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Rocco Bellanova

@ikkibop.bsky.social
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Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.

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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy 👇 Sign up link in comments👇
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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work! w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 06/06/2025
Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
The cover of The Lancet with this quote from our commentary: "If we in academic medicine give in to the campaigns against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the consequences will include resegregation and fewer opportunities for marginalised groups."
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We have some news to share with you. 🥄 Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
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18F files legal challenge
A statement about 18F’s appeal filed with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
EU tech law EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Daily News 13 \/ 05 \/ 2025
Commission publishes draft guidelines on protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act \nToday, the Commission launched a public consultation on draft guidelines for the protection of min...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Tonight Danny Snelson told me about his forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats — and I am so incredibly stoked for this 💥
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The Little Database
A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of “old m...
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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...
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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What a lovely Monday present ! Thanks @illinoispress.bsky.social for sending the physical copy of the very good looking Feminist Digital Humanities edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman! The good news is that it’s also OA: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Book in windowsill
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Any chair is useful but a very striking looking chair—something that isn’t like a usual chair—can make people perhaps more flexible in their attitudes to accept more things—to become more democratic about what a chair is. They may even become more democratic about what a person is."
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Art to Sit On | Jarrett Earnest
For the past forty years people have enjoyed chairs, tables, and benches in public places across North America without realizing they are part of Scott Burton’s radical artistic vision.
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/04/2025
Divorce, death, a big move, illness: Food may not fix anything, but these lovingly prepared meals can bring some much-needed comfort and nourishment. nyti.ms/3EpVEPW
A baked lasagna in a white dish, with text overlay "20 Dishes to Make For Someone Going Through A Hard Time."
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
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Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025
This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
CJEU, new cases, data protection law Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register? eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Questions sent by the national court. Full text in the link.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Come and work with me in Brussels @crisresearch.bsky.social! I’m looking for a postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost& send to anyone who might be interested. Deadline 9th of May #digitalcriminology #surveillance jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
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Postdoctoral Researcher Children's Rights and Online Child Sexual Abuse Investigations
Postdoctoral Researcher Children's Rights and Online Child Sexual Abuse Investigations
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend. buff.ly/HcoVX9x
A bald white man wearing black rectangular glasses leans against a wall. He is wearing a red linen button-down shirt. His arms are crossed and he is smiling mischieviously.Cover of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Cover features a photograph of a dork-o-phone in its faux-leather case, with lanyard attached. Colors are a hazy blue, red, and green.
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The politics of #dataloss ... This is the insidious violence of infrastructural erasure.
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Dagmar Vorlíček @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Interested in publishing a special issue with @jird-jour.bsky.social? We have now an annual call for special issues - have a look at our website for more details.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Great project at VUB! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘You are free again’: farewell letters of executed Belgian resistance fighters found, 80 years on
Last words shed new light on the lives and deaths of the ‘ordinary people’ who stood up to Nazi regime
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/03/2025
BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
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Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology now published as open access. I've written a short essay on #facialrecognition exploring how FRT structures & alters suspicion. The book is worth reading for the great range of essays in this developing area of criminology www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology
The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology examines how digital devices spread and cut across all fields of crime and control. Providing a glossary of key theoretical, methodological and criminolo...
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚨🚨 #Greenland: “We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory ‘one way or the other. Trump's respect for a any state's or region's self-determination only goes so far... 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
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US will take Greenland ‘one way or the other,’ Trump says
“We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory.
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 04/03/2025
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Are you a #SocialSciences researcher seeking a publisher for your #Research? Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing
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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Few people talk about the new EU API regulations - but they are about to have significant effects on data sharing infrastructures. @ikkibop.bsky.social, @rosamundevb.bsky.social, Vanessa Ugolini and I explicate on why this is important in this Op-ed for @policyr.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/5x51O
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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 24/02/2025
First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is an amazing work indeed. An highly recommended (re/)reading!
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 25/02/2025
Want to be an #intern at the ERC? Or know someone who would? Applications for the October '25-February '26 session are open! Discover the details 👉 traineeships.ec.europa.eu When applying, don't forget to select the ERC ☑️ as your #1 choice 🧡. #internship #traineeship #trainee #research #science
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
At a time where the vulnerability of relying on US digital infrastructure and cloud services, our @algosoc.org pilot to rely on European cloud services is more relevant than ever. Alternatives are not easy. But necessary. www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/five-...
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Five Dutch universities are experimenting with alternative European cloud - Vox magazine
Scientists from five Dutch universities are experimenting with a cloud system that could provide an alternative to Microsoft365. Radboud University is watching the developments with interest.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 19/02/2025
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
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The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
The BBC is bringing back its Radiophonic Workshop as a tool for a new generation of musicians.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Full house at Université de Namur’s Rencontre "Numérique & droits humains" hosted by Crids. Lots of critical links between the social reception of digital tools by the collective and public at large discussed, putting into question how digital tools are taken for granted on social accessibility.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 12/02/2025
A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer
Pictures of Lise Meitner Group leaders: Sofie Valk, Flore Kunst, Anna-Maria Meister, Maria Sokolova, Heidi Colleran, Nathalie Feiner und Ulrike Kraft.
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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NEW: *Update your Apple iPhone ASAP* Our own @citizenlab.ca senior researcher @billmarczak.org discovers an exploit on one of Apple's USB security features on locked phones Details below 👇
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European Ombudsman @ombudsman.europa.eu · 30/01/2025
Our updated guide on #AccessToDocuments is here! It helps you understand your rights, reflects new EU case law and EU institutional rules, and contains our latest findings in this area. Want to know more on- 🔹 Who can request documents? 🔹 What docs are covered by EU law? Read here: europa.eu/!CwjBDc
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Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Insightful post on #EU + #AI by @ggf.bsky.social - @lsts-vub.bsky.social
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Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I cannot recommend enough to work with @c-westermeier.bsky.social - an amazing scholar and human being!
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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How do states renegotiate globalization? As a commentary to @iliasalami.bsky.social insightful piece for @dialogueshg.bsky.social, I explore China as a laboratory for rethinking statecraft. Drawing on the work of @quinnslobodian.com and @rebeccakarl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 06/02/2025
Intelligence artificielle : les Emirats arabes unis construiront en France un data center géant
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Intelligence artificielle : les Emirats arabes unis construiront en France un data center géant
Ce nouveau « campus », qui fait partie d’un accord de partenariat sur l’IA signé jeudi soir à Paris, représente des investissements d’un ordre de grandeur de 30 à 50 milliards d’euros, selon l’Elysée.
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... expect it to come under more attacks as a result
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Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 04/02/2025
We are in the era of hyper-competitive and hyper-transactional geopolitics. in this hot-headed world, Europe’s best approach is to remain level-headed. And build a foreign policy that stays true to who we are and deliver for our people and partners. Read my full speech here → europa.eu/!C7FvF7
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 03/02/2025
The Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) raises and steers funding to increase European investment into critical technology projects. . The STEP seal signifies excellence and significant economic potential for the #SingleMarket.
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Europol @europol.europa.eu · 03/02/2025
Europol has reached a significant milestone in the fight against organised crime, with 3,500 law enforcement authorities now connected through its Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA). 👮👮‍♀️ Read more in our press release ⤵️ www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...
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Casting a wider net: 3 500 authorities now linked via Europol | Europol
Casting a wider net: 3 500 authorities now linked via Europol. Europol expands its Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA), reinforcing international cooperation to target the most ser...
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Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
File under #databasedstatecraft and #digital/sovereignty
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