🌊 An early-season marine heatwave is spreading across the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Some coastal waters near France and parts of the western Mediterranean are running more than 5°C above normal for this time of year. Summer hasn’t even started yet.

In Brussels EU quarter

Soccer socialism

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2. The South Caucasus has long been central to Russia’s imperial imagination. Under late Putinism, this is not any more the case. www.balcanicaucaso.org/en/cp_articl...

How the Western geopolitical discourse on Ukraine has changed over the past three decades (or maybe just past three years) but also the imagination of Ukraine as a geopolitical kingmaker remains intact. Left: Brzezinski 1994 (in Foreign Affairs) Right: Estonian FM Margus Tsahkna 2026 (in Euractiv)

#OTD in 1940, Maastricht, Holland. In an attempt to hinder the German advance, 43 Bristol Blenheims despatched, 11 were shot down. #WW2 #HISTORY

very much enjoyed reading this article by Leticia Durand and Juanita Sundberg on what the sargasso tells us about planetary changes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Borderland’, ‘frontier’, ‘bridge’, ‘buffer’, or ‘front line’: In political narratives, #Ukraine has long been denied its agency. However, it actively shapes the European security architecture today, writes political historian & @kiu-network.bsky.social#UkraineFellow Georgiy Kasianov in #ZOiS_Spotlight.

Smoke rising from Russia's Tuapse oil refinery is visible in new satellite imagery. This refinery and port have been targeted by Ukraine multiple times in the years since Russia's full-scale invasion.

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Gaëlle Le Pavic and I have researched geopolitical views in Georgia's communities affected by territorial conflicts and borderization. But we did it separately in our PhD and postdoc projects. Last year we joined forces and the result is this new publication: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7GI6...

Iran war redraws sea routes. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz as well as tensions in the Red Sea are reshaping trade routes, with Africa becoming a hub of global container ship traffic, according to logistics and maritime sources u.afp.com/Sae7

the only reason hawks say that is because jcpoa was negotiated by knicks

This was so good. The last sentence was a cherry on top.

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book: michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The most famous warm-up in football history. On this day in 1989, Napoli faced Bayern Munich at Olimpiastadion in Munich and Diego (inadvertently) created a piece of art for the ages 🥹

This guy

"I don't like the system", Dorottya Karsai It's been 14 years since this banger came out. It's been relevant every day since then and today it feels that this ever-lasting frustration is finally over (at least for a while until the euphoria inevitably ends) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSP8...

I believe the phrase is "Hang it in the Louvre"

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Very good account of what's just happened

This is Hungary's new electoral map. What a day!

The long-delayed 1954 victory

The best Hungarian election day thread

Where the wise men live: a view of #Persia from #Antwerp, ca. 1570 "Persici Sive Sophorum Regni Typus", an highly detailed map, part of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp: Gillis Coppens van Diest, 1571). NB: including the island of "Carge", i.e. Kharg.

Every single article covering Israel should start by mentioning that they dubbed yesterday's operations in Lebanon "eternal darkness." You know that so much has already been normalised when this isn't even a cause for outrage. 303 people, at least, were murdered yesterday by Israel.

Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this

A potential explosion in a country neighboring Hungary? That's unprecedented! Definitely requires emergency security measures!

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

We are recruiting two postdoctoral researchers (2.5 years, full-time) 📢 Preference for candidates working on the Caucasus and/or Central Asia, but applications focusing on other regions of the late Romanov Empire are also encouraged. 📅 Deadline: 4 May 👉 Apply: lnkd.in/dPejtfYs

As one lawyer from Chicago used to say, 'don't do stupid shit'.

Open call for the full ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on the Jerusalem Post. This is Israeli political culture, and as the author note: “This is not radical right-wing radicalism. It is merely sound and sober political science.” Genocide as as a science.

“We already know there’s a lot of dangerous objects out there – rockets and mines, drones and other explosives” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“We always say our biggest defence is the water around us”. @berkenboschk.bsky.social Have you seen them playing? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

You know who actually supports my work? Daycare workers. That's the industry that needs billions poured into, not tech and slop AI.

A comparison of pre-election opinion polling in Hungary now and 4 years ago: in 2022, all polls predicted a Fidesz victory (but underestimated the margin); In 2026, most polls show Tisza in the lead and only pro-Fidesz polls predict a Fidesz victory.

La photo immortalise l'échappée belle de trois soldats ukrainiens d'une position dans le secteur de Kostyantinivka. Ils y sont restés pendant 224 jours, sous le feu et les assauts ennemis, ravitaillés par drones. Ce n'est qu'hier qu'ils ont enfin eu l'occasion de s'en échapper.

From our FirstView article: Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE by DANIEL STEVEN SMITH. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Trump’s foreign policy has been described as imperialistic. “But what’s striking about Trump is his shrugging indifference to overseas outcomes,” Daniel Immerwahr writes. “You could call this regime-change nihilism; you can’t call it imperialism.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aBr9i7

I've been reading James Bond novels again and I think I've cracked the formula. Amazon, please take note for any movies you plan on making:

Apply by 25 March for two fully funded doctoral (PhD) positions: 🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research 🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament 👉 Full details and application instructions: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Just published a new article in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Topic is "Military Frontline Cities: Spatial and Temporal Perspectives on Urban Life under Enemy Threat" and it is based on observations in near-frontline areas of Ukraine (OA) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Brilliant and timely. This 👇🏻 is 👌🏻

Your reminder that polar bears are marine mammals. 🐻‍❄️ They spend much of their lives on sea ice, swim long distances, and depend on the ocean for survival. Scenes like this—gliding among belugas—are a beautiful glimpse of just how connected Arctic life really is. 🌊🐋

END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security "rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots" Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...

I blame the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Trump bombing Iran and everyone else. www.ft.com/content/e990...

back to the roving bandit era