In case someone was still wondering… The illegality is blatant but seems to be irrelevant, at least for now.

Delighted to write the introduction to the @cambridgecria.bsky.social forum on @itallgren.bsky.social's wonderful prize-winning book, Portraits of Women in International Law. Congratulations Immi and all the contributors! 👏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please, someone wake me up from this nightmare!

Iran FFM has released powerful report & further findings following its 2 yr inv into repression of "Woman, Life, Freedom” protests following death of Jina Mahsa Amini. It makes crucial rec's on accountability & reparations www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies... incl resort to universal jurisdiction.

Looking forward to this event and meeting again the formidable Nahed Samour. Should you wish to join, please note that the registration closes tomorrow (25th Feb). allevents.in/helsinki/sem...

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

🎙️ Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Miranda Melcher for the New Book Network. 📡 🤓 Check out our conversation about histories of international thought "without men" here: newbooksnetwork.com/erased

It is getting harder and harder to look at these moves and find evidence of cost cutting. Cancelling contracts with the Institute of Education Sciences is what you'd do if you wanted to control the information environment around schools, which is a fundamentally different goal.

With our Tracker, we are now following 41 cases 1. Immigration and citizenship 2. Structure of government/personnel 3. Federal assistance 4. Civil liberties 5. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility 6. Removal of information from government websites 7. Actions against FBI employees

This piece is strongly worded and correct but still understates the seriousness of the US constantly making noises about its own territorial aggrandizement--as against Canada, Greenland, Panama, and now Gaza. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

All empires fall, one day. Let’s hope this caricature of a greedy idiot is the beginning of an end.

Great progress to report: with weekly lessons and daily Duolingo my Korean is just exploding. ’The ant’s newspaper” - must be very useful in Seoul? Yesterday I learned ”on the cucumber”… Seoul here I come! #Korean

Where to find feelings of accomplishment and enthusiasm these scary days? I started to study a totally new language. Teaches humbleness - I have been repeating the alphabet for a week. Just today managed my first sentence: “yes, I have a dog”!

A new morning, and I’m trying to settle in here for real. Have to stop using X and FB/Meta, their leaders/owners make me nauseous, since a long time. So, what’s going on? How are you doing? What are you up to?

"Vergeltung" oder "Abschreckung" sind keine völkerrechtlichen Kategorien. Gastkommentar von mir zur Eskalation zwischen dem Iran und Israel für @derstandardat.bsky.social www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Published today! Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Uncontrolled Crossings - By Anne Montenach, Professor of early modern history at the University of Aix-Marseille Warmest congratulations, Anne, from @deborahsimonton.bsky.social and me #c18th 🗃 #skystorians

This is a incredibly well-written, thoughtful, clear, and honest paper that resonated so deeply with me- and so many other women. Thank you Dr. Riley. I have so many stories. I sometimes balance my desire to punch these dudes in the mouth with knowing they have tiny pe...rspectives. It helps.

From local Indigenous communities to downwinders to the hibakusha, there are many stories still to discover after watching Oppenheimer, writes Alexandra F. Levy in Perspectives on History. 🗃️

Temporary home street - Firenze by night.

A great new book, What is Structural Injustice?, co-edited by Jude Browne & Maeve McKeown was just published by OUP. It's Open Access. It includes a brilliant list of authors. I have a chapter on 'Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work'. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Morgen online & vor Ort: "Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt an der neoliberalen Hochschule". Vortrag von Heike Pantelmann i. d. Ringvorlesung "Geschlecht, Ethnizität, Kultur: Macht, Gewalt & Wissenschaft", 17:30, Uni Innsbruck, Campus Innrain HS 4. www.uibk.ac.at/de/geschlech...

Hei! A new arrival, again… what is happening here and how?