Progress. Kudos to the APSR.

"there is often no human meaning there, these posts are just meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no equivalent understanding in return"

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

New @hrw.org report exhaustively details how an Emirati private security company with close ties to the highest levels of the UAE government recruited Colombian mercenaries, trained them at a UAE military base, and deployed them for the siege and capture of El Fasher, Sudan.

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

"People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced." retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

“Stochastic parrots”

NuExtract3 (4B, Apache-2.0) does OCR *and* structured extraction. Point it at a dataset of scanned index cards + a JSON schema → clean catalog JSON One command on huggingface Jobs. (or skip the schema for plain Markdown OCR) Script + dataset 👇

At least 3 killed in shooting at San Diego’s largest mosque, police say www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/u...

Adding @courrierinter.bsky.social to my blacklist of newspapers who take subscriptions online but only accept subscription _cancellations_ by telephone (@thetimes.com was already on it). May your days be rainy until you fix this malpractice. It is disrespectful of customers and their time

Nå er det nasjonaldag hver dag

Right - you all thought that quiz was too US-centric. So I've vibe-coded something far more British. Specifically British, because I am *not* making a Northern Irish Political Compass. From taxes to the monarchy, answer the questions and see where you sit. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

This looks fantastic

The thing I love about letters is that you get an authentic look inside people's lives from thousands of years ago, and what you see is that people are still people. Like Bahianu here, who is too scared to ask a woman out that he likes, so he asks the governor of Nippur to ask her for him instead.

Oxford's Middle East Centre is looking for a new administrator www.sant.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/mi...

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Growing evidence that 100% of all public relations specialists in the UAE perished during the war. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...

Britain investigates Microsoft over business software dominance reut.rs/4eMHY1g

TIL that Raspberry Pis are manufactured in Wales (and have been since 2012). The chip itself is produced in China, but the chip design (ARM) is British, as is the RPi Foundation. This makes the Pi one of the closest things to a European-manufactured computer www.raspberrypi.com/news/explore...

The sources said Saudi Arabia made Iran aware of the strikes and this was followed by intensive diplomatic engagement and Saudi threats to retaliate further, which led to an understanding between the two countries to de-escalate. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Scary diagram on how much of our daily lives would fall apart if somehow we were cut off from US tech. Tech sovereignty and resilience is going to be costly! www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

I made a chart of where you can find the top open-source LLMs right now in the European inference provider landscape. Let me know if I have missed any providers

Alle kjepphestryttere har en prediksjon med særlig høyt told-you-so-potensial. Dette er min

Google and Apple's control over the smartphone world is about to increase from 99% to 100%

For å følge opp denne; Vi trenger definitivt en nasjonal strategi på KI-feltet. En NOU og et forskningssenter eller to er ikke nok. Selv om vi skulle avskrive de mest dramatiske scenariene som usannsynlige, har vi uansett å gjøre med en dyp og viktig endring i internasjonal økonomi. 1/8

Jeg er enig i alt som @torewig.bsky.social skriver her. Politikerne har ikke satt seg inn i tematikken, venstresiden har lagt KI for hat, mens høyresiden lever fint med amerikanske løsninger. Alle ser ut til å håpe at det bare går over eller går seg til www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/norsk-...

This new @eurosky.social project looks really interesting. Aside from providing EU hosting of your Bluesky data, it gives you a convenient Single Sign-On to a range of open-source apps. Most are new to me, but I am intrigued by tangled.org (GitHub alternative) and leaflet.pub (Substack alternative)

Just migrated my data from Bluesky's US servers to @eurosky.social. It was very easy thanks to move.eurosky.tech (The only slight complication is the need to enter a custom domain on the first login after the move, but it's explained well here: help.eurosky.tech/article/4-lo...)

Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

For anyone interested, here is the syllabus for my graduate-level course on "Computational Methods for Area Studies" hegghammer.net/assets/docum...

Emerging from social media hibernation. Has anything happened since Jan

📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations! If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see. 🗓 Deadline: 29 April 🔁 Please boost/RT! #Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.

If you’re having trouble accessing my book The Taliban Courts: War through Law, feel free to contact me. It’s been unavailable and, since OUP won’t do a paperback, the hardback is very expensive for individuals. I’m happy to help you find a way to read it.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

Pay librarians, teachers, and archivists

Når så mye penger skal brukes på så kort tid, kommer det nødvendigvis saker som dette www.vg.no/nyheter/i/L4...

I do get a kick out of edited volumes on settler colonialism that make no mention of either China or Russia...

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

Fake sources using my name keep cropping up. Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s... It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.

UPDATE: Americans who use YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X (Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/

Good piece, reminded me that ARM and DeepMind (both game changers) were allowed to leave the UK under the Cameron / Osborne regime. Appalling. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era - Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-labs… #AI #GoogleScholar

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

📢 Our colleagues in the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law this week published the final report of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice. Read it here 👉 buff.ly/jRTN4Zl