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My analogous realisation was that the university admin think that the purpose of teaching is to attract tuition fees and the purpose of research is to attract grants.

dutchreview.com/news/dutch-p... In other news...

Great how Europe is redeploying some of its best equipment away from Russia to deal with a crisis created by our "security guarantor."

I am delighted that the special issue ‘Socialist Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century’ has now been published in the Journal of Contemporary History. This special issue was a joy to edit and brings together a dream team of contributors. I'll post the contributions in this thread...

Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap YouTube video by Predictive History

youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo?... What a moment to have your lecture from two years ago go viral

www.philstar.com/opinion/2026... "If the Iran war takes years and Middle East Filipino workers are displaced, can our economy create 2.5 million jobs instantly for them?"

Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

"Donald Trump is much closer to sending US troops to invade Iran than people realize."

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

as Beirut finds itself in the crosshairs I’ll be watching two fascist states destroy two other states as they build on destroveloping that other one that got them into a spot of trouble.

World politics today is so cool.

blood, chaos. not a states right to be found.

So who really ended IR?

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists Reading by Tim Foley:

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists

They are everything they accuse Iran of being. They are dangerous religious fanatics. They cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. They are the tyrants. They are the monsters.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-war...

The international law of empires could only flourish because it rested on social inequality.

How can we escape the current international law of authoritarian oligarchs?

MATTHIAS GOLDMANN argues that only social equality can enable a fair international law of equals.

verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

​Teodoro echoed earlier statements from the DND and the Armed Forces of the Philippines that the military installations are not US-controlled bases and remain under the full ownership, control and management of the Philippine military.

Read more: https://mrf.lu/S918

Donald Trump won't ro=ule out boots on ground in Iran | The Jerusalem Post Speaking on Monday, Trump said he “didn’t care about polling,” argued that leaders sometimes must act without clear public backing, and claimed the operation was “way ahead of schedule.”

The GCC states shot down 5 warplanes today

3 were American
2 were Iranian

Trump just clarified he may order "boots on the ground"

Yep, war's going exactly as planned!

www.jpost.com/internationa...

Chinese Academy of Sciences proposes capping pay-to-publish fees for high-profile journals Journals charging article processing charges for open access in excess of $5000 are likely to be hit

www.chemistryworld.com/news/chinese... State power doing state power things.

Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation (1887) The theories and diagrams of Benjamin Betts detailing his remarkable attempts to mathematically model human consciousness through geometric forms.

broke: citing work from 2027

woke: citing work from 1987

BESPOKE: citing work from 1887

Louisa S. Cook's Geometrical psychology, or, The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Japan hits internationalisation target eight years early Japan’s internationalisation drive saw overseas student numbers surpass 400,000 last year. But can it balance labour market needs with public immigration debates to become a global educational hub?

thepienews.com/japan-hits-i... Stemming the tides of demographic winter.

I wonder, what is the origin of this Dunglish habit of people saying "yes (rising inflection)" at the end of an otherwise completely Dutch sentence 🤔 Something to end a statement to make sure the interaction/transaction is understood by both parties? Why not "toch"?

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Rich Kid's Talent Show - Winter Sports Are Out of Control YouTube video by Michael MacKelvie

youtu.be/7Y1moFmYKu4?... Neat deep-dive. It opens with how Norway has been dominating the WOG. Surprise surprise - public spending.

20th century: make claims about human nature by sampling American college students. 21st century: make claims about human nature by sampling Chinese college students 🤷‍♀️

Academic narcissism im a nutshell.
"Epstein offered something else: prestige without peer review, and attention without consequence."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Conversations in hockey twitter. We can't do much about ones that require snow and slopes, but we could do well in hockey AND figure skating 🤔

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $89,313 – $112,103 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Part time, Fixed Term, up to 28hrs per week. (2 years) Outstanding opportunity to work on a p...

Postdoc alert! I'm looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (2 years) to work on my historically focused ARC project, “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees." Please share widely. jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/56...

New ISC Report Shows Women Remain Underrepresented in Scientific Organizations The International Science Council launched a new global report: Towards Gender Equality in Scientific Organizations: Assessment and Recommendations.

www.ipsa.org/na/news/new-... Some interesting stats here.

Defense Dept. and Anthropic Square Off in Dispute Over A.I. Safety

New story today on the public battle between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, which is really a fight about the future of AI in warfare:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

eulawenforcement.com?p=7941 Big case in the NL

Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine - Daily Nous Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an e...

Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...

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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

“Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing.”

I think this is saying: choose diplomacy.