** Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction ** is officially published today! Happy to have this new little book out in the world. For more info: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

@lowyinstitute.bsky.social how do you choose which interpreter articles to post on here?

Latest op-ed in The Interpreter on the direction of travel in the humanitarian reset’: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Martin Searle”s article “Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution: saving which lives?” Is free access for a limited time in special issue “Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia: Analysing Challenges, Exploring Opportunities” Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Qiang Zhang , Lina Gong et al.’s article “South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake” is free access for a limited time in our special issue. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Assistant / Associate Professor in International Political Economy (Tenure-Track / Tenured) [RSIS] ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

📢 @RSIS_NTU @NTUsg is hiring tenure-track positions in Strategic Studies, Asian Studies, IR, and IPE. Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Please RT & share with anyone on the market! ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

📢 @RSIS_NTU @NTUsg is hiring tenure-track positions in Strategic Studies, Asian Studies, IR, and IPE. Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Please RT & share with anyone on the market! ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

2 PhD scholarships in politics, University College Dublin: www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Max Planck post-docs on political economy and economic sociology. Deadline: 15DEC25 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...

Brown University post-doc opportunity at Watson School of Public and International Affairs. Deadline: 15JAN2026: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69514/b...

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...