Ah yes. My war has created a lot of problems to be solved by my war. This is the kinetic version of that T-shirt meme.

I'm proud to report that one week before term start my email inbox to-do folder now only has four remaining tasks, only two of which are outstanding reviews, neither of which is overdue. Please clap.

Hightechnical? Flytechnical?

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German IB won't know what hit 'em.

This is what happens if you ignore domestic politics in explanation. It is also maps fairly precisely onto the argument in my recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, for what it's worth: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Het is weer tijd voor de 🇳🇱 cursus Nederlands. 🇳🇱 Nu we oefenen met ‘een afspraak maken’, realiseer ik me dat het misschien een beetje triest is dat mijn standaardantwoord altijd ‘ik kan niet, ik moet werken’ is.

Ummm.

I had severe #ISA26 fomo until I saw what the seminar rooms look like this year. 😉

Nightmare AHA interview

As the Netherlands head to the polls today (local elections 🗳️) it is a good moment to treasure democracy, free and fair elections, and celebrate the thousands of folks running and volunteering. Happy voting.

Co-author/conspirator meeting with @gloefflmann.bsky.social. We may or may not have updates on the Strait of Hormuz soon.

Of all realists these people could (vaguely) know, it's always either Mearsheimer or Kissinger, i.e. literally the worst possible candidates in terms of informing policy.

This further supports the notion that universities in particular have an ethical responsibility to resist basically anything AI at every opportunity.

This is ironic in that this is exactly the way ChatGPT might respond and then self-correct (only when asked again).

35-39% would approve of Trump's self-nomination as god-emperor.

Oh hai 🤩

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I'm going to say what should be abundantly obvious to everyone by now: #𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧. Yes, the fighting is still ongoing. Yes, the U.S. and #Israel will continue to bomb #Iran and continue to fuck things up there for probably several more weeks. But that won't change anything 🧵

When co-authors ask me about the status of our manuscript.

Republican leadership looking into this issue like

Das ist hochnotpeinlich.

Couldn't levying a tariff on gas help? Let the producers pay their fair share; America will make billions.

Between this and the elephant at the plow, I'm really starting to question our medieval ancestors' sense of relative size.

Momenteel shitposte ik door een vrij trage cursus Nederlands. Het is niet meer dan logisch dat ik dat in het Nederlands doe: Hallo, jij schattige bitterballen! 👋🇳🇱

The real end of the "liberal international order" is the enemies we made along the way. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/09/l...

The best thing to do just as old projects need considerable work is to pivot and start new projects. Co-authors love this trick. 🤐

oh, was that load bearing?

Oh no, poor Caitlin Flanagan.

It's pretty plausible as a scenario that after having inflicted chaos the Trump administration seizes the first opportunity to declare victory and walk, leaving EU/UK, Turkey and Gulf states holding the bag

Presumably the same way they handled regime change in Venezuela.

Air power and elite special forces both make leaders feel like they have costless military options because any consequences are abstracted and delayed. Those unable to value delayed gratification are equally unable to conceive of any price that's not immediate and obvious. Absurdly dangerous.

If Americans can’t figure out why we’re starting a war with Iran, then frankly they don’t deserve to know. by Karoline Leavitt

Look what the Nobel Peace Prize committee made him do.

JUST BECAUSE is a banger.

This is bullshit politics - geared not toward the achievement of any strategic goals, but solely about perception management. Concurrently, that indifference is hidden behind empty verbiage of American might, preventative strikes, and the Warrior Ethos™️.

War on Iran: Definitely illegal and extra pointless. (The point is military spectacle for the amusement of POTUS.)

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Cool cool cool cool cool

By-election result can now be interpreted in whatever way confirms your existing assumptions....

Referring everyone who asks me who’s going to win in Gorton and Denton to this chart

The electoral success of authoritarian leaders continues unabated. 😱 apnews.com/article/nort...

In this age of LLMs, it's trivially easy to get a Phd-level-expert™️ summary of any journal article that will extract the main arguments and findings for you and often even flags up the most relevant connections to the larger literature: just look for the bloody abstract, kid #AcademicLifeHacks

Just that German HE neoliberalization has *also* been hollow. It has the trappings of neoliberal higher education (funding, precarity, "impact"...) -- BUT without any "benefits"; e.g. streamlined bureaucracy, quick hiring, career opportunities, "students as customers", shiny buildings.

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20 years of GWOT has left a sense that uncontested air power is how wars work. But it's not war. These are all launchers. It's bombardment for bombardment's sake. We're getting ready to bomb the hell out of a country, but there's no war plan, no real goals.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions: