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Jane Suiter

@janesuit.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Communication, Democracy at Dublin C Uni || Director FuJo Future Media Democracy Society || Deliberation || Citizens Assembly|| Disinformation

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DCU FuJo @fujomedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The second @scaledem.bsky.social Resonance Space webinar is next Monday, 5 October, at 16:00 CET, online. FuJo’s Fionna Saintraint will kick-start the discussion by presenting her findings on the challenges of scaling democratic innovations. Register and join: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Anyone know any good Brazilian investigative journalists - especially re disinformation?
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FIDE - Europe @europe.fidemocracy.org · 11/08/2026
Moving deliberation into a fundamental part of democracy is what we're working toward at FIDE Forum 2026, a gathering of the international network of democratic innovators. Registration stays open until October 30. 👉 fidemocracy.org/europe-forum...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2026
I'm late to this but holy hell, I could write an entire book about this single screenshot. The way the image just perfectly captures the journalists doing luxury, disengaged hand-wringing about blackouts while the ACTUAL THREAT plays out in front of their eyes.
Front page of The Times newspaper with main headline "Net zero 'risks blackouts'" above a large beach photo of sunbathers under a colorful umbrella watching an orange, smoke-filled sky from nearby wildfires
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“The Mafia would not exist without the concept of family, of unbreakable bonds… Ireland and Italy are very similar in this respect and therefore recognise each other in criminal terms.” My interview with @robertosaviano.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Roberto Saviano on the Kinahans, living under threat from the Mafia and similarities between Ireland and Italy
Discovery of alliance between Naples Camorra and Kinahan cartel ‘one of the most significant chapters in recent global drug trafficking’
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DCU FuJo @fujomedia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Delighted to see the instalation Assembly at this year's Galway International Arts Festival. We're pleased to have contributed through our research on citizens' assemblies, and our Director @janesuit.bsky.social is one of the voices telling this story. More info: www.giaf.ie/festival/eve...
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Ireland at Venice | Galway International Arts Festival
Assembly explores how architecture can bring people together.
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is an excellent piece on the failure of all parties in Ireland to look beyond the headlines and prioritise rather than punish public service media #speirghorm Politicians are more interested in looking tough on RTÉ than deciding how to fund it www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Daire Hickey: Politicians are more interested in looking tough on RTÉ than making a decision to fund it
No enterprise could absorb an 18-year price freeze on its primary revenue stream while costs keep climbing
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/07/2026
Nigel Farage once became the butt of jokes about "losing to a dolphin". Now Count Binface has become the unexpected face of the Clacton campaign. Here are 20 memes charting the story. 👇
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The 20 best Count Binface memes from the Clacton by-election
With Count Binface becoming Nigel Farage's main challenger, social media has responded with some gloriously inventive political satire
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
AI is good now youtu.be/iNp16EPj1Us?...
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Count Binface vs The Establishment | Official Satirical Music Video
YouTube video by James Cunliffe
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Thorsten Sterk @thorstensterk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For the North Sea island of Sylt, the high number of tourists is becoming an increasing burden. Randomly selected residents are working together with other stakeholders to develop a tourism strategy for the future. #CitizensAssembly
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Citizens help shape Sylt's tourism strategy
For the North Sea island of Sylt, the high number of tourists is becoming an increasing burden. Randomly selected residents are working together with other stakeholders to develop a tourism strategy f...
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 02/06/2026
*finger on earpiece* sorry to interrupt you, Brian, but we're getting surprising reports that tomorrow the Internationale will be the human race. www.ft.com/content/d6b1...
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Why young America is trending socialist
Democrats need to show they can deliver for a disaffected Gen Z
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Dr Mary McGill @mary-mcgill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Call for Interview Participants! My @researchireland.ie study exploring women’s experiences of online harassment and abuse in Irish academia is seeking insights from those impacted to help increase awareness and support. To share your story please email: gboastudy@universityofgalway.ie
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 27/05/2026
150 citizens from across the EU have spent the past three months working on how Europe can be better prepared for future crises.
A view from behind a person with dark hair tied back, wearing a floral orange blouse and headphones, raising their right hand to ask a question during a presentation. In the blurred background, other attendees are seated, and a large screen shows a question mark.Close-up of a person's hand holding a smartphone over a wooden desk at a conference or meeting. The phone screen displays a Greek-language app featuring the European Union flag. On the desk are green pencils, a notebook, a microphone console, and a printed document.Side view of a man wearing a patterned white dress shirt and over-ear headphones, leaning forward at a conference table to write on a document with a green pencil. Other participants sit in a row beside him, similarly focused, with blurred presentation screens in the background.A bald man with glasses and headphones speaking passionately into a small desk microphone during a panel or conference. He is wearing a patterned shirt and gesturing with his left hand. Other audience members and attendees are visible in the background.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026
"The flagship piece of secondary legislation under the EU’s flagship AI law made human rights (the thing the EU spent the entire ‘Brussels Effect’-era selling itself on) into a tickbox companies could choose to ignore. Go simplification!" euobserver.com/217590/simpl...
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Simplifying the AI Act? That’s Brussels saying ‘yes’ to Big Tech requests to water down regulation
Next time you hear an EU commissioner say the AI Act needs to be 'simplified', the honest translation is: a company asked them to do that, and they said yes.
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Michael Gallagher @michaelgtcd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
V unusual for a govt party candidate to win a by-election when vacancy was caused by departure of an opposition TD, as Seán Kyne (FG) has done in Galway W today. Prior to today, previous was Oct 2011 (Patrick Nulty in Dublin W), & before that June 1976 (Brendan Halligan in Dublin SW), both Labour.
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
After Switzerland and Germany, London City Council next in line to ditch #Palantir?
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just spent time at the cpdp conference in Brusells. Interesting mix of people trying to avoid a techno fascist future and those distracted by the games and frames invented by the bros….
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Thorsten Sterk @thorstensterk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The documentation "Goodbye Elections. Hello Democracy." asks a radical question: What if we replaced politicians and elections with ordinary people - chosen by lottery? ​ Learn more about the film in a sneak peek with director Adam Cronkright on May 27. #CitizensAssembly
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Sneak Peek: Goodbye Elections. Hello Democracy.
The documentation "Goodbye Elections. Hello Democracy." asks a radical question: What if we replaced politicians and elections with ordinary people - chosen by lottery? ​ In 2020, as COVID and a bi...
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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Making policy on difficult issues Join Lord (Charlie) Falconer of Thoroton, @ruthfox.bsky.social and @janesuit.bsky.social to discuss changing the law on issues like 'assisted dying' and digital ID, at our free, online conference on 24 June. Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
The Constitution Unit Conference 2026. Making policy on difficult issues. 24 June 2026, 3:30pm–4:30pm. Lord (Charlie) Falconer of Thoroton (Labour peer and Lords sponsor of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Dr Ruth Fox (Director of the Hansard Society). Prof Jane Suiter (Director of Dublin City University's Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society). Chair: Dr Tom Fleming (Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit).
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Only 14% of Brits support the Far Right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who hides behind the name Tommy Robinson - mostly men, a new poll for The Economist reveals. The backbone of his support, and funding, is America.
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Top dog-whistler: Tommy Robinson and Britain’s far right
Podcast Episode · The Intelligence from The Economist · 15 May · 24min
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Margaret E Ward: Technology’s war on women — the new coercive control and confinement
Across Ireland and around the world, technology has quickly become one of the most powerful and insidious tools of control, harassment and intimidation wielded against women and girls. So, why haven't regulators and governments restricted them?
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
📝Don't miss this article from #BJPIR's current issue! 'Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories' by Beatriz Lopes Buarque & Nick Lewis 🔗 ⬇️
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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How the Tech World Turned Evil
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and th...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Humans invented arithmetic circa 3000 BC. And yet here we are.
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In Ireland many kids still identify as a Microsoft or a Google school…
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Faolan @brujofaolan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A vital piece from @margareteward.bsky.social
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
How do we balance ministerial accountability with the essential autonomy of our news media? In a recent opinion piece for @irishtimes.com, DCU’s Dr Eileen Culloty examines the recent controversy surrounding Minister Patrick O’Donovan’s comments on RTÉ and media "balance." Read: launch.dcu.ie/4tkXDsX
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Conor O'Mahony @conorom.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
No mention of any research to back this up. It is also surely possible that teachers who continue to foster critical and creative thinking and communication skills will in fact be the most valuable? #speirgorm
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We can use this crisis for good. 🚲 Roll out temporary cycle lanes 🚋 Make public transport free for a time ⚽ Car free days in cities 🚘 30 km/h speed limit in urban areas We do not have to double down on fossil fuels. We can choose a different path. My piece in the Journal this week.
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Petrol and diesel hikes: Government pushes the same old fix in a worsening climate crisis
As prices rise at the pumps, the Government should be changing course on fossil fuel use to secure our future, but instead it’s doubling down with subsidies.
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
How do different climate camps persuade their audiences when you stop forcing the data into predefined categories? Our paper, Reading the Climate Room, just published in Nature Scientific Reports, reveals stark differences in how advocates and skeptics communicate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reading the climate room through unsupervised analysis of unfiltered climate perspectives - Scientific Reports
Understanding how competing perspectives shape public perception of climate change is critical, yet existing studies are limited by predefined categories, manual coding, or methodologically constraine...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Man, I had a long layover in Dublin this weekend; who knew?
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The EU is pushing ahead with AI Act changes that weaken protections for high-risk systems and leave no meaningful path to redress, even as evidence of harm mounts, write CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and Magdalena Maier.
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Europe Is Looking To Water Down AI Protections. It Should Reinforce Them.
As the omnibus proposal moves toward trilogue negotiations, decision-makers must not lose sight of the AI Act’s goals and effectiveness.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
18 years in the making. "It is brilliant - the best thing I'll do in my working life," says Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public
The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Fun evening Peter’s a great speaker. Recommend catching him if you can in London this evening or Brussels on Wednesday .
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15/03/2026
🇺🇸 Statue of Trump and Epstein in 'Titanic' pose appears on DC National Mall A statue depicting US President Donald Trump and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as Jack and Rose in a "Titanic" scene is on display on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
European (and NATO) leaders must stop with the pious fraud and provide unequivocal support for Sánchez’s truth-telling
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 10/03/2026
Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad
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Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad
Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The British people appear ahead of their politicians. Watched this last night. Really interesting that the vast majority of the public were anti war and pro Monbiot. Only a handful literally supported the Tory/ Telegraph speakers on pro war stance.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/03/2026
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills
Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A Swedish investigation finds very serious questions about Meta data processing from its smart glasses including intimate and financial data ending up in Kenya. This appears to the responsibility of Irish regulators to investigate? www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
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