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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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forskning.no @forskning.bsky.social · 7d

KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.

Provoserende husmødre på NRK

KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.

www.forskersonen.no

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21d

So the UK police thinks photos of Trump are indecent and grossly offensive?

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · 21d

How to feel old in academia, Vol.26: When students are genuinely surprised when you catch their Horizon Zero Dawn reference.

#highered #academia #academicsky

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Sep 1

2 weeks until deadline! :)

Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Jun 26

Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!)

www.neonnet.no

Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge

www.neonnet.no

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Aug 28

The saga of trying to buy a bus ticket in Thessaloniki. Two days, still dont know how. Have been told to buy from bus driver (not possible), then inside the bus (no such machines existed) and now from a kiosk (two have said nope). Must be some secret bus ticket selling society somewhere.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Aug 28

Conference time in Thessaloniki @ecpr.bsky.social. Curious mix of academic work, warm weather and a campus with a lot of eh.. identity?

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Aug 24

Somehow further validates South Park S27 E1... even more.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 24

Yikes! 🫢

Trump Just Hung A Patriotic New Painting Of Himself At The White House—And It's Cringey AF

www.comicsands.com

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Aug 22

Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new UN-backed food security report released on Friday...

news.un.org

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Aug 7

About restaurants. And universities too.

youtu.be/3EwduM3pAyA

Uncle Jimmy's Warning - Scene | The Bear | FX

YouTube video by FX Networks

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Aug 7

Very interesting!

Would be curious how it would compare to Norway as here the fees were implemented as full cost to start with (with some rather unfortunate effects) and might now be loosened up (a bit uncertain how this will look like at this point).

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Aug 1

Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag.

This of course is very different.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 1

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report

The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

nbcnews.to

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Jul 28

This. AI creating bonkers anatomy is one thing and to be expected. This passing any sort ofl quality assurance is mins boggling.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Jul 24

On June 16, Doctors Without Borders sent an open letter with a very clear message to EU leaders: The #EU can and must act now to stop mass atrocities in #Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Palestine: MSF statement on the EU’s failure to protect people in Gaza again | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

The EU ignores calls to end Gaza’s siege, enabling Israel’s attacks on civilians amid ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Jul 24

Not often I would post links to Twitter here, but here is e1 of s27 of South Park... launched a few days after they signed a new contract with Paramount, who owns CBS who cancelled Colbert.. This just deserves to be shared. I am looking forward to the fallout. x.com/timetravelje...

Nick on X: "South Park Full Episode season 27 https://t.co/DxHo9pk5p9" / X

South Park Full Episode season 27 https://t.co/DxHo9pk5p9

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Jul 4

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime.

Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

International Academic Appeal Against Repression in Serbia

We, members of the Serbian academic diaspora and our colleagues from the international academic community, are raising our voices in strong condemnation of the escalating violence, repression, and int...

docs.google.com

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Kristin @kthftw.bsky.social · Jun 27

Å peke på det problematiske med å bruke borgerkrigsretorikk og hundefløyter er en sånn gøy deltidsjobb jeg har hatt de siste fjorten årene uten å be om det, det blir liksom aldri gammelt men av og til så er det nødvendig å forklare enkle sammenhenger og synd for dere i dag er en sånn dag igjen.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Jun 26

Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!)

www.neonnet.no

Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge

www.neonnet.no

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Jun 5

What could go wrong.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 4

NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

www.propublica.org

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Jun 2

#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres.

Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

Palestine: Dozens of Palestinians massacred at U.S.-Israel backed food distribution sites | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

Dozens of Palestinians killed, hundreds injured while seeking food at Gaza humanitarian assistance distribution sites backed by the U.S. and Israel. MSF teams join the mass casualty response amid repo...

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · May 30

You can't make this up..

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Another Edgelord Comes to Power

Paul Ingrassia, an online reactionary, is in place at the Justice Department.

www.theatlantic.com

Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · May 30

Accountability this day and age. Wow. It's like a unicorn.

Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · May 30

Not sure whether use of chatGPT makes the report worse than what it would have been otherwise.

Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · May 30

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links

w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · May 29

Communist regimes determined what could be taught and researched at universities, insisted on programs in Lysenkoism and Scientific Marxism-Leninism, abolished other departments, and controlled who could attend and teach.

This, of course, is entirely different.

Ed. Sec. Says Harvard Needs to Be 'In Sync' With Trump's Political Goals

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said universities like Harvard need to be "in sync" with Trump political positions or risk losing funding.

www.rollingstone.com

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