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Joe Halsør
@nifdsip.bsky.social
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Adviser for C-LaBL at UiT. PhD in molecular biology. 3 kids, fostering 4 birbs. RPG, boardgames, Steam library as retirement plan. Fantasy, Anime and 3000 hobbies.
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nifdsip.bsky.social
Christmas 2025 #boardgames:
LoTR journeys in ME
Terraforming mars
7 wonders
Catan
Exploding kittens
Sushi go
Bites
Fromage
Stardew valley
Minecraft (builders& portal)
Azul
SETI unboxing only 😅
December 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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nordicnews.bsky.social
NEW – Sweden: Storm knocks down Gävle Goat
www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
December 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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magnusforsberg.no
Her er forresten linken til å klage til kringkastingsrådet:

Kringkastingsrådet er et fuckings supperåd som ikke kommer til å utrette en dritt, men man bør si fra likevel.
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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karielisabeth.bsky.social
Nydelig tekst! ❤️ www.varden.no/meninger/les...
Kvinner overalt er lei av å fungere som mødre for sine partnere
«Internasjonal mannsdag» har passert nesten under min radar — og akkurat NÅ slo det meg hvor mye denne dagen egentlig trengs.
www.varden.no
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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beritemilie.bsky.social
Døve samer har blitt sviktet i generasjoner. Nå fratas Tonje Utsi arven, og senest tirsdag må hun slakte reinflokken sin.
Ingen skole for døve samer – nå mister Tonje arven - Norges Døveforbund
Tonje Utsi er både døv og same. Hun vokste opp i Tana, men fordi hun gikk på en norsk døveskole, får hun ikke beholde reindriften. Nå må hun slakte hele […]
www.doveforbundet.no
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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aninehartmann.bsky.social
I vår ble jeg den aller første til å anmelde konverteringsterapi etter forbudet som ble vedtatt av Stortinget for to år siden.

I dag ble saken henlagt av Statsadvokaten.

De mener at konverteringsterapi utført av helsepersonell mot transpersoner er *straffritt* etter det nye forbudet.

🧵⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Snowing February quantities in #Tromsø these days... Winter wonderland ❤️❄️☃️
Views from campus @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social
UiT campus under the snow The snow covered pine tree by the library at UiT Snow covered Rowan tree with berries weighed down
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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goodnewsnetwork.org.web.brid.gy
Unique Antibody from Camels and Alpacas Could Be Used to Treat Alzheimer’s
An antibody-like compound known on land to be exclusively to be found in camelids like alpacas, lamas, and dromedaries, could be used to treat human brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. The study’s focus were antibody-like proteins, aptly called nanobodies, whose small size allowed the scientists to treat neurological conditions […] The post Unique Antibody from Camels and Alpacas Could Be Used to Treat Alzheimer’s appeared first on Good News Network.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
nifdsip.bsky.social
More #mushrooms ❤️
This is rapidly becoming a hobby 😅
Species in alt text, identified with #artsorakel app
Phaeolepiota aurea Psathyrella candolleana Inocybe Coprinus comatus
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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shaziamajid.bsky.social
Jeg har sett altfor mange tradwives i mitt liv. De er fattige, deres barn er fattige og mennene utslitt. Derfor skriver jeg til KRFU- lederen.

www.vg.no/i/rPk8Xl?utm...
Kjære KrFU-leder
Vær forsiktig med hva du og dine medsøstre ber om. Får dere det som dere vil, kan dere miste den friheten generasjoner av kvinner har kjempet fram, nemlig økonomisk uavhengighet
www.vg.no
September 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Pretty #mushrooms at the #Tromsø campus at @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social 🍄❤️
No idea what they are, fungi people feel free to info dump 😁
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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goodnewsnetwork.org.web.brid.gy
Tiny Protein Confirmed to Dismantle the Toxic Clumps Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated for the first time that the protein midkine plays a preventative role in Alzheimer’s disease. Midkine is known to accumulate in Alzheimer’s patients, but rather than accelerate the disease, it seems to prevents a second, sticky protein from clumping together—the chief hallmark in this form of […] The post Tiny Protein Confirmed to Dismantle the Toxic Clumps Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease appeared first on Good News Network.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Godt valg!
sortulv.bsky.social en form for Daniel @sortulv.bsky.social · Sep 5
jeg vil ikke ha lavere skatt, jeg vil ha bedre og billigere kollektiv, en velferdsstat som ikke demonteres, et helsevesen der de ansatte har tid til pauser, en skole som er så godt finansiert at vi har råd til skolemat, skolebiblioteker og alle klassesettene med litteratur som vi faktisk trenger
September 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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colourmaker.bsky.social
Veldig lurt å vite:
- Fredag (i morgen) er siste sjans for å stemme hvis du skal stemme annet sted enn der du var folkeregistrert som bosatt per 30.juni 2025.

Stem!
#valg2025
September 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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pernihansen.bsky.social
Norge sett fra utlandet 🫣
Honest Government Ad | Visit Norway!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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September 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Catching up after being offline last week...
World against #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️ as usual 😤
Racism is alive in Norway, RIP #tamima 😤 x2
Good luck #globalsumudflotilla 🇵🇸
#whereistrump 👀

Did I miss anything?
September 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Must read. The insanity.
goatsarah.org Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
September 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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goatsarah.org
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
nifdsip.bsky.social
😖🤢🤮
sveur.bsky.social Sverre God Morgenbjørnsen 🦊 @sveur.bsky.social · Aug 22
WTF? "– Vi måtte ta av oss trusene og stå med beina fra hverandre mens en lege inspiserte oss i 3–5 sekunder før vi gikk videre, sier 22-åringen" FIS beklager ikke den unødvendige undersøkelsen, kun at det ikke ble gjort av kvinnelig lege!
– Tvunget til å ta av klærne
Rystende melding.
www.tv2.no
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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aljazeera.com
Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.
August 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Kom og snakk med oss på gata!
Vi snakker om alt, med alle.
Vi har forskjellige meninger, og er ikke enig om alt. Men vi alle synes at Rødt er partiet som passer oss best, og det er fordi vi tror på fellesskapet.
Uansett hva er problemet, løsningen er å jobbe sammen. Med alle sammen.
roedt.no Rødt @roedt.no · Aug 8
Lørdag 9. august treffer du Rødt på gater og torg over hele landet. Sjekk i denne oversikten om vi har stand i nærheten av der du bor: roedt.no/super-lordag...
roedt.no
August 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
nifdsip.bsky.social
Rødt krever ekstraordinært møte i Stortinget etter oljefondets Israel-investeringer
Rødt vil avbryte Stortingets sommerferie for å rydde opp i oljefondets Israel-investeringer. Finansministeren svarer at de vil se på fondets investeringer på nytt.
www.nrk.no
August 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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morgenbladet.no
Jeg vet ikke hva som er mest urovekkende: Norges dype avhengighet av amerikanskeid digital infrastruktur eller at den norske regjeringen ikke forholder seg særlig kritisk til den. For kan nasjonal suverenitet – og dermed reelt demokrati – eksistere uten digital suverenitet? spør Lena Lindgren.
(+) En tung sky over Norges digitale sikkerhet
Hvordan vil digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung gi Norge kontroll over egen infrastruktur? Mange spørsmål kan stilles om Norges digitale suverenitet.
www.morgenbladet.no
August 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM