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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 8h

Congrats! 🥳

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Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 8h

My first paper, free to read!

RAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · Sep 12

Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "Fault creep in the fluid-rich Kura Basin, Azerbaijan, imaged with InSAR", Johnson et al. This is Fig. 11: read the paper at academic.oup.com/gji/article/... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Perspective view showing merged topography and bathymetry for the South Caspian Basin and its surroundings, with the coastlines shown as thin black lines. Faults are mapped with solid lines for higher confidence and dashed lines for lower confidence. NE-SW trending folds in the deeper parts of the basin are shown using dashed lines with diamond decorations. Large submarine landslides visible in the bathymetry are highlighted with translucent polygons. GNSS data from Kadirov et al. (2014) shows the convergence of the Kura Basin with Eurasia taken up by the KFTB and the Caucasus. The triangular region bounded by the Alat Fault and the Sumquayit Fault is moving eastward relative to the Kura Basin, and appears to extrude into the SCB, possibly contributing the folding of offshore sediments. The South Caspian Basin (SCB) velocity vector located offshore is from Dodds et al. (2022) who used the rates of the basin-bounding faults to infer the velocity of the basin.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Both the US & British center left are hoping that a brief cessation in the war on Gaza will return perceptions of the issue to the status quo ante, but as Professor Shibley Telhami has noted that is is basically impossible now.

A whole generation now sees Israel as having committed genocide.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

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Paddy Carter @paddycarter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah alright Finland, give it a rest

academic.oup.com/jeea/article...

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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 23h

Congrats to all involved in the production of the massive Oxford Handbook of cultural evolution. You can read our paper The Cultural Evolution Of Science here: cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...

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Luqman Abu El Foul | لقمان أبو الفول @luqmanabuelfoul.bsky.social · 20d

The lineup for this term's @lsegovernment.bsky.social Contentious Politics Workshop has been finalised! Join us in-person or via Zoom on Wednesdays to discuss mobilisation, repression, protest framing, memory and more. DM for Zoom links and our mailing list!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 21h

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The Naming of Stats
June 19, 2023 • Obiter Dicta • R
The Naming of Stats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a stat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all are the names where usage is informal, Such as Median, Estimate, Average, or Range, Such as Variance, Quartile, or else Standard Normal All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names that may be better-tasting, Some for the frequentists, some for the Bayes:
Such as Skew, or Kurtosis, Metropolis-Hastings-But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a stat needs a name that's obscurer, A name that's misleading, and hard to construe,
Else how can it keep on confusing the reader, Or frustrate professors, or pass peer review?
Of names of this kind, there are many examples, Like Hierarchical, Robust, or Omega-hat,
Such as Marginal, Confidence, or just Weighted Sample, Names that always belong to more than one stat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess;
The thing that no human research can discover-
But THE STAT MIGHT JUST KNOW, and be made to confess.
When you notice a stat getting quite widely cited, The reason, you see, is whatever its flaws, Its user's engaged, or enraged, or excited
At the prospect of pinning the root of all laws:
That inviolable, friable
Unidentifiable
Deep and inscrutable singular Cause.

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Kathryn Chelminski @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to share my book "Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines" was published with Cambridge University Press at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...! The book is available OA thanks to @snsf.ch support. 🔌💡

Governing Energy Transitions

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Governing Energy Transitions

www.cambridge.org

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Did a tariff write this?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Righty-o.

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 1d

Really recommend reading the essays in here, including the very helpful reflections on how the organisers actively went about ensuring gender parity (no mean feat for a Marxism conference).
PDF available here:
marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 2d

Thing by me on today's Econ nobel in @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/b8aa...

Idealist and/or materialist theories of economic growth

[FREE TO READ] Nobel committee: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

www.ft.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

”Down the skibidi toilet: American moral leadership in the late Internet era”

Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Apr 18

Probably some Gen-Z IR scholar gonna someday write their magnum opus about our current moment and call it “Fumbling Hegemony”

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1d

How the global north did not lock in

Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Apr 18

Probably some Gen-Z IR scholar gonna someday write their magnum opus about our current moment and call it “Fumbling Hegemony”

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 4d

Have you seen our Comparative Political Theory Elements series? Explore the series- a platform for researchers, graduate students, and teachers to expand their knowledge of political thought beyond the West today.

https://cup.org/3L1btiT

#PoliSci #PhilSky 🗺️

Abstract image for the Contemporary Political Theory series

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Apr 18

Probably some Gen-Z IR scholar gonna someday write their magnum opus about our current moment and call it “Fumbling Hegemony”

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · Aug 11

"The more our sense of the common world is scattered, the easier it is to erode solidarity, and the harder it becomes to mount any sustained opposition to the violence they champion."

A must-read from William Shoki. Writing that meets the moment.

africasacountry.com/2025/08/on-s...

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 11d

Insightful piece from @ashoswai.bsky.social examining the wave of South Asian uprisings.

Lays out key differences/similarities between Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

(And a needed check on my optimism)

scroll.in/article/1087...

If one looks for a deeper pattern, it is not simply economic hardship but the rising impatience of younger citizens. In Sri Lanka, they were part of a wider coalition.
In Bangladesh, they acted as the vanguard. In Nepal, they dominated and reshaped the protest vocabulary itself.
This is the thread tying the three uprisings together:
South Asia's youth, digitally connected and politically alienated, are no longer willing to wait passively for better governance.
Yet these revolts also reveal the limits of street power.
Protest movements can topple regimes, but they cannot, on their own, build new orders. Sri Lanka shows cautious renewal is possible, Bangladesh shows how fragile transition can be, and Nepal shows how easily generational revolt risks sliding into chaos.
The temptation to see these uprisings as South Asia's Arab Spring is misleading. They are not clones of one another, nor do they herald a uniform democratic tide. Each is written in its own dialect, shaped by local grievances and political structures. What unites them is the collapse of patience with elites, what separates them is the path that follows collapse.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 10d

Look around and you’ll see people rising up everywhere.

Link: www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

It doesn’t feel like it, but we’re in an era of uprising and resistance. The horrors and bad news can be overwhelming, but born out of necessity, born out of horror at genocide and disgust with fascism and being fed up with poverty and oppression, people are rising up around the world. In Greece a general strike this week against a 13-hour workday proposal brought the country to a halt. In Nepal a Gen-Z led uprising recently overthrew the government. An August wave of mass protest in Indonesia against corrupt elites shook the system to its core. In Madagascar protests against the government’s inability to provide basic services like water and electricity currently have the President on the verge of stepping down. France is, once again, wracked by huge nationwide protests against austerity.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

Wild how the Gen Z protests are international:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 2d

fossil fuels first imo

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

They did this to my father in 1970.
He wasn't even allowed to say goodbye to his mother. 55 years later, same abuse and injustice.

Massimo @massimovl.bsky.social · 2d

aje.io/o3rs1l

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

aje.io

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Kohei Saito @koheisaito.bsky.social · 2d

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common

This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...

www.tandfonline.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 2d

When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy

(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 2d

Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo...

Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.

What role for carbon trading? - Climate Uncensored

I was recently contacted by a senior civil servant who asked me to provide a short comment on the concept of emissions trading schemes in general, and on the

climateuncensored.com

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