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On Remembrance Sunday. I was delighted to retell this amazing story of a little-known WW2 truce. Sometimes it takes courage not to fight. @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Newcastle professor recalls US-Japan picnic truce
Prof Nick Megoran says the picnic on Aka island is as remarkable as the 1914 Christmas Day truce.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
On Remembrance Sunday. I was delighted to retell this amazing story of a little-known WW2 truce. Sometimes it takes courage not to fight. @ncl-geography.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What does the election in north Cyprus signify? Great blog by Rebecca Bryant
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Turkish Cypriots vote for hope, but can they be heard? - EUROPP
Will Tufan Erhürman's victory lead to a federal Cyprus? Whatever happens, the international community must help Turkish Cypriots realise their political will.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What does the election in north Cyprus signify? Great blog by Rebecca Bryant
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
What happens when borders reopen? My new article for Geopolitics journal, co-written with the economist Zalina Enikeeva. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What Happens When Borders Reopen? Dematerialising the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary
Border studies have recently been focussed on what happens when borders close, leaving the question of border reopenings both largely unexplored and unconceptualized. We argue here for a new focus ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What happens when borders reopen? My new article for Geopolitics journal, co-written with the economist Zalina Enikeeva. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Is peace possible?" I was part of a BBC Radio Wales discussion on this for UN International Day of Peace this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
All Things Considered - Is Peace Possible? - BBC Sounds
Delyth Liddell and guests discuss how to act now for a peaceful world.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Is peace possible?" I was part of a BBC Radio Wales discussion on this for UN International Day of Peace this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Great book title: explains its thesis.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
AI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction – but it’s not too late to change course. Two pioneering ...
www.penguin.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Great book title: explains its thesis.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/474267...
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US universities face growing threats to academic freedom – both at home and abroad. Here’s how leaders and academics can guard against #authoritarianism: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #HigherEd @jhu.edu @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
How to protect your university against authoritarianism
US institutions are facing threats to academic freedom from the Trump administration, yet they must also stay vigilant to authoritarianism from abroad. Here is what university leaders and academics ca...
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
US universities face growing threats to academic freedom – both at home and abroad. Here’s how leaders and academics can guard against #authoritarianism: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #HigherEd @jhu.edu @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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Apparently Trump wants to try and earn his way up to heaven by brokering peace in Ukraine. But here's a radical thought...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Apparently Trump wants to try and earn his way up to heaven by brokering peace in Ukraine. But here's a radical thought...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Lessons from the forgotten peacemakers on Aka Island - stories for VJ Day.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
VJ Day 80: Forgotten peacemakers of Aka Island
Eighty years after Victory over Japan, Nick Megoran reflects on a little-known story about the brokering of a truce
www.churchtimes.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Lessons from the forgotten peacemakers on Aka Island - stories for VJ Day.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)
August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)
80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
When US and Japanese troops stopped fighting to talk, eat and pray together
Eighty years ago, this remarkable event showed a rare glimpse of humanity on both sides of a bitter conflict.
theconversation.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
What if state borders united rather than divided? The curious case of the 'Peace Border' between Uruguay and Brazil
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
Peace Border, the world's only binational plaza shared by two countries
In a world where borders are often synonymous with separation, control, and sometimes conflict, the Peace Border between Uruguay and Brazil is a curious exception. This border stretch, connecting the ...
www.labrujulaverde.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
What if state borders united rather than divided? The curious case of the 'Peace Border' between Uruguay and Brazil
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/p...
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Part of a building dedication to the Emperor Antoninus Pius by the Sixth Legion which was found at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
July 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Part of a building dedication to the Emperor Antoninus Pius by the Sixth Legion which was found at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall
Can peace break out unexpectedly? Article I wrote for The Times this week about an incident at the end of World War 2 that is every bit as remarkable as the December 1914 Christmas truces yet which remains virtually unknown. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Can peace break out unexpectedly? Article I wrote for The Times this week about an incident at the end of World War 2 that is every bit as remarkable as the December 1914 Christmas truces yet which remains virtually unknown. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social
"The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic" - article I wrote for today's Times (print and online). One of the most amazing stories I have ever encountered. A moment of peaceful, intimate interaction in midst of terrible battle.
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic
A forgotten truce on Aka Island, Okinawa, which ended one of the most bloody land battles of the Second World War, was commemorated this year
www.thetimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic" - article I wrote for today's Times (print and online). One of the most amazing stories I have ever encountered. A moment of peaceful, intimate interaction in midst of terrible battle.
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
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Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day!
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day!
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
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The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
July 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
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Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution - Nature Geoscience
Extensive flat surfaces observed beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet margin were formed by fluvial erosion and have modulated the ice-sheet response to climate change, according to an analysis of rad...
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202... - train more peacemakers: it's cheaper and effective.
Threats to the UK require strategic peacebuilding
As the Government gets ready for war, the Church should push for dialogue that prevents conflict, says James Megoran
www.churchtimes.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202... - train more peacemakers: it's cheaper and effective.
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“Mass redundancies will trash the global reputation of UK universities”
As @nickmegoran.bsky.social
of writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted they’re self-destructive.
✊ Join UCU and Fight back.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
As @nickmegoran.bsky.social
of writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted they’re self-destructive.
✊ Join UCU and Fight back.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
Mass redundancies will trash the reputation of UK universities
It may be difficult to enter on to a balance sheet but some weaker institutions may struggle to recover from reputational damage, says Nick Megoran
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“Mass redundancies will trash the global reputation of UK universities”
As @nickmegoran.bsky.social
of writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted they’re self-destructive.
✊ Join UCU and Fight back.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
As @nickmegoran.bsky.social
of writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted they’re self-destructive.
✊ Join UCU and Fight back.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
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Redundancies and course closures:
@nickmegoran.bsky.social on pain, protest and reputational damage at UK universities
@ucu.org.uk
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
@nickmegoran.bsky.social on pain, protest and reputational damage at UK universities
@ucu.org.uk
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
Mass redundancies will trash the reputation of UK universities
It may be difficult to enter on to a balance sheet but some weaker institutions may struggle to recover from reputational damage, says Nick Megoran
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Redundancies and course closures:
@nickmegoran.bsky.social on pain, protest and reputational damage at UK universities
@ucu.org.uk
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
@nickmegoran.bsky.social on pain, protest and reputational damage at UK universities
@ucu.org.uk
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass...
Newcastle University's Vice Chancellor draws a wage packet equal to the annual salaries of the UK Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Secretary General of the United Nations combined. Yet to cut costs he wants to lay off frontline academics. Sign petition to say NO! chng.it/QSwScJvzFj
We Can Make an Impact.
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
chng.it
May 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Newcastle University's Vice Chancellor draws a wage packet equal to the annual salaries of the UK Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Secretary General of the United Nations combined. Yet to cut costs he wants to lay off frontline academics. Sign petition to say NO! chng.it/QSwScJvzFj
Two years ago today our dear friend and mentor, Janet Townsend, died. We remember her with affection and mourn her departure. This tribute to her work just appeared in SJTG, an introduction to a series of short forthcoming /already published reflections onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Re‐Reading ‘Women's Voices from the Rainforest’
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Two years ago today our dear friend and mentor, Janet Townsend, died. We remember her with affection and mourn her departure. This tribute to her work just appeared in SJTG, an introduction to a series of short forthcoming /already published reflections onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....