Oona Morrow
@oonamorrow.bsky.social
🍉Feminist Urban-Economic Geographer doing critical Agri-Food studies in the Rural Sociology Group at WUR. Twin Mom & Associate Prof. Excited about food commons, community economies, food sharing, compost, and cats. Personal account, views my own.
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The Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have pulled out of Eurovision, Iceland and Belgium still deciding
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Netherlands pulls out of Eurovision as organizer votes to keep Israel in 2026 contest
The Netherlands will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, with Dutch broadcast rights holder AvroTros deciding to boycott the event. The decision was made after the members of the eve...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have pulled out of Eurovision, Iceland and Belgium still deciding
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“After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under the current circumstances, participation cannot be reconciled with the public values that are fundamental to our organisation.” clearer ethical principles than @w-u-r.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation
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December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under the current circumstances, participation cannot be reconciled with the public values that are fundamental to our organisation.” clearer ethical principles than @w-u-r.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
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Care for my students has now extended to care for their fermentation babies, how did this happen ?
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Care for my students has now extended to care for their fermentation babies, how did this happen ?
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A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
Congratulations Dr. Kristina Ulm, for leading this exciting research on the governance of public gardening in Sydney. Thrilled to see this out. Spoiler: let the people garden !
🔓#OpenAccess #UrbanStudies
✍️ @ulmkristina.bsky.social @oonamorrow.bsky.social @evdle.bsky.social Sanderson & @alecthor.bsky.social
🔍 Greater Sydney’s local governments embrace trust-based #PublicPolicy to share responsibility for #UrbanGardening in #PublicSpace.
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✍️ @ulmkristina.bsky.social @oonamorrow.bsky.social @evdle.bsky.social Sanderson & @alecthor.bsky.social
🔍 Greater Sydney’s local governments embrace trust-based #PublicPolicy to share responsibility for #UrbanGardening in #PublicSpace.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Congratulations Dr. Kristina Ulm, for leading this exciting research on the governance of public gardening in Sydney. Thrilled to see this out. Spoiler: let the people garden !
@prorail.bsky.social Ede Wageningen station is an insult to anyone with a disability or a small child. It is impossible to get from the bike parking to the station in a wheel chair or stroller, and there is insufficient bakfiets parking.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@prorail.bsky.social Ede Wageningen station is an insult to anyone with a disability or a small child. It is impossible to get from the bike parking to the station in a wheel chair or stroller, and there is insufficient bakfiets parking.
child friendly bathroom at Lisbon airport. They also have free strollers and a big soft play area. #feministcity
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
child friendly bathroom at Lisbon airport. They also have free strollers and a big soft play area. #feministcity
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Thrilled to be listening to demands for and inspiring examples of the right to food and food as commons at the @ec.europa.eu @ecolise.bsky.social policy dialogue on Housing and Food ecolise.eu/event/housin... #foodstudies
Housing and Food: Communities and local-governments driving fair sustainability transitions - ECOLISE
Europe’s long-term wellbeing depends on fair and locally-driven sustainability transitions. Housing and food, our most basic human needs and the two largest household expenses, are powerful entry poin...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thrilled to be listening to demands for and inspiring examples of the right to food and food as commons at the @ec.europa.eu @ecolise.bsky.social policy dialogue on Housing and Food ecolise.eu/event/housin... #foodstudies
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He is proposing five municipal grocery stores
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
He is proposing five municipal grocery stores
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
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November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom.
Please sign.
Please sign.
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom.
Please sign.
Please sign.
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
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"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."
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I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.
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"We have decades of evidence that [agroecology] is working all over the world," Associate Professor Timothy Bowles writes in an @nytopinion.nytimes.com letter to the editor. "What we haven’t had is the political will to make it the foundation of our food system." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | Debating the Dangers of a Pesticide (Gift Article)
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about the common weedkiller Roundup.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"We have decades of evidence that [agroecology] is working all over the world," Associate Professor Timothy Bowles writes in an @nytopinion.nytimes.com letter to the editor. "What we haven’t had is the political will to make it the foundation of our food system." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Dutchies who can vote, please fix it ! @fnv.bsky.social @fnvuniversiteiten.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dutchies who can vote, please fix it ! @fnv.bsky.social @fnvuniversiteiten.bsky.social
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Dutch Politics for Americans.
Updated for the 2025 Dutch elections
Updated for the 2025 Dutch elections
October 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Dutch Politics for Americans.
Updated for the 2025 Dutch elections
Updated for the 2025 Dutch elections
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The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer.
I’m sharing here some of his photography.
I’m sharing here some of his photography.
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer.
I’m sharing here some of his photography.
I’m sharing here some of his photography.
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Why is it that when children are murdered in their schools, it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as Charlie Kirk? In fact, it gets almost none.
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Why is it that when children are murdered in their schools, it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as Charlie Kirk? In fact, it gets almost none.