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Ciaran Mundy

@ciaranmundy.bsky.social
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Pro Gaia, anti fascist. I'm for transforming cultures of violent domination into cultures of respectful harmony.

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ΛTLΛS 🔜 MFF, WOE @atlasbun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My apartment banned ebikes because they are a " fire hazard" So I'm doing the only sensible thing and strapping a two-stroke engine to a fixed gear bicycle.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A fifth of Leave voters have died.
Graph showing the movement of Leave and Remain voters since 2016
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ben Walker of Ukip in Holborn & St Pancras. Quite a contest between Restore v Ukip as to which is running furthest & hardest to the right in this byelection
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT WAVE IN CHINA China is living one of the most extreme heat events in its climatic history. End of September and it's worse Than summer. Temperatures up to 39.2C and 16 more records of September High Minimums pulverized. Deadly heat will increase next days. Kudos:Jim Jiang
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Netanyahu asks UAE president to deny warning before 7 October attack - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Netanyahu asks UAE president to deny warning before 7 October attack
<article data-history-node-id="448456" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-asks-uae-president-deny-warning-7-october-attack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-asks-uae-president-deny-warning-7-october-attack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Netanyahu asks UAE president to deny warning before 7 October attack</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>During a meeting in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to refute a report that he had warned Israel of an impending Hamas attack before the October 7 Ocober attack in 2023, The Associated Press reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The meeting came after a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the Emirati leader had warned Netanyahu of a planned Hamas operation days before the Hamas-led attack.&nbsp;</p> <p>The UAE Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the latest report, saying it maintains “open and direct lines of communication” with Israel and shares “all relevant intelligence”.</p> <p>The AP report said there was no immediate comment from Netanyahu’s office on the meeting or his request to bin Zayed.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"These bros don’t simply want to rule the world, suck up our national grids, drain our aquifers, re-write our laws to suit their purposes, they are also, perhaps most unforgivably of all, perverting the meaning of words. ”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Egypt, leaving prison does not mean escaping the security state - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/egypt…
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In Egypt, leaving prison does not mean escaping the security state
Abdelrahman ElGendy's memoir Huna shows how release from an Egyptian prison brings surveillance, enforced silence and the threat of renewed detention
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was honoured to meet Mayor Mamdani in New York City this week! Every day, his administration is changing what is thinkable in economic policy. Public goods for the public good.🌹
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another scandal linked to Reform UK northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Another scandal linked to Reform UK
Scandals, which in one way or another involve Reform UK in the North East seem to come at us thick and fast these days
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/09/2026
#OtD 26 Sep 1939 actor Ricky Tomlinson was born. Before acting, Ricky worked in construction and took part in the 1972 building workers' strike. He was later framed for picket line violence and imprisoned for two years. More on the strike in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e65-...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And @katelynburns.com put a fine point on it, pointing out how taking on data centers aggressively, especially Musk's especially filthy ones. This could help them defang the trans-hate gambit Elon used in 2024 and 2026, which he uses to undo democracy and make Democrats scared to show solidarity.
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The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People
Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall
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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is great work. But you cannot reverse extinction. Once a population goes extinct, by definition that specific kind of life has gone forever. Sometimes closely related or functionally similar life can take up that empty space. But what was lost was lost #MassExtinction
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 27/09/2026
Communities in Croatia are mounting resistance against the Chicken King who wants to turn the 'Amazon of Europe' paradise into an industrial zone.
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Saving the ‘Amazon of Europe’ from Big Ag’s next megafarm - Greenpeace International
Europe’s biggest poultry player, MHP Group, led by billionaire ‘Chicken King’ Yuriy Kosiuk wants to turn this paradise region, right where the rivers Drava and Mura meet into an industrial zone to house 1.8 million chickens annually. Not here, not anywhere.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From 2011: "Faced with the combined threats of land subsidence and rising temperatures and sea levels, the World Bank has predicted that Bangkok’s flood risk will increase four-fold from now by 2050." #Bangkok #Thailand 🇹🇭 #ClimateEmergency
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Floods show what lies ahead for sinking Bangkok
The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say.
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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 27/09/2026
Lough Neagh is part of our shared home. Today we stood with others at Stormont to call for clean water and urgent action to protect one of our most important natural resources. Toxic algae cannot be allowed to become normal. 1/2
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As ever, the most vulnerable workers are in the front line as climate breakdown continues to hammer home labouroutlook.org/2026/09/18/t...
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The climate crisis is already a workplace issue – Red Weekly Column
"If this crisis is to be resolved and its already severe impacts minimised, there must be a transition planned with and for workers. Trade unionists cannot afford to sit this one out."
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forests that have adapted to wildfires of a particular severity and frequency might not be able to keep up with harsher and more frequent fires. And wildfires are also becoming more common in forests that haven’t historically experienced many. eos.org/articles/fas...
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Fast, Severe Wildfires Can Change How Forests Grow Back - Eos
These blazes can cause ecological shifts even in fire-adapted forests.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"REFORM FAILED TO WIN ANY OF THE SIX BY-ELECTIONS THEY CONTESTED THIS WEEK." via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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Long John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not going to improve people’s lives here is it?!” I dunno man I’ve been watched children get murdered for three years straight now, it probably would improve our mental wellbeing if we stopped running cover for the murderers and maybe tried to do something about it
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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hope? Again?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The distinct thing about "hope again" as a "hope" message is that it involves bring backery (bring back lost hope)
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Instability in the M/E is whats caused the [energy] price hikes.. & one of the things this Lab govt has done is facilitated the increase in instability.. by allowing Trump to use our bases to bomb Iran" Well done to Sharmen Rahman from the Greens for making this point
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2025, Japan’s bear crisis produced 232 casualties. But the story is not about “more bears.” New research suggests climate change is disrupting Japan's forest food cycles. When key food sources fail, bears cross a threshold and move into human spaces. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Compound food failure on a deteriorated mast system drives Japan’s bear conflict crisis
Climate change is recognized as a key amplifier of human-wildlife conflict, yet the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Japan’s 2025 bear crisis, which produced 232 casualties, has been wi...
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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
" It’s just a bunch of drugged-up rich guys using their vast fortunes to chart a course for our species that would sound totally awesome to the average preadolescent boy.”
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Companies are lying to customers about surveillance pricing technology. Here it is broken down and it’s crazy.
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Kate Bielinski @katebielinski.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
“All welcome” they say. I suspect very many would not be made welcome.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In NY yesterday people protested against Netanyahu & more than 100 of them were arrested Netanyahu, who's wanted for using starvation of civilians as a method of war, intentionally directing attacks against civilians, & extermination or murder as a crime against humanity, wasn't
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Ciaran Mundy @ciaranmundy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stitched up? "Within two minutes of Somerset council announcing the identity of the preferred bidder – Newcore Capital – at the end of an impassioned meeting, it had issued a full press release on the deal. Less than 15 minutes later, Newcore released its own press release."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
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‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company A bold bid by residents of a progressive town in the English West Country who raised almost £1m to create what could have been the UK’s largest community-led regeneration project is in tatters. More than 1,000 residents of Frome in Somerset had clubbed together with the aim of building homes, workspaces, a riverside park and a lido on a brownfield area in their town centre. Continue reading...
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's how and why Andy Burnham must bring water and other key public services and natural monopolies into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP (6/6) weownit.org.uk/research-and...
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How and why Andy Burnham should deliver public ownership
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Duane Froese @tephrafan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our new paper in GRL: "permafrost detachment slides." Entire frozen hillsides in NWT are failing from the base of permafrost creating the largest permafrost landslides in northern Canada. Thaw is driven by past wildfires and warming. Led by Joe Young. OA 👇 doi.org/10.1029/2026... #permafrost
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Permafrost Detachment Slides: A Distinct High‐Magnitude Permafrost Mass Wasting Process
PDSs fail through bottom-up thaw and detach the entire permafrost profile, fundamentally different from top-down thaw-driven mass wasting Climate warming and wildfire drive heat to the permafrost...
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Anuradha Mittal @mittaloak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand Congress block 60,000 bombs: War criminals are not welcome here! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
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Demand Congress Block 60,000 Bombs: War criminals are not welcome here!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United Nations in New York is a chance to remind our lawmakers who they’re supposed to serve—their American constituents, not a foreign governm...
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Oakland Institute @oaklandinstitute.org · 10/09/2026
Elon Musk tweeted in 2020 that the coup against Bolivian president Evo Morales had to do with lithium, proudly stating, “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” @mittaloak.bsky.social reveals the powers at play still seeking to control Bolivia’s natural resources 👇
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Trump, Paz, and Lithium – US Pivot on Bolivia
June 2026: Just six months into office, Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s, tethered on the edge. Starting late April, as demonstrators and security forces clashed in the country’s capital, La P...
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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 25/09/2026
Millions of people across India and Pakistan are forecast to experience dangerous humid heat linked to climate change on September 24: 📍 India: Around 560 million people — nearly 40% of the population 📍 Pakistan: Around 140 million people
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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 25/09/2026
🌡️Humid heat can be dangerous to human health. High humidity makes it harder for sweat to evaporate, reducing the body’s ability to cool itself and increasing the risk of heat-related illness. Learn more with #ClimateCentral: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Oil giant BP not only funded the research behind an influential climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point. (Published June w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social)
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 24/09/2026
NAZA to stream for free on Guardian website. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
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'NAZA' to Stream for Free on The Guardian Website After International Rollout
After its theatrical rollout in over 55 territories, the Israel/Gaza documentary NAZA will be streaming for free online.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the record: The University of California has never asked me for anything like this. But I am seeing this line of questioning arising in a rapidly growing number of American contexts. It has been asked of me, personally, elsewhere. And that is very, very alarming.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The human intelligence atrophy aspect of AI also deserves more attention:
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an absolutely ridiculous conversation England is having about its extreme ideological experiment with privatisation It's really not that complicated 9 out of 10 water systems worldwide are in public ownership (1/6) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane
Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See Scottish Water which is not perfect but invests at least 35% more in infrastructure than the privatised English water companies Or Paris which has bills that are 1/3 lower and has cleaned up the River Seine while giving citizens a say (3/6)
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Let's look at and learn from best practice public ownership here in the UK and around the world The cleanest rivers and seas are in publicly owned systems (4/6) weownit.org.uk/news/europes...
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Guess what separates Europe’s cleanest rivers and seas from the UK’s? Public ownership.
“Not a single privatised water utility comes even close to their performance,” Professor Asit Biswas, water expert and winner of the Stockholm Water Prize, told the Financial Times.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
4/ "If we don't, our rivals will." In 1963 JFK warned that 15 to 25 countries could have nuclear weapons by the 1970s. Today there are nine. Treaties and export controls limited the spread of the most powerful weapon ever built.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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