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Ger Duijzings

@gerdu.bsky.social
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Professor of Social Anthropology at Regensburg University | Southeastern Europe | Kosovo | Srebrenica | Bucharest | Genocide | Perpetrators | Urban Studies | orcid.org/0000-0003-3711-4530 | seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de

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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Why many Bosnian genocide scholars remain silent on Gaza
Their refusal to speak out undermines scholarly integrity and the field of genocide studies.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Öffentliche Stellungnahme vom Verein Palästinensischer und Jüdischer Akademiker*innen (PJA), der Allianz für kritische und solidarische Wissenschaft (KriSol) und dem DAVO-GfW zur Absage der LMU-Veranstaltung „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“. 👇
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Please join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:
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Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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After his concert with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov spoke out passionately against his country’s actions of genocide. Pass this on as it was not broadcast. | O...
After his concert with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov spoke out passionately against his country’s actions of genocide. Pass this on as it was not broadcast. | 6...
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences calls to end collaboration with Israeli scholarly institutions, including Horizon programs.
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Here is the actual complete text of the IAGS resolution. www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/...
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IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
Recognising that, since the horrific Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, which itself constitutes international crimes, the government of Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against...
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International Association of Genocide Scholars @genocidescholars.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hear from IAGS Second VP Tim Williams (begins at 5:15) on the Gaza resolution:
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
German student is stripped of award for making media-critical instagram videos after having been denounced for 'antisemitism'. She explains the whole farce, what else than in another video... ⬇️
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Vast majority of members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars vote in favour the resolution declaring: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide... ". www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ash Sarkar on Israel and its allies in the west holding a conference on the future of Palestine that doesn't involve any Palestinians, but does include Tony Blair.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Statement by sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany on the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) by the International Sociological Association and the position of the German Sociological Association👇 t.co/DwuSnkv9Uo
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RrXheSu7UNhWySREKOuF8t0e4KiKr00y/view
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A change in tone by German political parties is not enough, this shift must include addressing their part in repression of Palestinians and pro Palestinian voices @jacobinmag.bsky.social Article by: @profturbulence.bsky.social Robin Jaspert Sabine Broeck And myself jacobin.de/artikel/gaza...
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Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung
SPD, Grüne und Union vollziehen eine vorsichtige Kehrtwende in der Israel-Politik. Glaubwürdig ist das nur, wenn sie jetzt Verantwortung für ihre Repression der Palästina-Solidarität übernehmen.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Wichtiges Interview in der SZ mit der Leiterin der israel. Menschenrechtsorganisation B'Tselem, Yuli Novak: „Man muss kein Jurist sein, um zu begreifen, was in Gaza geschieht“ Danke an Sina-Maria Schweikle und Sonja Zekri! www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/isra...
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Israel und der Krieg in Gaza: Interview zu Genozid-Vorwurf
Eine israelische Organisation wirft der Regierung Netanjahu und der Armee vor, im Gazastreifen einen Völkermord zu begehen. Die Leiterin Yuli Novak begründet, wie sie zu diesem Schluss kommt.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Verantwortung & deutsche Wissenschaft 👇 #HRK @humboldt-foundation.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social #Gaza #Genocide #GermanComplicity www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
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Genozid-Vorwurf gegen Israel: Rufe aus der Wissenschaft
Die Zusammenarbeit mit Institutionen in Israel steht in der Diskussion
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Remembering Srebrenica: "Srebrenica's message for our times: Act to stop genocide before it is too late." Our call to governments on the catastrophe unfolding in Palestine today.
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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 08/08/2025
1/ The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme forces starving Palestinians to scramble for scraps of food, while creating the illusion that sufficient aid is reaching Gaza. Aid cannot be used as a tool to control, punish, or manipulate an entire population.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Bundespressekonferenz am 29.7. zur humanitären Lage in Gaza und die Rolle der EU und Deutschlands - mit Riad Othman (@medico.de), Dr. @juliaduchrow.bsky.social und Prof. @gerdu.bsky.social (Uni Regensburg) 🧵 Vielen Dank an @tilojung.bsky.social fürs Aufzeichnen! bsky.app/profile/tilo...
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seeFField @seeffield.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Bei der heutigen #Bundespressekonferenz zur humanitären Lage in Gaza sowie der Rolle der 🇪🇺 und 🇩🇪 zog @gerdu.bsky.social Parallelen zur Lage in Gaza und dem Genozid in Srebrenica vor 30 Jahren. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-oX... (Minute 10:34-15:00) #Gaza #Srebrenica #Genozid #Verantwortung
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Haaretz: Gaza hospitals report patients collapsing in streets from starvation, warning severe malnutrition under blockade is causing an imminent "wave of deaths". Und dt. Politiker wollen Kooperationen mit Israel intensivieren und ein 'Israel-Bekenntnis'. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Gaza medical officials warn of imminent wave of deaths as signs of famine rise
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A similar opinion piece today in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Sharing today's blogpost about the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, making comparisons with what has been happening in Gaza, for who's interested: zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/srebr...
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Srebrenica 30 years later | zeitgeschichte-online.de
Srebrenica 30 years later. Are there lessons to learn?, Ger Duijzings , Fr., 11.07.2025 - 16:00
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Solingen March 2024 arson attack on apartment building inhabited by migrants, wiping out a Turkish Bulgarian family: the public prosecutor wilfully ignored abundant evidence of far-right and Nazi sympathies of the accused. www.ardmediathek.de/video/monito...
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Monitor: Brandanschlag in Solingen: Rechtsextremes Motiv vertuscht? - hier anschauen
Im März 2024 starb eine türkisch-bulgarische Familie bei einem Brandanschlag auf ein Wohnhaus in Solingen, welches vor allem von Migranten bewohnt wurde. Schnell stellten die Ermittlungsbehörden klar...
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid" t.co/OIaQbCPDyQ
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/20/israel-gaza-hamas-aid-middle-east-crisis-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-682c339f8f08a9a7b485d6da#block-682c339f8f08a9a7b485d6d...
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Amsterdam's mayor Femke Halsema openly calls Israel's actions in Gaza "genocidal violence" and urges Dutch government to take action. www.parool.nl/nieuws/halse...
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Halsema verwijst voor het eerst naar genocide en wil dat kabinet Israël tot de orde roept
Burgemeester Femke Halsema wil dat het kabinet de Israëlische mensenrechtenschendingen in Gaza scherp veroordeelt. Voor het eerst verwijst ze daarbij ook naar genocide, op basis van gezaghebbende inst...
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The leading Dutch quality newspaper NRC interviews leading genocide scholars who agree that it is genocide what is happening in Gaza
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pope Francis' last public appearance, Vatican City, Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025, 12:48
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Wo ist hier und jetzt eigentlich der Aufschrei? Stell dir vor, da wird eine Frau von einem vorbestraften Neonazi erschossen, da werden 18.000 Schulkinder von Rechtsradikalen bedroht, und keinen interessierts. taz.de/Rechte-Drohu...
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Rechte Drohungen und mediale Ignoranz: Wo bleibt der Aufschrei gegen rechts?
In Duisburg müssen Schulen wegen rechtsextrem Drohungen schließen. In Wetzlar gibt es einen Femizid mit Nazihintergrund. Und alles bleibt ruhig.
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Germany starts deportation of foreign student activists including EU citizens. theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...
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Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
One year ago a Muslim family from Bulgaria, Kancho Zhilov, Katya Zhilova and their two daughters, Galia (3 years) and Emily (1 year), were killed in an arson attack in Solingen. Once again, German police and state prosecutors excluded racist or far-right motives.
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Never again, and again" Necromeditation by Maxim Evstropov & Party of the Dead, Kirkenes, Barents Spektakel, Norway, 22 Feb 2025 The power of performance! www.instagram.com/p/DGTTHCENSc...
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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Politicians in Berlin, @kaiwegner.bsky.social & Ina Czyborra have pressured the FU Berlin to cancel Albanese's & Weizman's lecture. @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and I condemn this in the strongest terms. Below our letters to the politicians in EN & DE, plus a 🧵 1/4
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It has become the prerogative of the (far) right to 'identify' antisemitism and cancel any 'Israel-haters'. Through the concerted action of parties on the (far) right, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has been disinvited by Dutch parliament. nos.nl/artikel/2555...
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Tweede Kamer wil VN-rapporteur Albanese deze week toch niet ontvangen
De uitnodiging wordt ingetrokken omdat de meeste Kamerleden haar uitspraken over Israël en vergelijkingen met het naziregime te ver vinden gaan.
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
With Trump's sanctions against the ICC and LMU Munich's refusal to let a UN human rights official speak on its premises, the new US administration and Germany are converging in their contempt of international law
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 05/02/2025
Documenta has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism in a new code of conduct, which has been widely criticized for its conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
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Documenta Adopts Widely Criticized Definition of Antisemitism
The embattled organization’s new code of conduct effectively stifles scrutiny of the Israeli state.
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@hannakienzler.bsky.social @christinebinzel.bsky.social and I sent this to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. Canceling Francesca Albanese's talk is misguided and dangerous, contributing to a delegitimization campaign against the UN Special Rapporteur and the UN itself: drive.google.com/file/d/1b4DV...
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ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Der Blick von außen ist meist wertvoller als man sich vorstellen kann oder manchmal auch eingestehen möchte: Das politische Konstrukt der „Staatsräson“ seziert und in all seinen problematischen Facetten beleuchtet vom indischen Schriftsteller Pankaj Mishra. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
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Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This may be awaiting us in Germany too www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump order targets pro-Palestinian activists to ‘combat antisemitism’
Order appears to target students and activists who engaged in pro-Palestinian protests after Hamas attack on 7 October
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medico international @medico.de · 29/01/2025
Merz ist auf den Spuren von Orban und Meloni. Er gefährdet Europa, rüttelt an den Grundfesten von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Demokratie, er wirft zentrale Lehren des Nationalsozialismus über Bord. 3/3 Der ganze Text von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social und Sabine Hess:
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Bundestagswahl - Trumpismus made in Germany - medico international
Die Migrationspolitik wird zum Einfallstor eines autoritären Staatsumbaus.
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The EU, man. You tell them democracy is one of the values in their charter. They say yeah, sure, but look at that nice lithium.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I wrote a short essay on the German Staatsräson and antisemitism. americangerman.institute/2025/01/the-...
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The German Reason of State as State Anti-Semitism
In an article published online in March 2024, the historian Andrew Port wrote about “Germany, Gaza, and Genocide.” He summarized what he called the “postcolonial catechism” critique of official German...
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Gleich mehrere sehr gute Gastbeiträge/Interviews heute - hoffen wir, dass auch unsere Bundestagsabgeordneten die Texte lesen und am Donnerstag gegen die Resolution "Antisemitismus und Israelfeindlichkeit an Schulen und Hochschulen" stimmen! 👇
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
When the EU continues cosying up to Vučić, its roof will collapse too.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 24/01/2025
#Gaza: We are devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family members. We strongly condemns the killing of Bilal and his family in their home by Israeli forces. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-mourns-t...
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MSF mourns the killing of its ninth colleague in Gaza  | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family membe...
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Renowned Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan in his latest essay - "Israel undermines again and again the international legal order to which it owes its right to exist. That is very unwise." www.groene.nl/artikel/als-...
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Israëls moordcampagne tegen de Palestijnen moet beoordeeld worden los van het holocaustverleden
Israël ondermijnt keer op keer de internationale rechtsorde waar het zijn bestaansrecht aan te danken heeft. Nu wordt het land beschuldigd van volkerenmoord. Is dat terecht? En wat betekent dat voor d...
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
German authorities withdraw funding for two Israeli human rights organizations critical of Netanyahu's govermnent. p.dw.com/p/4ooxQ
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Germany defunds 2 Israeli human rights groups – DW – 01/05/2025
The German government has quietly cut funding for Zochrot and New Profile, following an earlier defunding of Palestinian NGOs. Some observers fear the move will shrink space for those critical of the ...
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
And here is a brief summary of the interview with Erella Grassiani, again in Dutch but accessible through the usual translation apps.... www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/buite...
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Erella Grassiani: ‘Het morele kompas van Israël is afwezig’
Op tweede kerstdag en tevens ook het Joodse lichtfeest Chanoeka, was antropologe en universitair hoofddocent aan de universiteit in Amsterdam Erella Grassiani te gast bij Nadia Moussaid tijdens Het Ma...
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Ger Duijzings @gerdu.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A long interview (in Dutch) with Dutch-Israeli anthropologist Erella Grassiani. "Israel lost its moral compass". Offering a disquieting insider's perspective on Israeli society, its military and academia.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/12/2024
"In 2023 Elsevier began using AI during production without informing the board, resulting in many style and formatting errors, as well as reversing versions of papers that had already been accepted and formatted by the editors." very innovative, very cool
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Evolution journal editors resign en masse
Board members expressed concerns over high fees, editorial independence, and use of AI in editorial processes.
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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
www.jmwiarda.de/https-www.jm...
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Deutschlands Wissenschaft glänzt nur auf den ersten Blick mit ihrer Internationalität
Auf den zweiten Blick ist sie unübersehbar: die gläserne Decke zwischen Einstiegspositionen und Führungsetage in Hochschulen und Forschungsinstituten. Ein Kommentar.
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