I teach politics & IR. This was an (anonymous) end-of-term feedback from an undergrad student: "too opinionated" and should have spoken less about Trump and Palestine. I'm taking it as a compliment 😆

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism - cup.org/3S2Rhxx - @debfrombrazil.bsky.social & @casaroes.bsky.social #FirstView #Populism

Monday morning...

The artist is present #marinaabramovic

Latin America inspired embroidery #TorresGarcia

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

Greenland, a.k.a la Patagonia del Norte Bienvenidos, hermanos!

📢 New Article! | Global power is shifting. How is that changing norms in global trade governance? ENSURED's @claraweinhardt.bsky.social (@maastrichtu.bsky.social) & @debfrombrazil.bsky.social (University of New South Wales-Sydney) in @ripejournal.bsky.social. 👇

Just made this #embroidery

bienvenidos, hermanos del Norte #canada

"The institutional guardrails will protect democracy"

Big if true: Australia is in ASEAN (according to the guy nominated for US Secretary of Defense) #ASEAN

Indonesia is the newest BRICS (Plus) member (Turkey is also looking to join) www.gov.br/planalto/en/... #BRICS

Dear Nerd Santa, thanks for the early Xmas present: an acceptance in @ripejournal.bsky.social ! (written with the amazing @claraweinhardt.bsky.social )

It was MOOCs 15 years ago. Now, it's AI. Wonder what silver bullet the higher-ed consultants and tech set will offer next that will simultaneously lower standards for students and increase workloads for instructors.

From the excellent @casaroes.bsky.social ww.americasquarterly.org/article/bols...

One step closer to Bolsonaro in jail for an attempted coup, as the Federal Police released a 900+ page document detailing investigations. Becoming harder and harder for Bolsonaro & close allies to deny their direct involvement. Brazil is doing what the US failed to do.

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

I wonder if folks who research US or (wealthy) European countries are asked to justify their case study choice as frequently as those who work on Latin American countries... 🤔 (kind of a genuine question) #IR #politics #research

finally a reasonable take

to me sentindo de mudança para uma nova cidade onde nao conheço ngm