And while I have your attention, @journalhumanrights.bsky.social is the journal's Bluesky account. Please follow! I've assured the rest of the board that bluesky is *the* place where it's all happening, so we'd love to see some more connections and activity here for the journal 😊

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope! Museo di Antichità, Turin 📷 by me #Archaeology

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

Exciting news - from mid June, I'll be serving as Co-Editor in Chief for the Australian Journal of Human Rights! Very excited to take on this new role in such a supportive and brilliant team of colleagues. @austhumanrights.bsky.social

Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:

We have a national discourse premised on asylum seekers being undeserving or “bogus”, which allows people to evade the fact that restricting the right to asylum leads inexorably to death & torture. Should the BBC give such prominence to stories which reinforce these attitudes? 5/

"Language education is never neutral...that truth is written into every lesson.. because a group ..refused to accept their language had no place in schools & built that place themselves, against a policy landscape that hadn't foreseen them" @martinderince.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳 These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

Got myself a "hybrid"

📣 📣You can read the first chapter of my book for FREE until May 10 here: academic.oup.com/book/62224/c...

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳 These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

@leemurray.bsky.social 🙊

Just a bit of throw-back here, to my blog post from 2023, when BRS lost his defamation trial over media reporting of allegations of his #warCrimes (he lost the appeal in 2025). Investigators were in the court during that trial. This investigation has taken yrs. opiniojuris.org/2023/06/02/t...

For non Australian friends, here's a thread on a very significant arrest in Australia of a senior and decorated military figure for alleged war crimesb in Afghanistan. This is one with a big back story, including whistle blowing and a big defamation case.

A wonderful reminder that good people are the baseline. Everything else is the abberation, and it can be changed for the better.

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

A core strand of my research is language in asylum procedures, policy, and public discourse. In my ongoing efforts to make research accessible, I've gathered all my "traditional" and other publications, in one place - a project page on the Law and Language website. It includes open access links! 🙌

(It will shock exactly none of you to learn that the only Artemis astronaut who doesn't have kids is also the only woman on the mission.)

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

Quote posted to add ALT to these two images. Thank you for supporting James, Australian Cartoonists Association! 💜

Periodic share of this thread of my publications and where you can access them for free 🤗 Also periodic reminder: researchers *love* to share their work with people who want to read it, so if you're ever having trouble accessing something, I warmly encourage you to contact the author directly

Really interesting little historical snapshot 👇🏽

Pride Sports is bitterly disappointed to see the IOC’s new policy on genetic testing in the female category and sees this as a significant attack on inclusive women’s sport. PS believes the policy is scientifically flawed, unethical, undermining of human rights and harmful to women and girls.

And we wonder why the wars just keep coming...

As someone who has lodged complaints with the NACC, I know how it feels to report serious corruption concerns and be met with total silence for months and even years. This inquiry is a chance for the public to finally get a voice. Details here www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

#ERSNew 🐣 Integration isn’t just about minority-majority relations. New research by Muhammet Öksüz & @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social shows Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands, while facing othering, also reproduce those same boundaries across generations to hold onto a "middle" status.

Ready to hear French friends' takes on election results

Results are about to start being announced in France. Read my thread for city by city context. And use my spreadsheet to follow the results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social at UNSW Law & Justice is excited to offer two PhD scholarships in law to examine the role of evacuations in different contexts. Applications due 18 May 2026; details here: www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

First they came for the hummus and now this...

Today I introduced the White Australia Policy and its dictation test to primary school students (aged 8 to 13). They had to attempt a real dictation test. The verdict: way too hard. The way it was used: totally unfair. #HarmonyWeek

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Three years ago a series of racist threatening letters were sent to the Victorian Greens. They were covered in white supremacist hate, swastikas and explicit threats against my life and my family. They were reported to police. But as far as I know nothing came of it 🧵 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

"Victoria Police said police did not arrest the alleged attacker at the scene, instead asking him "to move on". "A petition online asking federal member for Ballarat Catherine King, Ballarat Mayor Tracey Hargreaves and Ballarat police to take the matter seriously has received 252 signatures." ✍️ 👇

The ideology that fuelled the Christchurch terrorist was built over decades of Islamophobia. Decades of Muslims being portrayed as dangerous. Decades of politicians and the media telling us that Muslims are a threat to the so-called ‘Australian way of life’.

The Albanese Labor Government has allowed a few women from Iran to seek safety here, then slammed the door on thousands.

Practicing writing is practicing thinking

I can write good abstracts not because I have a natural talent for it but because I have spent twenty years consciously practicing it. The only way to get good at something is to keep working through the part where you're not good at it … yet. cf. james.grimmelmann.net/files/advice...

"Time is running out for the Iranian women’s football team as fears for their safety grow"

📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement. If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal: robodebtsettlement.com.au

This is a hugely important story: everyone concerned with learning and truth should read it. Presented with prompts about a lesser-known turn-of-the-last-century composer, an LLM produces a nice, clear readable evaluation of her Symphony No. 1 - which DOESN'T EXIST. Everything is made up. 😵‍💫

In my ongoing aim of making my research more accessible, I thought I'd compile a thread of where you can find my publications in open access form, and also some TLDR summaries. Will pin this somewhere for future reference! I'll do it chronologically as a way of mapping my research journey too... 🧵

A good reminder: one person's perception and experience of European countries may be very different from another's.

...in the case of message sticks, certain 'simple' objects with low information in terms of entropy can be involved in communications that have very high information content. This is because not all info is encoded in marks but in shape, timber species, orality, kinship identities and institutions

Native title holders in the Northern Territory have been awarded more than $54 million in compensation for the impacts of large-scale mining on their country, in just the second case of its kind in Australian history.

Food part two today: get yourself a 9 year old kid who's been wanting to make pickled octopus for ages. "This is the best day ever". (I did nothing other than take this photo)