Please join the debate. My response to Fareed Zakaria column in The Washington Post last week: 1. Zakaria argues that the "The world of a rules-based international order... emerged from the European enlightenment", mentioning specifically Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant. My

A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer

Can't wait to see the masterpieces from the ancient metropolis this afternoon at Pergamon Museum. A rare opportunity during the lengthy construction period. #Pergamon #Berlin #HappySunday

Charlotten walk happening today! Explore galleries in Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf in Berlin. charlottenwalk.de #CharlottenWalk #Berlin

As academic precarity and mental health worsen in many places, the global scientific community needs to step in, find solutions, save lives, and create a decent working environment for all. Looking forward to learning from Cary Wu. yorku.ca/dighr/events/ #Academics #Science

Happy birthday, Max Planck! 🎂The physicist, pianist, #NobelPrize winner, #quantum trailblazer & timeless thinker was born #OTD 1858 in Kiel: his discoveries in the field of #physics forever changed how we understand energy & matter!🎉

#Canadians, go #vote today! Your vote will help shape the future of Canada. #canadianelection2025

This week has been a sad week for IR communities around the world. Two giants, Joseph Nye and 張睿壯( Zhang Ruizhuang, have passed away. R.I.P. 🙏🙏🙏

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible moms out there! 💐❤️🎆 #MothersDay

👀 Who gets hired in Canada’s top universities? 🎓 Where did they train? Check out my article with François Lachapelle, PhD, on hiring patterns in the social sciences across 15 leading Canadian universities. 👉 universityaffairs.ca/opinion/status… #AcademicHiring #CanadianUniversities

Join my colloquium at 📍 MPIWG Berlin today from 14:30 to 16:00! We'll discuss my recent work, “From National Knowledge Systems to Global Knowledge Value Chains? How Metrics, Markets, and Geopolitics Shape Social Sciences in Germany, Canada, and China” mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/national…

This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with Jochen Kleinschmidt 🇺🇦 ПТН ПНХ) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, non-state actors, and insurgency!  See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25

Visiting Yonghegong 雍和宫, also called the Lama Temple, in Beijing. Officially inaugurated in 1744.

Forty years old today. I can't think of a better place to make the transition into my forties than China. The students got me a panda. 🐼

Did you know that the Junior Professorship was introduced in 2002, and the tenure track only in 2016 in Germany? The traditional path to professorship in Germany was habilitation (writing a second book). #AcademicTwitter #PhDLife #HigherEd #Germany #ProfLife #AcademicChatter

Economic nationalism is back?bbc.com/news/articles/…

Sad to see this is happening. Used to go to Barrie for my drum lessons with the world-renowned drummer Jim Blackley. ctvnews.ca/barrie/article…