Sofia Baliño
@balinosofia.bsky.social
PhD from the University of Geneva. Working on a book about Joan Didion. Speechwriter at the International Trade Centre. Pepper's 🐈 mom, runner, reader, adventure seeker. Own views. 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇪🇸 🇨🇭
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If you missed my event last month at the The New York Public Library and would be interested in hearing me talk about my book, American political culture, Hollywood history, and Joan Didion for an hour, you're in luck!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXr0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXr0...
Alissa Wilkinson: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
YouTube video by The New York Public Library
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April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you missed my event last month at the The New York Public Library and would be interested in hearing me talk about my book, American political culture, Hollywood history, and Joan Didion for an hour, you're in luck!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXr0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXr0...
Some painful, but valuable, insights in here for fellow Didion scholars and others who admire her work so deeply. Already this preview is making me rethink some aspects of her works that I have spent years studying, especially "Where I Was From." A must read.
In a file of notes addressed to her husband, John Dunne, Joan Didion described her sessions with her psychiatrist with the cool, forensic clarity she was known for. Read a selection of entries recently released from the writer’s archive.
Joan Didion’s Notes on Therapy
In notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, the writer reflected on her sessions with the psychiatrist Roger MacKinnon.
www.newyorker.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Some painful, but valuable, insights in here for fellow Didion scholars and others who admire her work so deeply. Already this preview is making me rethink some aspects of her works that I have spent years studying, especially "Where I Was From." A must read.
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The @wto.org's "News Harvest" has the latest on recent developments in food + ag trade: 👇
📢 In this month's WTO "News Harvest":
▶️ WTO Members seek dialogue on tariffs in ag, other sectors
▶️ Canada, China, ask for consultations with US
▶️ Farmers, business associations, express concerns
Read: bit.ly/4ii5a6r
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▶️ WTO Members seek dialogue on tariffs in ag, other sectors
▶️ Canada, China, ask for consultations with US
▶️ Farmers, business associations, express concerns
Read: bit.ly/4ii5a6r
Subscribe: bit.ly/3LmmvtR #WTOAg
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The @wto.org's "News Harvest" has the latest on recent developments in food + ag trade: 👇
Exciting news for Didion scholars! Can't wait to read this.
NOTES TO JOHN 🖊️ Coming April, 2025. An electrifying, previously unpublished work from Joan Didion—a moving and profound journal written to her husband John Gregory Dunne.
📸 Photo: Annie Leibovitz
📖 Design: John Gall
Learn more: bit.ly/notestojohn
📸 Photo: Annie Leibovitz
📖 Design: John Gall
Learn more: bit.ly/notestojohn
February 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Exciting news for Didion scholars! Can't wait to read this.
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From “Bargaining with the Palisades Fire, I Buy a Pack of Edible Flowers,” by Anna Journey. Read it in full: nyer.cm/E1juqln
January 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
From “Bargaining with the Palisades Fire, I Buy a Pack of Edible Flowers,” by Anna Journey. Read it in full: nyer.cm/E1juqln
Great reporting as ever from the @wto.org News Harvest team! 👏
In this month's @wto.org "News Harvest":
* Ag ministers meet in Berlin for the #GFFA, as the UN says global heat records have been broken.
* Trade is among topics covered by AU's new 10-year ag strategy
* "Urgent" attention to avian flu is needed, agencies say
Read/subscribe: shorturl.at/avzFT
* Ag ministers meet in Berlin for the #GFFA, as the UN says global heat records have been broken.
* Trade is among topics covered by AU's new 10-year ag strategy
* "Urgent" attention to avian flu is needed, agencies say
Read/subscribe: shorturl.at/avzFT
January 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Great reporting as ever from the @wto.org News Harvest team! 👏
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Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today
Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.
Because the shame has to switch sides.
Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.
Because the shame has to switch sides.
December 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today
Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.
Because the shame has to switch sides.
Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.
Because the shame has to switch sides.
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Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.
As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.
As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.
December 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.
As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.
As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
Excellent overview and analysis of the latest issues in #trade, ##foodsecurity, and #sustdev, and just in time for the holiday season!
In this month's edition of "News Harvest" from @wto.org:
* DG Okonjo-Iweala calls for a food security "breakthrough" in WTO ag talks;
* @fao.org launches a new report on trade and nutrition;
* 3 new FTAs (EU-Mercosur; ACCTS; EFTA-Thailand)
Read: shorturl.at/kUWmE
Subscribe: bit.ly/3LmmvtR
* DG Okonjo-Iweala calls for a food security "breakthrough" in WTO ag talks;
* @fao.org launches a new report on trade and nutrition;
* 3 new FTAs (EU-Mercosur; ACCTS; EFTA-Thailand)
Read: shorturl.at/kUWmE
Subscribe: bit.ly/3LmmvtR
December 13, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Excellent overview and analysis of the latest issues in #trade, ##foodsecurity, and #sustdev, and just in time for the holiday season!
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Rereading Joan Didion, “you find her astringency relentless, undimmed by age,” Zadie Smith writes. “Maybe this is why it remains easier to look at pictures of Didion than to read her. The look is undoubtedly a vibe. But the reading is a dissection.”
Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking
You didn’t have to agree with her, but you had to submit to her sentences.
www.newyorker.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Rereading Joan Didion, “you find her astringency relentless, undimmed by age,” Zadie Smith writes. “Maybe this is why it remains easier to look at pictures of Didion than to read her. The look is undoubtedly a vibe. But the reading is a dissection.”
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"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion, who would have been 90 today, on self-respect
Joan Didion, who would have been 90 today, on self-respect
Joan Didion on Self-Respect
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:01 PM
"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion, who would have been 90 today, on self-respect
Joan Didion, who would have been 90 today, on self-respect
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Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
100 Notable Books of 2024
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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The Presidency just announced that plenary at #COP29 will not reconvene before 10:00 am Saturday
The online schedule for #COP29 doesn't say it (yet), but the screens at the venue now announce a closing plenary at 10:00 pm
November 22, 2024 at 5:17 PM
The Presidency just announced that plenary at #COP29 will not reconvene before 10:00 am Saturday
Thank you, @enb.iisd.org, for keeping us so well-informed as #COP29 enters the home stretch!
Day 10 @ #COP29
A Stocktaking Plenary revealed the divide that persists in talks on the new finance goal but showed some progress on cooperative approaches for implementing the #ParisAgreement
Other draft texts are now in the hands of the Presidency
#climate #climatechange
A Stocktaking Plenary revealed the divide that persists in talks on the new finance goal but showed some progress on cooperative approaches for implementing the #ParisAgreement
Other draft texts are now in the hands of the Presidency
#climate #climatechange
Highlights and images for 20 November 2024
enb.iisd.org
November 20, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Thank you, @enb.iisd.org, for keeping us so well-informed as #COP29 enters the home stretch!
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On Monday, #PlasticPollution INC-5 begins in Korea
This final scheduled round of talks should solidify new #plastic treaty text... but the outcome is far from certain
Our #INC5 team leader Tallash Kantai shares what to expect
This final scheduled round of talks should solidify new #plastic treaty text... but the outcome is far from certain
Our #INC5 team leader Tallash Kantai shares what to expect
What to Expect at Plastics INC-5
Q and A with Tallash Kantai of Earth Negotiations Bulletin on INC-5.
www.iisd.org
November 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM
On Monday, #PlasticPollution INC-5 begins in Korea
This final scheduled round of talks should solidify new #plastic treaty text... but the outcome is far from certain
Our #INC5 team leader Tallash Kantai shares what to expect
This final scheduled round of talks should solidify new #plastic treaty text... but the outcome is far from certain
Our #INC5 team leader Tallash Kantai shares what to expect
This🧵 was an eyeopener! Looking forward to learning more and testing out these features.
Thank you, @scientificdiscovery.dev, for sharing these fantastic tips, they make a big difference for Bluesky novices like me!
Thank you, @scientificdiscovery.dev, for sharing these fantastic tips, they make a big difference for Bluesky novices like me!
Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 10:45 PM
This🧵 was an eyeopener! Looking forward to learning more and testing out these features.
Thank you, @scientificdiscovery.dev, for sharing these fantastic tips, they make a big difference for Bluesky novices like me!
Thank you, @scientificdiscovery.dev, for sharing these fantastic tips, they make a big difference for Bluesky novices like me!
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On day 10 of #COP29, a Stocktaking Plenary revealed the broad divide that persists in negotiations on the new finance goal, but also indicated some progress on cooperative approaches for implementing the Paris Agreement.
@enb.iisd.org has more ▶️ enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...
@enb.iisd.org has more ▶️ enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...
Highlights and images for 20 November 2024
enb.iisd.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
On day 10 of #COP29, a Stocktaking Plenary revealed the broad divide that persists in negotiations on the new finance goal, but also indicated some progress on cooperative approaches for implementing the Paris Agreement.
@enb.iisd.org has more ▶️ enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...
@enb.iisd.org has more ▶️ enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...
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Where do talks stand at #COP29Azerbaijan?
What should you expect from week two in Baku?
The recording of our #COP29 Halfway Point Webinar, with ENB's @jenirisallan.bsky.social answering audience questions, is online now
Listen ➡️ soundcloud.com/user-1658009...
#climate #climatechange
What should you expect from week two in Baku?
The recording of our #COP29 Halfway Point Webinar, with ENB's @jenirisallan.bsky.social answering audience questions, is online now
Listen ➡️ soundcloud.com/user-1658009...
#climate #climatechange
COP 29 Halfway Point Webinar
Halfway through UN climate change talks in Azerbaijan, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team reviews the latest developments, takes questions, and helps you prep for the final week of COP 29.
Earth Ne
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November 17, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Where do talks stand at #COP29Azerbaijan?
What should you expect from week two in Baku?
The recording of our #COP29 Halfway Point Webinar, with ENB's @jenirisallan.bsky.social answering audience questions, is online now
Listen ➡️ soundcloud.com/user-1658009...
#climate #climatechange
What should you expect from week two in Baku?
The recording of our #COP29 Halfway Point Webinar, with ENB's @jenirisallan.bsky.social answering audience questions, is online now
Listen ➡️ soundcloud.com/user-1658009...
#climate #climatechange
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Join us on Bluesky! Follow us for research, analysis and updates on sustainable development. Our experts are at #COP29 and we'll bring you the latest from negotiations in Baku.
🔎 www.iisd.org/inside-cop-29
🔎 www.iisd.org/inside-cop-29
November 15, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Join us on Bluesky! Follow us for research, analysis and updates on sustainable development. Our experts are at #COP29 and we'll bring you the latest from negotiations in Baku.
🔎 www.iisd.org/inside-cop-29
🔎 www.iisd.org/inside-cop-29
Another fantastic, timely, and thoughtful edition of News Harvest is out! Essential reading, as always.
As COP29 opens in Baku, and WTO agriculture talks struggle to make progress, this month's edition of "News Harvest" looks at how farm, food, and forestry reforms can spur climate progress:
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November 16, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Another fantastic, timely, and thoughtful edition of News Harvest is out! Essential reading, as always.
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Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ
This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code.
We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!
This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code.
We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!
Bluesky for Journalists
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October 13, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ
This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code.
We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!
This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code.
We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!