Not sure nos. 5 and 6 are compatible.

If you’re a woman in academia you find these things out before you’ve even finished your PhD.

There's some good advice in this thread, but I'm going to offer another take on #6 here: The "best" (i.e. most prestigious) program you get into might not be the best fit for you, and you can still have a great career, even if you decide not to put status above everything else.

I finished my PhD 10 years ago here a few lessons I have learned after 10 years in academia. 1) If you don’t believe in yourself no matter what, this is not the business for you. 2) Only some universities give promotions to out of the box thinkers and disruptive thinkers. …

If the Reform Party plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain also abolishes settled status for EU citizens, that would be a breach of the withdrawal agreement, liable to lead to the EU retaliating by removing trade preferences.

Jimmy Kimmel returns tomorrow. This is an important victory for free speech. Remember that it was YOU all using your power TOGETHER that got a gigantic corporation to reverse itself. Bless everyone who participated in telling Mickey Mouse to fuck off.

Stock of potential EU substitute to Starlink. +540% in less than a week.

Sunday vibes www.imdb.com/list/ls02263...

Went to a dj set tonight. Good to unplug from the news cycle once in a while. Wondering how many of the people dancing around me are aware of the state the world is in.

There is a new narrative emerging in Canada 🇨🇦 about Canada joining the European Union. 🇪🇺 Worth discussing it at length but not on Saturday night.

This is a must read.

I started commenting foreign policy news on my Instagram stories www.instagram.com/gruniglobal

The UK indeed substituting the US as leader of the free world. We needed the UK back on the right side of history.

Macron: “We will need 10 years to free ourselves from American influence through massive local and European investment.” Cutting America adrift is now policy in Europe. 10 years might seem a long time but that’s everything gone. The US will start to see the repercussions quickly - trade, investment

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The pro-Putin Prime Minister of European Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze has vowed to 'eradicate' 'liberal fascism' from the country. The kind of word-mangling beloved of authoritarians everywhere.

A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign... www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ll try and think about this more in the coming days, but I’m not sure the South Korean coup has a whole lot of lessons for the US because the situations are so different. My knee-jerk reaction is if anything South Korea makes it clear how Trump may succeed where Yoon failed. 1/

Somewhere in Europe where I am hiding fighting the flu.

The Swedish war guide includes this section on psychological defence which is basically a guide against misinformation and fake news. Hopefully we do more against fake news before the worst happens.

Sweden is distributing these guides to citizens on how to behave in case of war. rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30...

Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Elon Musk’s X social media platform as concerns over its role in promoting violence and extreme content persist, a Reuters survey of forces’ social media output showed www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/eur...

“Bluesky could be on the verge of a turning point if it continues rapidly attracting users, said David Carr, a research editor at the internet analyst firm Similarweb. The app’s buzz is akin to the early days of Google…” Interview with @rose.bsky.team

In the end, interviews force politicians to make statements. So the German Foreign Minister did comment on the ICC: - We respect the independence of courts, national, EU and international ones - We have to abide by the law - We are analyzing everything else and I do not comment on hypotheticals /1

This.

Puzzled by the second season of Arcane. Some questionable plot choices and several crucial elements of the story that remain obscure. Epic final battle scene though.

Sure but if half a trillion dollars of Chinese exports to the US floods other markets overnight, there's every chance your governments will freak out and slap tariffs on them to stem the flow. There's also every chance the US freaks out as its exports are out-competed abroad.

Saw this on the web and I thought it is worth a share.

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Good morning Bluesky. Ready for a day at home with the flu. Any suggestions for series to watch? Thanks!

It's not only ICC judges that face political attack rather than legal criticism on the merits. The judges in Bologna that referred Italy's list of safe countries for repatriation to the CJEU received support by a protective vote (risoluzione per la tutela) of the Italian Council of Magistrates. /1

One of the main challenges after you have found a good job is maintaining a good work/life balance. I try to teach this to my students too.

Sadly, we need to get used to more of this. Climate change won’t be at the top of the international agenda in the coming years. Lack of political will and other priorities.

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Now that they destroyed their own neighborhood, the Maga/Elon trolls are rolling in to BlueSky. My recommendation is to block early, on the first offense, without explanation. Here are my rules why I block them: open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch? Asking for a friend.