Academic selfie

Academic selfie. Autumn is coming. Cool enough to wear a waistcoat this morning. (Though not this afternoon.)

The banality of saying the quiet part out loud, I guess.

Barling’s Beach

I had a blast recording this episode of #CalledToTheBar on submarine cables – one of the most legally under considered pieces of critical infrastructure

New #CalledToTheBar: submarine cables, the invisible infrastructure carrying ~99% of global data. Colonial origins, UNCLOS, grey zone sabotage, and why relevant LOAC is alarmingly undercooked. With @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @taradavenport.bsky.social & Dita Liliansa. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfie: rain clearing up in Canberra!

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Looking forward to sewing with this gorgeous fabric! #sewing #waistcoat

Academic selfie: me and Ben Golder at UNSW Sydney Health Translation Hub

Bow ties are cool … but also, how is this news?

I went to the Canberra women’s circle charity destash craft market looking for a couple of nice pieces of fabric. I have no regrets. Also no storage.

Academic selfies on tour! With @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social @proftimstephens.bsky.social and Jacqui Mowbray!

In a triumph of human decency, my driver returned my bags - albeit after 3 hours - and declined a $100 one way journey fare to return them that the Uber app pushed me to offer.

Academic selfie: me doing a fit check before going to the Sydney Centre for International law in review conference. 30 minutes later, my Uber driver absconded with my briefcase and overnight bag in the boot of his car.

I have hemming to do and the collar needs some tweaking on the right, but my chocolate brown velvet frock coat is nearly done! #sewing #fourthdoctor

I had a wonderful chat with @aoifemod.bsky.social, @ruthhoughton.bsky.social, and Cher Weixia Cheen about Global Governance and comfort foods for #CalledToTheBar Have a listen!

New #CalledToTheBar! @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social talks global governance with Aoife O’Donoghue, Ruth Houghton, and Cher Weixia Chen, eds of the Research Handbook on Global Governance. Power, legitimacy, critique, what the “global” really obscures and why there's hope. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfie: bright, and a hot 36°C, in Canberra today. But my summer uniform of half lined jacket and linen trousers did me proud.

Beginning to look good! #sewing

@anzsil.org Webinar: 'Nostalgia is not a Strategy': What Next for International Law in 2026? Date: Tuesday 24 February 2026 (1-2PM AEDT) Speakers: Charles-Emmanuel Côté (Laval University) Toni Erskine (ANU) Luis Eslava (La Trobe) Devika Hovell (LSE) Register: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...

Of course. Why would you invest in soft power? It just helps in the kind of warfare that: a) Russia has shown it's actually good at; b) Russia is waging on the West already; c) The UK/NATO nuclear deterrent is useless in preventing; d) Costs a fraction to fund compared to military hardware.

And season 3 of #CalledToTheBar is live! We open with a powerful conversation on feminist careers in international law. Tamsin Paige is joined by Dianne Otto, Christine Chinkin, and Judge Hilary Charlesworth to talk mentorship, activism, academia, and feminist practice soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfie: paisley, herringbone and check - too much, or just enough? (TGIF)

And season 3 of #CalledToTheBar is live! We open with a powerful conversation on feminist careers in international law. Tamsin Paige is joined by Dianne Otto, Christine Chinkin, and Judge Hilary Charlesworth to talk mentorship, activism, academia, and feminist practice soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Beautiful misty morning on Black Mountain #canberra

TFW you put a sleeve head in beautifully, but for the fact that it is inside out and back the front. #sewing

My brown velvet #fourthdoctor inspired frog coat is really coming along. The fabric is darker than it appears in this photo, also pictured a new bowtie project. #sewing

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

Enormously excited to announce that we will soon launch Season 3 of #CalledToTheBar with a blockbuster first episode on feminist careers in international law featuring Judge Hilary Charlesworth and Professors Christine Chinkin and Di Otto, chaired by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social.

Academic selfie: still too hot for real clothes in Canberra but a cool snap Monday allowed me to wear a jacket/waistcoat/trousers combo I’d made myself to work - along with new shoes! #sewing

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

#sewing ! A real challenge for the novice sewer, especially one interested in menswear, is collars. Trickier still when they meet a lapel. My first two frock coats have bodgy collars, so I thought I’d make a toile (mock up) in cotton to practice before #fourthdoctor coat. Getting there!

Absolutely delighted to receive my copy of Thomas Weatherall’s “The right to self-determination international law”. It is a privilege to serve on the editorial team for the Elements of International Law series and be able to provide a venue for this type of doctrinal scholarship.

States are coming together to bring state charges against ICE agents. It's about freaking time! www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

Super excited to start #sewing with this fabric custom printed with a design by @thedoctorswardrobe on insta. Many nerd bonus points to anyone who noticed that the pattern replicates that of the #fourthdoctor ‘s “Shada” waistcoat.

Middle aged white men (and I’m 49, so I’m in the demographic) absolutely need ridiculous Dad Hobbies or they get squirrely. I think if you’re can’t prove you have a preexisting Dad Hobby or 2 by age 45, you get entered into a national hobby draft and get assigned one. It would solve so many things.

Your periodic safety warning (unless you are already straight edge/sober): Do not go to dinner on a weeknight with retired Australians. My *god* they pour with a glad hand.

New moment in being a "senior" academic. Went to pilates for the first time in a month yesterday. I am now creaking like a Spanish galleon in full sail.

New test for being a "senior" academic just dropped. Received a flattering email soliciting an update to a book chapter published 8 years ago for the 2nd edition. But had no memory of having written it. Check original book, find surprisingly good chapter under my name that I now - dimly - recall.

This long weekend I’ve spent about 7 or 8 hours cutting the 47 pieces of my next project (interfacing included). It’s going to be a brown velvet frock coat to accompany these earlier efforts in black and green.

S Korea’s former PM found guilty of insurrection, given 23 years in prison https://aje.news/plnhoe

Friends: how’s the weather been on holiday? Me: … Variable. (Pictured: Tathra headland; Bar Beach, Merimbula)

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.

This year I've done an op-ed on the UN with @drnajimagi.bsky.social, finished a monograph and sent it to publishers with @djag2.bsky.social, dealt with assessments and taught 3 subjects with @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social, sent a manuscript to co-authors to finish, and I'm about to examine a PhD

#CalledToTheBar, the official host’s mug! Can confirm it is rated for coffee. Will provide updates on its capacity to hold wine.

38°C at 6 pm today in Canberra!

One week into 2026, and this is as fitting as ever.

You knew it was coming!