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Federico D'Onofrio

@fdonoff.eurosky.social
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Historian of data and government Associate Professor, University of Bologna federico-donofrio.github.io ERC Datarev project: datarev.univie.ac.at

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lowest on record (1866-2026)! The water level in the Rhine keeps reaching new lows. 6.12 m above sea level already was a new all-time low in August, but now we're at 6.06 m, and still going down.
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Miley Crisis. 🎃👻 @miley-crisis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Europeans, hi! If you're against invasive age verification, losing your privacy online, and the thousands of possible leaks of people's passports or other identification documents, please sign this ECI to push back against the EU's overreach citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
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Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
De politie duwde ook een persfotograaf in het water toen hij foto's wilde maken bij een arrestatie. Video van de andere kant hieronder.
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REDWatch @redwatch.fr · 18/09/2026
À Carcassonne, l'aumônier militaire du régiment de paras dénonce « les gauchistes » et reprend la thèse du grand remplacement, devant les troupes réunies en la cathédrale. Un sermon religieux qui vire au discours politique, tenu par un représentant officiel de l'aumônerie aux armées.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kylo Ren screaming MORE
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Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams
Federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation recently launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 tools with open-source alternatives. The Federal Chancellery's plan calls for investing 9...
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
It still lacks a few details (a pic of me, maybe!), but my new site is now live: federico-donofrio.github.io Do you find this format useful?
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Saranno comunque meglio di Poste Italiane e Bartolini
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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
„Eine Gruppe fossiler Konzerne beginnt umgehend mit einer beispiellosen, systematischen Kampagne gegen die Richtlinien des Lieferkettengesetzes. Unter Führung der Lobbyagentur Teneo schließen sich fossile Giganten im informellen ‚Competitiveness Roundtable’ zusammen.“ - @fargonaut.bsky.social in FR
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Geheime Absprachen mit Wirtschaftsministerium: Fossile Lobby bringt Bundesregierung auf Linie
Nach geheimen Absprachen entkernen Wirtschaftsministerium und Kanzleramt die Umwelt- und Menschenrechtsstandards in globalen Lieferketten. Von Felix Sassmannshausen.
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
academics on sky: do you have a personal website? what do you use it for? does it have one page or more? why do you feel you need a personal website in addition to your institutional webpage?
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
Feeling exactly like this
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
#historsky has someone ever managed to see the archives of the sociedad rural argentina?
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I had a great time talking to brilliant Johanna Hanink about translating the Iliad for her new podcast, Lesche.
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026
The global war on terror was the outside projection of the same forces that are benefitting from terror inside Europe
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
Not af all vulnerable to uncontrolled migration flows (in this case none entered the schengen space). The eu is vulnerable to the political entrepreneurship of demagogues wwithout scruples such as meloni.
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Archiv für Agrargeschichte - Archives of Rural History @agrararchiv.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New: the AGHIST portal aghist.ch AGHIST enables users to perform a text search across AHR resources. The #MCP server enables AI assistants to query AGHIST in a standardised manner. The AI-assisted search, available in 2027, is a semantic search.
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
@kbruisch.bsky.social
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
How to open a joint bank account for two individuals living in different EU countries? It seems almost impossible. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu why the EU does so little to address real needs of its citizens?
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Janoschki @janoschki.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Frei nach Merz: Die Taliban übernehmen "die Drecksarbeit" für die Union.
Screenshot der ntv-Website, Rubrik Politik, mit der rot markierten Randzeile „Nicht mehr nur für Straftäter“ und der Überschrift „Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan werden offenbar ausgeweitet“. Datum: 22.07.2026, 19:30 Uhr, mit Hinweis „Artikel anhören (03:42 min)“. Darunter ein Foto vom Flughafen Leipzig/Halle: Ein großes Passagierflugzeug mit angedockter Fluggastbrücke, davor stehen mehrere Polizeifahrzeuge mit Blaulicht.
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...
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As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record
UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.
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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"They started kicking everybody, including women & elderly people, to throw them inside the...boats, even a 2-month-old baby." A year after Frontex boss Hans Leijtens said abuses like these kept him "awake at night", plus ça change... For @lemonde.fr w/ @grillmeier.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2b4dpkh5
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Frontex continuing mission in Greece despite serious violations of migrants' rights
How long will Frontex tolerate the growing violations of migrants' rights in Greece? A Le Monde investigation documents the many warnings issued by the Fundamental Rights Office of the European agency...
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026
It is still surprising to me that every Central Italian town stubbornly tries to claim zuppa inglese, that is trifle, as a specific, loal dish. Which is suprising because the name itself means "English soup". Here, Siena claims they invented trifle in 1552: www.lacucinaitaliana.it/article/dove...
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La Zuppa del Duca: la vera (o presunta) antenata toscana della zuppa inglese
È emiliano? Marchigiano? È nato a Siena? Le origini del dessert al cucchiaio più famoso dopo il tiramisù sono incerte. Facciamo chiarezza, partendo dalla città del Palio
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
Il suicidio tedesco ed europeo
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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 08/07/2026
Turns out the Finnish foreign ministry has denied seasonal work visa to hundreds of (mostly Thai) berry pickers, which could lead to acute labour shortages, berries remaining unpicked, and rising prices of typically Finnish products like blueberry juice. Symbolic on so many levels.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The European Council is showing its limits, but its dysfunctional nature is what its architects intended when they surreptiously set it up in 1974
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Why the European Council Was Never Fit for Purpose
The problem isn't that EUCO is dysfunctional. That's exactly what its architects - that is EU national governments - intended, and still do today.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"The report calls for hood height caps of 85 cm (33.5 inches), width limits of 192 cm (75.6 inches), taxes tied to vehicle dimensions, parking fees based on size, and regulatory incentives reserved for smaller EVs measuring less than 4.2 meters (165.4 inches) long."
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Researchers Want To Tax Cars By The Inch To Stop Carspreading | Carscoops
Researchers argue that stopping vehicle growth could save lives, space, and billions in energy costs
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
Very few decisions look as nonsensical to me as @oebb.bsky.social öbb's decision to reduce the space for luggage on its nighttrains NJ, when in reality train passangers are either backpackers or migrants with whole houses in their suitcases
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
un'altra decisione piuttosto ingiusta
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
Osias Parnes from Lviv/Lemberg discussed the introduction of an international paper money to replace gold in international exchanges (1893). Gold was not suitable! 1/n
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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
La 1e journée de la conférence sur les histoires de la pensée économique africaine à l'Université de Manchester était tout à fait passionnante. Mention spéciale à la 3e session de la journée qui a couvert plein de mes intérêts "niche" (du type " développementalisme rural post-colonial") 🥰
Les intervenant-es de la troisième session de la conférence Histories of African Economic Thought (consacrée à l'économie politique du colonialisme)
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Libération @liberation.fr · 12/06/2026
«On a besoin des travailleurs immigrés» ➡️ l.liberation.fr/BNJ
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
@giuliofirenze.bsky.social e quali sono le probably consequenze di questa configurazione per l'Europa occidentale e mediterranea? Pioggia?
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
When the summer comes, I wake up on certain days wishing I could ask @dieworkwear.bsky.social in querulous tone what shoes should a man - who is not Cary Grant - wear on the boiling shores of the Mediterranean when he is not in shorts and sandals.
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
A great mystery of Italian transport infrastructure is why Malpensa Airport has a railway connection to Milano Cadorna instead of Milano Centrale (and had no direct connections to Switzerland)
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Meanwhile in the EU…
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EU approves strictest-ever migration law, including return hubs
A new EU law will allow migrant return hubs outside the bloc and home searches in a bid to crack down on irregular migration. Civil society groups point to a “xenophobic" turn in EU politics. #EuropeN...
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026
Verena Halsmayer presents her great new book Managing growth in miniature on the Solow model at the HES-ESHET joint conference in Nice @univie.ac.at #eshet2026 #eshethes2026
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026
I'm leaving for the #eshet #hes conference in Nice, but I'm travelling with @trenitalia.bsky.social and then @sncfconnect.bsky.social . What are the chances that I'll have to sleep in Milan or Ventimiglia?
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
Maybe time for provenance and restitution studies to appoint their regard on switzerland...
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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On va vivre quelque chose de difficilement concevable : à quelques degrés près, certaines régions de France frôlent des seuils de canicule*… en plein mois de mai. 1/7
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
The Po plain is still the worst place
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026
Each unhappy academic is unhappy in her own way
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Pablo Perez @pablopereza.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
9 'curiosities' about 9 of May | The Declaration that changed Europe (and the world). #EuropeDay #EUHistory 🇪🇺🧵
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026
But isn't Claude a quintessentially female and male name?
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026
One of the worst things about italian universities is that they have something called SSD that they use to classify scientific disciplines. History of Economics, according to them, falls in a larger group called Business economics and as a historian you are constantly valued by business people.
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
Dear Trainlovers, what is the easiest,cheapest,shortest way to get from Florence (italy) to Nice (france), by train? There should be an easy way but @trenitalia.bsky.social has no purchasable option
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
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Wolf Ladejinsky: Field Trips for a Democratic Countryside
Abstract. By looking at the life, travels, and work of Wolf Ladejinsky, one of the leading American experts and advisers on agrarian reforms in Asia during the postwar era, this article sheds light on...
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 29/03/2026
I really hope that the people who designed the directions inside Bologna underground station (worst station ever anyway) will be horribly punished in their afterlife
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026
My chapter on the transition from the International Institute of Agriculture to the FAO is now out OA in the volume edited by Pan-Montojo, Cabo, and Prieto on Agricultural Modernisation and the Green transition and you can read it here: openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications...
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Agricultural Modernisation ePUB OA
Agricultural Modernisation ePUB OA
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 09/03/2026
Immigration : les eurodéputés adoptent des nouvelles règles d’expulsion des sans-papiers avec une majorité de droite et d’extrême droite
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Immigration : les eurodéputés adoptent des nouvelles règles d’expulsion des sans-papiers avec une majorité de droite et d’extrême droite
Une demi-douzaine d’Etats membres, dont l’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas, ont déjà annoncé leur volonté de créer des « centres de retours » hors des frontières de l’UE, comme le permettra le nouveau règlement sur les « retours ».
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 07/03/2026
You needed so many horses to just drag one cannon!
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Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026
Molta retorica nel discorso di de Villepin sull'Europa, ma la proposta complessiva sembra la solita riedizione dell'Europa a più velocità, con tutti i problemi che pone
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