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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

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/

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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.

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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 · 15/09/2026

My niece calls her "Churchill", I can't even compute this comparison. She's a legend!

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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

Okay okayyyy I'll sign up for ECPR next year 😏

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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...

theconversation.com

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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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Shame I'll miss it, sounds super interesting. Good luck!

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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 · 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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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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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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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And if that fails, they all have to remove their shoes

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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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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Technically, they’re Remains now.

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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I feel like this is a surprisingly common trait among PhD students and academics and it in fact helps us with our craft

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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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Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I taught a seminar on the democratic peace theory the same day Trump threatened Denmark over Greenland 🫠

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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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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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