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Antulio Rosales

@antuliorosales.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University. I work on political economy of energy and development, politics of cryptocurrency in Latin America, Venezuelan politics.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iowa's rising cancer rate and the long-term effects of industrial agriculture. Excellent article "Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's "Cancer Alley,"" www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
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Iowa's cancer rates are rising as the nation's fall. Families want answers.
Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's Cancer Alley as residents search for answers.
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Support or rejection of data centers in North America is increasingly becoming an issue of electoral debate and daily political discussion. Drawing Bitcoin mining regulation, we develop a study that we believe helps explain contentions over bans to data centers. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada
Abstract. New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The US and #Venezuela announced that they reached a huge oil deal. Some details remain murky, and reactions come in different forms, from celebratory to ones decrying the pact. A few, at times obvious, comments regarding how the deal changes oil governance in Venezuela: 🧵
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jason Arday’s tragic death reveals the intense skepticism Black scholars face theconversation.com/jason-ardays...
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Jason Arday’s tragic death reveals the intense skepticism Black scholars face
Black academics can mourn a young colleague while also anticipating the burden his case may place on scholars who may find their own qualifications subjected to renewed suspicion.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/08/2026
‘In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or permanent bans on data centers, many adopted in emergency meetings. That brings the nationwide total to more than 500.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/dat...
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here is my urgent call to place Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the centre of the Humanitarian Response and discussions about #ReconstructionEfforts. Thanks to @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social for their invitation. odi.org/en/insights/...
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Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises
Statistically, Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs at the forefr...
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A feminist 🧵on the Humanitarian Response in #Venezuela Before the earthquakes, 🇻🇪 already had the 2nd highest #MaternalMortality rate in the Americas and the Caribbean. Adding a double #earthquake with over 16,000 injured & thousands displaced necessarily increases the risk of maternal mortality.
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Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Statistically, #Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights needs at the forefront.” – masayalb.bsky.social (Huron University College). Find out more in our article: buff.ly/XvWHSou 🔗
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Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises
Statistically, Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs at the forefr...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises by @masayalb.bsky.social odi.org/en/insights/...
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Earthquakes and governance: why we need a gender lens in Venezuela’s compounding crises
Statistically, Venezuela was already a dangerous place for women to give birth before the earthquakes. That fact alone should place sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs at the forefr...
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
a map of 🌮 crime family's crypto empire. enjoy (sort of). h/t ritholtz map.citationneeded.news
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Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 30/07/2026
There are more than 870 wildfires burning across Canada as of Thursday, with several threatening communities and forcing residents to flee or prepare to evacuate at a moment’s notice. 🔗 Here’s an overview of the current situation – in maps and charts: bit.ly/can-wildfire...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have a new piece out that synthesizes the past few years of research in Latin America on cryptocurrency adoption. The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for their support. 🧵
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The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America
This paper explains the political economy of cryptocurrency expansion in Latin America. Based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews, the paper explains the motivations that promote crypto...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/07/2026
The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point. HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20. Preorder yours today: hyperscalebook.com
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Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA @lasavenezuela.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos (SVS) abre la convocatoria de propuestas que serán presentadas en @lasabluesky.bsky.social "Navegar el colapso: reinventar la política, cuidar lo común”. La #fecha límite es el 21/8/26 #Venezuela #México Más #información aquí www.facebook.com/share/p/1EAn...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Venezuela 2026: recalibrando esperanzas Por Jessica Vargas otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/venezuela-20...
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OTROS DIÁLOGOS | Venezuela 2026: recalibrando esperanzas
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
De la crisis extractivista al extractivismo tutelado. #Extractivismo #Venezuela #tutelaje otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/de-la-crisis...
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OTROS DIÁLOGOS | De la crisis extractivista al extractivismo tutelado
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Help Venezuela From Abroad: Cash Donations Matter Most Right Now www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/06/26/h...
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Help Venezuela From Abroad: Cash Donations Matter Most Right Now | Caracas Chronicles
Supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but monetary transfers are the fastest way to deliver relief
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Doblete sísmico en Venezuela y las grietas por atender @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social #Venezuela elpais.com/america/2026...
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Doblete sísmico en Venezuela y las grietas por atender
El Estado venezolano debe ser repensado y reconstruido para cumplir con sus funciones básicas, pero también para responder y anticipar los desafíos por venir
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Por qué fueron tan destructivos los terremotos del 24 de junio #Venezuela www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/06/25/w...
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Por qué fueron tan destructivos los terremotos del 24 de junio
La onda sísmica que se extendió desde Yaracuy y los suelos alrededor de la cordillera explican la amplitud del daño
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am glad to see this new article out in GEP, with Heather Millar, Ty Tarnowski and Holly Burke. Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada ⬇️ direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada
Abstract. New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic...
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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Excited for POLLEN 2026! Antulio Rosales and I organised two panels on #Extraction, Digital Infrastructures + #Nature. @pollenetwork.bsky.social Program here: lnkd.in/grA9wuRB
Poster with text of conference panel title New Frontiers of Extraction
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism: Review of International Political Economy @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism
Global environmental governance has long been predicated on a normative compromise, commonly referred to as ‘liberal environmentalism’, which posits that addressing global environmental challenges ...
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cerramos la entrevista haciendo referencia a "Venezuela’s Critical Juncture: Pushing for a Democratic Transition" (de libre acceso) un Documento de Trabajo que publicamos en conjunto 21 académicos especialistas en #Venezuela vcprn.tulane.edu/wp-content/u...
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Parte de esta conversación responde a este trabajo (de libre acceso) que publicamos con @antuliorosales.bsky.social en el que ilustramos la relación entre el autoritarismo y la explotación de las mujeres en Venezuela desde 2013 academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...
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Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)
Abstract. This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Gracias @es.rfi.fr por esta entrevista en que hablamos sobre cómo la crisis política y económica venezolana ha generado costos invisibles que han cargado las mujeres y niñas.
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A diverse group of 21 Venezuelanist social scientists has produced a working paper on what we think needs to occur for a fulsome democratic transition to take place in Venezuela. @dsmilde.bsky.social @masayalb.bsky.social @beccahanson.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social ⬇️ t.co/PMZ75AVDvz
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Peter Howson @peterjhowson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Vessels fired at in Strait of Hormuz after crews fall victim to Bitcoin phishing scam. Welcome to Cryptoland. bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Peter Howson @peterjhowson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Data centres in space will ruin everything! Smashing article here says so 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres
Despite ambitious carbon neutrality targets from Big Tech companies like Google, the rapid global proliferation of generative Artificial Intelligence …
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
After the US entered #Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro and develop a cooperative relation with his successor, Delcy Rodríguez, a new chapter in Venezuela's oil legal history started. But this is a longer history. Raul Sanchez U and I explore here for TWQ 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Venezuela’s extractive constitutionalism: between a nationalised and privatised petro-state
This article provides a critique of Venezuela’s extractivism with an emphasis on its constitutional and regulatory foundations in historical perspective. Venezuela’s extractive legislative framewor...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Full article: From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy by @benedictebull.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy
This article examines whether Venezuela’s prolonged ongoing crisis, intensified by international sanctions, is fostering the emergence of a new oligarchy. Extending theories on the relationship bet...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I am pleased to share this conversation about crisis, governance, and everyday use of #crypto in contexts of volatility, in the Society for Economic Anthropology's podcast Mergers & Acquisitions. It was a pleasure to share the space with Wesam Hassan and Al Lim. open.spotify.com/episode/7kPU...
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From Everyday Crypto Speculation to its Geopolitics: In Conversation with Wesam Hassan and Antulio Rosales
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Twilight of the oligarchs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Twilight of the oligarchs
The hyper-wealthy are increasingly, blatantly influencing politics both at home and abroad. Despite multiple paths to plutocrat-status, and perpetual infighting within the very top of the economic ...
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Les comparto un reportaje de @rcienespanol.bsky.social sobre los costos físicos y sociales de la crisis venezolana desde una mirada feminista, basados en una entrevista que tuvimos en enero y la reciente publicación de “Embodying Predation” con @antuliorosales.bsky.social (link debajo) #Venezuela
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
La crisis venezolana vista desde el cuerpo femenino y la vida cotidiana, con @masayalb.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/es/notic...
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[Reportaje] La crisis venezolana vista desde el cuerpo femenino y la vida cotidiana | RCI
Un estudio canadiense advierte que el declive democrático en Venezuela afecta especialmente a mujeres y niñas
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A un mes de los eventos del 3 de enero en Venezuela, @masayalb.bsky.social analiza la crisis desde sus impactos materiales: el retiro del Estado, la expoliación del trabajo de cuidados y el desgaste sistemático de los cuerpos de mujeres y niñas. 🔗 Lee el reportaje completo aquí: bit.ly/4qYPvxj
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[Reportaje] La crisis venezolana vista desde el cuerpo femenino y la vida cotidiana | RCI
Un estudio canadiense advierte que el declive democrático en Venezuela afecta especialmente a mujeres y niñas
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Second Draft of the Hydrocarbons Reform: The Largest Tax Cut in Decades guacamayave.com/en/second-dr...
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Second Draft of the Hydrocarbons Reform: The Largest Tax Cut in Decades - Guacamaya
The National Assembly is in the process of discussing a second draft of the Hydrocarbons Law Reform, which includes fundamental changes.
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis
Bitcoin, the most important and well-known cryptocurrency, was born out of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008–9. In a context of institutional mistrust, cryptocurrencies emerged as part of a...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I wrote a paper about Cryptofinance, and the ways the U.S. state has negotiated the consolidation of cryptocurrency trading in large platform firms. It traces the rise of FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried's firm) as it moves from Berkeley to Hong Kong to the Bahamas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From cryptocurrency to cryptofinance: FTX, disintermediation and the US state
During the first decade of cryptocurrencies (2008–2017) there were few connections established between crypto and the conventional finance sector, but in the US in 2025 the integration of these two...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This absolute king.
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Over 11 MM ppl use cryptocurrencies in #Argentina, (over 20% of the population!) I explain the success of the crypto in Argentina, paying close attention to its intertwining with crisis. 🧵 Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis
Bitcoin, the most important and well-known cryptocurrency, was born out of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008–9. In a context of institutional mistrust, cryptocurrencies emerged as part of a...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Decálogo de exigencias prioritarias para encauzar una transición democrática genuina en Venezuela www.wola.org/es/2026/01/d...
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Decálogo de exigencias prioritarias para encauzar una transición democrática genuina en Venezuela - WOLA
Decálogo de exigencias para encauzar la transición democrática en Venezuela. Análisis de las prioridades fundamentales para la democratización.
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Then as now, big stick diplomacy will lead to costly cycles of intervention and retrenchment. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/19/u...
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The ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Is a Roosevelt Redux
Then as now, big stick diplomacy will lead to costly cycles of intervention and retrenchment.
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I wanted to make a thread about the useful analyses coming out about the situation in Venezuela, but there is a lot, and everyday new things come out. It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues... 🧵
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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About the Conference
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What can Trump offer Big Oil to bring US capital back to Venezuela? f24.my/Bf7e.BS
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What can Trump offer Big Oil to bring US capital back to Venezuela?
US President Donald Trump has openly set his sights on Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, claiming Friday that US oil giants were going to invest upward of $100 billion in the country’s gutted industry.…
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
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Miami mayor calls for Trump to 'immediately' reinstate TPS for Venezuelans
Higgins said the Trump administration ending TPS for Venezuelans in early 2025 was "reckless, dangerous, and wrong."
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms
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Cuando migrar es sobrevivir: la doble vulnerabilidad de las mujeres venezolanas | Nueva Sociedad
El desplazamiento masivo de venezolanas, que ya supera los ocho millones, expone una doble vulnerabilidad marcada por el género y la migración. Entre la crisis, las políticas restrictivas, la violenci...
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Gracias a la Revista Nueva Sociedad por publicar una versión en español de mi artículo para @currenthistory1.bsky.social. La nueva era del criptoautoritarismo nuso.org/articulo/320...
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La nueva era del criptoautoritarismo | Nueva Sociedad
Las criptomonedas se han convertido en un componente clave en el retroceso global de la democracia. La imbricación de las criptomonedas y los autoritarismos actuales ha sido ampliamente subestimada y ...
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