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Joseph MacKay
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Canadian in Oz. IR academic. History of international ordering, history of international thought. He/him. Book, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination." https://bit.ly/3h86v4Y
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mivich.bsky.social
My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
Front cover of The Division of Rationalized Labor. The cover includes four pictures: pen and paper, microscope, factory tower, police badge. Modern-looking yellow lines and graphs are superimposed.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ewacat.bsky.social
gasping for air here oh my god
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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ecpr.bsky.social
✨ Exciting opportunity to lead a world-class #IR journal ✨

📕 The Joint Management Committee of @ecprsgir.bsky.social & @europeanisa.bsky.social are seeking a NEW editorial team for @ejir.bsky.social

🔖 4-year term
🔖 Proposals up to 5,000 words
🔖 Deadline 31 Mar 2026

#IRSky #AcademicSky
Call for Editors, EJIR
We are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) from 1 January 2027.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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eatingpolitics.bsky.social
We are hiring! Please share!
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
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@memorialu.bsky.social

Note we are working with a very tight deadline
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November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
lefteleven.bsky.social
I'm a few weeks late to this, but Paul Musgrave is excellent on whether or not to get a PhD. slate.com/life/2025/10...
Harvard’s Dismal Grad School News Is Just the Tip of a Very Bad Iceberg
Grad school's been grim for years. But it's always possible for things to get worse.
slate.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Big muscular dog with a picture of the Edmund Fitzgerald across its chest and a little whippy dog with the Titanic where its head was it's under the Fitzgerald it says our server 17 years and only the full Rage of Lake Superior could sink me under the Titanic it says I hit an iceberg on my first trip
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
lefteleven.bsky.social
This looks excellent.
mduque.bsky.social Marina Duque @mduque.bsky.social · 15d
Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen?

My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world!

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The Making of International Status
Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates
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November 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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mduque.bsky.social
Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen?

My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world!

📘 academic.oup.com/book/61560
The Making of International Status
Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates
academic.oup.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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jelenasubotic.bsky.social
🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics
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November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
lefteleven.bsky.social
Deleting a post (about the Bosnian “sniper tourism” story) that could probably have been worded more cautiously. I’m not sure I can tell what’s going on there.
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
lefteleven.bsky.social
America is, in fact, a land of contrasts
dicknixon.bsky.social Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · Oct 28
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
lefteleven.bsky.social
The new Office for Mac icons are a special kind of early 00's ugly.
The new puffy, gauzy, generally unpleasant MS Office icons
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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yeeeerika.bsky.social
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
lefteleven.bsky.social
So will the reveal at the end of The Diplomat be that they all go to jail?
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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lauropea.bsky.social
breaking into the louvre and just stealing napoleonic and second-empire jewellery is proof that 'money can't buy you taste' also applies to thieves
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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bokane.org
You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Oct 17
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Nemiscam, Alberta
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
lefteleven.bsky.social
Say what you will about these folks, they’re considerably more interesting than Thiel is.
A trio of self-described "satanists" dressed in black costumes with goth makeup walked up and down the line of attenders carrying a goblet of red liquid with a small plastic replica of a bone. "Will you bring our dark lord Peter Thiel this baby's blood?" they asked. Then they performed what they called a "dark ritual", dancing slowly in a circle to Mozart's Requiem in D minor, which ended with them writhing on the city sidewalk, and yelling: "Take us to your personal hell... Thank you for being our dark lord."
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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stevencinnyc.bsky.social
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
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October 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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tevoelker.bsky.social
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
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October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
The epigraph to Neil Postman’s “Technopoly”
Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science. PAUL GOODMAN. New Reformation
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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ecourtem.bsky.social
Series of stained glass windows at St Louis U celebrating the evolution of textuality from Scroll to Manuscript to Printing Press to Computer
Window 1: Scroll Window 2: Manuscript Window 3: Printing Press Window 4: Computer (from 1995!)
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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ouranu.bsky.social
“Herein lies the question: if not to sustain ANU’s once diverse range of courses and degrees, and if not to retain the knowledge and skills of its academics, then what is that $232.4 million revenue for?”

www.woroni.com.au/news/austral...
WoroniAustralia Institute Analyses ANU Budget Reports—No Deficit Found - Woroni
The Australia Institute has released its audited analysis of ANU’s 2023 and 2024 budget. ANU’s unaudited deficit was reported at $142.5 million, while its audited revenue showed a surplus of $89.9 mil...
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October 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
lefteleven.bsky.social
Additional to this being generally excellent, I’m cheered that the homunculus theory of mind lives on in folk psychology.
etvpod.bsky.social Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · Sep 30
I think about the tiny OSHA guy inside of me at least once a day, but today he's basically all I can think about.
A dialogue between me and the tiny OSHA guy inside of me: Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM