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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 7d

Four photos from the Cor Vos agency. This first one is Joop Zoetemelk doing some motor-pacing in a time when road safety and childcare was a bit different...

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 21d

One confusing thing about the liberal media is that it's extremely right-wing

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · 20d

Fair, sorry for being jaded! Quickly becomes a reflex when you're in this space..

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · 20d

Encouraging, but sadly those attitudes aren't reflected in national climate policy

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · 20d

My colleague Louison wrote a brilliant thread on the situation: bsky.app/profile/loui...

Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · 21d

Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · 20d

My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...

Open letter for a Global University - from Roskilde University Staff to the Roskilde University Board of Directors and Rectorate

To sign, please fill out the form below the letter. Current signatories. 17 September 2025 We strongly condemn the statement issued today by Dea Forchhammer, Acting Chair of the Board of Directors ...

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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · 21d

Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.

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Pedro Vallín @pvallin.bsky.social · 22d

No diga comunicado, diga tunda.

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just a major sports publication manipulating a leading cyclist's (Jonas Vingegaard) quote to obscure his sympathy with protests against Israel. Cowardice in the face of genocide

Katie @medicinexthings.bsky.social · Sep 7

At least it’s not velo leaving out the important bits holy shit

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Sep 8

Jfc

Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Sep 7

But I think the meaning gets across just as well in your original translation

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Sep 7

Platform is fine in context. Often used in the trope "you have the right to free speech, but not the right to a platform", for example

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Sep 7

Platform

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Aug 29

w/ @frederikappelolsen.bsky.social @fridahviid.bsky.social id.bsky.social @lauralohorn.bsky.social @madsejsing.bsky.social & Julia Suárez-Krabbe

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Aug 29

For Danish-speakers, I have co-written an op-ed in @politiken.dk about Israels ecocide in Gaza and the necessity of thinking rising militarialism, imperialism and ecological crisis together. politiken.dk/del/Rg8Jg_AE...

Forskere:Israel slår ikke kun ihjel med bomber og sult, men gennem systematisk ødelæggelse af Gazas natur og miljø

Vi har en tendens til at tænke på krig og miljø som to adskilte problemer. Men krigen i Mellemøsten og de igangværende økologiske kriser deler en række af de samme underliggende strukturer.

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · Aug 11

If you ask such a system to explain a previous 'decision' it won't explain its process, it will generate words that read as a statically plausible sentence(s) which describe that sort of process.

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Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · Jul 12

Great piece on LLMs codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o...

The Tain of the Mirror

What is a Large Language Model, for us?

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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · May 28

🔥 Thrilled to host the 3rd Annual Socio-Economic Research Networking Day @roskildeuni.bsky.social —with 20+ brilliant minds and 12 sharp presenters from across Scandinavia 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 from #Economics, #Sociology, #Anthropology, #Political #Ecology & #Development #Studies.

💡Join us next year at RUC!

Program of the networking day at Roskilde University

Photo of panelists presenting their research

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · May 20

So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.

Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Dansk forsker: Forskningsopholdet ville fremme min forskning og karriere. Alligevel takker jeg nej til Trumps USA

Som hvid mand med papirerne i orden er risikoen ved indrejse til USA begrænset for mig. Alligevel tager jeg ikke imod legatet til et forskningsophold i landet.

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Nikolaj Kornbech @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social · May 16

Blatant attack on freedom on speech in Denmark - the Parliament forbids schoolchildren (!!) and youth party activists from discussing Palestine in schools. 'Orwellian' is usually hyperbole, but it applies straightforwardly here. Shame on Danish politicians politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

Folkeskoleelever får forbud mod at debattere Palæstina

Flere ungdomspartier står uforstående tilbage, efter at Folketingets Præsidium helt ekstraordinært har besluttet, at de ikke får lov at gå til valg på at debattere Palæstina til næste års skolevalg.

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Emma River-Roberts @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social · May 15

2/2 As a reminder, the abstract of the workshop is: Why is it that certain forms of environmental knowledge are held in higher regard than others? How can this be reconciled? How can both forms of knowledge be treated on equal par? In other words, how can decision-making processes be democratised?

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · May 13

Come hear @kmunro-econ.bsky.social talk about her exciting research in Copenhagen✨

The talk is free and open to everyone!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 6

A bunch of fossil fuel companies that were already planning to shut down their coal plants anyway are going to be happy about this

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Americas > Verra launches coal phaseout carbon crediting
methodology
Verra launches coal phaseout carbon crediting methodology
Published 07:01 on May 6, 2025 / Last updated at 19:46 on May 5, 2025 / Roy Manuell / Americas, Asia Pacific, Aviation/CORSIA, EMEA, International, Voluntary
Voluntary carbon standard Verra has
unveiled a new methodology that will credit the early retirement of coal plants that are replaced with clean energy
sources.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · May 2

An aid ship heading to Gaza has sent out a distress signal after crew members say it was hit in a drone attack and has caught fire. There are 30 aid workers on board the Freedom Flotilla ship, which was attempting to break Israel’s 2-month aid blockade.

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