Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Even if it is a "mistake," it can still be a war crime. A person who acts recklessly in causing disproportionate civilian deaths can be found to have acted “wilfully” and thus responsible for a war crime. Read "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Check out the February 2026 Issue of the International Journal of Maritime History journals.sagepub.com/toc/IJH/curr... The International Journal of Maritime History welcomes all readers to the first issue of 2026.

"Deutschland darf, wie jeder anderer Staat auch, keinerlei Unterstützung für völkerrechtswidrige Handlungen leisten. Sollte Ramstein also in den aktuellen Krieg eingebunden sein, müsste Deutschland dagegen zumindest protestieren." taz.de/Rechtsprofes...

Congratulations, you've been given more money than any country in world history to build a military that can launch missiles at any target on earth from the comfort of the Fox and Friends couch and you're "winning" against a failing third-rate theocratic shitocracy devastated by decades of sanctions

War Crimes McGee here doesn’t even know enough to understand he’s offering up a catalogue of failure

Coming in July: COVID Studies: A Reader. Includes an article I co-authored with Hyeonbin Park on animals & care in a pandemic. www.pennpress.org/978151282949...

Surely, they tried to save all survivors from the water, as required by IHL

Check out 'Sketching configurations of imperial sovereignty through nineteenth-century maritime safety' by Lukas Schemper doi.org/10.1177/0843... It investigates this hierarchical understanding by discussing examples of maritime safety in the context of colonialism and informal imperialism

After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"Virtually every challenge humanitarians face today has a deep historical context."

📖 A new special issue of @journalmaritime.bsky.social 🌊 , which I co-edited w/ H. Trüper, explores how maritime rescue 🛟 has historically been bound up with questions of sovereignty. If you’re interested in the history of saving lives at sea, have a look at our introduction shorturl.at/nBZM2 (1/7)

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

📖 A new special issue of @journalmaritime.bsky.social 🌊 , which I co-edited w/ H. Trüper, explores how maritime rescue 🛟 has historically been bound up with questions of sovereignty. If you’re interested in the history of saving lives at sea, have a look at our introduction shorturl.at/nBZM2 (1/7)

The organisation faces a potential rival in Donald Trump’s fledgling ‘Board of Peace’. But as a forum for US power, it would be a hard act to follow: ft.trib.al/qXuVZWL

In crisis, time is "of the essence". What does that imply for the typically slow production and mobilisation of expert knowledge? Here's a short piece in which I sum up & discuss the argument of my recent @risjnl.bsky.social article on UN rapid response mechanisms:

Greatly enjoyed designing & teaching a master’s seminar for the University of Vienna development studies department this past term on “The Sea as a Humanitarian Space". The outcome is a student blog w/ posts & podcasts – on topics they chose themselves: humanitariansea.hypotheses.org

I just learned of the passing of Akira Iriye two weeks ago. A treasured figure in international history and a great scholar of East Asia. Hard to think of many people who shaped the field as much as he did.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) has launched Phase 2 of its #FutureSAR initiative, funded by Lloyd's Register Foundation, to help search and rescue organisations prepare for the growing impact of climate change. Read more about the programme: https://loom.ly/A__ZT2Q

Advocacy, Inc. argues that as advocacy organizations are pressured to act like businesses, they risk ignoring the root causes of forced labor, allowing corporations to claim "hero" status while practices of labor exploitation continue unchecked in the global economy. https://ow.ly/zZTg50Y7PJk

🌐 How do Rapid Response Mechanisms at the UN affect the making & use of expertise? My new article @risjnl.bsky.social, part of a special issue by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, @uribejuanita.bsky.social & Leandro Montes Ruiz on sources of expert authority beyond objectivity 👇 tinyurl.com/yzn422nn

the schmaltzy piano music in the background is what really puts this clip over the top

The ICRC has launched an ambitious digitization programme that will facilitate access to funds collections and enable a truly global reach for our unique archival materials blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/...

tazeins zum Auftritt des US-Präsidenten beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos @taz.de

🚨 The Changing Global Orders Oral History Collection is now live! 🚨 #HistIR @oxmartinschool.bsky.social 🌍 A while back, for the Global Shocks podcast I spoke to former officials of a range of international organisations: EU, IMF, OECD, WHO, UN peacekeeping, Greenpeace, the ICRC ... 1/4

Full text without a login here. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

Forschungsförderung ist toll, oder? Nicht unbedingt. Es kann passieren, dass Forschungsförderung der Wissenschaft mehr Geld entzieht als bringt. Es ist ein wachsendes Problem, das wir endlich anpacken müssen. (Thread) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.

Irène Herrmann's new book is finally out link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Beobachtung von Karl Schlögel: "Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“

Utku Can Akın ile Petar Zoranić-World Harmony kazasına dair makalemiz YILLIK’ın yeni sayısında. Bizim için disaster studies’den yıkıntı estetiğine kadar uzanan uzun bir yolculuktu. Makaleye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

Nach zwei Jahrzehnten geht meine Zeit als ORF-Korrespondent nächsten Sommer vorbei. Ich habe dabei immer versucht, die Machtlosen nicht zu verletzen und mich nicht vor den Mächtigen zu verbiegen. Ich habe die arabische Welt widergespiegelt, wie sie ist, nicht wie man meint, dass sie zu sein hat 👇🏼

„Der empathische Erklärer des arabischen Nahen Ostens“ - so nennt @tessaszy.bsky.social den @gawhary.bsky.social und das trifft es sehr gut. www.falter.at/maily/202512...

My new book — Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction — is now available as an e-book (paperback in March 2026)! The book offers a concise history of humanitarianism in an international perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"Nearly one in ten Austrian consuls served in the United States during long 19th century, and expansion of the consular service and their activities in the U.S. accompanied the emergence of American midwestern metropoles..." Call for papers, Deadline 16 January. botstiberbiaas.org/call-for-pap...

@unescoibe.bsky.social has launched a new podcast, #OneHundred, on the occasion of its centenary - and I really enjoyed contributing to the first two episodes on intellectual aid during the Second World War. Listen here: Ep. 1 open.spotify.com/episode/1hRq... Ep. 2 open.spotify.com/episode/7vKw...

@unescoibe.bsky.social has launched a new podcast, #OneHundred, on the occasion of its centenary - and I really enjoyed contributing to the first two episodes on intellectual aid during the Second World War. Listen here: Ep. 1 open.spotify.com/episode/1hRq... Ep. 2 open.spotify.com/episode/7vKw...

Colonial tug-of-war: Shifting narratives and desirability of Indian minorities in Burma and Indochina doi.org/10.1080/0308... Paper in @jich.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Marly Tiburcio-Carneiro

My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Job: Full Professor "International History and Politics" (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159326 Geneva, , The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland, Bewerbungsschluss: …

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

🚀 Launching today: a new project in partnership with the University of Cologne will explore the impact of the 1990s on global governance.

Great to be a part of this: