Reposted by Chiara LoschiNature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 05/08/2026Serving the truth or the state? rdcu.be/fx3na Megan Raby reviews a fascinating new book highlighting the involvement of American Museum of Natural History scientists in US government intelligence-gathering activities in Latin America and the Caribbean during World War I 074
Reposted by Chiara LoschiBRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025BRISMES Council wrote to Helmut Schmidt University to express concern over the forthcoming keynote by Dr Graicer, an instructor in the Israeli Defence Forces, entitled “Extracting Order from Chaos: Lessons from Military Design in an Eight-Front War.” 1/3 👉 shorturl.at/QQR7G 1118
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 28/08/2025For nerds corner: Diablo workers, last of Blizzard teams, unionize over layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI aftermath.site/diablo-union...aftermath.siteDiablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - AftermathWorkers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, joining the teams behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft before them. 020
Reposted by Chiara LoschiSteven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social · 29/06/2025As pleased as I am to see EU governments offer funding to attract US scholars, there are loads of talented European scholars who’ve struggled to find permanent positions. They could use some help. www.wsj.com/world/europe...wsj.comEurope Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With AmericaThe U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent. 14818
Reposted by Chiara LoschiPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Tick tock University of Amsterdam, tick tock…media.tenor.coma man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a parkAlt: Pablo Escobar in the series Narcos waiting in a series of situations 081
Reposted by Chiara Loschi🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025⚖️ 🌐 #ClimateLitigation alert: follow today's hearing at the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris in the greenwashing case brpught by @amisdelaterre.org @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social & @greenpeace.fr against TotalEnergies. Brilliant live reporting by @julietrenaud.bsky.social 👇 061
Reposted by Chiara LoschiJocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays 792350746
Reposted by Chiara LoschiPaul Trauttmansdorff @paultrautt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025@drkiarastorm.bsky.social and I have a new article out in International Migration on the multiple modes of ordering in the EU border regime that come with introducing interoperability btw databases of migration control. Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comInteroperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regimeDrawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis-laden management of migration.... 131
Reposted by Chiara LoschiPhelim Kine @phelimkine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I was on @dwnews to unpack how the dismantling of USAID has hobbled rescue and response efforts following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Q0...m.youtube.comUSAID cuts hit Myanmar relief operation | DW NewsYouTube video by DW News 022
Reposted by Chiara Loschimakena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2025SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...wired.comDOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer DataDOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED. 21825591537
Reposted by Chiara LoschiJournal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility? 👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: doi.org/pcgr #borders #ProcessCitizens 033
Reposted by Chiara Loschi🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE 🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent. 🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room. 🧵 🔽 thread below 39757
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025More than glad to share our Manifesto on the #Datafication of #Mobility Across #Borders by ERC ProcessingCitizenship, PI A. Pelizza, published by @estsjournal.bsky.social Thanks to ESTS editorial team & the co-authors: we could not have aspired to a better conclusion! estsjournal.org/index.php/es...estsjournal.org View of Manifesto on the Datafication of Mobility Across Borders | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 010
Reposted by Chiara LoschiElliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Until now Trump has followed court orders. Now we enter the realm of arbitrary power ubchecked by the judiciary. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...nytimes.comHundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge's Order: Trump Live Updates 112
Reposted by Chiara LoschiAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/03/2025www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...browndailyherald.comBrown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travelOne week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda... 23126
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Today in Copenaghen, Aalborg university, to discuss study of infrastructures and possible projects on air pollution, regulations, shutting down data infrastructures, with the great research team of TANTlab led by Torben Elgaard Jensen www.kultur.aau.dk/forskning/fo...kultur.aau.dkThe Techno-Anthropology Research Group (TANT), Institut for Kultur og Læring, Aalborg UniversitetForskningsgruppen TANTlab undersøger centrale processer inden for social og teknisk innovation, der er afgørende for de udfordringer, nutidige og fremtidige samfund står over for. 010
Reposted by Chiara LoschiElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/03/2025We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.eff.orgIn Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass SpyingEFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of m... 9669197
Reposted by Chiara LoschiMatt Daily @mattdaily.bsky.social · 12/03/2025EPA's Lee Zeldin wants to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases — along with 30 other key regulatory actions stretching back decades. Story from @zcolman.bsky.social & @alexguillen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/03...politico.comEPA launches attack on ‘holy grail’ of climate science — and dozens of enviro rulesThe move is the most aggressive attack yet by the Trump administration to undo previous efforts to limit the emissions that are warming the planet. 255
Reposted by Chiara Loschifrancesco strazzari @zaz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025my own views on 'defending Europe' in a new release of our Security Praxis blog (translated from op-ed published on Sunday's edition of il Manifesto) www.securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-mo...securitypraxis.euThe Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pactEither it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. Once again, conflicts over borders and nati... 052
Reposted by Chiara LoschiJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled? 2852983615
Reposted by Chiara LoschiNature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 03/03/2025In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇 Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 3244124
Reposted by Chiara LoschiBristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Are you a #SocialSciences researcher seeking a publisher for your #Research? Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing buff.ly 032
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...haaretz.com'Italian Jews say no to ethnic cleansing': Hundreds sign ad blasting Trump's Gaza plan*** 010
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025www.internazionale.it/magazine/202...internazionale.itLa Cisgiordania è sotto attaccoMentre gli occhi del mondo sono rivolti alla Striscia di Gaza, prosegue la “gazificazione” della Cisgiordania. Da settimane ci sono sgomberi di residenti, stravolgimenti… Leggi 001
Reposted by Chiara Loschifrancesco strazzari @zaz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025from now, when an Italian researcher goes on a mission in a context where electronic payment is unavailable, the expense is considered income and taxed up to 43%. That's how we kill the internationalization of research, discriminate research in/on the global south, and bunkerize it in big hotels 198
Reposted by Chiara LoschiShayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I asked DeepSeek three questions: - How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims? - Is Taiwan part of China? - What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s? Here are DeepSeek's answers: 1041060433
Reposted by Chiara LoschiChiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Happy to share the call for abstracts for 10th STS Italia Conference, 11-13/06, Politecnico of Milan, panel «Where sociomateriality lies: Re-thinking the synergies between STS & Information Infrastructure studies in the age of datafication», C. Coletta, L. Olivieri, A.Pelizza, myself. Deadline 3/02 123
Reposted by Chiara LoschiKai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 15/01/2025Disgusting, and quite telling: the mock plane tickets printed by #farright #AfD echo the ones made by the neo-nazi #NPD in the 2010s and ultimately the fake train tickets printed by the original Nazis since the 1920s (see the screenshot below)dw.comGerman police investigate AfD mock plane ticket campaign – DW – 01/15/2025A local branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany has been distributing controversial fake "airplane tickets" to promote the deportation of people to a "secure home country." Police are investig... 15121
Reposted by Chiara LoschiJean Comte @jeancomte.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Transparency geek news: from the 1st of January, the EU Commission started to proactively publish minutes of the meetings held between lobbyists and staff with management function (from DG to head of units). It's short, and not very detailed, but still a step toward transparency 38831
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Happy to share the call for abstracts for 10th STS Italia Conference, 11-13/06, Politecnico of Milan, panel «Where sociomateriality lies: Re-thinking the synergies between STS & Information Infrastructure studies in the age of datafication», C. Coletta, L. Olivieri, A.Pelizza, myself. Deadline 3/02 123
Reposted by Chiara LoschiLien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Day 1 of historic #ClimateJustice hearings at the International Court of Justice unpacked: www.wy4cj.org/icjao-oral-h... Interventions by 🇻🇺🇿🇦🇦🇱🇩🇪🇦🇬🇦🇺🇸🇦🇧🇸🇧🇩🇧🇧 You can still sign up to receive debriefs during the rest of the hearings (2-13 Dec) 👉 www.wy4cj.org/icjao-oral-h...wy4cj.orgDaily Debrief 2 December 2024 — World's Youth for Climate JusticeIn a nutshell Today… The joint submission by Vanuatu and the Melanesian Spearhead Group opened the hearings with powerful arguments on climate justice, the right to self-determination, and... 051
Reposted by Chiara LoschiZack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024A deal came together as COP29 grew tense. The $300B/yr rich countries agreed to send developing nations to green energy systems & cope with climate change is far less than what analysts say poorer countries need to hit climate goals. Our wrap: www.politico.com/news/2024/11...politico.comClimate summit ends with a long-fought deal — and a lot of angerDeveloping nations got a promise of at least $300 billion a year in climate finance from rich countries such as the U.S. and the EU’s members. They wanted far more. 11811
Reposted by Chiara Loschi🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024🗣️ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐬𝐚𝐲 🇺🇳𝐔𝐍 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 ahead of the opening of crucial round of negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution. Key words: ⚖️ responsibility, 🔍 transparency, 📉 prevention 🧑⚖️ accountability #INC5 #HumanRights #COP29 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... 053
Reposted by Chiara LoschiMolly Lempriere @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org · 08/11/2024Climate finance is going to be the biggest focus at COP29, which kicks off next week For this week's Debriefed Michael Jacobs outlined the "strange way" the previous $100bn finance target came about Also, the biggest news of the week, incl Trump, skipping COP29 + COP16 disarray 093
Reposted by Chiara LoschiLukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Brussels shifting policy, allowing cohesion funds (€392bn) to support defense. Originally aimed at reducing inequalities between EU members, the money may now bolster military mobility & defense industries. Balancing regional development with security as a priority. www.ft.com/content/eb0d...ft.comBrussels to free up billions of euros for defence and security from EU budgetPolicy shift will allow the bloc’s capitals to redirect ‘cohesion funds’ amid Ukraine conflict and Trump victory 0103
Reposted by Chiara Loschikate conger @kateconger.com · 07/11/2024what a thing to say about your own child 1423040373
Chiara Loschi @drkiarastorm.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Exclusive: EU set to choose firm for critical minerals joint buying platform www.reuters.com/markets/comm...reuters.comExclusive: EU set to choose firm for critical minerals joint buying platformThe European Union, rushing to develop a 9 million euro joint purchasing mechanism for critical minerals and energy, is choosing between eight bidders vying to develop a platform, documents showed and sources with direct knowledge told Reuters. 000