Holly Cullen
International law academic living on Whadjak Noongar Boodjar, researching feminist strategic litigation in international law. Cats, cooking and crafts. Dockers fan for AFLW/AFL
orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-9413
- I do NOT miss the late winter slush of Montréal.
- For further context, the maternal mortality rate in Australia in 2023 was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 live births.
- Reposted by Holly Cullenwww.nbcnews.com/politics/202... Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new congressional map that voters approved, delivering a major victory for Democrats ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
- @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social - I saw this and thought of you.
- Inadvertent consequences of playing to the easy narrative around hierarchies of evidence and RCTs as gold standard? This (by @statsepi.bsky.social) being by far the most sensible methodological take:
- Reposted by Holly CullenJob 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Holly CullenRanda Abdel-Fattah and Louise Adler to headline alternative to cancelled Adelaide writers’ week
- Reposted by Holly Cullen‘A big new survey of executives in America, Australia, Britain and Germany… shows that almost three-quarters of businesses are using AI in some way. Yet 86% of bosses across these four countries report the technology has had no impact on labour productivity over the past three years’
- Reposted by Holly CullenWhat an inspiring life for international law: tonight, UN judge Theodor Meron presented his memoirs at @grotiuscentre.bsky.social: “A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide”. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/a-thous... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Holly Cullen‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by Holly Cullen"Australian households installed as many batteries in the final six months of 2025 as they did in the entire preceding five years, according to figures showing the boom in demand for storage devices" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- From research on academic presentations by economists:
- Reposted by Holly CullenBottom line: Economics seminar culture isn’t gender-neutral. In elite research settings, women face systematically different treatment that could affect their evaluation, visibility, and career trajectories.
- Reposted by Holly CullenInternational Journal of Refugee Law – Call for Special Issue Proposals. Deadline for submission: 4th May 2026 academic.oup.com/ijrl/pages/i...
- Reposted by Holly CullenUS, Myanmar, Libya, Congo and the 38 Other Countries That Owe the UN Money passblue.com/2026/02/03/u...
- Reposted by Holly Cullen"Australians for Prosperity" was almost entirely funded by $3.68 million in donations from industry lobby group Coal Australia during the last election www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Holly CullenKing's College London Job - Lecturer in International Law and Politics 👇🏾 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD066/l...
- Reposted by Holly CullenLecturer in Law, Birkbeck post #CriticalLaw in #London #RussellSquare www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE722/l...
- Reposted by Holly CullenPeople ask 🍁
- Sensible. We need more user-friendly design, not more 'cool' design.
- Reposted by Holly CullenTear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
- Reposted by Holly Cullen“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
- Given that Canada's population is around 41m whereas the US's is 340m, Canada is doing really, really well at adding manufacturing jobs.
- Reposted by Holly CullenIn a first, the #gigeconomy delivery platform JustEat has established a European Works' Council spanning 11 different countries. h/t @project_gig newsroom.justeattakeaway.com/en-WW/259889...
- Reposted by Holly CullenSave the date! Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 comes out on 10 February. Don’t miss out! #CPI2025
- Reposted by Holly CullenInternational humanitarian law is at “a critical breaking point”, study of @gvagrad.bsky.social finds. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
- Reposted by Holly CullenGina Rinehart’s company donated almost $900k to rightwing group Advance, latest data shows www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Holly CullenThe editors of The Nation magazine have formally nominated the city of Minneapolis and its residents for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. ✋✋✋✋✋✋
- Reposted by Holly CullenI’ve been going back and forth on this but this clinches it—I think these guys really want a Persian Gulf labor model in the US. It’s not a coherent philosophy—nothing ever is with these assholes—but I’ve worked on Gulf labor stuff and I’m seeing more and more of it here. Long thread 1/
- Reposted by Holly Cullen4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Reposted by Holly Cullen🇬🇪Georgia is sliding into a legal dictatorship. Not overnight. Step by step. Each protest is met with a new tailored law. Each law designed to exhaust, criminalize, and isolate society until resistance itself becomes illegal. Here is how the latest law changes everything. 1/11
- Reposted by Holly CullenThe International Journal of Law in Context is looking for a co-editor-in-chief. Terrific opportunity for socio-legal scholars out there: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Me, just about constantly these days.
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- Reposted by Holly CullenMy hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
- Reposted by Holly Cullen"There’s no talk about a mutually beneficial relationship; Canada, Trump says, is not even a vassal state. Its very existence is dependent on the US, which means it is dependent on him personally. 'Canada lives because of the US,' he says, like a domestic abuser sneering." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Holly CullenA new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
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- Reposted by Holly Cullen“Texas A&M University on Friday announced it is ending its programs in women's and gender studies…” This is chilling censorship. Universities in the US (and other parts of the world) are facing political attacks for offering subjects that challenge those in power. We must defend critical thought.
- Reposted by Holly CullenThousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
- I think that shenanigans or other nefarious actions may have occurred.
- Reposted by Holly CullenScoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Reposted by Holly Cullen🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda? Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that. Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars. Sneak peek:
- Reposted by Holly CullenCITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes
- Reposted by Holly CullenNow: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
- Reposted by Holly Cullen"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Reposted by Holly CullenMicrosoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments aje.news/452j76
- Reposted by Holly CullenOh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
- Reposted by Holly CullenApple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
- Reposted by Holly CullenKurds in retreat as US allies switch to backing Syria's new leader
- Reposted by Holly Cullen“Electricity prices in eastern Australia fell sharply in the final three months of last year as record-breaking contributions from renewable energy and large-scale batteries reduced the need to call on fossil fuels to plug supply gaps.” www.smh.com.au/business/con...
- Reposted by Holly CullenThe parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU
- Two points: 1) I did not realise that the WHO had a 'Hotel California' approach to membership. 2) the US continually seeking special treatment is one reason why Trump is seen as an extreme version of US international law practice, not an outlier.
- Failing to withdraw successfully from an international organisation is next-level sloppiness.
- Reposted by Holly CullenProf. @edswaine.bsky.social looks at the difficult threshold questions in the new case brought by family members of two Trinidadian men killed in US boat strikes – before the court reaches the merits. www.justsecurity.org/130038/can-t...
- Reposted by Holly CullenThe most interesting thing about this ABC Challenger long read (to me) is that the five engineers who warned it was unsafe then became "lepers". Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism? www.abc.net.au/news/science...
- There are still a lot of ongoing investigations and unresolved allegations going on.
- Reposted by Holly Cullen“Most of America's allies have known for years that the US had no problem trampling international law." Grégoire Roos (@cheurope.bsky.social) on Mark Carney's speech at Davos and Western hypocrisy in foreign affairs.
- Reposted by Holly CullenTODAY: Thousands at UCLA walk out of class, calling for solidarity with Minnesota and to demand ICE out of California. The walkout was organized by UCLA’s student government along with the Afrikan Student Union and other student clubs and organizations.
- Reposted by Holly CullenBREAKING China on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including "key members" involved in telecom scam compounds, state media reports
