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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The stunning cover of our book, Spaces, Bodies, Revolts: Emerging Digital Cultures, Feminist Struggles, and Global Change, is available now and the book will be open access by Bloomsbury by coming October. Link to pre-order it for your libraries: www.bloomsbury.com/au/spaces-bo...

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Getting close to wrapping up my PhD, it warms my heart to see that my PhD-papers are widely read and cited since publication, 8k views and 30 citations in total. 🔥 It motivates me to keep going. 🙌🏽 Link to the articles: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

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AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

@samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social's #somatechnics article (doi.org/10.3366/soma...) was made OA as one of Somatechnics' most outstanding pieces. Check out both "The Somatechnics of Violence" special issues curated by myself, Chantelle Gray & Delphi Carstens here (www.euppublishing.com/toc/soma/14/1)

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My article at the journal Somatechnics has been selected as an ‘innovative somatechnics research from the past decade and a half of the journal’ and is featured in a special issue (Bodies of Power). I am honored to receive this recognition for my research. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Upcoming seminar ⬇️ Prof Jo Littler (Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis @mediacomgold.bsky.social) will outline The Care Manifesto (co-written with members of the Care Collective) & explore corporate carewashing. 📅 4pm, 15 May More: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb8... @jolittler.bsky.social

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I will talk at this brilliant symposium on “Feminism and the Far-Right” on June 6th at Goldsmith among epic critical thinkers in my field. Thanks so much to Dr. @kat-hig.bsky.social for hosting this event. 💖 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

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Feminism and the Far-Right

A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The inimitable @kat-hig.bsky.social is organising this extremely timely symposium on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right at @mediacomgold.bsky.social, 6th June. EPIC lineup of speakers!! 😍🔥💪 BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

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Feminism and the Far-Right

A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky. I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes - Volume 50 Issue 1

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Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work. Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Another research citing my work. I LOVE this field, lol! Welcome to this brave Bro’s world, babe!

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ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics @ecprgender.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hello bluesky! Read more about our Standing Group here: ecpr.eu/StandingGrou...

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In the Netherlands, three far-right youth were found guilty in a Rotterdam court of incitement and given suspended sentences (time served basically), with one of the youths being found guilty of participation in a terrorist organization (The Base)

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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A new article by Ov Christian Norocel and Iris B. Segers in the European Journal of Politics and Gender stresses the need to address unequal emotional labor demands in academia and urges institutions to better support scholars in roles requiring significant emotional labor. shorturl.at/Qotd2

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Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: three arenas for emotional labour

This conceptual article examines the relational dynamic between the research field focusing on the far right and those critical scholars that endeavour to undertake these studies. It is theoretically ...

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yoshitomo Nara

Painted four or five stories high on the side of the building in Japan one of Nara's characteristically sardonic-looking cartoon girls

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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

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Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says

The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.

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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Join us on March 20 for @crexuio.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social and CASEI webinar series on methods and ethics for researching the far right! We will discuss how collective memory and heritage are appropriated and mobilised by the far right. Don't miss it! 🌟 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

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The haunting past: memory and far right studies - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism

with Lorna Richardson (University of East Anglia) and Daniel Jones (University of Northampton)

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Dr Ladan Rahbari @ladanrahbari.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We are looking for a #PhDstudent in the NWO-VIDI project “Iran’s Secular Shift” which investigates Iran’s evolving secular landscape using mixed-method; an opportunity to contribute to a pioneering study on non-religion, atheism & secularism in #Iran @pooyan1983.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture

In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

EU is asking X for internal documents about its algorithms. "The company has been accused of manipulating the platform’s systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility over other political groups." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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EU asks X for internal documents about algorithms as it steps up investigation

Musk’s company has been accused of manipulating systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Really excited to share my latest article, "Articulating algorithmic ableism: The suppression and surveillance of disabled TikTok creators," is now published in Journal of Gender Studies! A beautiful conversation between disability + creator studies. Read here ↪️ shorturl.at/ft5

The first page of my article. Includes title, author info, abstract, and first few paragraphs of intro.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The level of ingenuity they have for coming up with ways to be evil, in both grand and petty ways.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Brian Massumi book on fascism, incoming from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/the-personal...

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

The second article of my ongoing research is published and open access @FeministMediaStudies. I theorise the concept of ‘memeing back’ and argue for more robust, aesthetic, anonymous, collective, & grassroots digital feminisms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Delve into our exciting new issue 'Doing Women's Global Horror Film History'. The introduction by Alison Peirse and trailer by Dayna McLeod show how this issue became "a model of feminist, decolonial worldmaking". maifeminism.com/introduction...

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Introduction: Feminist Worldmaking and Horror Film - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture

Read Peirse's introduction to the project and watch McLeod' trailer for DWGHFH cut to original music by _HEAVYLEG.

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Excited to give a talk on my ongoing research as part of my visiting scholar position at the amazing Digital Ethnography Research Center on Feb 27, at RMIT University in Melbourne. Folks in Melbourne (Naarm), come by if you’re interested and around.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

“This passion for a common freedom, lived through suffering but oriented towards a joy defying death, is the point where communism and philosophy, liberation, and ethics, met for Negri…” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Alberto Toscano, A Communist Life — Sidecar

Antonio Negri (1933-2023).

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I talked to Gothenburg Uni news website about #Narges_Mohammadi, the implications of the prize, and her struggles (in Swedish). I mentioned how women like her and #Zeinab_Jalalian are embodiment of resistance and fight for structural change, even though imprisoned. www.gu.se/nyheter/har-...

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

In September 2022, Jina Amini was killed in Iranian morality police’s custody, triggering political feminist revolts against Iran’s regime. The motto adopted by the demonstrators – “Woman – Life – Freedom” – suitably expresses the dedication and work of Narges Mohammadi. #Jin_Jiyan_Azadi

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Sama Khosravi-Ooryad @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

My name (Sama) means (Blue) Sky in Arabic. So, I am already in peace with this platform. 🙃 Let’s hope we successfully smash at least one male-white-supremacist by being here. 🔥

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