I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Sometimes I wonder if I should still call myself one - seeing as the category seems to be worthless now.
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Sometimes I wonder if I should still call myself one - seeing as the category seems to be worthless now.
One thing that we don't talk about often enough is how difficult it is to write academically during a genocide, in the midst of rising fascism while surrounded by the wilful destruction of knowledge cultivation through the financial incineration of universties & the imposition of the e-word juggler.
My university moved from ‚we want to help you learn how to use these tools‘ to a default ban of using generative AI for course work and assessments. This is a good thing.
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Rare to see Montevideo Convention in the news. But if only polities with exactly defined borders qualify for statehood that puts Israeli statehood into doubt, as well as many other places with border disputes.
If the 2-state solution is real - it requires 2 states - not one and a half. 1/3
Thread.
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Anything creative: paint, learn an instrument or try an application to make music (say garage band), photography. Start where you are least confident and resist the urge to take a course or lessons. Very liberating.
BBC Verify dug into Israel's widespread demolitions in #Gaza. Main legal points:
✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
@daniellalock.bsky.social and @alangreene.bsky.social might be able to help
The ECtHR's 2024 climate cases were decidedly dogmatic concerning extraterritorial jurisdiction. Lea Raible analyzes this - and its interplay with positive obligations - in the first article of our upcoming special issue on the climate rulings, co-edited by Armando Rocha & @cohelongo.bsky.social.
Very interesting opening panel of Day 2 at the “Parity of esteem as a constitutional principle in Northern Ireland and beyond” conference in QUB. Very interesting contributions from @colinmurray.bsky.social and @swissbiscuit.bsky.social
Climate change and ageing water infrastructure turn drought in Sicily and Sardinia into disasters - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Post by @dkagiaros.bsky.social and @ingathiemann.bsky.social on European Court of Human Rights judgment on French law criminalising purchase of sex - inc criticism of decision to examine only under Art 8, not 2 and 3, and limitation to 'procedural review'
strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
AI is demonstrably making research more difficult and undermining education. Meanwhile, we get endless breathless stories about how great & 'transformational' it is for learners & teachers (all while it destroys the planet & further enriches billionaire sociopaths). Pure gaslighting.
A shipping container with a logo reading ‘Bluesky’ against a background of grey skies
Bluesky. Glasgow version.
Deezer. Just to add to the conundrum (and yes, I also subscribe to both).
Mine are called ‘scraps’ documents. It’s in the file name. Really.
Bosko Tripkovic and Alain Zysset edited a special issue of the HRLR. I wrote something on the allocation of human rights obligations in the ECHR. It's relevant for questions about non-state actors and extraterritoriality, and available open access here: academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
lea dot raible at glasgow dot ac dot uk
I’d like to sign it please
1) How to rethink human rights law so it maybe addresses climate harms and injustice a bit better than it does now and 2) Persephone as a proto-feminist