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Pia Groenewolt

@piagro.bsky.social
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Researcher at LSTS VUB | Based in Brussels 🇧🇪 | From Moh'kinstsis, but belonging everywhere and nowhere all at once | Living and thinking across borders | Always curious, always learning 🌍

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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Brilliant book documenting the usurpation of common land in England. We often imagine the process of colonisation by England had an activity happening to other countries, but this narrative shows how it starts ‘at home’ with the usurpation of the commons.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thanks @ggf.bsky.social for the picture & Anastasia for the invite to discuss,”the dark side of academia” by Gayle Brewer as part of the @cpdpconferences.bsky.social feminist book club! Academia is a pipeline society, in order for a more just & inclusive world, we need changes in universities.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m also happy to have been invited by my colleague Anastasia to contribute to the CPDP feminist book club with thoughts on precarious contracts, gender and parenting and sexual harassment.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At CPDP - and very happy to be part of this panel taking place in two days from now.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Visiting a new library every time I’m in Paris: had a great time working in bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A recycled headline every-time there’s war in Iran/q . (Switch Trump for other US/world leader).
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“Between a quarter and a third of the global trade in the raw materials for fertiliser passes through the strait” the consequences will result in lower yields and higher prices of fertilisers. I find it a fascinating reminder of the glocal nature of industrial food production.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“Neutrality is a form of violence; the choice to be apolitical is political. I cannot, in good conscience, accept this award now that it has been tainted by censorship.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech
TFCA president Johanna Schneller said that Tailfeathers’ speech had been edited “to maintain the timing of the awards show” and not for political reasons, but that she would resign from her role nonet...
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
very nice to see NYT covering indigenous architecture in Canada. A link for it is here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/r...
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‘Now We Have a Voice’: Indigenous Architects Redesign Canada
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
“And in October, Siminoff told us, ‘There are thousands of people missing with dementia all the time, so you can imagine looking for them.’”
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The Dragnet Era of Home Security Cameras
The devices come with a trade-off: When companies store our footage, we don’t always have control over how it’s used or shared.
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foodwatch International @foodwatch-int.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🚨 Tomorrow, von der Leyen meets corporate lobbyists just hours before EU leaders. Civil society warns against an (E)U-turn on protections. We call for rules that protect democracy, people & planet - not polluters. 📄 Open letter: thegoodlobby.eu/wp-content/u...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/02/2026
"The big, systematic problems in FOIA predate the Trump administration," FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @columjournreview.bsky.social. "I think it’s fair to say that the Trump administration is making it a hell of a lot worse."
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Too many FOIA requests, too little transparency.
FOIA’s systemic problems meet partisan robo-requests.
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Two things you need to understand about our growing surveillance state: 1 - You're treated as a suspect. Tracked everywhere you go, 24 hours a day. 2 - If you're falsely accused by the state (and its AI), it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear yourself. This is your life, starting now.
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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Disclaimers are sufficient to differentiate #plantbased meat from #meat from animal flesh; banning use of "meat-related" terms is not needed to avoid confusion of #consumers. On plant-based meat, protein #labeling elicits a stronger demand response than environmental claims: doi.org/10.1002/aepp...
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Beyond Labels: Exploring Consumer Preferences for Plant‐Based Meat Labeling Policies
Whether meat-related terms should be permitted on the labels of plant-based meat alternatives is hotly debated. Utilizing survey data featuring a discrete choice experiment, we examine consumer respo...
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blair @blairaf.com · 04/02/2026
Canada did a consultation on a new national AI strategy, formed an expert task force to write 32 reports, then used AI to analyze the responses & reports. The result is a summary that strings together 100s of vague action items & flattens nuance and policy trade-offs into false consensus
Screenshot from Government of Canada website that reads: "Over 11,300 participants provided their thoughts and ideas during the 30-day online public consultation, which ran from October 1 to 31, 2025. We captured over 64,600 responses to 26 questions on the eight AI pillars identified for the purpose of the consultation.

The responses were analyzed using SimpleSurvey, which uses natural language processing algorithms to provide insights from open-ended questions by analyzing sentiments, keywords and topics. ISED also created an internal classification pipeline for analysis, incorporating Cohere Command A, OpenAI GPT-5 nano, Anthropic Claude Haiku and Google Gemini Flash to read through the submissions and identify common themes. Responses were also classified by question, pillar and sentiment. Human reviewers validated and refined the AI-generated analyses, ensuring accuracy and comprehensive representation of all perspectives. The same approach was used to analyze the Task Force reports. This innovative approach enabled thorough, unbiased reporting in record time—months faster than traditional methods—demonstrating a balance between efficient delivery and responsible, Canadian-centred AI adoption."
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Dead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Hard to know but I’d bet that future historians will view most of the Democratic Party not as an opposition to the current regime but as collaborators
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
No, it’s not April Fools: it’s #dataprotectionday. The keynote speaker announcement no one expected:
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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨Greenwashing alert🚨 The Guardian is reporting what we've known for years: our supermarkets are full of greenwashing recycling claims on plastic packaging. theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2
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Europe’s supermarket shelves packed with ‘misleading’ claims about recycled plastic packaging
Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Brilliant article from the globe & mail on a very important case. Can’t stress enough the critical state of journalism and news media in Canada following the online news act (and big tech de-platforming outlets)and well journalists being arrested like this www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5c419c8...
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A trial unfolding in a B.C. courtroom shows journalists are more important than ever
How much more easily might authorities control the story if journalists aren’t allowed to do their work?
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 28/01/2026
We’ve published a joint statement with @ecdc.europa.eu on the multi country recall of infant nutrition products after detection of cereulide. ❗ Recalled products should not be fed to infants/young children. Please follow guidance from national food safety authorities. ▶️ link.europa.eu/pgkkhK
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Precautionary global recall of infant nutrition products following detection of Bacillus cereus toxin
Multi-country recalls of several infant nutrition products (different batches, products, and brands) are ongoing following the detection of cereulide, a toxin produced by the bacterium Bacillus cereus...
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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About the Conference
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 14/01/2026
Here's how #Iran 's internet shutdown works... curifem.github.io/iran-interne...
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Iran Did Not Block the Internet. It Erased Itself From the Map.
87 million people have been offline since January 8, 2026. This report explains what's happening and how.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
New research undermines the idea that AI products “learn,” contradicting the industry’s basic explanation for how its technology works and raising what could be a massive legal liability: "The whole industry is staked on a shaky metaphor." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"Eating less meat remains one of the fastest, easiest & cheapest ways to cut emissions... It’s especially important as many other climate solutions become more expensive, politically fraught or unavailable… It’s not possible to separate our own health from that of the planet." [Also: dairy = meat!]
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Opinion | The New Food Pyramid, Brought to You by Big Meat
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Went on a book run in Antwerp today. The staff from the Groene Waterman still remember me as that lady from #CPDP :) (I always buy a pile of books from them)
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Is Canada in the room with us right now? I so rarely see snow in Europe despite living here for 20 + years I’m always a bit surprised when it sticks.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
One of my favourite reactions to train prices. Granted it was on a fully booked stretch, and fortunately I had my interrail. (My friend was discussing how much are flights to Brussels from Finland, and at that money was looking up my train schedule on the DB app).
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I’m very happy to be at the University of Leiden faculty of law for #PLSC-Europe. Joining in the session of @barbararlaz.bsky.social et al. session on joint controllership in smart cities. It’s a fascinating discussion.
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Back in Brussels, on the tram home I saw these shoes and wondered “wait were those cremated in 1998” nope it was obviously creWated in 1998. What a conllegion!
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m very happy to spend this weekend in one of the most beautiful Canadian towns (Banff) to take part in a workshop supported by BIRS on creating an interdisciplinary research agenda studying the effects of online privacy regulation. #dataprotection #BIRS thanks to Joel for the invitation!
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Dr Yuwei Xu @dryuweixu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Call for abstracts on Gender, Sexuality and Education in Chinese Contexts, to be published by Gender and Education journal. Further details 👉🏼 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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ILSI Europe @ilsieurope.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨 Call for abstracts is open! ILSI Europe ECS Event 2025 – Session 1: Hidden Threats – Emerging Contaminants in Food and the Environment. Share your research on emerging risks, detection, and safety strategies. 📅 10 Oct | Prague 🔗 ilsi.eu/event/early-... #ECS2025 #FoodSafety
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Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW @fgf-nrw.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Call for Abstracts „Widerstehen, Widerständigkeit, Widerstand: (Queer-)feministische Perspektiven und Praxen angesichts erstarkender autoritärer Politiken“ für das Heft 2/2026 der feministischen studien.  Zum Call und mehr Informationen: blog.feministische-studien.de/2025/06/call...
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UNBC Wildfire Workshop @wildfireworkshop.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
📢Call for Abstracts & Special Sessions is NOW OPEN! We are inviting researchers, practitioners, community leaders, and storytellers to join the conversation. Deadline for submission is August 18, 2025. ▶ Full submission details are available here: www.unbcwildfireworkshop.ca/call-for-pro...
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ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
📢ONE MONTH TO GO: Call for Abstracts, 2025 DMA Enforcement Symposium📢 Got thoughts on gatekeepers’ compliance with DMA obligations? Their impact on users’ rights? How enforcement structure can be improved? Procedural issues? Submit to our #CallForAbstracts by 30 JULY tinyurl.com/473v5mtk
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Digital Markets Act Enforcement: Impact and next steps  - ARTICLE 19
Call for papers: European Commission under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)
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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) @clpn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Call for articles: "Children as rights holders in the digital world." For a special issue of the journal Global Studies of Childhood, co-edited by our member Helena Sandberg. Abstracts are due by 30 September. journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/GS...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
EC has published it nature credits road map: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... Intentions seem good but we'll see if they can avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing and offsets.
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EUR-Lex - COM:2025:374:FIN - EN - EUR-Lex
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hate seeing this. Please pay attention around you. No speed, or few minutes shaved off a journey is worth risking the lives and safety of others. (At bourse /RueAntoine dansaert)
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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📢The EU has confirmed that access to the Court in environmental matters is a fundamental right📢 In a decision delivered yesterday, the EU Commission referred the Polish gov to the EU's Court of Justice, for there being too many barriers to Polish citizens' environmental 'access to justice'.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢 Call for contributions! Together with Valerie Steeves and @ubisurv.net I'm editing the Elgar Encyclopedia of #Privacy and #Surveillance. Deadline proposals 15 July! www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Jonathan G. Heaney @jonathangheaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#CfP: Emotions & Society Special Issue Masculinities and Emotions: Changing Times and Contexts. Guest editors: @rpatulny.bsky.social and Fiona McQueen Abstracts (200-300 words) to the editors by *JULY 15th* Details below! @bupjournals.bsky.social #Emosoc #sociology
Background to the call
It is a prescient irony, given the stubborn conception that men ‘don’t express feelings’, that the contemporary bonds, behaviours and excesses of masculinity are so deeply immersed in emotion. It has long been recognised that that men’s conflicts are steeped in emotional experiences and dynamics of shame, irritability and anger (Men’s Project and Flood 2024). Similarly, hegemonic and toxic acts often stem from emotions such as pride and fear (Connell and Messerschmidt 2005). Traditional masculinities have also been implicated in men’s desires and struggles to master their own and other’s emotions, whether this be in the context of emotional control (Barrett & Bliss-Moreau, 2009), couple relationships (McQueen, 2017) or emotional flooding (Malik et al 2020). Other works have advanced the study of masculine emotion beyond these dynamics. Some have pointed out that emotional suppression leaves a stark legacy for many men, making them more susceptible to distress and suicide (River and Flood 2021).
More recent studies have focussed on the presence and role of more positive emotions in men’s lives. ‘Inclusive’ masculine acts are often steeped in care, respect and love (Anderson 2018, Elliott 2019). National surveys reveal that while men’s ‘primary’ (surface) emotions confirm to hegemonic stereotypes of male emotion (e.g. confidence), their ‘secondary’ emotions are commonly care based and oriented towards families (Patulny et al 2017). Other studies point to the important role of emotions such as pride, fun and confidence in the formation of homosocial bonds (Messner 2013) and focus on men’s capacity to consider emotional reflexively, rather than reject it in favour of ‘rationality’ (Holmes 2015). 
Yet these studies touch on only a handful of the many issues now surfacing around men, masculinities and emotions. Thoughtful consideration of the many ways in which masculinities and emotions are interlinked and reinforce each other is missing in many co…•	Multiple masculinities and feelings 
•	Masculine emotional regimes
•	Collective emotions and men’s movements
•	Theorising masculinity and emotion
•	How men manage and hide emotions 
•	Men's social isolation and loneliness 
•	Men’s emotions, women’s outcomes
•	Queer masculinities and emotions
•	Boyhood feelings
•	Older men and emotional precocity
•	Father’s feelings
•	Changing families, intimacies and masculinities
•	Men’s emotional performances in online spaces
•	Working Class Men and their emotions 
•	Migrant masculinities and emotion
•	Emotions in the manosphere

Information for contributors
If you are interested in this call for papers, please submit your abstract (200-300 words) no later than 15 July 2025 to the Guest Editors Roger Patulny (rpatulny@hkbu.edu.hk) and Fiona McQueen (f.mcqueen@napier.ac.uk). 
We will inform authors by 1st September whether we would like them to submit a full paper. Full papers will be due for submission by 1st December 2025 and will undergo the journal’s standard double-anonymous peer review process. Please see our instructions for authors for guidance on preparing your submission.

Timeline 
• 15 July 2025: Deadline for submitting abstracts to Guest Editors
• 15 August 2025: Feedback and decision on the acceptance of proposals
• 1 December 2025: Deadline for submitting full draft papers for review
• November 2026 Publication of the Special Issue

Literature
Anderson, E., & McCormack, M. (2018). Inclusive masculinity theory: Overview, reflection and refinement. Journal of Gender Studies, 27(5), 547–561. 
Barrett, L. F., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2009). She’s emotional. He’s having a bad day: Attributional explanations for emotion stereotypes. American Psychological Association, 9(5), 649–658
Connell, R. W. and J. W. Messerschmidt (2005). “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept.” Gender & Society 19: 6: 829–859.
de Boise, S., & Hearn, J. (2017). Are men getting more emotional? Critical sociological perspectives on men, masculinities and emotions. The Sociological Review, 65(4), 779-796. 
Elliott, K (2019) Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men Journal of Sociology, Vol. 55(1) 108–123 
Holmes, M. (2015). Men’s emotions: Heteromasculinity, emotional reflexivity, and intimate relationships. Men and Masculinities, 18(2), 176–192
Malik J, Heyman RE, Smith Slep AM. (2020) Emotional flooding in response to negative affect in couple conflicts: Individual differences and correlates. J Fam Psychol. Mar;34(2):145-154. 
McQueen, F. (2017). Male emotionality: ‘boys don’t cry’ versus ‘it’s good to talk.’ NORMA, 12(3–4), 205–219. 
Men’s Project & Flood, M. (2024). The Man Box 2024: Re-examining what it means to be a man in Australia. Melbourne: Jesuit Social Services. 
Messner, M. (2013). Reflections on Communication and Sport: On Men and Masculinities. Communication & Sport, 1(1-2), 113-124.
Patulny R, Smith, V, Soh, K. (2017) ‘Generalising Men’s affective experience.’ International Journal for Masculinity Studies (NORMA), 12(3), 220-239.
Roberts S & Wescott S (2024) To quell the problem, we must name the problem: the role of social media ‘manfluencers’ in boys’ sexist behaviours in school settings, Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 41:2, 125-128.

River J, Flood M. Masculinities, emotions and men's suicide. Sociol Health Illn. 2021 May;43(4):910-927. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13257
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FARI - AI for the Common Good Institute @faribrussels.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢 Call for Papers #NLC2026! Next May 6-8, we will host the 15th International Conference on Networked Learning in Brussels! We invite submissions that engage with the field of networked learning and address one or more of the conference themes. 📎 Submission requirements here:
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Networked Learning Conference 2026
Networked Learning Conference 2026
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GRAIN @grain.org · 12/06/2025
New report by GRAIN & ETC Group on the world’s top 10 agribusiness giants shows extreme concentration in seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, farm machinery, animal drugs & livestock genetics. Get the data here: grain.org/e/7284 @etcgroup.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @corporateeurope.org @civileats.com
Top 10 agribusiness giants: corporate concentration in food & farming in 2025
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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Are there any photos? ↘️
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Pia Groenewolt @piagro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
On the way to STS Nordic today (this time at KTH not SU) will be doing more real conferencing today as I have scheduled talks to give. But was happy to take part in some of the « out of the laboratory » activities in the forest yesterday.
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Marcel @marcelaiphan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Greta Thunberg qui vient d’arriver à Paris dénonce une attaque illégale et un kidnapping d’Israël et elle a mille fois raison parce que c’est exactement ce qui s’est passé. #FreedomFlotilla
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/05/2025
I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'
A four panel meme, featuring John Connor talking to The Terminator, from Terminator 2 

John: Wait a second, you’re saying you’re from the future?

Terminator: Great question! Thanks so much for asking. Let’s think about the answer…hmm! The current year is 1983. Working backwards logically, I’m from the year 1965, which is 300 years in the future. Anything else you’d like to know?

John - stares blankly

Terminator: I’m sorry, I can see that was not the right answer. I actually came from the year 829392 AD, which is 10 years in the past from this year, which is 3
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