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Olav Elgvin @olavelgvin.bsky.social · 14h

Altså, det er fullstendig skandaløst og horribelt det styreleder Kristin Vinje ved Meteorologisk institutt gjør her, nemlig å overstyre egne forskeres håndtering av media: www.khrono.no/styrelederen...
Som akademisk institutt har MI en fordømt PLIKT til å vurdere alle sider av virksomheten sin etisk

Styrelederen grep inn da Meteorologisk institutt nektet å svare journalist

Ledelsen ved Meteorologisk institutt får refs fra sin egen styreleder for svarnekt til journalist som lurte på hvor finværet befant seg. Nå havner saken på Stortinget.

www.khrono.no

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

Terroir
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Terroir
They had been bombed so frequently by now that even
the children had come to know the category of missile
by the sound they made as they fell or the size of the
hole they left behind. The sensibility of a sommelier.

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 2d

Blog with Ramona Godbole: Unpacking the US’s New Global Health Strategy: Retreating When We Could Be Winning.

There's stuff to like in the US global health strategy, but its built around rapidly sunsetting finance rather than rapidly sunsetting HIV & malaria deaths. Not Great...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 2d

This #BannedBooksWeek, we stand proudly with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and @indexoncensorship.org as they sound the alarm on growing efforts to censor books and curtail the #FreedomToRead.

Learn more: bit.ly/42vjnah

ALA's Banned Books Week graphic. Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ALA.org/BBooks

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19d

World Bank seeks to boost firepower by offloading loan risk to investors on.ft.com/48mWh9p

World Bank seeks to boost firepower by offloading loan risk to investors

Maiden securitisation by group’s corporate lending arm is planned to be first of many, says president

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Neil Gregory @neilgregory.bsky.social · 2d

Productive large firms are key to job creation, exports and productivity growth in EMDEs. In high income countries, large firms can access capital markets to finance their growth - DFIs need to help them do so in EMDEs too. Useful report from BII on how to do so.
www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

A mobilisation machine: International corporate bonds in sub-Saharan Africa - British International Investment

Foreign investment in African economies is hampered by a mismatch between what the asset managers that control the largest pools...

www.bii.co.uk

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Thomas Helland-Hansen @thomashh.bsky.social · 5d

Norske partier hvis de var ekstremvær (tråd)

1. Senterpartiet

Bilde av et kart som viser et ekstremvær på vei inn over sørøst-Norge, med en fargeskala fra gul til rød som viser intensitet. De oransje og røde områdene ser ved et sammentreff ut som en langfinger som vises til Oslo.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

We'll feature four sections this week to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 Judicial Politics + Public Policy & Administration + Migration Politics + Gender & Sexuality Politics

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EPSS 2026 Conference | June 18–20 | ICC Belfast, UK

Join top political scientists for the EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in Belfast. Submit papers, attend panels, and network with fellow researchers.

epssnet.org

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Nyhetsavisen Anders @jordskokk.bsky.social · 7d

Ingen oppfordring om å senke farten, være oppmerksom og kjøre etter forholdene fra bilvesenet

Facebook-post fra vegvesenet med teksten: "Vær ekstra oppmerksom nå som vi går inn i en mørk og våt årstid. Husk hjelm og lys"

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Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social · 8d

Still confused about EPSA vs. EPSS? Which conference should you go to? Here is a link to clarify things: epssnet.org/uncategorize... TL;DR: "EPSA" community will be in Belfast. Same community, new organisation, bigger mission; slightly new name; and a very different foundation @epssnet.bsky.social

a man with glasses says look can 't you see it 's obvious netflix

ALT: a man with glasses says look can 't you see it 's obvious netflix

media.tenor.com

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Fredrick Mortvedt @feskehau.bsky.social · 8d

Den største trusselen for et svekket Nato er den framvoksende fascismen og isolasjonismen i USA, ikke at Europa tar mer ansvar for egen sikkerhet.

Den gamle franske linja om sikkerhetspolitisk uavhengighet fra USA har i etterpåklokskapens lys vist seg å være ganske fornuftig. Kanskje lytte nå?

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Devex @devex.com · 8d

Enoh Ebong, president of the Global Development Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses what's needed in this moment of transformation and change.

Out with the vague when it comes to tackling critical infrastructure

www.devex.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8d

just guess

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8d

finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8d

just guess

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 9d

A grotesquery of false equivalence. Trump officials should/will be prosecuted because of their crimes, not because Trump established the precedent of prosecuting people because of their politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

In Going After His Foes, Trump Sets a Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."

𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 13d

"The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes of her experience growing up in Venezuela.

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jonas Bals @jonasbals.bsky.social · 10d

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 10d

Det her er et fantastisk interview med demokratiforskningens nestor @adamprz.bsky.social. Hvis du interesserer dig for USAs demokratis fremtid (og det bør du, for det er afgørende for både din og dine børns egen fremtid) er det læsværdigt!

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 11d

It took me 2 minutes to write about how this proposed rule would eliminate all foreign PhD students, who are a critical part of US science and technology, and drive US innovation and economic growth

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11d

I really am kind of shocked people actually think the Epstein files matter or would do anything to stop the republicans fascist infrastructure.

Even if Trump was gone tomorrow the machine he is the figurehead for would continue crushing America beneath its boots.

The Epstein files mean nothing

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 11d

“The average [Californian] born in 2024 will likely face up to $500,000 in additional lifetime costs from climate crisis, and those who experience more severe effects will see up to $1m in costs." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis – report

University of California, Berkeley, study found that those who experience severe effects will see upto a $1m in costs

www.theguardian.com

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