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Elena Gadjanova

@elliegadjanova.bsky.social
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Political scientist. Ethnic politics, political communication, and social media in Africa. Writing a book on cross-ethnic outreach in highly diverse states. British Academy Innovation fellow 2025-2026.

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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything is just so so stupid. www.ft.com/content/7af7...
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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our new research project (PI Gabrielle Lynch at Warwick) has a brand new website - warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais... PostDoc job posts coming soon!
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Off Bench Project
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Highly recommend @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds to understand big tech's fascist dynamic & how it interplayed with other elements of the conservative movement to create the mess we're in now.
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Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
​A massive multi-city study finds zero link between undocumented immigrants and violent crime. It turns out the only real crime being committed here is politicians brutally assaulting statistical evidence to fuel their culture wars. 📈
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 15/08/2026
Now is as good a time as ever to simply say that support services are available if you are in need of them. ; www.nhs.uk/mental-healt... findahelpline.com
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Help for suicidal thoughts
Where to get help if you are having suicidal thoughts, and what to do if you are worried about someone else.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 31/07/2026
Interesting, though unsurprising
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So much for "India is immune to gen-Z protests because it's too big/diverse/federal" arguments... www.ft.com/content/5921...
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India’s Gen Z takes on Modi
Growing unemployment and anger over education system pose serious challenges to premier
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I've signed and sent a letter - from authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, scholars and performers - to express our deep concern at @exeter.ac.uk’s troubling plans to make mass redundancies within the Humanities Dept @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. I would love it if you read and shared widely.
Dear Vice Chancellor, Provost, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences and Chair of Council (cc Director of Human Resources and Chief Financial
Officer)
We write, as authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, publishers, academics and performers in the public
sphere, to express our deep concern at the University of Exeter’s plans to make redundancies within the
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). The cuts come at a point when Exeter is not in
deficit, and they are not distributed equally across the university. With 114 of the proposed 153 FTE
academic redundancies falling within HASS, the University is dismantling areas of established excellence
and international renown in a Russell Group University whose reputation is known to be outstanding in the
Humanities. Several of the disciplines subject to the proposed cuts, including Classics and Ancient History,
English and Creative Writing, History, and Theology and Religion are among the UK’s strongest according
to league tables, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF),
and other recognised indicators, including QS World Rankings.
The extent of the proposed cuts is both shocking and misguided. Exeter is seeking to make up to 20
academics redundant in English and Creative Writing, out of a headcount of 62. In Languages and Visual
Culture upwards of 17 colleagues will be made redundant, decimating subjects including Art History and
Visual Culture, French, German, Italian, Hispanic Studies, Russian and Chinese. 5 posts will go or have
gone in Classics and Ancient History (2 academics have already left), out of a staff body of 20. In Theology
and Religion up to 5 academics will be made redundant out of a group of 13. In History over 17 colleagues
will be made redundant, out of a staff body of 53. In the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies staff are
facing a headcount reduction of almost a third (6FTE out …
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
c.org/KvJmsPTyG7
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Reminded me that there is actually a research paper showing being funny negatively correlates with right-wing authoritarianism... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Right-wing authoritarians aren't very funny: RWA, personality, and creative humor production
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) has well-known links with humor appreciation, such as enjoying jokes that target deviant groups, but less is known a…
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_... A short video about what your donations will fund www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vzb...
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What Happens When You Fund Bellingcat ...
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
#defendexeteruni c.org/sffZcfYxMw
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:
2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation.
Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%)
Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data.
Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups).
Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%).
The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation.
Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year.
1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked.
A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This, absolutely. So often misunderstood in counter-disinformation efforts
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Without a receptive audience these fake news posts don't get any traction, because there's no-one whose engaged enough with the topic to seek it out and to share it. As ISD writes, there's a huge campaign against Armenia at the moment, but it gets pretty much zero traction.
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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just installed '10 Blue Links' Google Chrome extension and it has removed all the AI junk at the top of the page that had been obscuring my search results. Hooray! Recommend💯
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Shocker www.ft.com/content/88ce...
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Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/05/2026
Let it be clear: you are wanted here.
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬✌️
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
State capacity’s a great thing
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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“We call misinformation a mistake, disinformation a lie, and malinformation gossip.” 🇫🇮 Ht @dpmanchee.bsky.social via @davidheniguk.bsky.social ****** @emma-briant.co.uk FYI
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 11:00 AM CEST 2010: 24.78% 2014: 23.23% 2018: 29.93% 2022: 25.77% 2026: 37.98% Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary
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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A sea of humanity at Heroes' Square in Budapest. Hungarians of all walks of life gather en masse to demand regime change, in a nation kneecapped by unspeakable levels of corruption and nepotism for nearly two decades. The winds, and sounds, of change are palpable. 🔥 @telexhu.bsky.social
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.
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Steven Vertovec, Futures of Difference @fod-soc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I've always shied away from social media – but current times have changed this. The categories shaping our lives are being challenged rapidly & profoundly. That's why I've launched FoD: to explore where these trends are leading.The future of difference isn't predetermined - join the conversation
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Futures of Difference | Substack
Futures of Difference explores how social categories — race, gender, migration — are transforming. Essays & conversations with 30+ leading scholars. A scholarly platform from the Max Planck Institute,...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The fun thing writing about US elections is that it's just so comically polarised. Every race is like: Republican: made millions lobbying for oil companies, has been charged with fraud, tweets racism. Democrat: was a teacher before setting up a charity for needy children. Wants free healthcare.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The advantage of using sarcasm to implicitly criticise Trump is that he won't notice.
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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Freedman highlights a stark asymmetry: the US can force compliance from its tech giants in extremis, but allies like the UK are left exposed to American corporate power with no recourse. Better come to this realisation late than never: Tech sovereignty isn't just about China.
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yay.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hello British dual nationals: If you have been, or know anyone who has been, refused board on a flight, ferry or train to the UK in the coming days, they can share their story here. Or email me direct - email in bio. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
No reputable media outlet should engage with Restore, any more than they would with Combat 18.
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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard
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Eva Hyldgaard 🇩🇰 Dane for Democracy @evahyldgaard.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Danish PM on Facebook this morning: “I am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone. Where insurance and wealth do not determine whether you receive proper treatment. The same approach exists in Greenland. Happy Sunday to you all”
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Research grantee Natasha Patel is a PhD candidate in political science. Her work theorizes about social movements, especially those that seek to address deep, structural causes of contemporary problems. Learn more about her project here:
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Learn more about: Self-Transformation for Self-Governance: The Ethics of Ea in the Hawaiian Movement for Life
Project Title: Self-Transformation for Self-Governance: The Ethics of Ea in the Hawaiian Movement for Life Natasha Patel, Stanford University Natasha Patel is a PhD candidate in political science. Her work theorizes about social movements, especially those that seek to address deep, structural causes of contemporary problems. In her case examples, Hawaiian sovereignty, prison industrial complex abolition, and Christian Dominionism, she asks: “why do some movements that seek vast structural change ask their members to undergo a highly localized politics of personal transformation?” The research reveals why some “highly aspirational” political movements theorize a strong connection between structural transformation and personal transformation and encourages us to consider how personal practices are socially transformative.
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Oh snaaaappp
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Which brings me to my research! What we show in this paper is that AI’s ability to produce expert-looking content at zero cost *raises* the demand for experts who can help you tell apart real from fake. 7/ filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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