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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥

@blenormand.bsky.social
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Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fascinating piece that leaves me thinking that Mary Shelley and all the greatest sci fi writers that followed her already saw this coming www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So sad to hear about his stroke. I love his music. Wishing Michael Kiwanuka a recovery to full health.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is happening an hour from now! Join us online as we tell you about the project and our approach (link below)
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These far right thugs need locking up. They are deliberately putting lives at risk. If protesting a genocide can be treated as terrorism how are their actions not. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, @blenormand.bsky.social describes and interprets the main phases of migration in Europe since 1945 and discusses what gendered and intersectional perspectives can reveal about labor migration. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yc69pnmh
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We have reached the end of the symposium at the Nat. Gallery of Ireland looking at Art, Migration & the Politics of Belonging. A gathering of artists, community workers, journalists, and academics committed to inclusivity. And now, Citadelle, musicians and asylum seekers from around the world.
Performers from Citadelle
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gaelic animal names are so charming. Which is your favorite? (From the Irish National Gallery in Dublin)
Irish Gaelic names with translations for a selection of animals. Examples: sea snot for jellyfish, wild little ox for spider.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe I have a chance to become an EU citizen after all 😃
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The ERC project FeMMiWork (Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe) invites you to its official launch on Thursday, Sept 24, 16:30-17:30 CEST. We will present the team, our objectives, and our approach, and give you a glimpse into our work. Join us!
poster for the FeMMiWork Launch
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 16/09/2026
European Union opens door for Canada to become first associate member
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European Union opens door for Canada to become first associate member
Commission president says partnership will create ‘common prosperity’ based on shared democratic values
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work" say leading mathematicians mathandai.org
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interesting and multifaceted appraisal of Steinem's life and work.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is there anything more pathetic than a public official body-shaming members of a youth organization? Speaking as a graduate of air cadets I find this particularly odious.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One of the odder solutions I've heard a politician advocate to deal with the healthcare crisis. 🤨 nltimes.nl/2026/09/01/d...
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Dutch Cabinet minister wants churches to help fill the thousands of healthcare vacancies
Long-term Care Minister Mirjam Sterk wants churches to do more to relieve the burden on the healthcare system, she said during the Willibrord Lecture at the opening of the academic year of the Protest...
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sad news. Good-bye, dear Ivan.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My PhD supervisor, Ivan Berend, has entered hospice. Here are some of his touching and rather funny last reflections.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's not necessarily surprising the US would end up with a corrupt and authoritarian demagogue. But the thing that's so nightmarish, the day in and day out mass psychosis of a nation letting it continue, is how he's manifestly batshit insane. Non compos mentis under any sense of objective reality.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 28/08/2026
Our Friday front page says it all: Lake Ontario, forever. Show us your best Lake Ontario photo — a favourite view, memory or moment on the lake. Share it below with #LakeOntarioForever, or email firstup@thestar.ca
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Disgraceful conduct on the part of the AHA.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Bouke de Vries is the supervisor who used his ERC grant to shimmy Nathan Cofnas into a postdoc position for which he did not actually qualify. There's a lot we already know about de Vries. 1/
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Netherlands doing the right thing. Dutch pull out of 'no longer neutral' Eurovision share.google/jD6srBHrErXl...
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Dutch pull out of 'no longer neutral' Eurovision
The Netherlands will not participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria, the state broadcaster has said, citing divisions over the situation in Gaza. It's the second time the country is b...
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My friend Raul Cârstocea has a superb project and some postdoc ads! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR588/p...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract) at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Update in Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians: the yellow line keeps moving closer to the sea. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Israel’s yellow line is moving, pushing Palestinians closer to the sea
Israel’s military front in Gaza was supposed to remain frozen after a ceasefire deal in October, but as CBC’s Saša Petricic explains, the yellow line is advancing and pushing Palestinians westward tow...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 23/08/2026
'The network that De Vries engaged with in Budapest is not some unconnected fringe group. It is the direct institutional descendant of the same conference exposed at UCL in 2018, (London Conference on Intelligence', or LCI) is run substantially by the same people, under the same name.'
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In case you are wondering why Ghent hired Cofnas... Well, the department has written a statement, and we are left with more questions than answers. Read on and you'll see what I mean...
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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Next week! #envhist
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A company which began as a book seller became a company which destroys books. Capitalism really is eating itself
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
📚 RUSSIA HAS DEFEATED the book market of my childhood. Let me tell you about a place you’ve never heard of. Petrivka. A book market in Kyiv, now called Pochaina metro. Before the internet existed for us, it was simply where you went for books...
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
To be honest, I was wondering whether this was going to be the trajectory. A sad ending to a sorry story. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...
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Jason Arday, Cambridge Professor Accused of Plagiarism, Reported Dead (Gift Article)
The British police said a man had been found dead at a home linked to Mr. Arday, who resigned after the university announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and fabrication.
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We live in a time of loss of control - over the climate, over our political systems, over technological innovation. I wonder what the historians of the future will make of this era. If there are any left to write our stories. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell
A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES SOUND UP DAY 08 AUGUST 2026 THE CRUELTY OF TRUMP ICE LAWLESSNESS But, These Tue Horror stories never make it to CBS, FOX, & MSM. All these so called "Christians " never see Thousands of innocent people many killed & many put through horrific conditions like this 😥⬇️
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CNN @cnn.com · 06/02/2026
After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on February 4 with no advance notice. cnn.it/4kqanLy
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In honor of Ross Douthat's last day at the NYT, let's remember this particular headline tweak from just last year.
The New York Times OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET @ Share full article Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin

RThe New York Times OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? And if so, can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025 f Share full article A ¢ -11K Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Paul Gilroy - once again - nails it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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404 Media @404media.co · 07/08/2026
A teacher in Kansas was arrested for clapping for speakers who spoke up against a data center. Now, the city of Emporia is moving to virtual only meetings, citing "public safety." In their own words, Lux Claridge, tells us what happened. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/city-that-ar...
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Israel beat, raped flotilla activists in custody, echoing countless accounts by Palestinian prisoners. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/w...
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Seized on Their Way to Gaza, Activists Tell of Abuse in Israeli Custody (Gift Article)
In interviews, more than 20 people who tried to break an Israeli blockade described beatings, electric shocks and other abuse after being captured. Israel denied the accusations.
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European News @eunews.social · 02/07/2026
Dutch activists to report sexual violence by Israeli troops Dutch activists who joined an aid flotilla to Gaza say they will file criminal complaints alleging sexual violence by Israeli soldiers, the organisation behind the voyage has told news agency ANP.
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Dutch activists to report sexual violence by Israeli troops - DutchNews.nl
Dutch activists who joined an aid flotilla to Gaza say they will file criminal complaints alleging sexual violence by Israeli soldiers, the organisation behind the voyage has told news agency ANP. A s...
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
More than 500 activists set out from Bosnia and Herzegovina, aboard 17 buses and dozens of vehicles on a humanitarian convoy to the border of Palestine. The convoy is calling for international attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. The convoy has now reached Turkey.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.
Monument to the Memory of the Holocaust of the Romani in Borzęcin, Poland
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
NYT spelling bee not accepting Arab or Arabic... Tempted to jump to conclusions.
Spelling bee - Arabic is not on word list.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Likely a flex by Morocco, using migrants as pawns, maybe supported by other states/actors w/ political motives. Nothing to do w/ migration control (deliberately lifted), Spain’s regularization law (new arrivals can’t qualify), or Schengen (none could travel). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
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How 50,000 People Surged Into a Spanish Exclave in Africa
On Thursday, tens of thousands of Moroccans broke into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbors Morocco. By Friday evening, most of them had left, hungry and disappointed.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 31/07/2026
Giving birth in Serbia: 'You leave your dignity at the door'
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Giving birth in Serbia: 'You leave your dignity at the door'
A months-long DW investigation into childbirth in Serbia revealed a striking pattern in women's negative experiences, the widespread use of practices not universally recommended by the WHO and a system under pressure.
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