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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Aug 14

The project: We aim to develop a depolarization toolkit to be used in social contexts like schools or sports clubs. For this, we're collaborating with @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social to organize local events in Germany.

Longer 🇩🇪 description ➡️ j0b.de/veca

project description; full text see linked webpage

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Aug 8

📖 Amazing to see Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe is finally out open access: tinyurl.com/2s37s6y2

In our chapter with Liriam Sponholz ✨, we discuss how #far-right actors engage in platformed #mainstreaming, through hyperlink #network analysis based on +120,000 #Facebook page posts. 📊

Platformed Mainstreaming: How and for What Does the Online Far Right Use Hyperlinks?

In this chapter, we explore how the German far right strategically uses hyperlinks on Facebook and what functions they serve. For this purpose, after gathering a sample of public Facebook pages of far...

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Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) @protestinstitut.bsky.social · Jun 12

Politik von unten ("Politics from Below") colloquium is back!

If you are interested in presenting your work-in-progress research in the Fall 2025 series, please send an email with a short description (in English or German) to [email protected] by June 15th.

protestinstitut.eu/kolloquium/

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Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) @protestinstitut.bsky.social · Jun 6

📢Call for Papers: “Visibility, Surveillance, and Policing”

Bilingual (DE/EN) workshop by the AK Soziale Bewegungen und Polizei @TU Chemnitz - 28 Nov 2025

Submit 300-word abstracts to [email protected] by 15 July 2025

🔗 protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-wo...

ipb workshop: Visibility, Surveillance, and Policing: Reconfigurations of Suspicion and Accountability in Protest Policing and Beyond – ipb – Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

protestinstitut.eu

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Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) @protestinstitut.bsky.social · May 13

Serbian students are running against the regime! Join us on May 19th for a talk on the student-led mobilization in Serbia as we explore, among other things, the role of sports in their protest repertoire.
Register by May 18th via [email protected]
More info: protestinstitut.eu/en/event/ipb...

Belga_English (Belga News Agency) @belgaenglish.bsky.social · May 13

Serbian students arrive in Brussels after 2,000km ultramarathon for democracy

A group of Serbian students arrived in Brussels on Monday after completing a nearly 2,000-kilometre ultramarathon from Novi Sad, Serbia, part of a...

www.belganewsagency.eu

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Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) @protestinstitut.bsky.social · May 9

Join us online for a conversation about the current student-led mobilization in Serbia on May 19th!

Jelena Cupać, Aida Kapetanović, and Filip Balunović will share their insights on the ongoing protests.

protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-de...

Register by May 18th via [email protected]

ipb debate: Student-Led Protests in Serbia – ipb – Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

protestinstitut.eu

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · Mar 27

Must watch video of a Fulbright scholar with a legal visa being taken abruptly by masked agents — who don’t even show an ID.

There is no claim she committed any crimes. She co-wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper.

They could have just served notice to her to leave the country.

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Sebastian Haunss @sehaunss.bsky.social · Feb 19

CfP Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition. 1 & 2 October 2025.
This year the ipb annual conference addresses the tension between tradition and innovation in protests and social movements.
CfP and details available at: protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jan 25

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.

An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.

#Resist

(📸 Ricarda Lang)

Thousand stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with lights lit on their phones. 14 people at the front hood lit letters spelling out Hope & Resistance

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · Jan 22

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

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interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social · Dec 21

Should you have missed our INTERACT conversation#5 with Donatella Della Porta on Moral Panic-the Contentious Politics of Antisemitism and the Repression of Palestine solidarity in Germany, you can now rewatch it on our Youtube channel: youtu.be/o94QrBMnbuQ

INTERACT conversation #5: Moral Panic? Contentious Politics of Antisemitism (Donatella della Porta)

YouTube video by INTERACT Center Berlin

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Nov 23

Fantastic to see so many members of various social/political science communities arriving here. If you're interested in research on the #farright/#radicalright in Europe, may I suggest you follow my clunky little @rrresrobot.bsky.social ? It's definitely the a 🤖 you want on your TL

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 21

Drinking an entire bottle of Club Mate around 23:30 with the intention of having a productive night session reviewing my network dataset one last (?) time was a great idea. UNTIL my STATA license expired at midnight. I believe I've now officially run out of excuses not to fully switch to R.

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Anatoliy Gruzd @gruzd.ca · Nov 20

Yes, there will be growing pains for Blue, including the need to invest in costly cloud infrastructure, content moderation and transparency reporting. So, let’s enjoy this ad-free environment while we can. 😅

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Nov 16

Wow, 18M+ users! bsky-users.theo.io At this rate, Bluesky is going to be declared a VLOP (a very large online platform) by year-end. Once that happens, w/in 4 months of notification, 🦋 will have to comply with the most stringent rules under the EU's DSA. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Sep 24

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1.368.603!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1.368.603, Damla Keşkekci ‪@damlakeskekci.bsky.social‬, joined on 5 Eki 2023"

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 12

Aaaand that was a wrap, people! Thank you for being with us in presence DeZIM Institut and online. Stay tuned for a special issue on the #RadicalizedMainstream!

Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 12

Joining us from Brazil, Liriam Sponholz delivered the closing remarks for the RaMi symposium online: "it's not only about the normalization of the far-right but also the mainstreaming of the radical, and the radicalization of the mainstream".

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

The final presentation of the RaMi symposium is delivered by @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social! In their joint paper with
@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, using discourse coalitions, they analyze reactionary feminism and the mainstreaming of the far right in the German-language magazine Emma.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

Next up, @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social presents a part of his dissertation research, where he questions how mainstream parties in the UK accommodate anti-migration discourses in parliamentary debates.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

In the second presentation, Fabian Hess and Wanda Drabon, focusing on the climate movement, conducted three experiments hypothesizing that the saliency of the threat is fuel for the (further) radicalization of climate activism.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

We start with Nicole Doerr's presentation about the (AI) images used by Europe and USA-based far-right actors for gendered mobilising against climate activists and liberal democrats.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

Aaand it's time for the last coffee break. At 4 pm, the last panel of the symposium titled "Climate, gender, migration intersecting far-right narratives and ideologies" starts, chaired by Max Brunner.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

Last but not least, Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu shared with us his insights on the ethno-religious nationalist worldview in Turkey, taught and normalized through primary school books.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

Building on her personal history and intensive fieldwork, Surya Ghildiyal presented her research on how ordinary people were subjected to violence (i.e. ordinary violence), mainly driven by religious divides, by the right in India.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Nov 10

In her presentation, Karoline Maria Fernandes da
Costa e Silva speaks about the new face of the far-right in Brazil, beyond Bolsonaro, while stressing that a new and normalized disinformation ecosystem has been in the works.

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