Discussing the Sumerians today in my History of the Ancient Near East and Egypt class, so it was obviously time for the Standard of Ur tie. However, teaching virtually via Zoom because of the snowstorm, so no jacket, but headphones instead…

Parte de la tragedia es que ya ni son noticia... en la última semana, cuatro naufragios en las costas de Lampedusa confirman que seguimos gestionando mal las cosas... www.euronews.com/2023/08/09/f...

State members of the Gaza Board of Peace According to their respective · Democracy Index (EIU) · World Press Freedom Index (RSF) · Corruption Perceptions Index (TI)

Hamnet, qué película tan increíblemente conmovedora. Chloé Zhao y (sobre todo) Jessie Buckley: genias.

French diplomacy having a dig at Trump for leaving WHO

Mercosur, el Parlamento Europeo y la Corte de Justicia Europea www.plataformatierra.es/comunidad/la...

Urgent time for @ec.europa.eu to start infringement proceedings against Hungary and Bulgaria for participating in an international organisation completely incompatible with EU and international law. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/w...

🚨🚨"Our American Dream is dead": European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

“anyone who has been involved in climate politics and who has any knowledge of current climate science assessments, or grasps just how tiny an impact is made by most of our ‘wins’, also knows that hope and optimism can be hard to muster.”

Very glad to see this joint piece of work (with Kati Kulovesi and Leonie Reins) on climate policy integration under the European Green Deal out - check it out (it's open access)!

This just in: The #EP requests judicial review by the ECJ on the Mercosur Trade Deal with an ultra-thin majority of 10 votes. More in-depth analysis will follow, but the majority was formed in probably the wildest way yet - relevant shares of votes from all groups. howtheyvote.eu/votes/183884

Cheers erupted in the Hemicycle, as the Mercosur deal was put on hold: it was a close call, but the European Parliament just voted in favour of a motion to ask the European Court of Justice to check whether the deal is compatible with EU law. This could delay the ratification by a year or more.

🇪🇺⚖️ The European Parliament deciding that the best solution for dealing with a contentious intl trade deal about food is to kick it over to a bunch of very smart people who wrote their PhDs about human rights, division of powers, space law, election systems and judicial councils, is peak EU.

Israel comienza a destruir con excavadoras la sede de la UNRWA en Jerusalén Este

Goodbye multilateralism, welcome market power - in case we still had doubts. ‘If foreign countries want access to our market, that’s going to come with expectations.’ January 2026, US administration www.ft.com/content/a675...

España acogerá una de las sedes del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), después de que la organización aceptara la oferta del Gobierno de albergar a un centenar de los puestos trasladados desde sus oficinas de Nueva York. 🔗 www.exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicac...

Excellent piece by Koskenniemi rebutting Perry Anderson on the weakness of international law by pointing to the legal infrastructure of global capitalism (from trade and investment to taxation and SEZs) rather than merely state-to-state public international law. newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pinta bé aquest febrer... Els llegirem amb moltes ganes! @crendueles.bsky.social @jsubi.bsky.social a col·lecció Cuadernos Anagrama ⬇️⬇️

Like on Brexit, where German businesses supported the EU's stance to protect the single market (unlike the myth of the 'German carmakers'), again first German business voices are supporting a strong stance of the EU vis-a-vis Trump to protect the joint sovereignty:

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What is the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) that European lawmakers want to activate in response to Trump's 10% tariff announcement? Adopted in 2023, the instrument was designed to hit back at foreign acts of economic coercion. It was inspired by China's trade restrictions on Lithuania. 🧵

A por ello

I always learn from watching @adamtooze.bsky.social but I think he's right when he says in the Q&A that climate/energy is a "nerd's" dream topic. It presupposes rational government—one reason it can feel like a limited lens for understanding the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...

On the 17th of January, 1961, the US, UK and Belgium assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral reserves. Remember Lumumba!

I was very fortunate to have the chance to speak at @sainsbury-institute.org in Norwich last week, and the recording is now online. I really appreciate the invitation, and all of the great questions and comments following the talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDGo...

New US-Tariffs for several nations are unbelievable. This is no way to treat partners. A new line has been crossed. Unacceptable. POTUS is using trade as an instrument of political coercion. The EU cannot simply move on to business as usual (1/3)

With Brussels moving forward with the EU - #Mercosur agreement, this morning @andresmalamud.bsky.social presented the study he co-authored with @llschenoni.bsky.social on “Geopolitical aspects of the EU-Mercosur agreement” at the #AFET Committee meeting 📚🌍 Read it here 🔗 tepsa.eu/analysis/geo...

Motosierra en salud, educación y discapacidad. Viaje al espacio "para darle información fundamental a la NASA" Dice Milei: “Nunca un ser humano estuvo más lejos de nuestro planeta”. Nunca un gobierno estuvo más lejos de la Argentina.

Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday). It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country. Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest: 1/9

👉 Nota de Victoria Dannemann en Deutsche Welle sobre el Acuerdo UE-Mercosur: sus pros y contras, y el arriesgado camino para su firma, ratificación y entrada en vigor. Con mis comentarios y de otros colegas (Detlef Nolte @djn22.bsky.social, Andrés Malamud @andresmalamud.bsky.social) p.dw.com/p/4nrbf

There we go - Trump announces additional tariffs on 8 European countries over Greenland, amongst them the UK and 7 EU countries. A transatlantic break (and a pathetic attempt to split EU countries). Brace Brace.

Watch/listen till the very end. Climate song from our own Rasmus Lyberth. Powerful song. youtu.be/5cuQ76wtSjw?...

Another timely one nir-ŋal₂-e a-na-am₃ bi₂-in-dug₄ nu-sag₉ “Whatever the authority said, it was not good” (also attested as nu-zid, ‘not true’) cdli.earth/artifacts/22...

Needless to say that it is high time for the EU to start reacting. Yes, Greenland is not part of the EU but a threat against one Member State should trigger a much, much stronger reaction. Could @ec.europa.eu please dust off the anti-coercion regulation? We need conscious uncoupling!

"It took a long time to understand that I was born into apartheid." Yuli Novak, Executive Director of B'Tselem — the first major Israeli human rights organization to label Israel’s destruction of Gaza a genocide — speaks with @simonerzim.bsky.social about growing up under Israel’s apartheid regime.

I wrote an Expert Comment for the University of Oxford on the implications of the US aggression against Venezuela for International Law and Global Security. My argument in brief below: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

The UN cannot remain indifferent to “actions taken by Israel, which are in direct contravention of the obligations of Israel under int'al law. They must be reversed without delay.” UN Sec Gen warns he could refer Israel to ICJ over laws targeting #UNRWA www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

The Danish Minister of Defence has just announced an increased military presence in Greenland, involving Denmark and other NATO allies, including Sweden. This coincided with the highly anticipated White House meeting between Rubio, Vance, and the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland.

Ayer @madrid.ecologistasenaccion.org nos colamos unos segundos en el programa "Fin de mes" de @radio5rne.rtve.es para hablar de las consecuencias negativas de los acuerdos comerciales de la Unión Europea con terceros países. 🎙️ Min. 19:11 www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

#Mañana Presentación del libro "Las hogueras de El Pertús". Y proyección del film "La sombra de José Vitini" Con su autor, Alberto Vázquez García. Lunes 28ABR 18:30hs @ateneomaliciosa.net  https://acortar.link/NAxQpe

The Gambia rightly argues, as the IIFFMM also observed, that discriminatory denial of citizenship can be a part of the evidence of pattern in which one could infer genocidal intent. I've been working on a bigger project on statelessness and genocide so I am watching this issue closely.

🧵 Comenzamos #LibrosRJ2026 con "Bajo las togas", del fiscal Carlos Castresana. Errores judiciales y otras infamias. Procedimientos llenos de sombras, violaciones del derecho internacional o sentencias escandalosas que empañan la historia del Derecho. ¡PINTAZA!

La semana pasada terminó el tercer y último stream del CONICET. La expedición Vida en los Extremos liderada por la bióloga Maria Emilia Bravo. Clivia Ricle hace un repaso por sus descubrimientos y recuerda el valor de la ciencia Argentina: revistamecha.com.ar/ciencia-arge...

Muslims are facing a hostile environment in Europe. While Ronan McCrea defends the CJEU' approach as 'justifiable caution', MARTIJN VAN DEN BRINK criticises the case law on religious clothing as discriminatory toward Muslim women. verfassungsblog.de/when-caution...

Remember, the US and Israel are trying to do regime change in Iran in the name of "democracy" and "freedom", in order to install a puppet monarchy, totally subordinated to the US and Israel, run by the son of a dictator known for brutal political repression.

Faltan dos días para el Congreso sobre #PolíticaSubnacional en la @ubasociales. En este hilo, más bios de participantes destacadxs 👇

Thank you @larsklingbeil.bsky.social for explaining how sometimes international law is not too complicated at all: www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Es el señor Thompson.