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Frederik Forrai Ørskov

@oerskov.bsky.social
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Historian of literature, Nazism, cultural diplomacy, the Nordic countries, and a bunch of other things. Post.doc at Nordic Humanities Center, University of Copenhagen

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We should be outraged not only about Ceuta and the cynical reactions of European governments, but even more so in the face of the tens of thousands who have died in the Mediterranean, most of them without a trace. AI #Slop, however, only serves those who want to make their suffering invisible 4/
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
June temperature records tumble across
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”
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Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups
Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media
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Kat is ✨phenomena✨ @kathryndeplume.com · 12/06/2026
Someone on a podcast I watched the other day said that the less skilled a person is the more they seem to be excited by AI, and I can’t stop thinking about that. And of course, it makes sense, because there is a point at which you are skilled enough that AI cannot do a better job than you can.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This for me is the big issue in journal editing now. Not just obvious fabricated content and references but empty automated research text overwhelming our knowledge production, review and publication systems. 6/
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
He had no satisfactory answer, but the answer is this: Academics who play along with automating various parts of our jobs are partaking in our own industry's destruction. When it comes time for these companies to begin charging real money for their devastatingly high compute costs, university (cont)
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“Jeg synes ikke, det er for meget at kræve, at bøger skal være skrevet af mennesker, oversat af mennesker og anmeldt af mennesker, hvis de skal læses af mennesker. Det er faktisk det absolutte minimum.” Amen! @atlasmagasin.bsky.social atlasmag.dk/kultur/b%C3%...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In Israel’s descent into fascism there appears to be no bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
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Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The fact that fewer and fewer people are willing and/or able to read say 1000 words at once seems as dangerous to liberal democracy as anything else that might be happening but that is where we are
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Også for ikke-italiensrejsende danskere. Fantastisk bog!
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Et pro-tip til danske politikere, der forbereder sig på valgkamp: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #dkpol
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‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
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Dagbladet Information @information.dk · 03/01/2026
Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis.
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At sætte familiens fotos i album er en ekstrem kærlighedsakt
Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis, der rummer både kulturhistorisk…
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 22/11/2025
This Pope guy has some bangers
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Home as a Site of Exclusion: The Nazi Occupation, Housing Shortages and the Holocaust in France - Shannon L. Fogg, 2022
During World War II, France faced a housing crisis with over 1.2 million dwellings destroyed or damaged. In addition to the destruction, the German occupiers re...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...
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In fallen city stained by blood, latest images reveal grim development
New satellite images taken over El Fasher suggest the next step of a large-scale massacre is under way, as international pressure grows.
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
With AI, we are f*cked either way. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?” On academic publishers and the AI hype drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thinking of my former Hungarian language teacher today who was greatly upset when Dylan won the Nobel prize - not because a singer had won the prize but because Krasznahorkai hadn't.
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.
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RUC-ansatte reagerer på statsministerens kritik: Angreb på universitetet er et angreb på hele samfundet
Debatindlæg | Læs Politikens mange forskellige debatindlæg. Det enkelte indlæg er udtryk for skribentens holdning. Du kan også få bragt dit debatindlæg.
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Anton Geist @angeist.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
CfP i TEMP: Litterære interventioner i historiske konfliktsituationer. Deadline for abstracts: 1. november. Del gerne!
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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans. And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Anders Ladekarl @andersladekarl.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hvem kan dog stiltiende se til at flere og flere børn dø af sult i Gaza ? Menneskeskabt grusomhed udfoldes for vores åbne øjne. Grænserne må STRAKS åbnes for uhindret nødhjælp.
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omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Aaand today is officially publishing day, request it at your favorite university library before your neighbor!
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
My book exists!
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Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📣 Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning arrangerer #ÅRSMØDE2026 om “Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien” 📅 30. januar 2026, Københavns Universitet 👉 Tilmelding og kontingent: chrthorup@adm.ku.dk 👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk
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Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Programdelen består bl.a. af: 🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke 🔸 Panel om militært og civilt forsvar og beredskab 🔹 Panel om kulturelt beredskab 🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
While the escalating war between Israel and Iran has everyone's attention, starving civilians in Gaza are being massacred and the situation keeps getting more and more unbearable.
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Because antisemitism is a real danger, we need a clear understanding of it based on scholarly expertise. The IHRA does not offer such an understanding. We call on university administrators to refuse to adopt it. And we invite colleagues to join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Call to Senior University Administrators to Refuse the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
We, the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and allies, are a group of scholars with expertise in histories of antisemitism, genocide, the Holocaust, the history and sociology of fascism, an...
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This was a really insightful visit with very friendly hosts!
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
As scholars in Holocaust and genocide studies, we say: stop starving the people of Gaza.
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Dagbladet Information @information.dk · 23/05/2025
Sultens lidelser er de værste fysiske smerter, Sofie Jama har oplevet. Nu udsætter Israel bevidst Gazas befolkning for dem. Hvordan kan vi med den viden undlade at handle? Sådan spørger hun i en kronik: www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...
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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Yesterday I returned the last comments on the typeset index - soon National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers’ House should be available at most university libraries! www.routledge.com/National-Soc...
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National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers’ House, 1934-1939
National Socilaist Cultural Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive account of the German-Nordic Writers’ House. From 1934 to 1939, young Scandinavian and Finnish writers spent summers at a seaside...
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Anton Geist @angeist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Leder i @information.dk: Danmark kan ikke blive ved med at se passivt til, mens Israel smadrer Gaza og fordriver palæstinenserne. www.information.dk/udland/leder...
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Danmark kan ikke blive ved med at se passivt til, mens Israel smadrer Gaza og fordriver palæstinenserne
Den danske regering burde sætte alt ind på at bidrage til at stoppe den humanitære katastrofe, som Israel udløser i Gaza. I stedet understøtter Danmark ligefrem krigen
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Contributions to the History of Concepts @conhistcon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#HCG2025 Reminder: Application deadline is May 31, 2025! For more information and details, follow the link: eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...
Conference announcement for the 26th International Conference of the History of Concepts Group which will take place 27.-29.10.2025
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
CfA: When the Far-Right and the Far-Left Converge: Alignments, Entanglements, Ambiguities Workshop. CEU Democracy Institute Democracy in History Work Group June 18-19, 2025 Abstracts Submission Closes on  2 May 2025 democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/cfa...
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Call for Applications: When the Far-Right and the Far-Left Converge: Alignments, Entanglements, Ambiguities Workshop | CEU Democracy Institute
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The typeset proofs are here! Feels a bit surreal that National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers' House, 1934-39 will be out as a book soon.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Great on the dangers of losing the big picture of human freedom in the scramble to protect tiny academic liberties that will, in the end, have nobody to serve but the autocrats. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“The obvious drawback to Trump and Putin performing a truth-free, morality-free cosplay of Reagan and Gorbachev is that unless the US president plans to intervene militarily on Russia’s behalf, and perhaps even then, any deal requires the consent of Ukraine.” www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
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James Meek | An Enemy to Its Friends
In a wiser and more competent – to say nothing of a better – world, the initial approach to Putin would have been...
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“Musk’s hirelings by these lights are less latter-day squadristi than radicalized management consultants. Instead of brickbats and lugers, they wield red pens to mark layoffs and offload inventory.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Speed Up the Breakdown | Quinn Slobodian
For the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young
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Cecilie Bjerre @cbjerre.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Please help spread the word about this Call for Papers for the 14th International Nordwel Summer School, which will take place at the University of Copenhagen from 18–22 August 2025:
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Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered. It seemed to me, in these areas filled with toxic air, that people should be encouraged to stay home. I could have waited for the tennis balls.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Colm Tóibín · In LA
A new fire started in Hollywood. It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it...
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The carbon budget of the super-rich for 2025 is going to be exhausted by the end of today
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