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Tanushree Rao

@tanushree.bsky.social
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IR PhD candidate at Stockholm University • aid, inequality, IOs, climate and humanitarian crises • #rstats, critical and blended methodologies • parent to small beings • meme connoisseur • 🇸🇪 based, 🇮🇳 born, 🐨🦘 raised

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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are a huge community! Though mine was for my MySpace profile to have dope backgrounds and music
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incredible work: a crowdsourced and fact-checked "genocide supply chain" map showing vessels, factories, ports and corporate actors for shipment tracking and visualisation of local complicity global-intifada.org/supply-chain/
global-intifada.org
Supply Chain of Genocide Map — Weapons Shipments Tracked Live
Live tracking of weapons shipments, factories, and ports supplying genocide. Real-time AIS data, export licenses, corporate supply chains.
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Martin Gelin @martingelin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My latest piece for The Guardian: In Sweden, previously unthinkable far-right ideas are now comfortably embedded in the mainstream. The past four years were characterised by an astonishing acceptance of ethnonationalist views, xenophobic rhetoric and authoritarian policies often targeting children.
theguardian.com
How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin
In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And then Turkiye will cop blame for contributing to climate change, pollution, other environmental challenges etc. We've seen this before.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026
That's about as clear an articulation of the present problem as has been made by anyone.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everything is fine 🙃 www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons
The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.
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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The thing with the US' anti-ICC campaign is that, on their own, none of the steps are new. Using security assistance to pressure states about the Court is a well established US practice. What's different is the scope and the blatantness of it all.
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Incredible. I was one of the first cohorts to get this vaccine back in high school. I remember us all comparing how it felt like we'd been punched exceptionally hard in the arm. And now? 10/10, 5 stars etc.
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So there's a precedent. "The Australian government could specifically require social media companies to make a “following” feed the default option" - as it should be theconversation.com/the-netherla...
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The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds. Here’s what happened
Unless forced to do so, big tech companies are unlikely to implement features that go against their business model.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"However, the transition to clean power is being impeded by slow planning and grid expansion...and a severe lack of investment elsewhere. Africa receives less than 2% of global clean energy investment despite possessing 60% of the world’s best solar resources..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is a cohort of us in solidarity at #EISAPEC26 #PEC2026 who used EM-dashes before they were uncool—we would like to affirm that we exist and we are not AI ✨️
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My 1yo niece delightfully and enthusiastically refers to Ms Rachel as "Churchill", the crossover we never needed nor will ever need
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Had a relaxed workshop-style panel today on gender and IOs at #EISAPEC26 with an impromptu step-in discussant, thanks @ninahall.bsky.social! A nice intro to my first EISA conference 🙌
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francesco strazzari @zaz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lisbon: @eisa_net General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a motion in solidarity with Palestinians facing “genocide & scholasticide,” calling on the EU to suspend Israel from Horizon Europe, support the rebuilding of education in Gaza, defend scholars being harassed. #EISAPEC26
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I watched the videos. They are absolutely horrific. Reminds you who bears the biggest burden of climate change.
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A really compelling piece on conferences as community rather than commodity, by @luqmanmuraina.bsky.social and Marta Nicolazzi: issblog.nl/2026/08/18/b... #polisky #academicsky #phd
issblog.nl
Beyond 3-day Conferences: From Annual Rituals to Academic Communities - Bliss
In this blog, PhD researchers Luqman Ọpẹ́yẹmí Muraina and Marta Maria Nicolazzi consider ways in which academic conferences can be transformed from annual rituals with set rules and formats, to being ...
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Awhile ago my partner gifted me trackable stickers that you can call like a phone and I've never been so grateful as now when, about 12 hours before I travel, I called my passport and found it ringing *inside our tools cupboard* (after having it in my hand 20 mins prior). Still the best gift.
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🎼 Come ride with me, through the veins of history I'll show you how God falls asleep on the job 💤
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Alt: Matthew Bellamy from Muse onstage with a guitar and raising his arm
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please enjoy Ronny Chieng explaining climate change to dumbasses
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This would just be straight up affectionate in Australia
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An anti-AI-slop party invitation template! @joetoon.bsky.social provides a freebie so we don't have to endure the exhaustion of seeing yet another AI slop invitation/flyer/etc
Party invitation template to use instead of AI, by cartoonist Joe Wos
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Top panel is tiny planet Mercury in relation to the HUGE Sun.
Bottom panel is a similar image, a tiny "close ad" button in relation to the fingertip labeled "my finger" which fills nearly the entire panel.
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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
UK aid spending is expected to fall by around 42% – or £6.5 billion – from a record high in 2023 to a historic low in 2027-28, according to a report by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI). buff.ly/svnk9eq
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Both great band names
AI deception font with outlined text "sorry robot" and shaded background text "happy human"
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In spite of all the shitty things about technological 'advancement' lately, some things are truly wonderful www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Woman has pioneering surgery for unborn baby with intestines outside its body
Theo became the first British baby to be operated on in the womb to correct complex gastroschisis, as part of a pioneering clinical trial.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
One of the coolest things I've seen lately: Etson Caminha in Timor-Leste experimenting with nature sounds 🥁🌴
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Finally, a way to get recalcitrant boomers to care about climate change
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Really interesting story from @timjudah.bsky.social on how the US is using gas to get what it wants in the Balkans--or how it is using the Balkans to get what it wants with gas--and how that pushes the EU to the sidelines. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
economist.com
America’s Balkan policy is all about gas
It is using its terminal in Krk to shoulder the green EU aside
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is getting weird
The homepage of Claude AI that says "Coffee and Claude time?" with the prompt entry window
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don’t think any of the concerns about LLMs or DMs rely on use / uselessness. The question is about the affordances they set up, the patterns they normalize; and what gets displaced or relocated — and for whom.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Harmful medical experiences, stigma, misinformation and lack of transparency have all made it hard to talk about being intersex, difficult to access safe, informed and accessible services, and hard to collect data on the experiences and needs of adults with innate variations. This needs to change.”
theconversation.com
What people with intersex traits want you to know
People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.
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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In a new @eadi.bsky.social reflection paper, @ryancbriggs.net & @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kings-sga.bsky.social explore what drives deep disagreements in development studies—and point to the “disciplinary baggage” of PhD training. Read more: buff.ly/ASH1bL9
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This. Yes, aid is frequently imperialistic. Yes, it needs to be reformed. No, drastically cutting it isn't it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scene from the Simpsons with USAID on trial that says USAID, you are accused of heresy, witchcraft, and that man told me you pushed him.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 11/06/2026
World Cup vs. the Ph.D.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Finally! An article about the AMOC circulation that isn’t just clickbait / hype, and provides some real physical insights about how the ocean works. It turns out the ocean may be far more resilient than clikbait stories suggest. A very worthwhile read! www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
The ocean current that warms Europe may be more resilient than feared
Studies of the Atlantic's circulation find signs of both weakening and unexpected stability in the face of global warming
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very cool new dataset on subnational government climate pledges and emissions from @profangelhsu.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... #polisky
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ClimActor 2.0: A spatialized database of subnational climate pledges and emissions data - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - ClimActor 2.0: A spatialized database of subnational climate pledges and emissions data
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy trillionaire day to all those who commemorate
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This Is Fine Meme
Alt: This Is Fine Meme
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Think about this research nearly every day now reading the news.
A Data Set of Mediocrity When he was a young Ph.D. student, Mr. Scharpf was conducting dissertation research in Buenos Aires when a government official
dropped a fateful offhand comment during a conversation in a cafe. During the military dictatorship, the official said, the intelligence officers who did the regime's worst dirty work were "essentially
idiots."
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I still have so many questions. Can we have The Wiggles and Cards Against Humanity next?
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
STOP COUCHING THINGS IN SEMI-PASSIVE TERMS. Your lede is: "Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian infant and wounded his parents, the Palestinian health ministry reported." None of this is hard.
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 02/06/2026
#Adaptation policy increasingly talks about interconnected, systemic climate risks. Far fewer policies actually act on them. A new SEI report examines why – drawing on cases from Europe, Southeast Asia and the US. 📄 Read it: www.sei.org/publications...
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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hahahahahaha what
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