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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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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not 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?
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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
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As comedy it's starting to feel a bit stale
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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.
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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.
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’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
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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
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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
Getting the groove on!
Citadelle performing, with lead singer waving for the crowd to join in
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So 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.
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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
Self policing, or the art of covering your tracks
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ok you got me... Tell me about lumpy jaw!
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The self same one that hired lobbyists to shut down a democratic resolution against genocide in Gaza?
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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
Here is the link to join us: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3745529... Meeting ID: 374 552 945 882 04 Passcode: Xt3hE9KN
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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
Well anyone hold Bouke de Vries accountable?
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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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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Was it ever really about him?
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why are the newspapers, the Guardian included, not asking hard questions about *his* hiring?
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So many words... Let's see some actions in consequence
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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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