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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 5d

Professor hivemind: I'm developing a new course for freshmen on "human rights and body modification." My way into the topic is debates around Female Genital Cutting. Any suggestions for other topics? Readings?

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13d

All those generals and senior officers flown in from their actual jobs, at enormous taxpayer expense, only to listen to two idiots blathering in ways that defy credulity. Their group chats must be on fire.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 15d

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215
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INVESTIGATION
The Djiboutian massacre
Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its
border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists.
Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of
the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s
tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity.
Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters.
zecharias zelalem
On 30 January this year, a drone manned
from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a
funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote,
semi-arid village near the Ethiopia
Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a
second bomb dropped. And then a third.
At least eight people were killed,
including three children. Several
others were injured. Given the village’s
remoteness, the incident might have
gone unreported if graphic images of
the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian
social media.
A statement from the Djibouti’s
defence ministry said the drone struck
rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(Frud), a Djiboutian political party with
a military wing. It has been fighting for
Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s.
The Afar are a community split by the
colonial border separating Ethiopia,
Djibouti, and Eritrea.
“Eight terrorists were neutralised on
site,” said a Djibouti military statement.
“Unfortunately, collateral damage
among Djiboutian civilians in the area
has been documented.”
International media, including Voice
of America, Agence France Presse, and
Radio France Internationale reported
this version of events.
Now, new findings from an open
In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was
injured in the drone strike.
source investigation by The Continent
reveal a different reality.
The bombs landed inside Ethiopia,
not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed
fighters – were killed. That distinction
matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again
tolerating a foreign military targeting its
own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during
the Tigray conflict.
A transparent lie
Even before the ink could dry on the
Djiboutian military’s statement, The
Addis Standard and human rights groups
in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike
had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s
Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an
adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl
Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports
in now-deleted social media posts.
The Continent got to work to figure out
what really happened. Over the course
of eight months, we collected eyewitness
testimonies, interviewed human rights
activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and
examined images and footage from the
strike. Our findings align with those of
Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed
Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the
site of the strike.
The ammunition residue found on the
night of the strike confirms the bomb
was manufactured by Roketsan, a state
run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye.
Former US army explosives expert
Trevor Ball identified t…

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 18d

In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 19d

Your fans demand a tour T-shirt!

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 22d

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza.

www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 21d

I know what you mean. It took me like thirty seconds to relax into it and think "well, this is obviously the future."

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Lesley Bartlett @lesleybartlett.bsky.social · 22d

The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 24d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 23d

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like as soon as they finish an article or manuscript review another request for review comes in? It's like clockwork.

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 26d

In line for my flu AND COVID vaccines at Kaiser Richmond in my beautiful California. Line’s around the block.

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · 26d

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Call for chapters – Sustainable development in Africa : What concept for what practical application ?

Call for chapters – Sustainable development in Africa : What concepts for what practical application ? Dir : Etienne Bourel (Leyde University), Constance Perrin-Joly (CFEE), Tessa Minter (Leyde Univer...

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 27d

Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · Sep 12

Podcast from the always inspiring Cynthia Enloe. nowandmen.net/episode/cynt...

"Women's Wars are not Men's Wars" - Prof Cynthia Enloe and Feminist Curiosity in Times of Militarisation - Now and Men

How do women and men suffer in different ways in war, and how are ideas about masculinity and femininity manipulated to promote militarisation?

nowandmen.net

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Sep 12

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Susan Shepler @susanshepler.bsky.social · Sep 11

For my Salone people

Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · Sep 11

Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

The price of plugging in

Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks.

africasacountry.com

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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · Sep 10

See ICE? Mark the location on Waze as "icy conditions". Brilliant tactic being used in DC. Let's spread it.

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Afrobarometer @afrobarometer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Majority of Sierra Leoneans want to leave the country, mostly to find work, escape poverty

Head over to our website to read more: bit.ly/4gdOxZv

#SierraLeone #Migration #VoicesAfrica

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on

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🕵️Process tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models

All in two heady days.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · Sep 4

Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo: 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of Sept 4.

Disease surveillance and health support, yanked by the U.S., can catch these outbreaks early. So many cases already.
www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Democratic Republic of the Congo declares Ebola virus disease outbreak in Kasai Province

Kinshasa – Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health w...

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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...

Call for Proposals, Wenner-Gren Symposium 2027

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.

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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · Aug 28

The women and girls who took up arms for Tigray are now at risk of being left behind in Ethiopia’s postwar transition, Mehret Berhe and @hilarymatfess.bsky.social write.

In Post-War Ethiopia, Tigray’s Female Veterans Fear Being Forgotten

The women and girls who took up arms for Tigray are now at risk of being left behind in Ethiopia’s postwar transition.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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American University School of International Service @ausis.bsky.social · Aug 25

The School of International Service is currently inviting applications for three tenure-track assistant professor positions beginning August 1, 2026. 🧵 ⬇️ #AcademicSky

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