My first attempt at a blog is now live. Check out my substack here: open.substack.com/pub/jamiewit...

desperately begging my students to send me nicotine/monster energy drink/hangover fueled late-night written work instead of clanker garbage

Found the shooter’s shirt at a thrift in Germany lol

seems timely

wake up babe, new propaganda dropped youtu.be/kh4VNPxOzu8?...

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📖 ONP is delighted to be featured in the most recent Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on Youth, disarmament and non-proliferation. Learn more about ONP's contributions here 👉 digitallibrary.un.org/record/40866...

🇩🇪 ONP Doctoral Research Fellow @jamiewithorne.bsky.social will be with our friends down in Hamburg, Germany for the next three months! Jamie is a visiting research fellow at IFSH. Read more: ifsh.de/en/staff/wit...

me: what year was that document released? NATO: yes.

🇩🇪 Excited to announce that I'm in Germany for the next couple of months as a visiting research fellow with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)! The plan is: write, pretzel, beer, repeat 😉

Great to have @szakonyi.bsky.social present his new book project in the keynote speech at the WhoGov 2025 workshop at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social ! The last two days have been full of exciting presentations on elite research by a great group of researchers!

Really interesting new article out by Adelina Andersen on Norwegian intelligence sharing and alliance implications: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌟 Welcome back, everyone! 🌟 A new semester means new opportunities and new connections. We’re excited to kick things off and share updates, resources, and events with you throughout the upcoming year. 📌 Follow us here to stay in the loop!

The Marie Curie fellowship at the IAEA will open on 1 Sept. This is a funding opportunity for women pursuing nuclear-related graduate school. www.iaea.org/services/key...

Two great new articles out in IS today: "The US-China Stability-Instability Paradox" by the wonderful Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø "Keeping pace with the times" by Wu Riqiang direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

🚀 Just launched my personal website: jamiewithorne.com It brings together my research, LearnWMD content, and a new Substack featuring OSINT tutorials, satellite imagery updates on nuclear developments, and academic insights with policy relevance.

that dreadful moment when you come across a PhD diss topic that is so much more interesting than your own

does anyone else get really patchy GE imagery of Severomorsk post Sept. 2021? (hashtag OSINT sky or however the hell I'm supposed to tag topics here.)

Sad news from the alma mater

it's not every day that you accidentally find yourself quoted on a CIA webpage lol

I recently had my commentary on emerging technologies and nuclear nonproliferation published by the H-Diplo policy forum. Give it a read here: issforum.org/policy-round...

Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/

I am once again reminding people that I do not like Elbridge Colby and I do not think his policies are smart. othermeans.io/p/the-strate...

“What are you going to do after your PhD???”

Hoping to reduce travel barriers so that we can provide a comfortable environment for a diverse cohort of participants!

Love that this in a pretty ~visa neutral~ place.

I just said “oh I’m afraid the air conditioner is going to make me sick” which means I now have full European citizenship rights. Right?

If someone asks “do you know where the uranium is?” And the answer *isn’t* a resounding yes… that’s a bad sign.

But what does it say when two of the most amazing military operations in modern memory are still unable to fully eliminate Iran's nuclear program? I think that's proof that this is tactical brilliance may be in service of a foolhardy strategy. 14/17

What a time to be alive. The president of the United States doing battle damage assessment via sketchy OSINT accounts. I had blocked this particular account some time ago.

Interested in a PhD? Come be my colleague! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

idk seems relevant

Jeg har vært på Ekko og snakket litt om diktatorer før og nå, og NRKs serie Tyrann: radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/M...

My comments in ABC Nyheter on the latest Iran nuclear negotiations (norsk): www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/usa-...

The history of real-time satellite imagery, beginning with KH-11 KENNEN in 1976. The film era ends in 1986: "The last HEXAGON satellite explodes above its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The era of film-return technology is over." www.thespacereview.com/article/5003/1

Event: "Does Europe need an alternative to the US nuclear umbrella?" 0900-1015, 18 June, Sentralen, Oslo. I am looking forward to discussing this question with @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, and organizer Henrik Hiim (IFS). Please find more information and registration below:

Jeg har en kronikk i @aftenposten.no i dag om at Kina ikke er supermakten du tror den er. Tidligere har jeg skrevet mye om at Kina ikke matcher USA militært. Ny forskning viser at USA også er økonomisk overlegen. Les mer her: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Do you or someone you know have a book about nuclear weapons coming out this fall? If so, let me know!

Historical shift up North in Norway.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

NOW: Fighter jet crashes in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, during Nordic Defence Ministers meeting

Our May issue is OUT NOW! ➡️ Special section on boundary work & the (un)making of global cooperation 🏳️‍🌈 7 articles on LGBTQ+ rights, the conversative global order and more 📊 3 policy papers on peace in Yemen, the WTO in crisis and more 📚25 book reviews Read now: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3

doing a phd!

doing a phd!

pls help

Fascinating new @tnsr.org article by @jjjcameron.bsky.social about history of US/Soviet arms control but also about the broader concept of strategic stability and how it gets invoked and used politically

🚨 New initiative alert! We're launching a $10.2M collaborative fund to reduce nuclear dangers. Learn more about the consortium, grant opportunity, and why now is the time for #philanthropy to step up. carnegie.io/3GmKDj2

Next week Tuesday, 22 April, from 15:00–16:00 CET (09:00–10:00 ET), @marksbell.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing research on European nuclear deterrence in the post-American nuclear age as part of an ONP Seminar. Sign-up link below. www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/... 1/2

I feel bad for the cute PhD insta content creator sat next to me who has witnessed me: vibrate from caffeine intake, stare blankly into the abyss, write one sentence then immediately google “outdoor pub near me open now,” publicly crash out on social media, repeat.