@nickmegoran.bsky.social
Concerning new article showing how European university researchers are involved in research that helps the EU strengthen Frontex's border regime. 'Impact?' - yes. 'Securing grant funding?' - yes. 'Ethical?' - dubious.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Frontex and the University: Positivist Dissonance and the Institutionalisation of Border Violence through Research
The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the higher education sector and the violence of the European ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Concerning new article showing how European university researchers are involved in research that helps the EU strengthen Frontex's border regime. 'Impact?' - yes. 'Securing grant funding?' - yes. 'Ethical?' - dubious.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Why has the Christian church so often supported war and what might a pacific rereading of that history and the scriptures look like? My book on this topic is currently on half price sale with the code CONFSHIP at checkout.
wipfandstock.com/978149821959...
wipfandstock.com/978149821959...
Warlike Christians in an Age of Violence- Wipf and Stock Publishers
How should Christians respond to war? This age-old question has become more pressing given Western governments' recent overseas military interventions and th...
wipfandstock.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Why has the Christian church so often supported war and what might a pacific rereading of that history and the scriptures look like? My book on this topic is currently on half price sale with the code CONFSHIP at checkout.
wipfandstock.com/978149821959...
wipfandstock.com/978149821959...
'MPs are broadening the scope of their investigation into the China audit, an internal government review of UK-China relations that concluded in June, to look into Chinese state influence at British universities.'
MPs preparing to examine Chinese state influence at British universities
Committee’s inquiry into review of UK-China relations to be broadened after Sheffield Hallam University disclosures
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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a university without its staff is nothing! On strike again fighting against the cruelty and economic shortsightedness of course closures and compulsory redundancies at the University of Nottingham
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a university without its staff is nothing! On strike again fighting against the cruelty and economic shortsightedness of course closures and compulsory redundancies at the University of Nottingham
On Remembrance Sunday. I was delighted to retell this amazing story of a little-known WW2 truce. Sometimes it takes courage not to fight. @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Newcastle professor recalls US-Japan picnic truce
Prof Nick Megoran says the picnic on Aka island is as remarkable as the 1914 Christmas Day truce.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
On Remembrance Sunday. I was delighted to retell this amazing story of a little-known WW2 truce. Sometimes it takes courage not to fight. @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What does the election in north Cyprus signify? Great blog by Rebecca Bryant
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Turkish Cypriots vote for hope, but can they be heard? - EUROPP
Will Tufan Erhürman's victory lead to a federal Cyprus? Whatever happens, the international community must help Turkish Cypriots realise their political will.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What does the election in north Cyprus signify? Great blog by Rebecca Bryant
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
What happens when borders reopen? My new article for Geopolitics journal, co-written with the economist Zalina Enikeeva. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What Happens When Borders Reopen? Dematerialising the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary
Border studies have recently been focussed on what happens when borders close, leaving the question of border reopenings both largely unexplored and unconceptualized. We argue here for a new focus ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What happens when borders reopen? My new article for Geopolitics journal, co-written with the economist Zalina Enikeeva. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Is peace possible?" I was part of a BBC Radio Wales discussion on this for UN International Day of Peace this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
All Things Considered - Is Peace Possible? - BBC Sounds
Delyth Liddell and guests discuss how to act now for a peaceful world.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Is peace possible?" I was part of a BBC Radio Wales discussion on this for UN International Day of Peace this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Great book title: explains its thesis.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
AI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction – but it’s not too late to change course. Two pioneering ...
www.penguin.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Great book title: explains its thesis.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
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US universities face growing threats to academic freedom – both at home and abroad. Here’s how leaders and academics can guard against #authoritarianism: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #HigherEd @jhu.edu @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
How to protect your university against authoritarianism
US institutions are facing threats to academic freedom from the Trump administration, yet they must also stay vigilant to authoritarianism from abroad. Here is what university leaders and academics ca...
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
US universities face growing threats to academic freedom – both at home and abroad. Here’s how leaders and academics can guard against #authoritarianism: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #HigherEd @jhu.edu @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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Apparently Trump wants to try and earn his way up to heaven by brokering peace in Ukraine. But here's a radical thought...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Apparently Trump wants to try and earn his way up to heaven by brokering peace in Ukraine. But here's a radical thought...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Lessons from the forgotten peacemakers on Aka Island - stories for VJ Day.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
VJ Day 80: Forgotten peacemakers of Aka Island
Eighty years after Victory over Japan, Nick Megoran reflects on a little-known story about the brokering of a truce
www.churchtimes.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Lessons from the forgotten peacemakers on Aka Island - stories for VJ Day.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)
August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)
80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
When US and Japanese troops stopped fighting to talk, eat and pray together
Eighty years ago, this remarkable event showed a rare glimpse of humanity on both sides of a bitter conflict.
theconversation.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
What if state borders united rather than divided? The curious case of the 'Peace Border' between Uruguay and Brazil
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
Peace Border, the world's only binational plaza shared by two countries
In a world where borders are often synonymous with separation, control, and sometimes conflict, the Peace Border between Uruguay and Brazil is a curious exception. This border stretch, connecting the ...
www.labrujulaverde.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
What if state borders united rather than divided? The curious case of the 'Peace Border' between Uruguay and Brazil
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
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Part of a building dedication to the Emperor Antoninus Pius by the Sixth Legion which was found at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
July 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Part of a building dedication to the Emperor Antoninus Pius by the Sixth Legion which was found at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
Can peace break out unexpectedly? Article I wrote for The Times this week about an incident at the end of World War 2 that is every bit as remarkable as the December 1914 Christmas truces yet which remains virtually unknown. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Can peace break out unexpectedly? Article I wrote for The Times this week about an incident at the end of World War 2 that is every bit as remarkable as the December 1914 Christmas truces yet which remains virtually unknown. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social
"The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic" - article I wrote for today's Times (print and online). One of the most amazing stories I have ever encountered. A moment of peaceful, intimate interaction in midst of terrible battle.
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic
A forgotten truce on Aka Island, Okinawa, which ended one of the most bloody land battles of the Second World War, was commemorated this year
www.thetimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic" - article I wrote for today's Times (print and online). One of the most amazing stories I have ever encountered. A moment of peaceful, intimate interaction in midst of terrible battle.
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
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Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day!
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day!
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
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The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
July 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
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Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution - Nature Geoscience
Extensive flat surfaces observed beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet margin were formed by fluvial erosion and have modulated the ice-sheet response to climate change, according to an analysis of rad...
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202... - train more peacemakers: it's cheaper and effective.
Threats to the UK require strategic peacebuilding
As the Government gets ready for war, the Church should push for dialogue that prevents conflict, says James Megoran
www.churchtimes.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202... - train more peacemakers: it's cheaper and effective.