“Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?”

No sé, I’ll give it a think

nytimes.com/2024/05/14/mag…

The Mexican Elections are approaching and the young Mexican scholars from Mexico are organising this seminar at the LAC Oxford!

More details here: lac.ox.ac.uk/event/seminar-…

Jose Maria Javier Pérez Sandoval Khemvirg Puente Elena Pierard

I can't believe this article fails to mention Steve Buscemi was stabbed repeatedly in a bar in Wilmington NC in 2001. Look it up.

Field Research Summer School Course: If you or your doctoral students are planning fieldwork, take a look at the course alex h and I are offering at the Essex Summer School - Social Science Data Analysis We help you with your project prep, from IRB apps to budgets, funding, implementation, etc. All virtual

The Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) Oversight Board is seeking public comments about the phrase 'from the river to the sea,' and more specifically if content with this phrase should moderated on its platforms. oversightboard.com/news/oversight…

How the Modern University Became a Bureaucratic Blob

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Our own Crisófia Langa di Câmara crisofia da camara presents our Multilingualism and Conflict in Africa @esrc-funded project at the Centro de Estudos Africanos at Edoardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. Brian J. Phillips - also on Bsky Hannah Gibson

My article on the international diffusion of 'war on terror' rhetoric and its use by the Asad regime in Syria is out at ISQ: doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…

Whoa Victor Asal look at the book he's holding 😉

Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found 'a book on terrorism' at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)

New approaches to regulating drugs in West Africa

This report explores the impact of Ghana’s drug policy reform.

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ISS, Global Initiative

I’m excited to share my paper on the spatial and temporal dynamic of kidnapping in civil war has been published in International Studies Quarterly!

🔗 academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

NYUAD Social Science NYU Abu Dhabi Rebel Governance Network GLD

A small 🧵…

Meanwhile in the UK: the university isn’t observing “no-mow May,” but the flowers grow so fast between mowings that it’s quite lovely

Brian J. Phillips - also on Bsky R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S I N B I O

Twitter: a place for conversation

“Life is beautiful, it is spent and it goes away. The crux of succeeding in life is starting over every time you fall.' Former Uruguayan president José Mujica announces that he has a tumor in the esophagus.

Two British men charged with helping Russian intelligence after suspected arson attack on a Ukraine-linked business in London bbc.in/3xU4Qsm

Environmental consequences of (criminal) conflict

Crucial thread. If passed, this'd give 1 US official the power to revoke an org's nonprofit status for being a 'terrorist supporting org.' Nonprofits already can't support legally proscribed 'terror' orgs—this bill would remove due process explicitly to target pro-Palestine orgs.