Short piece by Tobias Ide on how horribly wrong AI bots are when asked to analyze research, in this case around climate security. I found when dealing with environmental security, it keeps referring back to ideas from the 1990s, most long since discredited www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/hall...

JUST RELEASED! The July issue of NBR's quarterly journal ASIA POLICY features content on #nontraditionalsecurity, #SoutheastAsia, #UStariffs, #ChinaMiddleEast engagement #NorthKoreaRussia relations, #Taiwan's #DefenseIndustry, the #IndianOcean, and more! www.nbr.org/publication/...

Great catching up with @adbcook.bsky.social over spicy Indonesian food!

Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social! Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026... Please feel free to share further 😊 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

Hang on, Bartholomew Roberts was Welsh too. You're telling me a Welsh pirate went out on the high seas only to get captured by another Welsh pirate? Ni ellir dianc rhag Hon etc.

Myanmar/Thailand: new Shan Human Rights Foundation report details new signs of rare earth mining in southern Mong Hsat only 25 kms from Thai border per latest sat imagery.

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

The UK child citizenship fee is one of the highest in Europe: £1,214. Many kids who have British citizenship rights are missing out because their families cannot afford the fee. I’ve tabled an amendment that would stop children being priced out of citizenship in the country they call home.

S. Nanthini and I have published an RSIS Policy Report analysing Southeast Asian humanitarian responses to the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria in February 2023, and the potential for One ASEAN One Response outside the region. rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...

This article probably won’t excite readers as much as stories about drone warfare, Ukrainian battlefields or Chinese naval task groups. However, civil-military relations are more important than any of these subjects. My latest at @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Here is my piece for @foreignpolicy.com on Myanmar’s earthquake and its political aftershocks “Myanmar needs more than charity: It needs solidarity and sustained pressure for the freedom that its people have died for.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/16/m...

Wait until they found out how many economist plagiarized "We leverage a novel instrumental variable that is plausibly exogenous."

Touchdown in Chcago for #ISA2025 with S. Nanthini. If you have time to catch up, let us know. Presenting on Southeast Asian (SEA) responses to Turkiye and Syria EQ 2023, SEA Military cooperation in HADR, Military Humanitarianism in SEA: Through a Women Peace and Security lens. @isanet.bsky.social

50 free e-copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FBFBI...

"If you stay in Myanmar, you will be drafted into the military & die. If you flee to Thailand because you fear being conscripted and are arrested by Thai police and deported, you will be sent to the military & die" Grim choice for many from Myanmar & the thai amnesty scheme is expensive & has risks

Really looking forward to speaking soon as this SSA Sri Lanka event in Colombo on some of the research I've been doing with Prof Lee Jones on China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt restructuring.

Ian Holliday, Aung Kaung Myat and I investigate recent #humanitarian engagement in #Myanmar. We conducted key stakeholder interviews to capture internal and external perspectives on the dynamics of humanitarian action. For free e-copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DXFZJ... #Burma

What Facebook called “fact-checking” was a pale imitation of the real thing, @ibogost.bsky.social writes. Good riddance!

Our article on why Southeast Asian countries are missing their disaster reduction targets and what can be done about it is out now. Are we supposed to use hashtags? #ASEAN #Indonesia #Sendai #SGD www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GUXFG...

Intersting development and underlines we still need a better approach to academic publishing www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Our article on why Southeast Asian countries are missing their disaster reduction targets and what can be done about it is out now. Are we supposed to use hashtags? #ASEAN #Indonesia #Sendai #SGD www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GUXFG...

Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

The United States forced the independent Famine Early Warning System to withdraw a report warning of famine in north Gaza.

Why do we talk to all sides of a conflict? Because it saves lives.

Since this platform is new-ish, I will post the stuff that I published this year and I am not terribly ashamed of. Alongside the wisely offline Asli Bali and the amazing Chisato Kimura we wrote a short framing piece for our symposium on TWAIL and sanctions yjil.yale.edu/posts/2024-0...

I filled in for @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social this week with a Data Points column on why fears that deepfakes would cause election chaos this year turned out to be - mostly - overblown on.ft.com/4gy9i1c

What began as a promise of refuge has now turned into a prolonged exile, leaving the Nicobarese stranded between a past they mourn and a present they cannot accept.

A regular reminder that if you are new here, and interested in #digitalrights in #humanitarian response or #tech in #conflict and #disaster, I have a starter pack to help you putting together a nice feed go.bsky.app/JSerFH6

Things I didn't know: Henry Lloyd (1718–1783)..."ended his career as a general, commanding an army for Russia’s Catherine the Great. His legacy is that it was this Welsh-speaker who wrote the first theoretical study of military strategy, establishing it as a subject that could be taught."

Two decades after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami claimed more than 230,000 lives across 14 countries, researchers and authorities have scaled up efforts to safeguard lives from such deadly events #climate #disaster #DRR

Here's the second article in Special Issue on Humanitarian action and policy. Lina Gong on #China #humanitarian engagement and Beijing's moderate shift to using humanitarian affairs as #diplomacy. Will put in a thread once all are available. doi.org/10.1080/1751...

It's great to see this out in the world: Lim and Wickeri on Humanitarianism in #SouthAsia. It's part of a forthcoming Special Issue on #Humanitarian action and policy in Asia. Not sure if I'm supposed to hashtag on here so giving it a crack! #Afghanistan #disaster #refugees doi.org/10.1080/1751...

The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami sparked the world’s largest humanitarian and disaster recovery effort. But 20 years on, governments still fail to sufficiently integrate disaster reduction into longer-term strategic thinking.

The Karen National Union claims it has recaptured the Karen “capital” of Manerplaw, which it lost to the Myanmar military in 1995.

Latest UK universities to post deficits: St Andrews (-£13m), York (-£9m), Leicester (-£8.3m), Brunel (-£13m), Hull (-£17.3m), Surrey (-£17.9m). Plus King's (-£19m), Nottingham (-£17m), Open University (-£10.3m), UEA (-£7.6m) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/york-an... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Martha Hughes Cannon, a Welsh-American politician born in Llandudno, Wales, was recently recognised by a statute in Emanicaption Hall in Washington, DC and a plaque in Llandudno as 1st woman elected to state senate in USA and dedicated suffragist. newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/mart...

I've been given additional free e-copies of our journal article on Humanitarian action in the Asia-Pacific during COVID-19: new challenges, modalities, and cooperation to share: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/E4FZD...

Zwitter and Landicho on AI in Humanitarian Action: Understanding the Digital Divide and Humanitarian Principles. Need to address (1) Digital divide and risk to humanitarian principles; (2) robust governance and strategies to empower communities and build resilience. www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...

We recently launched an edited collection titled "Disasters and Humanitarian Action" to reflect upon the evolution of the humanitarian system, challenges and changes since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and contemporary issues in late 2024. For more info: www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

With rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, of course, there is a new series of NCIS based in Sydney and focused around AUKUS. I'm just a year late!

I think it's healthy to be wary of any sort of 'collapse of the junta is imminent' take, but this from Myanmar Now collating the big 'wins' is very helpful regardless myanmar-now.org/en/news/ther...

Commentary | Nyi Nyi Kyaw outlines political challenges facing the leadership of Myanmar's Spring Revolution: "we need to analyze this problem of leadership deficit in the country’s politics more deeply, looking for structural roots and personality issues." criticalasianstudies.org/commentary/2...

This is probably a good opportunity to reshare Lee Jones and my article in International Affairs from earlier this year, where we explained China's role in the stalemate over debt restructuring academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

No. No we are not. Vaccines already won the debate when they saved lives.

"My job is flags"

Check out this super useful resource page in which @aidnography.de is summarizing each chapter of our handbook - as of now chapters 1 through 7, more to come aidnography.blogspot.com/2024/04/hand...