All those generals and senior officers flown in from their actual jobs, at enormous taxpayer expense, only to listen to two idiots blathering in ways that defy credulity. Their group chats must be on fire.

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza. www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like as soon as they finish an article or manuscript review another request for review comes in? It's like clockwork.

In line for my flu AND COVID vaccines at Kaiser Richmond in my beautiful California. Line’s around the block.

Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!

Podcast from the always inspiring Cynthia Enloe. nowandmen.net/episode/cynt...

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

For my Salone people

See ICE? Mark the location on Waze as "icy conditions". Brilliant tactic being used in DC. Let's spread it.

Majority of Sierra Leoneans want to leave the country, mostly to find work, escape poverty Head over to our website to read more: bit.ly/4gdOxZv #SierraLeone #Migration #VoicesAfrica

Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 🕵️Process tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models All in two heady days. training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo: 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of Sept 4. Disease surveillance and health support, yanked by the U.S., can catch these outbreaks early. So many cases already. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium. Deadline: October 10, 2025. wennergren.org/article/call...

The women and girls who took up arms for Tigray are now at risk of being left behind in Ethiopia’s postwar transition, Mehret Berhe and @hilarymatfess.bsky.social write.

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The School of International Service is currently inviting applications for three tenure-track assistant professor positions beginning August 1, 2026. 🧵 ⬇️ #AcademicSky

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

After a seven-year hiatus, the Department of Anthropology at American University is excited to announce that the Public Anthropology Conference is back! Call for Papers: www.pubanthcon.com/call-for-par... Registration: www.pubanthcon.com/registration Deadline: Sept. 8th 2025.

American University is currently hiring two faculty positions in international affairs! Assistant Professor, International Security: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta... Assistant Professor, Economic Security jobs.chronicle.com/job/37868709...

A week before the semester starts, Columbia University is replacing its unionized graduate student TAs with non-unionized adjuncts. This comes as Columbia sold itself out to the fascists, and the unions were mulling a strike. Any adjunct who takes a class there right now is a scab.

Looking for ways to fight back? Our Civics Roundup has ideas. Send us other actions and rallies you want boosted. 51st.news/making-some-...

Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.

Yard signs are available for pickup in Brookland. They’re free & you are welcome to grab extras for your neighbors. We have window signs too. DM for location.

Delighted to share that @federics.bsky.social and I just published a new paper, Employed but unpaid… which is an investigation into the challenges faced by Sierra Leone’s many (possibly as many as half of the clinical health workforce) so-called volunteer health workers. One of the first in-depth …

🚨 We're #hiring at LSE! Join our Department of International Relations: 🔹Assistant Professor in IR (International Security) ➡️ bit.ly/41l2GOa 🔹Assistant Professor in IPE ➡️ bit.ly/4ogBjPj 📆 Deadline: 7 September 2025. 📢 Please share widely! #AcademicJob #AcademicSky #PoliSky

AU Anthropology is hiring! american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #anthropology #medicalanthropology #academicsky

If you work for or have studied at any University of California campus, you are invited and encouraged to sign this letter of support for UCLA, where faculty learned yesterday that Trump illegally froze $200M in funding. tinyurl.com/ucstandup Pls share widely!

Following the ECOWAS case closely www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This looks like a great opportunity for West Africans under 30. issafrica.org/about-us/car...

Interesting critique of Mormon-sponsored and other right-wing-sponsored events in West Africa. I wonder who the author is? sierraloaded.sl/opinion/who-...

The @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social is searching for a tenure line position in Technology and Global Affairs at the Assistant or Associate level. I am chairing the committee and happy to talk with anyone who is interested. Please share! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Former CECOT detainees have landed in Caracas. Trump condemned these men to indefinite detention in one of the world's most brutal prisons. "More than 60 of them had pending asylum claims [in the U.S.]," ProPublica reported today. Now, they're back in the country they fled.

Official Confirms State Department Considered Statements Critical of Israel and U.S. in Revoking Foreign Students’ Visas. Below are highlights from Day 9 of @aaup.org v. Rubio trial. Closing arguments are set for Monday 7/21, 10am ET. Register for livestream below. knightcolumbia.org/content/offi...

thank you, Andrea 💔

Luckily, it is extremely difficult for good ethnography to be AI generated.

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...

US agencies' science journal subscriptions canceled

Trump's bringing five African heads of state to Washington. It's a bit of a confusing group. Minerals, but which ones? And if JNIM and the sahel is on the agenda, why not Ghana/Cote D'Ivoire/Benin? www.africaintelligence.com/west-africa/...

showing off my free concentration camp merch. My soul is just out of frame, intact and not bound by dark blood rites to the eternal service of Moloch the Devourer

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers