 months!!!

Mate Granić bez činjenica i dokaza o Iranu. Samo nagadanja koja je pobio direktor IAEA-e izjavom da ta agencija ne smatra da je Iran razvijao nuk. program. www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/svij...

June 19th 1963: Valentina Tereshkova returned to earth, becoming the first woman in space, orbiting Earth 48 times aboard Vostok 6! Her historic flight paved the way for many others. What future space achievements do you hope to see women accomplish? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM tiny.cc/g7en001

This makes no sense! news.err.ee/1609723713/r...

A cultural critic from #Estonia writing about the importance of provocative protest and art while denouncing pro-Palestinian slogans as ‘Hamas’ propaganda (despite the fact that EE Supreme Court ok-ed from the river to the sea) is peak bougie art critic nonsense. news.err.ee/1609722210/m...

'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998), close friend of Frida Kahlo's #WomensArt #Sunday

I lied, Altman does mention AGI once, but in my defense he positions it as bizarrely passé: “(Think back to 2020, and what it would have sounded like to have something close to AGI by 2025, versus what the last 5 years have actually been like.)” blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

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One good thing about today in Los Angeles is that the mainstream media was onsite *before* the police started rioting. So many news crews saying "the crowd here in LA is totally peaceful" right before LAPD and LA Sheriff started shooting and trampling people

#Israel is not attacking #Iran to protect itself and has no more a ‘right’ to it than Russia has a right to attack Ukraine or the US China. Israel is doing it to avert our attention from #Gaza. Do not let them. Israel (first and foremost) and Iran must stop this.

What do UK colleagues think of @mybisa.bsky.social letter about the situation in higher ed? #BISA #UK #HigherEducation #austerity www.bisa.ac.uk/news/stateme...

Appalled by the silence of journalists in #Estonia regarding what is happening in #Gaza and #Palestine. Is there no-one amongst you who dares to write with passion on this issue?

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

So happy to have organized this with the kind and essential support of my colleagues @benjaminklasche.bsky.social and @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social