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Tim Ruback

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IR theory / historical IR / Pedagogy / Maine / Dogs. Views=mine. Trying to practice kindness here. Also here to remind everyone that Thucydides never said that. https://sites.google.com/view/timrubackme/

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Nov 10

Here's a I posted on the old place about why IR scholars are so weird about Thucydides. Some folks seemed to find it useful when I posted it in 2020. so I'm re-creating it here before deleting the other acct. Here we go. Buckle up. I don't thread often, but when, I do I thread long.

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Moxie shouldn't be a good answer for this. I also feel like it's probably a good answer for this.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11d

AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 12d

This recipe is excellent. I love sheet pan recipes. Accessible for these working parents.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...

Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma Recipe

Here is a recipe for an oven-roasted version of the flavorful street-side classic usually cooked on a rotisserie It is perfect for an evening with family and friends Serve with pita and tahini, choppe...

cooking.nytimes.com

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 12d

OMG best recipe in the whole of the NYT cooking web. We make it regularly in the winter. With double the onions tho'

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 13d

Another way of looking at it: if the suggested cooking time is right, then that's only one clove per minute-- which seems awfully slow to me.

Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 14d

Grover's a VERY high energy pup. And at 95 lbs, that's a lot of zoomie puppo. So, when we really need him to relax we've only found one thing that consistently works: watching Chinatown. I don't understand why this calms him, but I'm glad for it.

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 14d

Love it! Thanks again for sharing!!

Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 14d

Very cool, thanks! TROY strikes me as SO interesting in that context, almost contrapuntal to If I Ruled; the hyperspecificity of the one against the bigger-canvas commentary of the other, yet with several points of convergence...

This is just great stuff.

Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · 14d

Very cool assignment!!

Can I ask: I'm always interested in the outliers with these sorts of things. Were there any unexpected, out-of-left-field ones that the student(s) did a great job contextualizing?

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Dr Rory Cox @rorycox.bsky.social · Sep 4

A reminder that nominations for the @intlethics-isa.bsky.social Emerging Scholar Award are still open. If you are, or you know, a fantastic early career scholar in international ethics send their name to [email protected].

@isanet.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @ethicsjournal.bsky.social

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Aug 29

I genuinely unironically love the Standells. Some great garage-y songs on that first album.

Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Aug 28

Q: What's your biggest concert flex?

A: Morphine @ Central Square World's Fair (06 June 1999) -- last ever show in the US. You can actually stream it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncmT...

Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title:

Tom Clancy's Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tom Clancy’s Eat Pray Love

Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title

Tom Clancy’s Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Aug 27

I've lived this scenario and tried to rig up all manner of contraptions to trigger the sensor -- pulleys! mirrors! foam darts! -- and nothing worked well enough. Then one of my favorite students asked me why I didn't just bring in a lamp.

Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Aug 19

Grover is refusing to come inside without his stick.

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Andrew Szarejko @szarejko.bsky.social · Aug 19

A new flyer and promo code for 20% off my forthcoming book at the @stanfordpress.bsky.social website: www.sup.org/books/politi...

Summary of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy. Promo code: SZAREJKO20

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Aug 17

I used to use Hall and Oates whenever I needed a couple names to round out a multiple choice exam. Kept a running tally of whenever they were chosen. Here, too, Oates got the short end of the stick.