John Ip
@ipster.bsky.social
Associate Professor in law at Auckland University; counterterrorism law and public law. Dad. Husband. Obsessive about my obsessions. Views personal. P(Repost=Endorsement)≈0.5
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/j-ip
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/j-ip
A major security breach is when your national security advisor puts military plans on TikTok.
Trump brands major war plan security leak to a journalist a ‘glitch’
The US president stood by his national security adviser saying “Michael Waltz has learnt a lesson, and he’s a good man" - however, inside the White House they're using other not-so-rosy words.
www.stuff.co.nz
March 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A major security breach is when your national security advisor puts military plans on TikTok.
Marsden funding application 2026: “I’m a Really Useful Scientist.”
a blue and red train with a smiling face is standing in front of a building .
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media.tenor.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Marsden funding application 2026: “I’m a Really Useful Scientist.”
Responding to government funding incentives, and drawing upon the German legal tradition, my new title is: Associate Professor of Purposeful Legal Science with Tangible Economic Benefits.
You can stop asking me, and also purposeless scientists, why we don’t have Marsdens.
Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...
www.beehive.govt.nz
December 5, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Responding to government funding incentives, and drawing upon the German legal tradition, my new title is: Associate Professor of Purposeful Legal Science with Tangible Economic Benefits.
You can stop asking me, and also purposeless scientists, why we don’t have Marsdens.
Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...
www.beehive.govt.nz
December 4, 2024 at 2:43 AM
You can stop asking me, and also purposeless scientists, why we don’t have Marsdens.
You say “driveway”; Auckland Transport says “vehicle crossing”.
November 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
You say “driveway”; Auckland Transport says “vehicle crossing”.
Let’s face it - the first, third and fourth are basically coterminous with “Academics”.
Thinking of creating some snarky academic starter packs like:
Academics who think their ideas are WAY more important than they actually are
Academics who peaked a while ago
Academics whose questions are more like comments
Academics who always go over their allotted time
Academics who think their ideas are WAY more important than they actually are
Academics who peaked a while ago
Academics whose questions are more like comments
Academics who always go over their allotted time
November 18, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Let’s face it - the first, third and fourth are basically coterminous with “Academics”.
Reacting to every Trump cabinet pick.
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media.tenor.com
November 15, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Reacting to every Trump cabinet pick.
Aka the Thomas rules.
November 13, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Aka the Thomas rules.
What does it say when one experiences a twinge of excitement upon the publication of the University Calendar?
October 26, 2023 at 3:10 AM
What does it say when one experiences a twinge of excitement upon the publication of the University Calendar?
More flipping than in an IHOP amongst Trump’s former legal team. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/u...
October 24, 2023 at 6:47 PM
More flipping than in an IHOP amongst Trump’s former legal team. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/u...
Don’t recall this ratio of followers/following ever happening at the Bad Place. Snap-shotted for posterity.
October 18, 2023 at 11:40 PM
Don’t recall this ratio of followers/following ever happening at the Bad Place. Snap-shotted for posterity.
This like the first day at a new school. Time for some blue sky thinking.
October 18, 2023 at 7:10 PM
This like the first day at a new school. Time for some blue sky thinking.