Hi all. Got a new gen-set organised and my Starlink is powered up again. No power, no water, limited comms in Port Vila now. People are helping people, everyone's taking care of each other. Multiple overflights by RAAF aircraft, no landing, so I guess they're aerial surveys.

Rogue think-tank ASPI takes a funding cut — and a reigning-in of its extreme neocon advice. Risking the crime of undue ‘foreign influence’, ASPI is likely to bypass the Australian govt, & seek extra funds from US government and foreign weapons companies. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Another US military base — another patch of spare land gone in Australia.

EXHIBIT: Atlas of Uncertainty is a multi-media research project by ACMS and Mobility Governance Lab (MGL). It unsettles the racialised tropes of danger and deprivation informing the manic mapping of contemporary migration and urbanisation in Africa tinyurl.com/2re693b8 #InternationalMigrantsDay

🚨Look here!🚨 2 PhD positions in Political Science Stockholm University Deadline 6 February 2025. Help us spread the info to anyone you think might be interested - many thanks! Open position: su.se/english/about-… Position in IR & Comparative Politics: su.se/english/about-…

Sheer greed. Self interest is always the favorite. Australia negligent. If it does’nt pay, don’t play. Has to be a better way of accommodating the minnows. Hard to believe that there were no Tests for Oz from April to Nov 2024

The Just Stop Oil Stop activists who threw soup over the Van Gogh painting case to demand climate change action, are currently in prison. Right now, the Getty Villa, museum of precious Greek and Roman artefacts, in LA, appears to be on fire. #PacificPalisades

One week left to apply for our new and emerging scholars award! Deadline: 31 January 2025 genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/gen…

Job in Palestine Studies! UC Davis seeks to hire an Anthropologist of Palestine at assistant/associate professor rank, Seeking a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically-grounded research agenda and interest in collaboration. Review begins March 5. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996

The intellectually dishonest definition of antisemitism adopted by Australian universities has basically loaded a gun and pointed it at Palestinian and Arab academics first and foremost. The only way we are permitted to exist as Palestinian and Arab in the academy is if we

1/ Good morning class. Today Australian universities adopted a policy that effectively outlaws criticism of Zionism. In today's class, and I do hope our Vice Chancellor's are listening and reading carefully, you will be introduced to Edward Said's 'Zionism from the Standpoint

Have you heard about the unholy trinity? Israel, Zionism and Judaism, the unholy trinity! Israel is a country. Zionism a political ideology. Judaism a religion. Zionists believe in the singularity of their unholy trinity. Dont you dare criticise the unholy trinity you antisemite!

The AHA (Australia) statement on UA's new definition of antisemitism:

This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. afr.com/policy/health-…

Free Mahmoud Khalil

PRESS RELEASE: InASA opposes Ministerial and political interference in Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s ARC Future Fellowship inasa.org/blog/inasa-opp…

What people fear about entering Russia is already the new normal in the USA. My colleague in PolSci entered the USA from Europe recently to attend ISA Convention. Her colleagues, all Germans, were forced to open their laptops and show content of their research presentations. 1/

Last month, Universities Australia revealed its biggest summer secret - the hard work of various provosts from the Group of 8 universities and the antisemitism envoy in nutting out a new definition of antisemitism. This definition has been endorsed by UA’s 39 member unis. 1/15🧵

Endless shame on Creative Australia and their cowardly Board for their racist cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi, which has given license to others to target him. The damage you have done is incalculable. This is a disgusting and racist action Monash University

Silencing Palestine: Universities Australia and the new definition of antisemitism overland.org.au/2025/03/silenc… via @overlandjournal Some thoughts from me about the UA definition of antisemitism being imposed on universities across the Australian continent.