Barry Ryan
@drbarraoriain.bsky.social
Academic in the field of International Relations.. Security studies, caustic Irish wit & maritime politics, mostly.
if the United States continues to elect and appoint tv commercials to the world stage, then Europe needs to disengage. Face up to our own potential. Our way of life is not America's, nor Russia's, nor China's/
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
if the United States continues to elect and appoint tv commercials to the world stage, then Europe needs to disengage. Face up to our own potential. Our way of life is not America's, nor Russia's, nor China's/
The shallowest human in history.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The shallowest human in history.
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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Did you know the UK gov allows bottom trawling in many UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
Sign the petition
Emma Reynolds: stop the industrial fishing frenzy
act.gp
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Did you know the UK gov allows bottom trawling in many UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
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In the UK this week? Join Bellingcat contributor Dr. Ollie Ballinger at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for a talk this Friday as he unpacks our investigations into, and the open source tools we built to track suspicious ships operating in international waters. events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
events.bl.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
In the UK this week? Join Bellingcat contributor Dr. Ollie Ballinger at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for a talk this Friday as he unpacks our investigations into, and the open source tools we built to track suspicious ships operating in international waters. events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
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"NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy ... re-centers maritime hard power within collective defense, integrates digital transformation and industrial strength, and reframes the oceans as the decisive arena of strategic competition." www.fpri.org/article/2025...
Collective Seapower: NATO’s New Maritime Strategy - Foreign Policy Research Institute
NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since 2011. While high-level strategy
www.fpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy ... re-centers maritime hard power within collective defense, integrates digital transformation and industrial strength, and reframes the oceans as the decisive arena of strategic competition." www.fpri.org/article/2025...
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Need some analysis of the new NATO Maritime Strategy?
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
Collective Seapower: NATO’s New Maritime Strategy - Foreign Policy Research Institute
NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since 2011. While high-level strategy
www.fpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Need some analysis of the new NATO Maritime Strategy?
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
In Europe he would be a moderate social democrat, but BBC Radio 4 Drivetime spent the evening referring to Mamdani as a 'radical socialist'??
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
In Europe he would be a moderate social democrat, but BBC Radio 4 Drivetime spent the evening referring to Mamdani as a 'radical socialist'??
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Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Vice Chair Asle Toje, Anne Enger, Kristin Clemet, and Gry Larsen. Your Trumpian laureate is openly requesting invasion and war and regional chaos. Are you picking the winner next year too?
thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Vice Chair Asle Toje, Anne Enger, Kristin Clemet, and Gry Larsen. Your Trumpian laureate is openly requesting invasion and war and regional chaos. Are you picking the winner next year too?
thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com/policy/inter...
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Submarine cables are Europe's digital lifelines.
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Submarine cables are Europe's digital lifelines.
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
Non-US lives seem to be considered expendable by the Whitehouse regime
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Non-US lives seem to be considered expendable by the Whitehouse regime
I suppose it's inevitable the Trump Prize for World Peace will be announced soon. First recipient is pretty obvious, maybe Bibi in 2026 and whosoever supports his third term thereafter
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I suppose it's inevitable the Trump Prize for World Peace will be announced soon. First recipient is pretty obvious, maybe Bibi in 2026 and whosoever supports his third term thereafter
just nonsense, toddler level babbling, and they're listening, avidly.
...
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
just nonsense, toddler level babbling, and they're listening, avidly.
I imagine Trump playing chess but with chequers rules, when he makes the world's best ever moves
September 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I imagine Trump playing chess but with chequers rules, when he makes the world's best ever moves
I think it's high time Europeans considered a civil war in the United States, and how the EU will survive in the post Gaza world order
September 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I think it's high time Europeans considered a civil war in the United States, and how the EU will survive in the post Gaza world order
Liberialism is a post facto political philosophy of justification. This is plain to see in its reaction to Gaza. The goal of the liberal is to make moral what it has decided is in self-interest. To always demonstrate progress, no matter what horrors it has enabled.
August 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Liberialism is a post facto political philosophy of justification. This is plain to see in its reaction to Gaza. The goal of the liberal is to make moral what it has decided is in self-interest. To always demonstrate progress, no matter what horrors it has enabled.
Simply booking a flight on Ryanair I was forced into an insidious and invasive security check complete with mugshot and idiotic rejections of ID. Took me 40 minutes. Just booking a flight!
August 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Simply booking a flight on Ryanair I was forced into an insidious and invasive security check complete with mugshot and idiotic rejections of ID. Took me 40 minutes. Just booking a flight!
the source of life is divinely beautiful
A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.
-Credits: NASA
-Credits: NASA
July 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
the source of life is divinely beautiful
same ends as UK academia, different means
July 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
same ends as UK academia, different means
Regime/change=civil war.
June 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Regime/change=civil war.
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🇪🇺 The EU is a maritime power.
It’s time to assert its maritime leadership.
The EPP Group will support an ambitious #OceanPact that stands for a comprehensive EU maritime strategy.
Read our position paper: epp.group/OceanPact
It’s time to assert its maritime leadership.
The EPP Group will support an ambitious #OceanPact that stands for a comprehensive EU maritime strategy.
Read our position paper: epp.group/OceanPact
June 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🇪🇺 The EU is a maritime power.
It’s time to assert its maritime leadership.
The EPP Group will support an ambitious #OceanPact that stands for a comprehensive EU maritime strategy.
Read our position paper: epp.group/OceanPact
It’s time to assert its maritime leadership.
The EPP Group will support an ambitious #OceanPact that stands for a comprehensive EU maritime strategy.
Read our position paper: epp.group/OceanPact
There are so many ways to interpret this, but the one that sees this as the liberal individual standing against the authoritarian oppressor is the most absurd. It remains one of the most powerful anonymous acts of defiance ever recorded.
"That guy, you see that guy?"
"No."
"There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it."
...
CNN raw video, Chang'an Avenue, June 5 1989.
"No."
"There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it."
...
CNN raw video, Chang'an Avenue, June 5 1989.
June 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
There are so many ways to interpret this, but the one that sees this as the liberal individual standing against the authoritarian oppressor is the most absurd. It remains one of the most powerful anonymous acts of defiance ever recorded.