Shabbat shalom! Honestly a bit of a crap week. In the positive side, I was successful in getting a good challah bake this week with my kitchen set up here (made four different smaller challahs to hedge bets) and a few new things I tried in class went pretty well thankfully

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Giving a talk about hegemony to an intro poltiical science course today and I'm so excited about this example of hegemonic stability theory I drew up

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

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Not me crying in my office 😮‍💨

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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Got to tell another one of my favorite pieces of political science lore to someone today: how Theda Skocpol saved someone from a turkey attack in Boston a couple years ago

Ah thus begins the next month or so where I am wildly confused about meeting times with global colleagues

Shabbat shalom! I think this is the first Rosh Hashanah I’ve spent alone in a very long time. I’ve been incredibly exhausted this week but otherwise recovered from being sick. Daniel had a really exciting week with some cool professional things, which was a nice omen for the new year.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

This situation is getting so dire. El Fasher has been under siege for 500+ days with over 18 months of no aid entering. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

@karenattiah.bsky.social's should get as much attention as Kimmel's and is easily as important.

Also WILD that committes, such as the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity — which represents underrepresented scholars — can’t move their programming to an accessible format with this model.

Soooo what are folks supposed to do for panels that include both US scholars (who are barred from being moved to online) and non-US based scholars who (rightfully) need to be moved to virtual for ISA 2026? I think this plan could have used a little more feedback and time to cook...

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Excited to share my favorite piece of academic lore in lecture tomorrow

Shabbat shalom! Back in Copenhagen after a whirlwind trip to Ottawa (for AC and my dogs and my bed) and Vancouver (for APSA). And then immediately got sick. Haven’t been this sick in about two years- combo of PhD wrap up, moving, and international travel finally got to me though.

Facts. So glad I learned this lesson early in my professional career.

Faculty: university leaders are not coming to save you. The only people who can save you are yourselves, fighting collectively with students and staff.

Air France lost my bag for a second time in 30 days and truly the worst part of this is the loud ass hold music I have no choice but to listen to. Just let me hang out in silence! All this is doing is making me more enraged!

Happy Day 4 of #APSA2025! Here’s a longer tutorial on navigating the convention center! Hope this helps! I’ll be at registration and at some panels and events! I’m happy to help if you have any questions! s/o to Lilly for editing this video youtu.be/59zD-bpTUSg?...

Unfortunately discovered that huge ass spiders are apparently a thing in Vancouver and I guess I will not be sleeping for the next 36 hours.

Y’all ever think about how one of the very first headlines that came out about Mike Brown (a teenager), was “No Angel.“

'You Could Just Use an LLM to Analyze Those Texts' or 'Why Don't You Just Write a ChatGPT Prompt for That?': An Autoethnography of Presenting Interpretive Work at APSA in 2025

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Our collaborative piece, "Supporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action," has been accepted at Global Environmental Politics!

OMG AND ICE IN MY DRINKS

Sign of the times: A Columbia grad student handcuffed on the street by people claiming to be federal agents, later released, and it's still unclear whether they were feds or not Official university statement: president.columbia.edu/news/reminde...

I’m not sure what I’m more excited for this week: seeing my dogs for the first time in a month or North American strength air conditioning

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Every deportation is an act of family separation.

Celebrated my dissertation being accepted by the library by buying a new book. Less than 10 pages into Katabasis and absolutely CACKLING.

I’ve also been experiencing the inverse of this getting healthcare set up in Denmark. They just… assign you a doctor? You can make an appointment for almost the next day? You have a capped maximum amount to pay for prescriptions per year?

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Shabbat shalom! Taught my first course of the semester. Submitted my edited dissertation to the library. Got my yellow health card and staff card. Made a few new friends. Attended my first faculty meeting. Dan went back to Ottawa (😢). An extremely full week!

ICYMI: my office is hiring!

I just taught the first day of my MSc course (Security Studies) and had a student come up after class and thank me for spending time talking about norms related to communication and discussion in class. I always feel awkward talking about this policy, so I was pleased to hear students apprecaite it.

I think what a lot of people don’t realize is when making vaccine recommendations they ALREADY run the pharmacoeconomic analysis for whether it saves money to vaccinate everyone or only high risk groups. That’s why shingles and HPV have age limits.

News is finally starting to trickle out of the remote regions of Afghanistan and it is terrible. BBC reports there are many fatalities and collapsed buildings. Landslides are hampering rescue efforts. www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

Shabbat shalom. Danish bureaucracy really almost did me in this week. I’m truly so tired. First class I’m teaching here starts this coming week, which I’m excited for. I also got my office this week!

I mean, yeah, you can lie. But the problem is that a lot of pharmacies and health departments have already started cancelling some appointments for folks and telling them that they will need to have a prescription from their doctor (presumably as a CYA measure to avoid issues from this admin)

GEP's Special Issue on "Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene" is now live! This thought-provoking collection was guest edited by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social.

With the start of term for many folks here or around the corner, I figured I would share my recently updated syllabus policy for my MSc level course at University of Copenhagen this fall. Please feel free to lift language in whole or in spirit.

"Some pundits and industry figures have counterintuitively argued that the proliferation of data centers to power AI is a good thing for the environment....this argument, already suspect years ago, is entirely untenable now" Great @dylangyauchl.bsky.social piece for @commondreams.org -->>>>