Designating a sovereign government, albeit criminal and illegitimate, as a "terrorist” organisation and imposing a naval blockade are major acts of hostility. The “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is manifesting itself and the silence from regional neighbours is deafening.

On a beaucoup commenté la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine. Retour à la doctrine Monroe, défense de l'aire d'influence continentale, rivalité affirmée avec l'UE : c'est la fin des bénéfices partagés de l'intégration économique, on le savait. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/0...

A literal wake-up call for Europe: the old alliance is over. Efforts to align the White House with the Kremlin’s strategy to destabilise the EU have now fully crystallised as policy. This guidance will likely change how U.S. embassies and CIA stations operate in the region.

Defacing the stolen headquarters of a congressionally mandated institution shows one thing: the regime loyalists will stop at nothing to appease their vain, petty tyrant. Try as they may, he will never go down in history as a peacemaker.

Still trying to process that my country might be invaded in a ‘wag the dog’ operation, bearing a thinly veiled juvenile phallic joke for a name. All to distract the U.S. public from the unseemly scandals plaguing the offender-in-chief.

Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.

If the Trump administration’s goal in Venezuela is to secure U.S. interests, it would be wiser for Washington “to return to the negotiating table than to gamble on the chaos that regime change would unleash,” argue Alexander Downes and Lindsey O’Rourke.

If you keep working hard at the art and craft of academic writing it can become a super power. So speaks a boy who barely passed English in school, still cant spell well and knows nothing of grammar beyond feel. Dont let AI close down your ability to become a great writer.

Take a deep breath. Exhale. Repeat.

Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.

Saying climate change won’t spell the end of “humanity” embraces the deeply uneven geographies of vulnerability. By centring the resilience of industrialised nations, it disavows the disposability of others. We must resist these efforts to normalise climate necropolitics.

The U.S. has moved a destroyer to Trinidad and Tobago for an apparently unscheduled exercise just a few kilometres off Venezuela’s coast. I’m no military expert, but doesn’t it seem like a rather convenient target if a covert false-flag operation were underway? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Maybe the changes coming to the bad place will help convince a critical mass of folks from the Global South to come over and mix things up. It’s a nice platform and space, but the user base here is still missing the mark when it comes to regional diversity.

I do wonder if we’ll ever be able to customise the trending topics here. It’s getting rather tiresome being stuck with endless sports and gaming “news” while the world collapses.

Washington déplace la pièce maîtresse manquante dans son nouveau théâtre d’agression militaire au sud de la mer des Caraïbes. L’étau se resserre autour du régime de Caracas et les rouages de la guerre sont bel et bien en marche…

L’ONU a 80 ans. Et après ? Une organisation indispensable pour des millions de vies… mais aujourd’hui en pleine crise budgétaire et politique. Que reste-t-il de la promesse de 1945 ? 🧵

It is striking to say the least that so many people who made huge efforts to decry and even organize around drone strikes under the Obama administration are basically silent about Trump deciding he has the right to drone any boat in the Caribbean without justification or proof.

We have just rejected our first submission where the use of Gen-AI to rewrite the article was acknowledged. Given the way that they commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use such tools.

Perhaps the next #NoKings 🇺🇸 protests should be a massive, peaceful March on Washington to rally against the blatant corruption embodied in the construction of a gilded “White Palace,” as people face cuts to healthcare, soaring costs of living, and an endless shutdown.

There’s no way to stop climate change without consuming less.

What fresh hell is this?

🧵 The #NoKings demonstrations in the 🇺🇸 seem to have all the right elements: a broad tent, decentralised structure, nonviolent discipline, joyful energy, and a simple message. The challenge is turning that momentum into political action, such as mass voter registration. 1/3

🇮🇷 According to recent reporting from The Guardian, #Iran's water crisis has grown so severe in the Tehran region — where nearly a quarter of Iran’s water is consumed — that the Iranian president has led calls to move the capital. He has highlighted that this may be the only solution.

Blessed be the courageous souls who still log in to LinkedIn and can brave the waves of self-congratulatory AI slop for more than five minutes at a time. I salute you.

Opening this app and seeing my country trending gave me rather a sinking feeling. Doomscrolling has taken on a whole new dimension with these U.S. airstrikes. Somehow, it feels as though a fog of war has begun to drift over the Caribbean.

D’autant plus que l’actuel secrétaire « à la guerre » des É.-U. revendique l’abandon des règles d'engagement, au nom d’une doctrine mortifère où la protection des populations civiles ne doit plus jamais freiner la létalité de ses soldats. En effet, ce serait un véritable cataclysme.

A thoughtful thread that really resonates with me — especially as I'm being compelled to incorporate and encourage the use of AI entities in a graduate course this semester.

Didn't she also spend much of the past two decades lobbying both parties in Washington for harsher sanctions and trying to build support for U.S. military intervention in her own country? Oh well, at least they didn’t give it to the other guy.

We must accept that there are certain people and ideas that we cannot be in conversation with if our goal is human dignity, freedom, and flourishing futures.

🧵 The other day, someone tried to explain to me that AI is just a tool, like a calculator, and it’s our responsibility to teach students how to use it wisely. I didn’t know how to respond at the time, so here are some delayed thoughts for no reason. 1/5

Only one week into the semester here, and I’m already accepting thoughts, prayers, and setting up an emergency GoFundMe to finance my green tea supply in this tariff-ridden economy.

I wonder if there’s any peer-reviewed work that questions how academic institutions are normalising generative AI as mere “tools” instead of treating them as non-sentient, privately-owned digital entities with social, political, and economic agendas.

Posts about scientific research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on Twitter. More importantly, you're far less likely to get sexist or racist replies.

A proper timeline cleanse after an evening spent admiring the works of Cézanne au Jas de Bouffan. I’ll miss these research trips to Aix! 🇫🇷

Getting flagged as an AI bot by France's archival search systems was not on my bingo card today.

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data. Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

Struggling to come up with effective ways to AI-proof assignments for the graduate courses I'll be assisting this Fall. Haven't found much in the way of tried-and-true guidance so far. Any tips welcome!

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage: https://theatln.tc/d40fABTK

Off to somewhere e-mails won’t find me for the next few weeks.

Is this what people from abroad felt when they watched the Nazis destroying Germany in the 1930s?

What do we say to the August scaries trying to kill the vibes for us late summer vacationers?

I’m sorry—how is this not an article from @theonion.com?

The genocide in Gaza has been so revealing of the narrow imagined geographies of past atrocities among some. The ignorance of how different forms of genocidal intent and practice were deployed across a whole range of colonial contexts has been central to the effort to dismiss the use of the term.

Spent two weeks reflecting on ways to embrace a more transformative water diplomacy and how to decolonise my own research. In these dark times, it was refreshing to find community among those committed to the cause. Grateful to IHE Delft for the opportunity! 💧🕊️

💧Les plus grandes métropoles d’Asie, d’Europe, d’Amérique et d’Afrique sont confrontées au problème de la raréfaction de l’eau potable. Tour du monde des pistes évoquées dans la presse internationale pour faire face à la menace croissante d’un monde sans eau.

A lot of media are covering Europe’s heatwave 🔥 but few are connecting it to the climate crisis. Tools like the Climate Shift Index show this heatwave is up to 5x 😱 more likely because of climate change. That context matters. csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Heading to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 next month to wrap up the Young Water Diplomats programme, then join an exciting Decolonising Science PhD course at IHE Delft with @amitangshu.bsky.social and a fantastic teaching team. Any suggestions for things to do are most welcome!