Oh boy...
Under a section of the new US National Security Strategy titled 'Promoting European Greatness'...
The EU really needs to be viewing the US as a hostile state
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
Here's a wacky idea - raise your graduate salaries... (From the FT's First FT newsletter)
ERC Starter Grant submitted - usually manage to maintain a degree of emotional detachment from grant applications (because I won't get the funding) but I'm proud of and excited by this one so will be hard when it doesn't get funded.
Starting the week with some light reading... may contribute to the discussion of American resource imperialism and its implications for a MAGA vision of space expansionism in chapter two of my book