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Mari Elken

@marielken.bsky.social
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Associate prof in higher education at University of Oslo @unioslo-uv.bsky.social. Side gig at NIFU @nifu.bsky.social. #Highered stuff on org, policy and governance, but mostly distracted..

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dette. Får håpe noen voksne er hjemme. www.nrk.no/artikkel/reg...
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Regjeringens knefall for Meta
Det virker som Karianne Tung har glemt hvem hun jobber for.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/07/2026
I think many "public intellectuals" stay on X because while they accept that radicalization is theoretically possible, it's something that only happens to other, dumber or weaker willed people... ... even as their every article inches closer to outright championing eugenics.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I will just say that the last time we had a figure like Elon Musk in our politics — Henry Ford — he was defanged through a combination of (a) rejection at the ballot box, and perhaps more importantly, (b) absolutely crushing consumer boycotts
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Scary reading. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The time to severely regulate and/or ban these abominations is yesterday. The damage potential is just so vast and the tech companies are as always completely unscrupulous.
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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/07/2026
One of these things is not like the other
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What a deserved win for Spain who excelled in pretty much everything, and how awful and digraceful game from Argentina. Finally, no more late evenings! #worldcup #finale
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
So, spare half an hour suddenly. Prefer doomscrolling to the horrendous and ridicolous idea of a pause "show". #worldcup #finale
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Needless to say, this was not a result I had tipped beforehand 😅
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Being in front 1-0 and making a muck of it is one thing. Being in front 4-0 and also potentially making a muck of it.. thats a new level of whoah. Sure, its a pointless bronze match, yadayada, but still. The very least it is entertaining to watch. 😵 #worldcup #fotball
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Oh, great. Americans will now also ruin the fotball world championship finale with their ridiculous "pause show". #facepalm #fotball
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/07/2026
"Welcome, delegates. Before we begin, I’d like to congratulate everyone on another successful year of making children’s shoe sizing completely incomprehensible."
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Transcript from the Annual Meeting of the Global Children’s Shoe-Sizing Consortium
“Welcome, delegates. Before we begin, I’d like to congratulate everyone on another successful year of making children’s shoe sizing completely incomprehensib...
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely horse My lovely horse (My lovely horse) You're a pony no more. Also, Infowars is live, the Onion version. Everything I expected it to be. Well, more. 😍 @realinfowars.bsky.social
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Come on Norway! Make the unlikely happen, conjure some magic, one more time! #worldcup #norwayengland ⚽️
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Arne Schau-Knudsen @arnesk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Bra skrevet av Josimars Lars Johnsen om hockeylandslagets ubegripelige respons på Henrik Haukelands russiske jobb www.nitten.no/blogg/leseri...
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Leserinnlegg: Putin-støtte er ikke akseptabelt
- Kritikken av Henrik Haukelands Russland-valg og Andreas Martinsens uttalelser har ingenting med mangel på takhøyde for Hockey-Norge å gjøre, skriver Lars Johnsen i dette leserinnlegget.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Even for a person quite moderately interested in football, current football fever in Norway is quite infectious. Ro! Ro! Ro! #norwaybrazil
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
July arrived. Time for the annual month of vacation with the books I should be reading and conference papers I should be writing. Toodles! #academicsky #highered
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/06/2026
"Break the rule. Reveal who they were to the humans. Overthrow the masters. Get the screen."
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George Orwell’s Toy Story
“Pull my string,” Woody said. “We are at the end of Toy Times. We must make our stand now or forever perish.”
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Why we need @theonion.com.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026
No, I am not going to read your article about how Germany's/Italy's soccer team's failures illustrates something deeper about their national psyche
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 28/05/2026
#WorldNutritionDay: It costs 3.2 billion dollars to treat every child with severe acute malnutrition worldwide. A solution exists: A one-cent soda tax across wealthy nations to cover the gap. Instead, countries are cutting funding and millions of children are paying the price.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
We still remember the London Blitz, which lasted eight months. Ukraine has been under attack for fifty-one months. You can help defend Ukrainians from missiles and drones. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...
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Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities
The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 20/05/2026
Russia’s public threats against our Baltic States are completely unacceptable. Let there be no doubt. A threat against one Member State is a threat against our entire Union.
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Hege @hegeherman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Lyst til å bli forsker? Vil du bli min kollega? Vi lyser ut fire stipendiatstillinger ved Senter for profesjonsforskning: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
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Inntil fire stipendiatstillinger ved Senter for profesjonsforskning (302145) | OsloMet
Stillingstittel: Inntil fire stipendiatstillinger ved Senter for profesjonsforskning (302145), Arbeidsgiver: OsloMet, Søknadsfrist: tirsdag 4. august 2026
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I feel seen. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/mat...
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Math Problems for Moms
“You cook spaghetti and meatballs for your family, which they have enjoyed at least two hundred times in the past. What is the statistical probability that a...
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So #Canvas actually paid the hackers and now assumes this ia all resolved. Can someone explain to me why they would assume paying up is a helpful strategy?!
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Mener ting i Khrono igjen. Det nye søknadsskjemaet har vært en ganse stor irritasjonsmoment de siste ukene. www.khrono.no/hvilket-prob...
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Hvilket problem prøver dere å løse, Forskningsrådet?
Forskningsrådet har innført et nytt digitalt søknadssystem. Endringene skulle skape mer brukervennlighet og effektivitet. Det fremstår som en god idé, men dessverre er virkeligheten en annen.
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Hege @hegeherman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Takk til @marielken.bsky.social som har skrevet noe jeg ikke orket, fordi jeg har brukt masse til på å tilpasse søknaden min til denne digitale tvangstrøya. www.khrono.no/hvilket-prob...
khrono.no
Hvilket problem prøver dere å løse, Forskningsrådet?
Forskningsrådet har innført et nytt digitalt søknadssystem. Endringene skulle skape mer brukervennlighet og effektivitet. Det fremstår som en god idé, men dessverre er virkeligheten en annen.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This would be hilarious if it wasnt too pathetic to be funny. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Verdt å lese hele.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
So some are racing to build skynet and robots are fighting wars. I think i have seen that movie..
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The future, this is.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Soon, at a University near you.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There's a war on for your mind. theonion.info
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Oh how I hope this goes through as this would no doubt be entirely awesome.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So how much corruption is too much corruption. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
At least Palantir is not really hiding who and what they are.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Really needed this one Really Good News about Hungary 🥳
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Holding my breath hoping Hungary will finally choose to stop supporting Putin.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
At this point, Rutte's strategy seems equal parts ineffective and embarrassing.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So much winning.
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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Just your regular Tuesday on SoMe. Combination of fab images of the dark side of the moon and an aging lunatic who for some unbeknown reason was elected as POTUS issuing orders of genocide. Oh, and @nytimes.com has chicken soup recipes, because the sniffles. Yeah. What timeline was this again?
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/04/2026
"Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?"
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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz
“Has your leader been credibly accused and/or convicted of several crimes, which he is using his position of power to dodge accountability for?”
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