Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do? 1856305
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems 22633231
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As comedy it's starting to feel a bit stale 020
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 05/10/2026#ThisIsGenocideNotACeasefire: Israel continues to kill Palestinians, attack hospitals and block access to aid and healthcare. Meanwhile, world leaders are failing to stop it. We call for the protection of civilians in #Gaza and the lifting of restrictions on aid. 111769
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Mr. Lazare remained steadfast in his devotion to the cause of peace with Palestinians, and with Israel’s Arab neighbors." Rest in power, Monsieur Lazare. 000
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees 6328223
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“When I perish, do not allow my pictures to die with me. Show them to the people.” Felix Nussbaum (11 December 1904 – 9 August 1944) 🧵 1/n When Belgium and the Netherlands were occupied in May 1940, Felix was arrested in his apartment and, like 2156
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fascinating 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...nytimes.comIs 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. 001
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So sad to hear about his stroke. I love his music. Wishing Michael Kiwanuka a recovery to full health. 020
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech. 1883286076987
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is happening an hour from now! Join us online as we tell you about the project and our approach (link below) 020
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These 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...theguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboardThomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover 6373107
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @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.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.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... 18845982953
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥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 001
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So great to be among people who believe in human dignity, empathy and justice, and who are actively working to defeat the darkness of our times. 120
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We 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. 120
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026EXC: 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...heraldscotland.comNinety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shapeAccording to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language. 17111149
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Gaelic animal names are so charming. Which is your favorite? (From the Irish National Gallery in Dublin) 110
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Self policing, or the art of covering your tracks 070
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ok you got me... Tell me about lumpy jaw! 190
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The self same one that hired lobbyists to shut down a democratic resolution against genocide in Gaza? 000
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Maybe I have a chance to become an EU citizen after all 😃 140
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Here is the link to join us: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3745529... Meeting ID: 374 552 945 882 04 Passcode: Xt3hE9KN 000
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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! 140
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 16/09/2026European Union opens door for Canada to become first associate membertheguardian.comEuropean Union opens door for Canada to become first associate memberCommission president says partnership will create ‘common prosperity’ based on shared democratic values 0144
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work" say leading mathematicians mathandai.orgmathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 29034
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Interesting and multifaceted appraisal of Steinem's life and work. 120
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Is 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. 020
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026One of the odder solutions I've heard a politician advocate to deal with the healthcare crisis. 🤨 nltimes.nl/2026/09/01/d...nltimes.nlDutch Cabinet minister wants churches to help fill the thousands of healthcare vacanciesLong-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... 100
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026My PhD supervisor, Ivan Berend, has entered hospice. Here are some of his touching and rather funny last reflections. 042
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It'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. 30529102
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Toronto Star @thestar.com · 28/08/2026Our 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 2123564
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Disgraceful conduct on the part of the AHA. 010
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Before 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) 293121244194
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Bouke 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/ 414954
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Netherlands doing the right thing. Dutch pull out of 'no longer neutral' Eurovision share.google/jD6srBHrErXl...share.googleDutch pull out of 'no longer neutral' EurovisionThe 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... 050
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My friend Raul Cârstocea has a superb project and some postdoc ads! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR588/p...jobs.ac.ukPostdoctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract) at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland MaynoothDiscover 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! 074
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Update in Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians: the yellow line keeps moving closer to the sea. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...cbc.caIsrael’s yellow line is moving, pushing Palestinians closer to the seaIsrael’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... 000
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I 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. 34650601118
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥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.' 042
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Well anyone hold Bouke de Vries accountable? 000
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026In 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... 110
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Next week! #envhist 184
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Why are the newspapers, the Guardian included, not asking hard questions about *his* hiring? 1102
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026So many words... Let's see some actions in consequence 000
Reposted by Brigitte Le Normand 🟥Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A company which began as a book seller became a company which destroys books. Capitalism really is eating itself 01711