Darshan Vigneswaran

Some cheery news before the holidays 🎄 . Michalina Nowakowska will be moving forward into a part time position with Spaceinterface. Michalina has been quietly powering our dissemination for months, We ❤️ how she describes her new role 🔥 : star-walks.com/team/

Astronauts don't fly spacecraft! Ground control is in charge. But as exploration takes crews outside of real time communication with earth somebody - or some THING - will have to take the stick. Aiko's agents bring autonomous driving from the streets to the cosmos.

A spacecraft that takes off from Schiphol? Yesterday we spoke to one of the contenders for the #stellarlifeaward. Alexander Kopp from POLARIS Spaceplanes, told us: not yet, but its coming. @SpaceTechExpoEU

The excitement is building, quite literally! 🏗️ As the stands take shape and the halls transform, the stage is being set for the leading B2B space event. Register in advance for free: register.visitcloud.com/survey/1e0m37q…

The history office has so much amazing material to translate the raw energy of a launch sequence into human stories that allow us to step inside and relate

Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in the first minute after launch #OTD in 1969, causing a major power outage in the spacecraft A 24-year-old mission controller named John Aaron proposed a solution that saved the mission: “Try SCE to AUX.”

Ready for Bremen! @SpaceTechExpoEU

The roadtest of our StarWalks concept at Noordwijk Space Expo

How do foreign policies and transnational projects become resistant to critique? Read about it in @darshanvv, @SoderbergNora, @NWelfens and @saskiabonjour’s latest EJIR article! You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/o3jp4

@anja_franck photos!

@darshanvv Can we also talk about the hats of those reporting the results?

Not a sea change in British politics but a splintering of the right. I guess I'll take it?

@beste_isleyen @UvA_AISSR Loving that Amy is representing AISSR

Just landed in İstanbul. @UvA_AISSR is well-represented at #ewis2024.

I can promise, Joel is much more than a beard and moustache. Looking forward to having him in Amsterdam! Amazing scholar, super generous with early career scholars.

Can't wait for this first opportunity to present some of the work @Enrikevw and I are doing as part of our Decolonising Outer Space project - and in conversation with an amazing artist and author. Should be fun!

Still time to register for the 'Democratic Futures' seminar at IAS, June 13th. Organized by @thijs_bol and me ias.uva.nl/content/events…

#DidYouMiss we are delighted to announce that #RIS50 is out NOW! 🎉 Featuring articles from: @martincoward @h_k_richards @toni_erskine @lacy_mark @Enrikevw @darshanvv + more! Read the latest issue here 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… @CUP_PoliSci @TheRealistHom @CianODriscoll79

🎉 Vol 50(3) is out!🎉 "Global Politics: The Next Fifty Years" looks back at the discipline and forward at what is to come. Articles from: @BendfeldtLuise @FionaAdamson @EnzeHan @claudia_aradau @btansel @Tilley101 & many more! 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/4dxiba8

Over the last two years or so @darshanvv and I have started debating, exploring, and worrying about the colonial and material politics of outer space. In our new @RISjnl piece we lay out why! ⭐️ doi.org/10.1017/S02602…

Dear @UvA_Amsterdam, who was responsible for the decision to call the police on Monday night? Who is responsible for the decision today? As a bare minimum, your students and your staff deserve a statement that does not contradict other official sources.

A comprehensive little video showing the unbelievable violence unleashed by the @UvA_Amsterdam board on their own students.