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Jeroen Van Bouwel

@jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social
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Dabbling in #Philosophy of Social Science, Social Epistemology, and Science & Democracy. Recent #PhilSci publication, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, here: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/45635

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7h
The German car industry has a long history of embracing right-wing authoritarian regimes, from Hitler to Orbán to Trump.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 14h
The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 22/10/2026
📢📢📢 Table Ronde "Science et Démocratie: quels enjeux?" à l'université de Lausanne jeudi 29 Octobre. Entre effondrement planétaire, dangers de l'IA, désinformation: comment renforcer nos démocracies? Détails et lien pour inscriptions ici: events.unil.ch/register/713...


La désinformation, à l’ère de l’IA générative et des réseaux sociaux, est créée puis diffusée en masse. L’indépendance des médias et des institutions scientifiques est sous pression. Des savoirs que l’on croyait acquis sont en régression. Progressivement, les citoyennes et citoyens perdent les moyens de se forger un jugement éclairé, basé sur l’information scientifique, condition indispensable pour l'exercice d'une démocratie représentative.

 

La complexité des mécanismes en jeu et la confusion de masse créée par les stratèges de la désinformation retardent une bonne compréhension de ces menaces par le plus grand nombre.

 

Avec sa Table Ronde, l'Association Science et Démocratie (AS+D), fondée par Dr. Valentine Python, Prof. Dr. Julia Steinberger et Me Irène Wettstein souhaite :

 

• mettre en lumière les mécanismes par lesquels le déni, la désinformation et la perversion du langage menacent le bon fonctionnement des démocraties

•  désigner les acteurs qui visent l’effondrement de nos démocraties

• proposer des moyens d’y résister

•  situer et exemplifier ces enjeux au niveau de la Suisse

 

Pour son premier grand événement, co-organisé avec le Collectif pour la Liberté Académique, la Démocratie et la Solidarité (CLADS, UNIL-EPFL) , l’AS+D vous donne rendez-vous à l'Université de Lausanne le Jeudi 29 Octobre entre 18h et 20h à Amphimax pour la Table Ronde « Science et Démocratie, quels enjeux ? », à laquelle participeront :

• Solange Ghernaouti, Prof. Dr. en Informatique, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory & Research Group, UNIL

• Martine Rebetez, Prof. Dr. climatologue, UNINE

• Isabelle Moncada, journaliste et productrice du magazine santé 36.9°, RTS

Modération: Romaine Jean, journaliste, éditorialiste et consultante

Événement gratuit ouvert à toutes et tous, inscription obligatoire, nombre de places limité.
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Table ronde : Science et Démocratie, quels enjeux ?
Date
29 oct. 2026, 18:00–20:00
Lieu
Amphimax
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026
American "democracy" at work ...
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Rob - Feral Cat Dude @rob-feralcatdude.bsky.social · 21/10/2026
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
“That’s what I do for a living. Help Putin.”
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
The Utrecht School of Economics is hiring an assistant professor who can teach "the history of economics, economic history, philosophy of economics, and economic/-etric methodology, such as f.ex. the courses “Contemporary Economics in Historical Perspectives” or “Ethical and Historical Reflections”.
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. The planetary emergency is already here. doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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Esther @thelifeofesther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Mag ik een staande ovatie voor Pedro Sanchez? Zo’n speech in het hol van de leeuw (ok, Boston maar toch)🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
In other news, water is wet.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
I think it is clear by now that the Trump-Vance-Thiel-conglomerate is a death cult ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Ap...
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De bizarre alliantie van technologie, fascisme en geloof | Astra Taylor
YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
On that note @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu , the EU blocked RT (Russia Today) a while ago. Now it seems time to block X (FKA Twitter), the same level of lies and propaganda undermining democracies in Europe.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 14/10/2026
We blocked RT. Block X.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Agent Krasnov working hard to please his boss ... www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...
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Trump rewards Putin and betrays Ukraine with Russia diesel deal - The Latest
Donald Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel has been met with fury from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said it was ‘a weak decision’ and would generate ‘billions’ in extra revenue for Putin’s war effort. Lucy...
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
"Cijfers uit de nationale rekeningen tonen aan dat sinds 2014 –1ste jaar waarin N-VA het departement Financiën in haar klauwen kreeg – de inkomsten van de staat met 3 procent van het bbp slonken. Dat stemt vandaag overeen met 19,9 miljard euro minder aan inkomsten." www.standaard.be/opinies/de-f...
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Misschien ook nog een verwijzing toevoegen naar het zeer verdiensteljke werk van journaliste @carolecadwalla.bsky.social om die beïnvloeding overtuigend bloot te leggen?
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I recently had the privilege of chatting with Cal Newport on his podcast. We discuss Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism and the TESCREAL ideologies. It's a good--I hope--intro to these topics. :-) www.youtube.com/watch?is=_rf...
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A Former AI Doomer Reveals a Dark Truth
YouTube video by Cal Newport
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Er was daar ook ene Peter de Keyzer die vond dat we massaal op de kar van Trump moesten springen teneinde een fantastische economische groei te bewerkstelligen. Blijf het vreemd vinden dat dat soort figuren steeds opnieuw gevraagd wordt om in TV-studio's hun "wijsheid" te delen.
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Belgium MFA @belgiummfa.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
🇧🇪 Belgium strongly condemns the new US sanctions against the International Criminal Court. The #ICC must be able to work independently. Belgium calls for the activation of the EU Blocking Statute to protect the Court. 🔗Read more: diplomatie.belgium.be/en/news/belg...
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Onion is currently running approximately six months ahead of reality
Politics
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
Published: April 27, 2026
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Very good choice, well deserved! At a moment when the US government is copying ISIS with public executions, let this be a call to return to UN human rights standards!
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
"In every local council budget allocation for the newest surveillance camera gadget or ‘AI education’ gimmick, we waste the opportunity to raise more fundamental questions about how a future society should be built... question that hype keeps us too busy to ask." www.techpolicy.press/tech-hype-is...
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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice image of the situation in this interview with mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin: "On one of the problems, I felt like I had run a marathon with someone on my back, who would have climbed down in the last 100 meters to cross the finish line before me" (my translation) www.rts.ch/info/science...
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IA et maths : Hugo Duminil-Copin face à un "choc monumental"
Après la publication par OpenAI d'un vaste ensemble de démonstrations mathématiques, le médaillé Fields Hugo Duminil-Copin évoque jeudi dans l'émission Forum un "choc monumental". Il appelle toutefois...
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
The sculpture is accompanied by a text: “With his eyes closed and scales in hand, the King of Injustice proclaims: I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back.”
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Le mouvement lycéen et étudiant signe le crépuscule du macronisme: les jeunes veulent se former et accéder aux études, et un pouvoir élitiste leur répond en réduisant de 20% le budget par étudiant entre 2017 et 2026 et en gérant la pénurie avec un algorithme opaque (Parcoursup)
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026
”I hope this reflects on the really courageous people who joined me in the beginning of this project when no respectable conservative physicists would have joined me, but many talented people did, and that's why I'm here.” - physics laureate Francis Halzen speaking at today's prize announcement.
A illustrated portrait of physics laureate Francis Halzen
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Amnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Et parce que les jeunes aussi ont des droits qui doivent être respectés… Retrouvez tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les droits des mineur·es en manifestation ici 👇
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Manifester en France : tout savoir sur tes droits 
Vos questions sur vos droits en manifestation sont nombreuses. On revient sur les essentiels à connaître pour participer à une mobilisation.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Na een zoveelste recordzomer qua hittedoden, natuurbranden en verdroging, kreeg Diependaele 2x het woord ‘klimaat’ over de lippen –één keer daarvan als ‘investeringsklimaat’. Het kleinste kind begrijpt wat prioritair is, wat er voor deze ploeg toe doet. En wat niet. www.standaard.be/opinies/het-...
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Het verhaal van de Vlaamse begroting hangt met haken en ogen aan elkaar, en het heeft geen happy end
Over een maand kunnen Amerikaanse kiezers komaf maken met de dubbele Republikeinse meerderheid in het Congres. Historische data tonen dat de beurzen opveren in de maanden na de midterms. Herhaalt dat scenario zich onder Trump II?
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
No surprise there, that is what you get when your society is exclusively organised to serve Mammon.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Witte tekst op zwarte achtergrond: "Vlaanderen bespaart 47 miljoen euro op cultuur. Achter die cijfers zitten mensen die bewaren, verbinden en een stem geven aan wat anders verloren zou gaan. En wat rest er dan? Duisternis."
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
"organisaties die het gelag betalen (...) ook sociaal-cultureel volwassenenwerk. Dat is heel erg belangrijk, omdat er honderdduizenden vrijwilligers actief zijn voor de warme samenleving uit de regeringsnota, waar nu een ijskoude wind door wordt gejaagd.” Met groeten van sociaal-democrate(?) Gennez.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Hasn't lost its relevance ... (picture I took in NYC in 2014).
Advertisement stating "The French aristocracy never saw it coming either"?
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Het resultaat: begroting in evenwicht, samenleving uit evenwicht.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Especially the ones that might investigate his corruption ...
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Allez, de infrastructuur die ons historisch geheugen schraagt, wordt zowat afgeschaft, dan kunnen ze ons vanaf nu helemaal LLM-gewijs hersenspoelen. Merci, "Vooruit".
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Bericht aan De Wever: 'Ja, de staatskas is leeg, omdat die is leeggehaald’ (Paul De Grauwe en Michel Gevers) www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
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Walking Pete @walkingpete.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Another reason for Europe to get rid of American tech as fast as possible!
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 26/09/2026
New post: Geoff Mulgan proposes sensible solutions to the problem of organised disinformation in his recent blog post, but the “collective stupidity” framing is self-sabotaging.
anthony.zacharzewski.eu
Don’t call me stupid!
Geoff Mulgan proposes sensible solutions to the problem of organised disinformation in his recent blog post, but the “collective stupidity” framing is self-sabotaging. Someone else who doesn't like being called stupid. (Kevin Kline and John Cleese in "A Fish Called Wanda" The article, “Collective Stupidity is a Security Threat” recommends taking greater action to build collective defences against “cognitive warfare” - a combination of epistemic risk and disinformation, both on technical and social fronts.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Looking forward to your photos, Martin! Was there last year, this was one of my favourites, Dilemma:
Picture of the sculpture Dilemma in Oslo.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
If you would still be in Oslo, I highly recommend Ekebergparken for sculptures (and some modernist interbellum architecture).
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The Skeptic @skeptic.org.uk · 18/09/2026
skeptic.org.uk
The network pushing extremism at the University of Cambridge – and why it should matter to skeptics - The Skeptic
Skeptics should be wary of the network undermining academic freedom and credibility, at prestigious Cambridge University and across our media
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Valt ook op dat die rechtse roeptoeters helemaal niets van de geschiedenis van Gaza (voor 2023) kennen.
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
#philsci
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Jeroen Van Bouwel @jeroenvanbouwel.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Hopefully, not only Russian disinformation ...
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