Cornelia Grobner
@corneliag.bsky.social
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superscienceme.bsky.social
SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB Termine zum Mit- und Vorauslesen:

28.09.2025 "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" von Hiromi Kawakami

26.10.2025 - Österreich und andere Nationen-Fiktionen in der SF

23.11.2025 "Die Wand" von Marlen Haushofer

14:00 auf @radioorange940.bsky.social

o94.at/programm/sen...
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corneliag.bsky.social
„But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement.“ bsky.app/profile/fish...
fishkin.bsky.social
@pastpunditry.bsky.social 's column in the NYT is terrific. This is why we need historians writing opinion pieces!

It also underscores something I keep thinking about lately. During the Second Red Scare era, 75 years ago, one key piece of background was there really were Soviet spies around!

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Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either
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eintagimjahr.bsky.social
Liebe Tagebuchfreund*innen, am Samstag ist es wieder soweit: Wir schreiben den 27. September auf! In der Tradition von Christa Wolf u.a. haben wir eintagimjahr.wordpress.com 2015 gestartet - und schreiben dieses Jahr schon zum 10. Mal (!) "Einen Tag im Jahr" ausführlich auf. 🥳Seid gespannt!
Ein Tag im Jahr
Ein vielstimmiges Tagebuchprojekt, immer zum 27. September.
eintagimjahr.wordpress.com
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us.theconversation.com
Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.
Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas
Tradwives influencers’ throw-back aesthetics mask a divisive ideology about women’s roles, two scholars of extremism explain.
buff.ly
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smotus.bsky.social
There's a wrong way and a right way to report this
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
A picture is worth 1000 words:

At what I think was one of the most extreme, kooky, anti-science press conferences in history, you see Trump & RFK Jr’s henchmen—3 medically trained men doing their anti-vaxx bidding, Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, & Oz

The damage these MDs are doing is incalculable
Today’s Trump press conference
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fishkin.bsky.social
I think this argument (see picture) by Jamelle Bouie, and the points that followed from David French, are exactly right.

The right has gotten the idea that politicians and elites control American culture in a very top-down way. This is mostly, as Bouie says, "a bit of projection"...
When Vance talked about going after NGOs earlier in the year, Elon Musk had similar words: We defunded or we destroyed U.S.A.I.D. We’ve done a blow to the left. What they believe is that liberal politics, liberalism, social justice politics — all these beliefs — are top-down phenomena of elites that they don’t like. So if you get rid of them, if you go after George Soros, if you go after the Ford Foundation, if you go after U.S.A.I.D., if you go after television comedians, then people will stop believing this stuff. You will then secure your victory because none of this is real. It’s all just top-down.

I happen to think this is a bit of projection about the nature of their political movement — that it is quite top-down. It is funded by, you know, secretive billionaires who can allow someone like Charlie Kirk to work out the kind of performance they’re doing without really having to worry about earning money in any way. There’s this huge infrastructure of money and influence on the political right that does what I think they imagine happens on the political left. And I think the weak point in this strategy is simply that the stuff they hate flows organically up from the bottom. The reason George Floyd became a cause for millions of Americans isn’t because a bunch of liberal elites in television studios were telling people, “You have to care about George Floyd.”

This was an organic reaction of society to something that many people felt was wrong. Their feelings that it was wrong, in turn, are a product of organic changes in society. It’s a product of integration among people. It’s a product of scholars and historians doing their own work, slowly changing our understanding of what American history is. It’s just a product of civil society and democratic life happening spontaneously.
That’s not something you can control from the top down. Successful authoritarians know this. 

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corneliag.bsky.social
"Unlike speaking, which humans develop organically, reading is an acquired skill that literally rewires the brain. (...) Every bedtime story, every conversation about a book, every moment of focused attention is rewiring our children’s minds for the better."
lithub.com/how-to-raise...
How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction
People make certain assumptions about you when you’re the CEO of a children’s book company. Some assume I must have spent my childhood summers in a hammock reading Rebecca of Sunnybrook…
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beritmiriam.bsky.social
Mein erster Tipp an Eltern von Teenagern, die sich Sorgen um Social Media machen, ist übrigens regelmäßig Links mit den Jugendlichen zu teilen.

Das hat 2 Effekte:
1. Man verbringt selbst aktiv Zeit auf der Plattform, wo sie sind
2. Jeder geklickte Link verändert den Algo ihrer Timelines
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johannesfranzen.bsky.social
Wer das Internet und seinen Irrsinn besser verstehen will, sollte diesen Newsletter abonnieren.
beritmiriam.bsky.social
"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."
Brainrot Morde oder wie man einen Abgrund überwindet
In den USA ist am 10.
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corneliag.bsky.social
Sehr unangenehm und beklemmend, dieser Tage junge Männer zu sehen, die mit T-Shirts mit US-Flagge und dem Spruch „Jesus, Guns & Freedom“ durch Wien laufen …
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queerfink.bsky.social
"Es muss etwas geben, das größer ist als die Resignation. Eine Öffnung, durch die das Licht fällt. Es ist möglich, diesen Raum zu betreten, ... , wir dürfen nur nicht davon ablassen, vor der Resignation zu fliehen."
Danke @jagodamarinic.com

www.nachrichten.at/kultur/das-b...
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corneliag.bsky.social
Das lese ich - einen Influencer:innen-entdecken-Afghanistan-Artikel in guter Erinnerung … „After Afghan Quake, Many Male Helped Men but Not Women“ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com
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savasavasava.myatproto.social
ok a question: if you could have your students read one thing on genAI that you hope will encourage them not to use it, what would it be?
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mirandapitcher.bsky.social
...AND the "'honorary man,' a term that described a woman whose achievements were so spectacular that they weren’t seen as reflecting on the general properties of women."

Congratulations Dr. Rossiter - this is an obit worthy of your lifetime of work.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...
Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
www.nytimes.com