So in summary: - reversion to something like Obama’s nuclear deal - hardline Iranian leadership remains in place - Iran gets to charge ships passing the Strait - US has massively depleted its arms stockpiles That’s what’s been achieved here, right?

And thousands of civilians were killed in the process.

The idea of the world's most powerful people sitting on the toilet with their phone and making credible threats of genocide with a literal countdown while their massive network of collaborators either looks away or says "yeah makes sense"...truly unbelievable

Even if he doesn’t drop a single bomb, the threat itself is violence. Iranians are walking around terrified today. It’s emotional warfare. I can’t imagine many things more cruel than giving someone a countdown clock to their death.

🌏 Do #climate commitments reduce #poverty? 📊 Szedlacsek, Blondeel & Pattberg find weak links between #NDCs and #SDG1 across 49 Sub-Saharan African countries. Poverty Engagement Score suggests low potential for poverty reduction. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just your average day in this completely dysfunctional timeline when one world leader tells another to STFU www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

There is also a large sample of academics partnered with software developers, who can basically get a job anywhere and have decent job security. As a bonus, either their work is so niche that it's fine yours is too, or you code and can talk about (and get help on) code! Can highly recommend.

I... NO 😵

So-called Australia has always been like this but man has it gotten worse in the past few years

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

Sexist and transphobic abuse is escalating. This is what happens when you create a political culture obsessed with policing people’s sex.

Truly one of my favourite corners of the internet, thanks @terriblemapshq.bsky.social

Hi, I have diagnosed c-PTSD and this is true and if you suck at tetris, any bright coloured fast game requiring rapid eye movement and decision making will do! it also helps if you witness something triggering and are trying to stave off an episode

2026 basically

Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #polisky #academicsky

Can more conferences look at offering childcare? It would make attendance so much more feasible for parents of young kids. Looking at ISA's model it could just involve partnering with a local child-minding organisation. @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprgender.bsky.social @europeanisa.bsky.social #academicsky

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

it's surreal to be living through events that you absolutely know are showing up in history textbooks all over the place in 20-30 years

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

Sure, let's ask the Trump regime's murderous masked thugs to come over to Europe and "help with security" - wtf?

A lot of people really believe that the systems of domination they're invested in are the natural order of things.

Australia Day is such bullshit. NSW proclamation day at best. At worst a celebration of the crimes of colonisation. If you have to acknowledge that the day is a source of pain for many, that’s a damn good sign it’s a shit day to have as your national day.

One of the biggest differences in parenting toddlers in warmer vs. colder places seems to be in winter, where in colder places everything takes approximately 173x as long because you have to manage a million layers, accessories, and many feelings about each individual item of clothing

I don't know what was intended but the concept of the Jewish community 'reclaiming' or 'taking back' any part of any part of so-called Australia is deeply problematic. Australia is Aboriginal land. We are never invited to take back our land.

Aramco have acquired a majority stake in chemicals + plastics firm SABIC, + bought into huge Chinese plastics + chemicals projects from Korea to Texas, with the aim that production of plastics 'would drive nearly half of oil-demand growth by mid-century': www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies. This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

I genuinely thought this post was a metaphor for the world we currently live in. Apparently it is actually a real life [ducknapping?] and everyone is okay (unlike the world we currently live in)

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

This is an amazing study and thread and everyone should read about this cow scratching itself with a broom

"There are those that believe the power of law should be replaced by the law of power" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Full article: When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It would be funny how explicitly they try to poke around with borders if it didn't have terrifying implications for the safety of Palestinians in the area www.bbc.com/news/article...

"How does settler colonialism shape world politics?" Federica Caso's latest article explores this question through a critical examination of Australia as a case study. It's #OpenAccess on our website ⤵️ buff.ly/IDLQKIk

A good argument that framing China's actions in Africa e.g. aid as "imperialist" absolves the West of critique for its violent colonialism. Though "there are reasons to criticise the activities of Chinese firms in Africa" and let's not forget China's imperialism and violence in other regions.

The news of Adelaide Writers' Week is even in Swedish media now. The silencing of Palestinian voices is a global problem.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

I think about this a lot. Social scientists often write with real-world utility in mind and it's something I aim for in all my research, but who uses the evidence we produce? It's exhausting constantly having to justify the relevance of your own work.

I can scarcely believe the mask has already fallen off Musk. His white nationalism is out there for the world to see yet people still support Xitter and buy Teslas. Is it too hard for you to fight white nationalism when capitalism and your convenience is on the line? Is that it?

Summary of what's going on with Adelaide Writers' Week, where most speakers have now withdrawn and half the board has resigned

The Climate Risk Assessment report predicts 1.5 million Australians will be affected by sea level rise within 25 years. Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks how the report predicts climate change will affect the economy: https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/

"In 2025, frequent and severe thunderstorms & the Los Angeles wildfires drove U.S. disaster damage costs above $100 billion, reaching that level for the fifth time in the past six years..without a single hurricane striking U.S. shores for the first time in a decade." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/c...

The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year. We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.

This is like me talking to my toddler, "do you want to do it the easy way or the hard way?" Who knew it would prepare me for understanding current international geopolitical tensions

Omg he didn't