Getting ready to explain to my MAGA relatives that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism this holiday season after explaining that no, public school nurses’ offices were not performing sex changes last year…

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

Live footage of me trying to stay up to date on US news

Spending hours cleaning up Zotero, knowing I’m just gonna add more messy downloads later this afternoon… …for a moment, it was really beautiful

Still a few more days to submit an abstract!

"In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal: The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials." -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Abortion bans worsen intimate partner violence, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. There was ~9,000 additional incidents of IPV in states that limit abortion rights in 2023 vs 2017. That adds up to $1.24 billion in additional social costs.

Call for Abstracts! Disrupting your daily doom-scroll to share the call for ILW 2025's Emerging Voices Panel. ABILA provides *full funding* specifically for junior scholars to come present their research at ILW 😱 Consider submitting an abstract and pls reach out with any questions!

Tell me you study IR without telling me you study IR. I’ll go first: I just explained Greggs as “sausage roll hegemony”

Can someone PLEASE tell me the point of endnotes I just don’t get it

Got a text from my dad: “best Father’s Day present ever!” with a picture. It was worms. My brother got him worms for his compost bin and he’s delighted about it.

Harold Koh: “What I’ve learned from my dad, from my wife, from my family is that courage is contagious. So is cowardice. What you decide is a choice. And when your moment come—and believe me, it will—please make sure that the decision you make is one you can live with."

Show us your writing process in a gif.

This is pretty dystopian futurism.com/facebook-bea...

Announcing: the International Law Weekend 2025 Organizing Committee! Including @jesspeake.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, @corrarino.bsky.social, @ewickeri.bsky.social, @freyadw.bsky.social and @leilasadat1.bsky.social www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...

I have exactly one skill, and it’s being able to pick up a large suitcase and go “that’s just under 23 kgs”

New paper alert 🚨 Now up @ssrn.bsky.social is "Experiential Expertise: What Lived Experience Can Teach" forthcoming in BU L. Rev. It explores the contours of experiential expertise—what is it? how is it formed? how should it inform the law? Would love any feedback! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Me to me: you will not take on any more commitments until your first-year defense is over Also me, currently:

“Privacy advocates have long warned that the risk of entrusting genetic data to any institution is twofold—the organization could fail to protect it, but it could also hand over customer data to a new entity that they may not trust and didn’t choose.” www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I guess Cambridge knew it was the solstice today bc spring is SPRINGING

Turns out doing a PhD is just thinking “ah yes, this is a great idea for a thesis,” followed immediately by “wtf were you thinking you imbecile” over and over again until you either graduate or die

📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.

Sometimes I think it’s not obvious I’m from the literal woods, then I’ll use a fishing or hiking analogy and be like…ah nope there it is

Really glad I picked a PhD topic that has me just *steeping* in the details of the fall of the American democratic experiment. Doing wonders for my mental health.

I just learned a flock of penguins is called a “waddle” and for a moment, all feels right with the world

Kendrick really just said “the revolution’s about to be televised / you picked the right time but the wrong guy” directly to a super-dome stadium of republicans and trump

Thrilled to share my latest article on AI and the crime of aggression is out with the JICJ! And thanks to @cambridgeuni.bsky.social it is also open access!

Just to say the quiet part out loud, the point of having unelected judges in a democracy is so that *whether* acts of state are “legitimate” can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them. Vermeule knows this, of course. So does Vance.

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

Live footage of me trying to keep track of all the new attacks on repro rights while writing an up-to-date chapter about repro rights

Me for the 20 mins the sun came out today between a hail and a rain storm

I’m just a girl. Standing in front of other girls. Literally begging them to stop spoon-feeding their personal medical info to tech giants.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

I have to add an amendment to my longstanding hatred of Marmite. With cheese, in a warm baked good? Actually quite excellent.

Opening your laptop after the holidays is like Christmas all over again. What fun little tabs did past-me leave open and why?? Let’s spend the next 40 hours finding out

We are advertising a PhD student position in polisci for research on democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation. Come join a great team on a critical question of our times! Deadline: 6 February👇 www.su.se/english/abou...

Me in life generally: be patient with everyone you encounter bc you never know what someone’s going thru Me in an airport security line: is your jacket soldered to your body or what???

2024 was pretty nuts. Quit my job in BigLaw to start a PhD, moved across the Atlantic, learned I have no idea how to write a thesis, traveled some new places, & fulfilled my dream of eating too many full English breakfasts. Will she discover how to write a thesis in 2025? We’ll find out together

The new Syrian administration has just appointed economist Maysaa Sabrine as the interim head of the Central Bank of Syria. She is the first woman to lead the bank in its 71 year history. Encouraging. #Syria

A man who lived a good life and made the lives of others indisputably better. Ní bheidh a leithead arís ann.

Me 4 months ago: “yeah mom I can totally handle cooking Christmas dinner when you and dad visit” Me, currently:

Brits: Our train system is so god awful, it’s a national embarrassment, what a pitiful excuse for a— Americans: OH MY GOD TRAAAAINS 😍😍😍😍

Me: *opens instagram to distract from spiraling in writers block* Instagram: “Ever wonder how you could adopt a highland cow??”

I didn’t think this stuff could still surprise me

Shoutout to @csullivan.bsky.social for responding to my “I have no idea how to write a thesis” with “Nobody who has never written a thesis knows how to write a thesis.“ Idk who needs to hear this but there ya go

Brain: “do it” Me: “no ill think of another example” Brain: “you must” Me: *sighs* *inserts footnote* The footnote: See, e.g., the filming of Central Park Amy…

One of the articles I'm most proud of is now out in the world as the lead article in the latest volume of the Minnesota Law Review thanks to its wonderful editors. Co-authoring it w/ Rell Carter fundamentally altered how I think about the production of knowledge. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Guys let’s all make a pact…no 👏🏻 more 👏🏻 endnotes 👏🏻