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giuseppe cannata

@giuseppec98.bsky.social
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PhD (sort of) researcher | I work on EU energy and climate governance, policy learning, STS, and Euro-Med relations. But I don't take it too seriously. More here: g-cannata.github.io

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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I spent the last few years wrapping my head around how EU policymaking works. And yet, when asked 'So, what did you find?', I was not sure how to explain it. I thus went back to my notes and put together a few unsystematic takeaways in a little reseach brief: 🔻 zenodo.org/records/2288...
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Learning in Policy Practice: Lessons from EU Energy Efficiency Governance about the Role(s) of Knowledge and Evidence
This research brief is based on the results of the author's doctoral research project ‘Knowledge is power (saving): policy learning and epistemic dynamics in EU energy efficiency governance’ and devel...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The more time I spend on it, the more I feel LinkedIn is just an upgrade (in terms of technological support, not quality) of self-help books you could find at service stations – except that everyone is now contributing to it, on a daily basis.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
lmao on the left, they have scholarship. and theories. on the right, they have illegal and authoritarian censorship. so both sides are bad, really
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Warfare in the Academy
John Ralston Saul, Michael Gove, Minna Salami. Rana Mitter hosts
We once imagined education was about teaching objective facts to the next generation. But in today's polarised world, education has become a fierce political battleground. The left pushes post-colonial readings of history, critical race theory, and gender studies. On the right, Trump has threatened to remove billions in funding from top universities over their DEl programmes, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. PEN America calculated that since 2021, 22,810 books have been banned in US schools. More recently, in 2025, political commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated while giving a speech at a university campus. What our children and young people learn, and how they learn it, has become the stage of international debate and controversy.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is brilliant! 👇
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We need more bot-trackers for newspaper headlines. There's much to say about redacting headlines and news outlets self-censorship.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
As I keep saying: Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of the prerogatives of power is to be in charge of blame, and abusers routinely exercise that power to make their own acts someone else's fault.
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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Here's a crazy suggestion: what if, instead of saying 'oh no, someone should stop it', our (sigh!) political leadership - from the US Congress to the European capitals – actually took action.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It's Hannah Arendt all over, but all our talks about complexity appear so silly in the face of the reality of things. It's so disappointing seeing how annoyingly banal the individual actions and decisions contributing to trigger the chain of events that brought us here are.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta/threads: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime!
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos “With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status.....
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If I were in their shoes, I'd seriously ponder the option of taking some time there. All considered, the dark side of the moon has way brighter days than the earth, currently.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean, it's hardly 'exclusive' news for everyone living there or following recent developments. But it's nonetheless important to have a Liberties' report documenting that.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The difference between these two is racism
Russia plans to illegally annex lands it invaded, even as its military falters.

Israel Plans to Control Large Parts of Southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Says
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I came across this FT article on #NoKings and I just find the photo hilarious. A perfect allegory, with the bodyguards – aka religion – escorting the true gods of corporate America, and the largely unheard, the people, carrying around this parade float, simulacrum of the system that failed them.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is the kind of lucid takes we need – about feminism and the hard times we live through too. The time where we had the luxury of thinking in dichotomies is over. Saying a fight is lost is not realism, but has real consequences: it enforces a narrative of defeat, which serves only the 'winners'.
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ECPR Standing Group on the European Union 🇪🇺 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
We’re on Instagram 📸 Follow us for tips on your time in Catania and behind-the-scenes insights #SGEU2026 🌋 IG Link: sgeu2026_unict : www.instagram.com/sgeu2026_uni...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Don't miss this chance to apply for the #SGEU26 pre-conference workshops!
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David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“If people were asked to leave their moral and political convictions outside when they entered the public square, then, in effect, the fundamental questions are decided by markets and by technocrats, rather than by democratic citizens deliberating.” www.ft.com/content/7804...
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The pessimist who became a prophet
Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Look, if you are genuinely surprised, you haven’t really interacted deeply and widely within academia, you dont know its strengths and weaknesses, you dont understand its political economy, and you have not paid attention to claims and investigations when ten years ago MeToo made the academy shake.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.
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Breaking the Silencing Machine
In many ways this society has moved toward a democracy of voices, as people who for their race or gender were shut out of systems of power and possibility – out of jury duty, professions, institutions...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A staggering number of articles of this type 'reviewer x finds AI-generated fake citations' and yet most fail to see the problem AI exposes. One can also think that researchers are getting lazy, and there's clearly an issue of research ethics here. Yet, the problem, is once again systemic. 1/
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
That's a legit take, given that we have rebranded ethics as an optimisation problem.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
One thing often overlooked, so well put here. 'Cause and effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension.'
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Oops, wrote a thing. Didn't mean to. "One habit I see all too often is the assumption that the future will be an extension of some obvious force in the present: that force will continue to enlarge in power and impact or just stay steady."
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"Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results": On Immigration and Assumptions
This morning the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial warning about the consequences of the persecution and deportation of immigrants and its impact on the overall labor force: "The Census Bureau repo...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/01/2026
it is incredible how everyone just moved on from the fact the US kidnapped another country’s president and is now effectively the puppet master of the government it left in power
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There's been an official correction, this is the right spelling.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
State-sponsored murder on an almost daily basis.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
As a kid I used to find Guinness World Records absurd. Why would you want to be the world's best at juggling avocados while solving a Rubik cube on a bike? Of course you are, no one else would come up with such a dumb niche hobby - let alone try to perfect it. Now, wrapping up my PhD, I get it.
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Fascinating substack post by @laurenleek.eu on the problem of declining humans and increasing AI agents in survey responses. This is going to become a huge issue in survey research! open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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The quiet collapse of surveys: fewer humans (and more AI agents) are answering survey questions
I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
What a day in The Hague for the #RodeLijn protest. The largest Dutch protest in 20 years!
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Mario Scharfbillig @scharfbillig.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Exciting Milestone: Our Report Featured in Nature! ✨ www.nature.com/articles/d41... Happy to announce that our report on the science-for-policy interface through the eyes of professionals has been spotlighted in a correspondence published by Nature. With Krieger, @drlmelchor.bsky.social, Almeida
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In science-for-policy design, one size doesn’t fit all
Letter to the Editor
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Dr. Dominika Tronina @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Proud of my students for their amazing work writing three blog posts as part of my Gender & Politics class last year. Check them out! ✨📖 #Gendersky 🔹 Overview of our seminar: rb.gy/yeopf4 🔹 Feminist research & transforming academia: rb.gy/yeopf4 🔹 Cyber harassment & democracy: rb.gy/kaw8wx
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Exploring Gender and Politics: Insights from an Innovative Seminar on Feminist Research – Genderblog
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Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Amidst persisting challenges to the EU enlargement process, Richard Youngs proposes a differentiated democratic enlargement framework for navigating the complex realities of candidate countries. Read his piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social⬇️
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🧭 Differentiated democratic enlargement to sharpen EU accession process
EU enlargement is often hailed as a tool for spurring political reform and countering Russian influence. But Richard Youngs argues that its democratic dimensions are more complex than conventional wis...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I jot down here some reflections on challenges in EIPM/science-for-policy. I draw largely on my research stay at JRC in Brussels and on a really cool report on S4P ecosystems I had the chance to contribute to (check it out here if you missed it!) publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
'Because the manosphere is not just a fringe that has become mainstream, it’s a mainstream that many liberals continue to treat as a fringe' Great take. It's not about extremists getting out of online niches, but a reactionary backlash of a patriarchal society. And we need to deal with it as such.
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Marylou Hamm @marylou-h.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Per chi si trova a Firenze ⬇️
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Incredibile 'sta nuova serie su M.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This.
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.” New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0... Few quotes follow 🧵
Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process have been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative articles, which are often described as indicative of a quantitative mindset or hostility to nonpositivist qualitative research. We extend this literature by focusing on qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent reviewer and editor comments—comments that are incommensurate with the conceptual foundations of the reviewed research. Qualitative researchers (N = 163) from a range of health and social science disciplines, including psychology, responded to a brief qualitative survey. Most contributors reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the assumptions and expectations of postpositivist research and reporting. Some also reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the norms and values particular to specific qualitative approaches. Contributors were concerned that peer reviewers often accept review invitations when they lack relevant methodological expertise and editors often select peer reviewers without such expertise. In response to methodologically incongruent comments, many contributors described a process of initially “pushing back” and explaining why these comments were incongruent with their research. When this educative approach was unsuccessful, some knowingly compromised the methodological integrity of their research and acquiesced to reviewer and editor requests. Earlier career researchers especially highlighted the powerlessness they felt in the peer review process in the context of a “publish or perish” academic climate. We end by outlining contributors’ recommendations for improving the methodological integrity of the peer review of qualitative research.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is, for its public visibility and symbolic power, a historical event, thanks to Gisèle Pelicot's brave words and decisions through the trial. Excerpts from the hearings are the most blatant argument against 'not all men' dismissive takes and a grim proof of rape culture pervasiveness.
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Worth reading, to prepare for the new year.
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Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Communication campaigns are increasingly used to shape perceptions and attitudes towards migration. Yet, there is little data available on migration communication campaigns. The Migration Communications Campaigns Database aims to change this. migrationpolicycentre.eu/campaigns/
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Migration Communication Campaigns Dataset - Migration Policy Centre
The Migration Communication CampaignsDatabase Be inspired, learn what works, and plan more effective communication through our interactive migration communication campaigns database. Explore the datab...
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This will likely be a disruptive precedent for the EU as a whole.
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Mario Scharfbillig @scharfbillig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
How can we improve the uptake of scientific evidence in policymaking and politics? We asked 500 professionals working at the science for policy interface for their experiences and insights. 👇 Here is our study.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In months ahead, 🇪🇺 leaders need to decide long term strategy to tackle 🇪🇺 economic, fiscal, industrial and security challenges Conventional view is that 🇪🇺 is forged in crisis as Monnet’s saying goes But radical right’s rise in last decade might seriously complicate 🇪🇺’s road to reform 🧵
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giuseppe cannata @giuseppec98.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📣 New JRC report out! How to harness the potential of science-for-policy (S4P) ecosystems in the EU? This exploratory survey of ∼500 S4P professionals sheds light on the main challenges. Scientists and policymakers are eager to collaborate but need better tools and support. 1/
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Science-for-policy ecosystems through the eyes of professionals
This Joint Research Centre science for policy (S4P) report explores the perceived challenges for establishing and maintaining a well-functioning science–policy interface in the EU. To gather this info...
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Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Queer Roma has been available as open access for 2 yrs now. My book provides rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma pose a fundamental challenge to one-dimensional, negative misrepresentations of Roma as homophobic & antithetical to European/Western modernity
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