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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

how's your writing going today?

squirtle squad reunion meme, ash squirtle represents a new paper idea, each of the squad is labeled with an unfinished paper and the preceding year. this is a reunion that every academic worth their salt would recognise.

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

If you're not in the mood for Christmas yet, this will take you there.

A season's greetings picture with Tony Blair and presumably wife. Tony Blair looks like he's about to attack you, at the pub, whilst his wife is holding him back.

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social: tiu.nu/23054 (Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid) Deadline: 14 December Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens (and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)

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Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid (23054)

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Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @brunelucu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hello all on bsky 👋 As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies. Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇 speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...

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Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London

Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand. The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

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Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Organizing a workshop in Tilburg on community-building among platform workers on 18 June. With, among others, @casilli.bsky.social and @antirapani.bsky.social . Workshop will be in-person, but it might be worth paying a visit to Tilburg for this. Looking forward to this!

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Repeat after me: This is not what a university is for.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Internet...built by universities; paid for by the government.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/04/2025

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.

"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

More evidence that US citizens are not safe in this assault on democracy. Two American citizens detained while driving home. Of note: "CBP insists that the incident was routine...that can 'apply for any traveler'.” Expect to see "detentions" of US citizens become routine under this corrupt regime.

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New England Couple Detained “for Several Hours” at Canada-US Border Despite Being Citizens

Border Patrol agents kept the couple in separate cells, and demanded to go through the husband’s emails.

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Not surprised, given the way these mafia-style authoritarian regimes tend to operate. And, doing the unethical thing often pays off. A lot of companies should have been put out of business following the Nazi collapse.

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 15/04/2025

Federal authorities on Monday detained a permanent resident and Palestinian student activist in Vermont after he was summoned for a citizenship interview with immigration officials, according to his attorneys and the state’s congressional delegation.

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Permanent resident who helped lead Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests arrested in Vermont - The Boston Globe

Mohsen Mahdawi was detained after he was summoned for a citizenship interview with immigration officials, according to his attorneys and the state’s congressional delegation.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15/04/2025

France's President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that he told Israel's leader in a phone call that the suffering of Gazan civilians "must end" and that only a ceasefire in Gaza could free remaining Israeli hostages.

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Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

News update - we just sent the letter to the Commission. We very much hope we can engage constructively on this issue, and are looking forward to contributing to solutions that benefit journalists, citizens and officials alike.

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Jon Hanson @thesituationist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"I really think we all need to be speaking up right now. . . . I think this would be so much stronger if many more of my fellow presidents were speaking up." - Chris Eisgruber www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...?

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The University President Willing to Fight Trump

Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

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Serge @hiserge.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

> Every day, about 100 terabytes of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive, or about a billion URLs, with the assistance of automated crawlers. Woah.

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 19/03/2025

That is a pretty great article, but even if you don't want to read it, the first sentence is 👩‍🍳💋 "Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man" www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

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Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning

The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

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Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Excellent! Thank you @polestarcars 👏🇸🇪 TeslaTakedown

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Jukka Rintamäki @jugistoteles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Another big corp joins in on the race to self-destruction. Is there some sort of an anti-climate pledge I'm not aware of?

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Acknowledging that Palestinians exist and have history is antisemitism now

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 22/02/2025

We are reaching multiple climate tipping points. This is what it looks like. Note that we've already reached 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent (total greenhouse gas forcing of about +4 W/m² above 1750).

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wow. It’s a bit unnerving seeing it like this

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/02/2025

#BREAKING Dozens of nations urge 'open' and 'ethical' AI at Paris summit: statement

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

@dacemoglumit.bsky.social speculates on how we would explain the impending American Collapse in 2050. Most of it plausible, perhaps except the attempt to pin some of the blame to a supposed "radical social change agenda" of the Democrats. The real threat to American prosperity - on.ft.com/4aNSvp3

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The real threat to American prosperity

Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I once wrote a whole paper working up to an argument like this at the end, and H. G. Wells just tweets it out smh. (I never published it because a reviewer really hated it and I lost confidence.) philpapers.org/archive/PETB...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/01/2025

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

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Laurent Bègue Shankland @lbegueshankland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Yesterday in Nature. A new place for science 👌

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

You can't even afford to totally devastate your own colon anymore because anti-woke.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/01/2025

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said today that tech billionaires want to use social media “to overthrow democracy” — adding he’ll push EU leaders to take action.

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Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says

“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.”

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Really insightful work on how media can enable, empower, and entrench

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

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Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf

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Dave Clark @daveclarkreports.eurosky.social · 11/01/2025

Quixotic stance on wind power

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Alessandro N. Tirapani @antirapani.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Trickle down Christmas tale... Actually, more of a Halloween post ;)

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.

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orgtheory.bsky.social @orgtheory.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Next in this year's #AdventCalendarOT: "Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory" by 𝗝𝗼𝗲𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝗔. 𝗛ö𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿, 𝗘𝘃𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝘅𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘂𝗺, 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗷 and 𝗝𝗼𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻. #EditorialEssay #OpenAccess #ImpactfulTheory #DiverseTheory #BetterTheory doi.org/10.1177/2631...

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 06/12/2024

Here @ilpost.it, an Italian national newspaper, confirms the pattern of Bluesky bringing more traffic than Threads. It's not an Anglosphere phenomenon! "[...] in just two weeks the percentage of traffic coming from the platform to the newspaper’s site has surpassed that coming from Threads [...]"

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Lauren McCarthy @gendercsr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

What's the fastest you've ever turned around a (major) paper revision? And what's your strategy- letter first, then edits? Something else?

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