Megan Metzger

A month ago I had my life. I had my job, which was frustrating sometimes, but I loved the things I got done. I watched movies with my son and boyfriend. I cooked dinner or we ordered pizza. Went running. Now I wake up to explosions in my city at 5 in the morning.

OIL IS NOW LESS THAN $100 A BARREL. What’s going on at the pump?

For the past few weeks, @YingdanL_kk @AnfanChen & I have systematically collected half a million Weibo posts about Ukraine. It’s true that a large portion of Weibo posts attribute cause of war to US/NATO/“Western” aggression or blame Ukrainian government for conflict.

@carljackmiller When I wrote my dissertation on EuroMaidan I found that like 3 of the 5 most shared accounts in our data were porn accts. My assumption was it was trying to get in on the trending hashtag. Sudden onslaught of penises in my grad school office was a surprise though.

Of the 347,961 Tweets using [hashtag] Istandwith + Russia OR Putin (I'm not using 'em), do you know the link shared more than any other? It is... *Drumroll* ...To a Kenyan classified ads site currently trying to sell a bunch of cars on its front page. Why? (Cont...)

I don't know who needs to hear this but here's your daily reminder that the people in Russia are distinct from the government of Russia. As we think about that also consider potential uptick in xenophobia in other places. This is coming frm someone w/ a v. eastern european name

Over 677,000 please have fled Ukraine @humdata report as of 5pm EST March 1 reliefweb.int/sites/reliefwe…

Horrible conversation with the deputy mayor of Mariupol. Says residential areas heavily bombed, including his father's neighbourhood. "The situation is awful, we are near to a humanitarian catastrophe. We have been under more than 15 hours of continuous shelling without pause."

Tuesday night, #StPetersburg, #Russia: anti-war protesters are chanting “No To War!” twitter.com/headwind512/st…

@uncletimmensgym I speak czech and have native speaker friends who could help if I don’t know the words!

Are there any Czech speaking gym nerds who could help me with some gym terms?

We are all Ukrainians right now 🇺🇦 It’s been a long day…but before I go to sleep here’s my message to you… #ChefsForUkraine

E-mail from a friend in Ukraine: “We saw fighter aircraft, helicopters & Russian paratroopers from our window. We walked for miles. And now we are safe. My wife is in Poland now, and I am in Ukraine. I'm sending you some photos of the city where we lived."

Re-uping this adding @arodnyansky 2 @brik_t @sashafisun @VolodymDubovyk @TamaraTarakuta @Nataliia_Shapo @Mylovanov @o_haran all great scholars 2 invite 4 events on ukraine @ASN_Org @aseeestudies @CERESGeorgetown @IERES_GWU @ZOiS_Berlin @CEES_GlasgowUni @REESOxford @UNC_CSEEES

In our newsletter, we shared resources for those in #Ukraine capturing and sharing videos of potential human rights violations and war crimes. We also share resources for those witnessing from a distance to decrease the spread of mis/disinfo. More: wit.to/Ukraine-Newsle…

Trump, who discussed pulling the US from NATO takes credit for NATO’s existence in a new statement. Trump, who threatened to withhold weapons funding from Ukraine to get dirt on Biden, takes credit for Ukrainian weapons in same statement.

@cosmocatalano It’s not even the first war we have seen in real time on social media IN UKRAINE let alone in history. Such a weird take.

Refugees should not have to look like you to see their humanity.

Bellingcat has identified multiple examples of cluster munitions being fired into civilian areas of Ukraine, including residential areas, schools and hospitals. bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…