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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸
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Assistant professor (a glorified postdoc) working on child protection in 🇺🇦, 🇺🇳 peacekeeping, and my third coffee of the day. Views strictly my own, etc. 🇨🇦 is home, PhD GU 🇸🇪, from NM 🇺🇲. He/him.
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Well, moving from Halifax to Vancouver is really starting to pay off
Screenshot of a weather forecast for Vancouver showing high temperatures between 6 and 9 C and lows between 2 and 5 C Screenshot of a weather forecast for Halifax showing high temperatures between -6 and 4 C and lows between -11 and 3 C, and multiple weather alerts and special weather statements
December 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Excited to be in beautiful Kraków for #EWIS2025, the best international studies conference of the year! Hope to see some of you there.
Photo of a street in Krakow with tram tracks in the road in the foreground and old buildings lit by late afternoon sun in the background.
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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"We don't need their energy"
Chart showing that 60% of US crude oil imports come from Canada
May 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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"provided Russia complies" doing a lot of work here, less than a day after one of Putin's main propagandists said they no longer need a ceasefire due to Vance, and it seems vanishingly like that Russia will agree to a ceasefire on terms acceptable to Ukraine.
Post saying "On Kremlin TV, Putin intimate Solov'yov says Russia so encouraged by Trump taking their side no longer see need for ceasefire. "No, there won’t be any ceasefire. Our idea of peace is everything happening as we see fit” Then plays a clip of Vance slamming Ukraine. Vance is "our man" he says." Post saying "⚡️ ❗️ Ukraine has agreed to the US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire, provided Russia complies."
March 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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LinkedIn's non-chronological timeline acting as a time capsule to a different world
Screenshot of a linkedin post from Mercy Corps about "How can the incoming Trump administration make US foreign assistance more effective and sustainable?" with a link to an opinion piece titled "The Trump administration can boost aid impact with localization"
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This is utterly ridiculous. Canadian politicians should not be legitimating Trump's fake claims about the Canada-US border nor should we be militarizing it. Unfit to lead the country in this moment of crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Text in image: After the news of Sheinbaum's deal broke, some Conservative politicians in Canada called for the federal government to deploy the military to the Canada-U.S. border, which was almost entirely demilitarized after the War of 1812 more than 200 years ago. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asked Trudeau to "send Canadian Forces troops, helicopters and surveillance to the border now" to try and save the Canada-U.S. trade relationship and address Trump's concerns about drugs and migrants. He also called for the hiring of "at least" 2,000 more Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) agents to bolster the law-enforcement agency that's responsible for border control. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also asked the federal government to put the CBSA under military command to "address concerns President Trump has raised." The $2.6 billion Ottawa spends every year on CBSA could then be reclassified as military spending, helping the country chip away at its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence, Moe said. Trump has repeatedly criticized Canada's low defence spending.
February 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Don't really see how you replace Canadian potash without causing some major political issues either natural-resources.canada.ca/minerals-min...
Chart showing world potash production, with Canada producing 32%, Russia 18%, Belarus 15%, and China 9%
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Egg update from north of the border
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January 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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We should perhaps be concerned that Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence looks almost exactly like Emperor Palpatine's Director of Imperial Intelligence...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Heading back to Canada after a last visit to home in the US before trump regime 2. Hoping it is not the last for four years or longer...
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December 24, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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If friend shaped, why not friend?
Photo of a coyote in an open field head turned toward the camera
December 18, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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Looks like it's another one of those weeks
A cartoon showing the captain from Tintin saying "what a week, huh?" and Tintin replying "captain, it's Wednesday"
November 13, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains.
Photo of snowy mountains in central Norway taken from the train, with a frozen lake on one side and rocky slopes on the other
October 30, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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Not a bad view from right outside the front door
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October 11, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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A good summary of the hollowness of russia's so-called red lines during its invasion of Ukraine. Given the experience over the last 2.5 years, there is no reason not to let Ukraine have unfettered use of Western long-range weapons in russian territory. newlinesmag.com/argument/ukr...
Screenshot: Washington’s escalations have routinely been met by Moscow’s anticlimactic responses. Nor does Russia stand to gain anything by resorting to nuclear weapons just because the munitions destroying its air bases, command centers and logistics hubs are made in the U.S. (or the U.K. or France) instead of in Ukraine. On the contrary, even the use of a tactical nuke in Ukrainian territory would yield no advantage on the battlefield. It would, however, transform Russia into even more of a pariah state overnight, alienate its critical ally China and likely lead to nuclear proliferation in places where neither Moscow nor Beijing would desire to see it, such as Kazakhstan, Finland, Turkey, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. As has no doubt been communicated, such an escalation would be met by a NATO conventional military response that would do even greater damage to Russia than anything currently on offer from Ukrainian ATACMS or Storm Shadows. Last paragraph of article for rest.
September 26, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Successful day of getting fresh air and avoiding the discourse by picking apples
Closeup photo of several red apples on a branch with the orchard visible behind them
September 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Finally have official confirmation that I am Too Online
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September 17, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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Unsurprisingly, this article doesn't actually quote Ukrainian public opinion on negotiations, substantively engage with the actual stakes of the war for Ukraine, or address whether Russia would negotiate in good faith or follow a ceasefire with actual peace.
Screenshot of a skeet from the intercept with the article titled "Progressive were pilloried for wanting to end the Ukraine war in 2022. Things have only gotten worse"
September 11, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Incredibly fortunate to have ended up in Iceland right when the latest eruption started! Photo from c. 8km away along the road to the airport earlier this evening.
A photo showing a barren landscape in the foreground and along the horizon a hill on the left and lava fountains on the right
May 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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After ~4.5 years of hard work, bouts of procrastination, and other normal PhD exasperations, I’m very happy to say I successfully defended my doctoral thesis in peace and development research at the University of Gothenburg yesterday!
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May 18, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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The view from New Brunswick
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April 9, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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Important investigation demonstrating how the IDF is knowingly and intentionally killing huge numbers of Gazan civilians, wildly violating the principle of proportionality or directly striking civilian targets. www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
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November 30, 2023 at 7:25 PM
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My colleague Catherine Baillie Abidi & I are co-organizing a workshop proposal for next year's European Workshops in International Studies focused on revisiting and understanding the ways in which children are involved in war. If you are interested in joining please let me know! #Polisky
Image of a workshop call for proposals. Contact dustin.bryce.johnson@gmail.com for details.
November 3, 2023 at 10:11 AM
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The moon's haunted meme has apparently become real life
Screenshot of a news headline reading "Moon sniper: Japan launches Slim probe on precision landing mission"
September 7, 2023 at 7:05 AM
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Excited to be at #EWIS2023 in Amsterdam to take part in a workshop on young people in the production of world politics 🗺️
Photo of a projector screen showing the workshop title
July 12, 2023 at 12:15 PM