Cris van Eijk

Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', just published in Leiden Journal of International Law. This article took 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise, and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way. doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000554

👉 www.ucu-unn.org.uk/news/337-wor... @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social have put together a statement and resources about @northumbriauni.bsky.social's relationship with the world's largest arms manufacturer, @lockheedmartian.bsky.social. Have a look, please share, write to the uni, and your MP.

After 2 days in close proximity (less than 5 km, possibly much less), Kosmos-2612 moved away from ICEYE X36 on Oct 18 and is now more than 100 km away, according to US Space Force tracking data

If you're ever having a bad day at work, just know you are not having as bad a day at work as these specific federal attorneys, facing potential sanction for arguing so dumbly....

Tied for one of my fav novels last year, a mainstay recommendation, you finish reading it and think 'huh, wait, why am I suddenly a furious & sapphic anarchist???', 11/10

Omg-

Really interesting discussion here of SpaceX's play to become a wireless carrier, the long strange history of how they got the 800 Mhz spectrum rights, and what challenge this may pose for traditional wireless carriers www.theverge.com/podcast/1012...

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This is high-key my approach to international law!! I cannot overstate the sheer number of Boring Syllabus Cases that were in fact a series of WILD shenanigans!! Guys, someone shot *a bazooka* at the UNHQ in 1964. I've done 3.5 degrees in intl law, but I learned this from the NYT timesmachine.

See also: Nicaragua v US was a prestige limited series drama about Abram Chayes' loss of / quest to restore faith in his country... by becoming the first person to sue their own state at the ICJ. His opposing counsel *was his former student*!! The State Dept he once advised *removed his portrait*!!

this is why i tell students that if they are, like me, a messy bitch who loves drama they should become historians

@sylviademars.me 👀🔥🫡

Today’s the day! Let’s go Japan—we all crave little pieces of the alien fear moon. 😨 🌑 🚀

The Mail has ironically parroted like, the ur-textual version of "men will literally do anything besides go to therapy", framed as a national security threat "Ne’er pull your hat upon your brows. Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids it break."

Nor was this a one-off for Shakespeare. Already always already "woke".

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

I hope Dem leadership is ready to go to the mattresses here. They haven't in the past when it comes to Ilhan Omar.

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Every day I wake up and wonder if today is the day that something like this will happen to me.

Holy shit.

These are the 20th and 21st paragraphs of a story titled "Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...

I bought my rhizomatic, antihierarchical, deeply interrelational go-to-work machine from the richest man alive, wait why are you laughing no stop laughing hold on-

It's perhaps *not* a coincidence that maybe the EU's most protective & far-reaching consumer rights protection regime *also* happens to be the system hundreds of EU legislators rely on to get to/from work. >_>

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”