Just signed a contract with the @uofupress.bsky.social for the publication of the volume I co-edit with @kmkentel.bsky.social, “Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City” 🎊

Super excited about the new MA we are launching next academic year (in September 2025) at Exeter. I have been reviewing loads of MAs elsewhere and designed a programme that helps both those who are looking for critical intellectual engagement, AND paths to career development.

Universities used DEI to attract students and then used the backlash to gut faculty power and faculty governance. And not enough people have noticed. www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

It's a bad sign that I, a US professor with two kids who will be applying to college in the next few years, am exploring the process of them applying to universities outside of America. The Trump administration is on the verge of destroying US higher education, where we have long been a world leader

Silicon Valley is coming for faculty governance. The vultures are circling the corpse of the neoliberal American university. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take?

The Middle East Center @uofuhumanities.bsky.social and @uofupress.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of a new book series, Transregional Middle Easts! uofupress.com/series/Trans...

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes

What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think! abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

CFA: Journal of Global History development editing workshop — #AsianStudies scholars with an interest in global history should check out this new opportunity. Application deadline is March 1. https://buff.ly/4hom5U7

UAE building airstrips and ports around Red Sea and Horn is about far more than “Houthi threat to region” apnews.com/article/yeme...

Excited to join Leiden’s Yemeni Studies Lecture Series with Simon Fraser’s Thomas Kuehn! January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

The Gulf states will drastically increase their spending on R&D to become scientific hubs "That means no longer being seen as just a pool of readily available funds for Western universities. “We want equal participation and benefits" www.economist.com/science-and-...

Next stop… Ubud, Bali 🇮🇩 🏝️ 🌺🌴🌿🐒🦜

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore

This looks great, and hopefully teachable!

Hainanese Chicken Rice & Laksa

Masjid Jamae (Chulia), Singapore

Chinatown, Singapore

Kampong Glam, Singapore

Haji Lane, Singapore

Muscat Street, Kampong Glam, Singapore

Kampong Glam, Singapore

Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple, Little India, Singapore

Sri Krishnan Temple, Singapore

Merlion, Singapore 🇸🇬

SLC-SFO-ICN 🇰🇷-SIN 🇸🇬 ✈️

RAK's innovative energy path - from solar and hydro to carbon capture and hydrogen, and why its mountains play a key role @thenationalnews.com www.thenationalnews.com/business/202...

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social already starting to normalize Trumpian (Monroe Doctrine) empire trial balloons… Next headline: Nuuk: the Jewel in the Pentagon’s Arctic Raj? Elon Musk: The Perfect Viceroy? Why Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals Must Not Fall into Chinese Hands

The Christmas spirit in its most condensed form

Five Thoughts on Syria’s Suddenly Unfrozen Conflict - new post by me. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/five-thoug...

The changing politics of US-Israeli relations - expect this to continue and accelerate, though Trump factor may redirect some of the new trends. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"We are in a crucial moment that will decide the future of higher education. Colleges and universities are the bedrock of American democracy and the engine of social mobility, innovation, and progress. We can’t allow fascists to strip it away. Now is the time to fight." aje.io/z1giyf

Look what arrived today… @zozanpehlivan.bsky.social’s The Political Ecology of Violence from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration

An extended deadline for applications to become Environment and History’s Deputy Editor, with me and Prof David Moon (Co-Eds). I enjoyed being Deputy Editor, learning much about reviewing, editing and dissemination. White Horse Press is special, small and independent, an asset to our field #envhist

The Middle East Center @uofuhumanities.bsky.social is excited to celebrate the publication of Alborz Ghandehari's Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle! Join us on Feb. 5 to hear more about Professor Ghandehari's new book!

🔔The call for the next ESEH Summer School, "Anthropocene Histories," at the KTH in Stockholm, 25–28 August 2025, is open! For MA and PhD students in history, STS, philosophy, sociology, and cognate fields working on the history of anthropogenic environmental changes eseh.org/call-for-par... #Envhum

next week! #envhist #envhum #urbanhist #urbanstudies

Prepublication online version of my new co-authored (with Kate Tietzen-Wisdom) article is out in Diplomatic History. “Iraqi Archives and post-Cold War Continuity: A View from the Global South” academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a... It looks at the post-Cold War through Iraqi archives. It is ... 1/

From today’s writing… a 1989 Saudi stamp commemorating what I presume is the Shuaiba (Phase 1) #desalination and electric plant and the water pipeline for Mecca and Taif www.swcc.gov.sa/en/WhoAreWe/...

This is also big: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

@globalhistjnl.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Keep an eye out for some exciting updates in the near future...