Because of the excessive use of em-dashes, would Emily Dickinson now be flagged as an AI by TurnItIn?

Elite institutions spent years waging war exclusively on what they find annoying, because what was dangerous seemed abstract, unlikely, or too vast to tackle. If fascism were a loud college student confronting a NYT journalist at Le Diplomate, they'd deploy like SEAL Team 6.

I may have referred to the current state of my email inbox to colleagues as “the pit of despair“. Waiting to see who gets the reference.

Excellent piece pushing back against the silly “universities must be run as businesses” rhetoric. As the author puts it: “When non-profit organisations are managed as if they were for-profit firms, problems emerge.” www.afr.com/work-and-car...

This one is a bit of a personal favourite

When should ICJ judges step aside? @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social, @drnajimagi.bsky.social & @victorkattan.bsky.social unpack recusal rules, Judge Sebutinde’s remarks on Palestine, and the politics of impartiality & recusal from Gaza now to 1960s SW Africa #CalledToTheBar soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Me speaking at the NUS CIL workshop on submarine cables and pipelines yesterday.

Anonymous donation provides two years’ bridging funding for centre for Dictionary of National Biography. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

"Having contributed in some way to the commission of the genocide against the Palestinian people is, you know, shameful" - me www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Academic selfie: presenting on law of naval warfare and submarine cables at the NUS Centre for International Law workshop on protection of submarine cables.

In Singapore with the inestimable @cbueger.bsky.social - getting the IR/IL maritime security band back together

Boarding! See you soon, Singapore!

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Academic selfie: one of your PhD students graduating is always a pretty special day. Congratulations Dr Josephine Dwan!

Academic selfie: like a good horror villain, the Canberra Winter has had a jump scare last minute return to campus

A flawless reflection 🌧️ 📷 Instagram | Spiralling_Oxford

A good piece on the state of the sector. Universities need to be run less like corporations and more like “high-functioning local councils”, closely connected to the communities they serve. www.themandarin.com.au/298996-unive...

Academic selfies: yesterday‘s office wear, and today’s work from home casuals for the first day that really felt like spring

Academic selfies: yesterday‘s office wear, and today’s work from home casuals for the first day that really felt like spring

I had a blast talking about to my old friend and mentor Rob McLaughlin and the phenomenal @alonso-gd.bsky.social about why sinking random "drug" vessels is lawless AF

A US kinetic strike on a suspected drug boat, lawful self-defence or utterly lawless? (No prizes for guessing.) Join @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, Rob McLaughlin & @alonso-gd.bsky.social on #CalledToTheBar as they unpack law & blurred lines in the “war on drugs/terror.” soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

The frustrating thing about this style of reporting is it suggests the crisis at universities is driven by consultancy bills and VC pay. Both are bad but the bigger cause is governments making unis rely on foreign student fees then arbitrarily slashing those numbers. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

Interesting. U.S. Coast Guard shadows two Chinese research ships in disputed portions of the Arctic Ocean alaskabeacon.com/2025/09/05/u...

Spring is springing amidst the 90s brutalism at UNSW Canberra

Academic selfies: yesterday‘s lightning trip to Sydney – great to have lunch with @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social; back in the office today

Nothing quite like your body waking you up at 5.20 because you set an alarm for 6.20 because you have a flight at 7.40, which Qantas then sets back to 8.50. 🙄

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Academic selfie: casual writing day in the office, so I went with how I felt comfortable. May have landed on late 19th century theatre impresario.

Academic selfie: today’s outfit

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Academic selfie: slowly sewing my way towards my personal ambition – what I call “loosely Doctor Who themed weekend wear” (detail shots of coat, lining and waistcoat, all sewed by me.)

Academic selfie: slowly sewing my way towards my personal ambition – what I call “loosely Doctor Who themed weekend wear” (detail shots of coat, lining and waistcoat, all sewed by me.)

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on the bright side if you ever dreamed of being a smuggler and thought the days of sloops easing into harbor laden with forbidden wares from across the high seas beneath cover of a new moon were past i have good news for you

Academic selfie with merch in the background. Stopped in this afternoon to @unsw.edu.au ‘s Canberra Launch premises to seal with our industry partners!

Lost in the horse-race debate on the Coalition's possible abandonment of net zero is the fact that if it did so in government it would place Australia in breach of international law. That's made crystal clear by the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

My 12 yo son is listening to a lot of Nirvana and Green Day, and has opinions about which are the best albums and tracks. He’s not only cooler than me, he’s cooler than I was in the 90s.

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Anyone telling you your opposition in life, politics, or geopolitics are cynical bad faith actors is dangerous. The opposition may indeed be cynical grifters, but they are very unlikely to self-identify as such. But if you believe they are, you’re going to underestimate their stamina for the fight.

In general “bimodal but not binary” is something that seems to break brains a lot. Like a specific type of personality really dislikes the idea that something is neither a neat continuous distribution nor a on/off. It’s a type of complexity that just drives some people nuts, not just on gender stuff

Another successful outing for Maritime Domain Awareness: The Boardgame (now on v3)

Sensible voices have been trying to draw attention to the likelihood that sovereign citizen / pseudo law nonsense will result in violence.

Academic selfies: taken at the end of two consecutive days of giving maritime security training to government officials with @redunley.bsky.social

Belated academic selfie from Friday

My former student Hussein Badreddine has published "A Historical Perspective on Space Resource Exploitation" in TWAIL Review - discussing (and dismissing) arguments that the Outer Space Treaty was intended to support space mining at the time of its drafting. twailr.com/hussein-badr...

Somehow we got to 50 episodes….!? This one was a cracker to record and hopefully fun to listen to as well.

The world is-ahem-not doing very well so this episode is full of frivolity and WE REGRET NOTHING

50 episodes of #CalledToTheBar! 🥂 Join me, @drnajimagi.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social as we take your questions on setting up your own state, PCIJ judges, treaties & who plays us in the Netflix series. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...