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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Our new article is out - we conducted experimental Citizen-Expert Panels to find out, how mini-publics on climate change work. And we've come up with a neat typology of mini-publics mechanisms. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚 Want to publish a guest-edited Special Issue or Special Collection with us? 📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025! 👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...

Well played, new chemistry Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa: "I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol" www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/people/14...

Otevřený dopis ANO ohledně výběru nového ministra životního prostředí - kde žádáme, aby nebombardovali dlouho budovanou politiku ochrany prostředí. sites.google.com/view/dopis-k...

I got a chapter in this book that has 5.069 pages and costs 1.999 USD. will give it to my students as compulsory reading. wth. link.springer.com/referencewor...

New in CJIR! Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020 by Jan Karlas and Jan Mazač, both at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

A little difficult to get into, but definitely worth it - a debut book by young South African poet Rešoketšwe Manenzhe. Brings a sad, poetic story of multiracial couple in early 20th century budding-apartheid SA. Recommended. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!

Finally.

New article alert 🚨 With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Border between Czechia and Germany

On my way to journey Czech mountains for a few days, 25km/day, mostly via Stezka Ceskem - a thousands km long path circeling the country.

Our new book's ready for preorder - and includes three wonderful endorsements by Amitav Acharya, Linus Hagstrom ( @linushagstrom.bsky.social) and Dewi Fortuna Anwar. Hope it will be useful to all interested in the Indo-Pacific. www.routledge.com/Understandin...

Just in: We just publihed an obituary of Joseph Nye, who died a few weeks ago. It reviews Nye's work ranging from regimes, through soft power to US foreign policy analysis, appreciating the many contributions Nye's work has had on IR. RIP. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

Anyone knew aloes grow trees?

Not bad, ei?

Our textbook coming up soon! Finally a proper resource for all interested in the Indo-Pacific (or so we hope with @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social and @aleskarmazin.bsky.social)

I played a softball tournament today and being a European I lost everything. Though we played a Japanese team and ended 1:2 in 8th inning in a thrilling finale.

Our forum on why is Czechia so pro-Izraeli has just been published in CJIR! Lowdown below.

Why is Czechia so pro-Israeli? In a new forum of the Czech Journal of International Relations, we decided to find out. Several articles will come out soon, mapping narratives, historical roots, legacies of communism and others. The first one was just published open access cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31: fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Crazy how this is not socially condemned

From this perspective, my research aligns most closely with the ethnographic approach often referred to as “deep hanging out”, where the researcher's sustained presence in the field becomes central to the ethnographic experience itself. -- Deep hanging out ftw.

Just received a paper into my journal ending with the sentence: "And remember: Putin is a monster who feeds on your fears." welllllllllllllll....

The French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Zrovna jsme obdrželi zprávu z Národního akreditačního úřadu, že MUP získává akreditaci k jmenování docentů a profesorů v oboru Mezinárodní vztahy. V ČR jsme v tomto první a zároveň jediní ze soukromých škol. Požadavky budou relativně tvrdé, ale proces rychlý a férový. Stay tuned.

🎉 Our March Issue is out! 🎉 It contains five original research articles on topics ranging from peace narratives in South Korea, populist diplomacy, and the role of sexuality in EU militarism to Azerbaijan's political economy and Sweden's NATO membership. 📚 Read here ➡️ shorturl.at/Avvv0

New issue of the Czech Journal of IR has just been published celebrating the anniversary of 60 years of publishing the journal! It's a special issue edited by @nckc.bsky.social. Titled Grappling with the Climate Crisis in IR: Existentially, Psychologically, Interdisciplinarily - a short 🧵below

Filipínský exprezident Rodrigo Duterte má pořád dost příznivců. Dnes o sobě dali vědět masovými akcemi u příležitosti jeho 80. narozenin. On u toho ale nebyl. Sedí ve vazební věznici v Haagu a čeká na soud. A my mu s @michelpoiccard.bsky.social věnujeme čerstvé vydání podcastu Asie v souvislostech👇

Comes with an impact assessment and nutriscore #madeinEU (from an idea by Der Postillon)

New publication alert: I contributed to Handbook of mitigation and adaptation with a chapter on "Climate impacts of armed conflicts". Its an overview of the literature and a case study of the war in Ukraine. link.springer.com/referencewor...

Two great new articles published in CJIR! Short 🧵: 1) editorial to the special issue by @nckc.bsky.social shows that the discipline of IR has been unable to cope with climate crisis, because it hasn't sufficiently appreciated its psychological and existential implications cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

Tohle je super - Vltava vydala namluvene povidky od nekterych z nejlepsich japonskych autoru. Doporucuju vltava.rozhlas.cz/kenzaburo-oe...

The fact that some people are considering Canada joining the EU is funny, cool and depressing at the same time. Im all in for some closer cooperation though. www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc....

Pssst! 🤫👋 Curious about what topics JIRD’s March Issue may cover? We offer you a sneak peek into our article production with a first view of the upcoming cover page. Stay tuned for more…

Last week to submit proposals to the CJIR Special Issue on Gender-based violence (especially in CEE). Go for it! cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

Bluey is the best show for kids ever. m.imdb.com/title/tt7678...

My new article has been published in Asian Perspective! It asks why Japan consistently ranks bad in animal protection lists despite long tradition of animal right norms. I argue that animal prot's been understood as a Q of individual ethics rather than policy necessity. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The Starmer - Macron idea of mediating between US and Ukraine seems quite logical and feasible to me. Would be beneficial to both and would return EU to discussion. Fingers crossed the demented US administration won't bombard it since they hate the EU so much.

On our way to Chicago #isa2025

This is truly horrible for anyone with the slightest experience with similar unequal deals. The US should be ashamed of forcing Ukraine into signing it www.ft.com/content/1890...

Editorial by @matthiasleese.bsky.social and @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social on @jird-jour.bsky.social's new academic era is now out. How we want to shape the journal over the next few years? Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A student of mine just got back from a study in Japan and brought me Niigata rice - the best rice in the world. Kandou shiteru!

New article in CJIR! P. Kratochvíl and T. Doležal of @iirprague.bsky.social and MUP show how Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches construct their own versions of modernity while reacting to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Based on large bulk of primary sources. Open Access. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

So the registration for @ecpr.bsky.social workshop is now 1000 EUR (50% discount for member institutions)? to present a paper?

whaterver i may think about trump, the decision to put customs on cheap shit from China is something that should have happened long time ago

New article published in CJIR. Dora Matejak and @melikamah.bsky.social investigate farmers' protests in the EU to understand why they are unhappy about climate-related institutions and policies. Open Access. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...