Jan Daniel
@horalistani.bsky.social
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Researcher @IIR_Prague; fellow @prcprague; Lebanon, Syria, critical peace and security studies, security narratives, social theory
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jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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re-engage.bsky.social
🗳️ #Moldova parliamentary election this weekend is a barometer of regional #democracy.

Its outcome could reshape #EUenlargement, Europe’s security, and the balance of power with #Russia.

Read the latest commentary: tinyurl.com/y8atxsuf

#MoldovaElections #AlegeriMoldova
Moldova’s election: A test of Europe’s credibility
Moldova’s parliamentary election is a barometer of regional democracy. Its outcome could reshape EU enlargement, regional security, and the balance of power with Russia.
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iirprague.bsky.social
Speciální fórum o české zahraniční politice vůči Palestině a Izraeli z Czech Journal of International Relations vzbudilo ohlas i ve Francii. 📰 Francouzský Deník Le Monde se odkazuje na naše fórum a analyzuje českou podporu izraelské politice.
www.iir.cz/cjir-special...
horalistani.bsky.social
Již zítra!

Čtyři debaty, čtyři zapojené instituce - oligarchie, dezinformace o změně klimatu, etika a konflikty a finálně česká politika vůči Izraeli!

Uvidíme se zítra na Štvanici!
horalistani.bsky.social
Už za da týdny budeme ve Vile Štvanice rozebírat širší kontext české politiky vůči Izraeli a Palestině.

Přijďte a podívejte se i na zbytek programu!
prcp.cuni.cz
🥳 Srdečně vás zveme na další večer plný debat TO JE KRIZE! Tentokrát s @voxpot.bsky.social, @amoklima.bsky.social a @iirprague.bsky.social. Těšit se můžete na debaty o AI a klima dezinformacích, české politice vůči Izraeli, oligarchizaci politiky a morálce v současných konfliktech.
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aidnography.de
Welcome to a world where a crude mix of military regimes, Russia, Taliban & Israel are pushing the „decolonization“ agenda forward…
horalistani.bsky.social
"The fact that Israeli violence in Gaza is supported by a government that champions morality, democracy, and human rights contributes to a general nihilism and the relativization... Outrage over the killing of Ukrainian civilians while turning a blind eye to dead Palestinians seems hypocritical."
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wesleymorgan.bsky.social
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
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horalistani.bsky.social
Už za da týdny budeme ve Vile Štvanice rozebírat širší kontext české politiky vůči Izraeli a Palestině.

Přijďte a podívejte se i na zbytek programu!
prcp.cuni.cz
🥳 Srdečně vás zveme na další večer plný debat TO JE KRIZE! Tentokrát s @voxpot.bsky.social, @amoklima.bsky.social a @iirprague.bsky.social. Těšit se můžete na debaty o AI a klima dezinformacích, české politice vůči Izraeli, oligarchizaci politiky a morálce v současných konfliktech.
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matejzaloudek.bsky.social
Dnes to bylo 10 let od smrti Alana Kurdi.
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ECFR @ecfr.eu · Aug 30
The EU should draw up a policy to deal with Russian annexation actions in breakaway and occupied regions, and embed this in its evolving approach towards Russia, write Tefta Kelmendi and Sergi Kapanadzi.
Read their latest policy brief here: https://bit.ly/4le7c8m
Occupational therapy: Frozen conflicts, Russian aggression and EU enlargement
As Russia accelerates its annexation of “frozen conflict” regions, the EU must enhance its policy to counter Moscow’s influence.
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johnphudson.bsky.social
NEW: Famine has been officially confirmed in the Gaza City region and is projected to spread within weeks to two more population centers in the wider Gaza Strip, the global authority on hunger said Friday
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
In many respects, «artificial intelligence» is less a model of the human mind than a technical implementation of neoliberal market theory: a simulation of supposedly superhuman rationality optimized for efficient problem solving, which leads to mostly irrational and ultimately destructive results
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Another summer, another procession of record-smashing heatwaves.

After the heatwave of July 2022, I wrote this piece on dread, anger, and the duty to critique.

Re-reading it for the page proofs, I was struck by some things I wrote that already seem out of date, but also some that seem timely.

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The Necessity of Being Negative

Critique and Care in the Anthropocene

Philip Conway

The new normal

It’s July 2022 and the all-time temperature record for the town where I live has just been smashed by a full 5 degrees Celsius. Records tumble like dominoes all across Europe as air from the Sahara surges northwards—a climate event decades ahead of schedule.

I’m at the train station, waiting to travel the one stop home. The platform is packed with pale men in Hawaiian shirts, headed south. The announcer tells us that all trains have been cancelled and that travel should be avoided. At first, no one pays any attention. After the third attempt, the crowd slowly slopes off.

I take an Uber home—with a little guilt, given recent revelations about the company (Davies et al. 2022). The driver is blasting Capitol FM. It’s giving me a headache, but I figurethey’re entitled to enjoy their workspace. Between banging summertunes, the sunnily upbeat DJ opines that they don’t really find it that hot, and that ‘you’ll always get a positive outlook here at Capitol FM’, especially on a ‘proper summer’s day’ such as this one.

In the chill of an air-conditioned car, we speed past road workers wearing full-length protective clothing, toiling in 36 degrees Celsius heat. Near London, grass fires are lapping at the M25—a mere microcosm of blazes raging elsewhere.

Conservative contrarians gleefully mock all these ‘snowflakes’ (such as meteorologists at the Met Office) who, they say, are pushing heatwave hysteria (Horton 2022). People won’t shut up about 1976 (the go-to year for hot-weather nostalgia). BBC News runs a story on ice cream sales.

Part of me wants to scream. To rant and rave. To damn, denounce, critique. But, instead, I sit there, in the air-conditioned car, until I say ‘Yeah, just on the corner there. Perfect’.
horalistani.bsky.social
Researcher in Comparative Area Studies (Postdoctoral level)

"The applicants are expected to focus on one of five regional specializations: Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, East European studies, African studies, Latin American studies."

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www.ff.cuni.cz/2025/07/vybe...
Call for candidates: Researcher in Comparative Area Studies (Postdoctoral level) / Výběrové řízení na pozici: Vědecký pracovník v oblasti komparativních areálových studií (postdoktorand) | Filozofická...
www.ff.cuni.cz
horalistani.bsky.social
Two broadly defined area studies academic #jobs at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague):

"The ideal candidate will employ comparative methodologies and actively engage in disciplinary debates within area studies on critical current events from a comparative perspective"

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sewella.bsky.social
Survivors of the pager attack are easily identifiable, with missing eyes, faces laced with scars, hands with missing fingers. The AP interviewed six of them — offering a rare glimpse into the human cost of the attack

Powerful work by @bmroue.bsky.social @seldeeb.bsky.social @hassanammar.bsky.social
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
The groypers running the White House's social media accounts have posted yet another piece of fascist Trump AI slopaganda which I won't reproduce here in full. However, the Gladiator-esque backdrop of US soldiers in desert camouflage holding back the pseudo-Roman crowd is quite fascinating
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Detail of an AI generated image, showing what looks like US soldiers in desert camouflage alongside with an antique Roman mob and maybe some gladiators? It's a mess …