Marina, thank you for writing this.. it speaks to me on several levels, but most importantly as a mum raising two boys.

NEW from @thenerve.news: USS the academics' pension fund backs the firm helping Trump deport migrants. It has £45m invested in Palantir despite published commitments on human rights investment. Its own members may be able to force a reckoning. THREAD 1/9

⚖️ Just two weeks to go before the verdict in the trial against Lafarge for financing terrorism is delivered on the 13th of April at the Paris Judicial Court.

A look back at a landmark case in the fight for corporate accountability 🧵

Also applies to abstract vs full paper 😁

Aggression, Plain and Simple: A Response to Shany and Cohen on the Attack on Iran Legal academics debate the state of international law and international institutions in light of the US-Israel-Iran War.

Aggression, Plain and Simple: A Response to Shany and Cohen on the Attack on Iran

By @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social and @bechamilton.bsky.social

www.justsecurity.org/133417/aggre...

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Oh boy... Wrong audience dude.

Our teams across #Gaza received seven patients, including two children, with injuries from Israeli attacks, in just three days, between Jan. 31 and Feb. 2, 2026.

Hundreds of people have been killed since the #ceasefire agreement.

Over one million Ukrainians are enduring freezing temperatures with intermittent heat, water, and electricity due to Russia’s attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Russia should cease targeting Ukraine’s energy grid and inflicting inhumane conditions on civilians.

Need to catch up on the huge genocide case about the Rohingya in 2017, also known as Gambia versus Myanmar at the ICJ? Tomorrow we will have a basic summary for you on what each side has been saying and our assessment of the case.

It rings hollow when you selectively invoke the fundamental principles of international law, i.e. when your rights and interests are threatened...

Unless all your friends end up speaking like AI bros.

If anything, China and Russia might be getting emboldened by this flagrant violation... EU govts seem too chickened out to call it what it is, so far (from left to right)..

Did you know that the Member of the European Parliament in charge of dismantling the Green Deal is also the lobbyist for companies benefiting from this deregulation?

Complaint lodged with @president.europarl.europa.eu cc @ombudsman.europa.eu #CSRD #CSDDD

small and medium enterprises are a big force behind the entrenchment of the political right in many rich countries precisely because of their despise of regulation (see paper below), so fighting climate regulation is materially and ideologically existential for them

We are a diminishing species.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Since they're not restructuring, they're putting us all at risk because there may be a diminished need for "teaching and research", which are... the university's missions I guess?

I stay on this platform for these Genovese updates.

That's the spirit!

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.

But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

It's good to see MPs paying attention to universities facing crisis. Perhaps you could explain to your constituents how the current government is doing so much harm to the higher education sector through their HE and immigration policies, rather than reversing the harm done by reckless Tory policies

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.

I see you're having a proper productive Sunday 😁

And some people in our little middle class town oppose solar farms in defense of old potato fields (and other technological advances 🫥)

I wonder if AI can take care of my kids, prepare meals and do school runs, so I can properly plan my work 🤔

Thank you for writing these reflections on rejections & emphasizing that they are not the exception. one additional point that this piece prompted for me is the need to accept the level of subjectivity involved in reviews & that proposals/papers might succeed without necessarily being at top shape.

Sorry for the goofy comment but: This is adorable!!!! 🥰

ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, found guilty over atrocities

“The accused was not only giving orders…but was personally involved in the beatings & later was physically present & giving orders for the execution of those detained.”

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The first senior perpetrator of atrocities in Darfur is convicted at the ICC! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

ICC staff print files and prepare for blackout as US sanctions loom International Criminal Court fears work under threat because of dependence on American IT systems

The ICC's OTP strategic goal to be a world leader in accountability technologies currently feels V distant with the OTP now having to print out hard copies of files in fear that they won't be able to access their tech & IT systems if/when the court itself is sanctioned #ICC - tinyurl.com/2fda8dua