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Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Jun 20

Next #NECS location revealed. #NECS2026 will take place in Montpellier, FR 17.-20.6.2026

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Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social · Apr 4

Celebrate the publication of 'Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World' w/ co-editors Dorota Ostrowska & Tamara Falicov, our own @maryzen.bsky.social and contributors at #SCMS2025!

⏲️TODAY at 5:30pm, 2 min from conference
📍Firelake Grill House, 221 N. Columbus Drive

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

book cover of 'Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World' in purple

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 25

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry.

A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.

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Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry

A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."

www.erininthemorning.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 25

Germany is getting a new chancellor. Its current leader is heading out of power, but his party probably will stick around in a diminished capacity. Sunday’s election produced a few surprises and a lot of suspense. Here are five takeaways.

5 Takeaways From Germany’s Election

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big implications for Europe.

www.nytimes.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 25

To answer some quick questions about my latest story:
- It does not apply to the Visa Waiver Program as far as I can see
- It does not impact American citizens
- The ban exclusively impacts transgender foreigners seeking visas in the United States
- It is far more extensive than reported elsewhere

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 25

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry.

A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry

A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."

www.erininthemorning.com

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · Feb 25

Daily reminder. 🏳️‍⚧️

Pink and purple graphic that says, "Trans youth are valid."

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Daphne Kae Tarabiscoté*e (unemployed philosopher era) @freihanddenker.bsky.social · Jan 20

An alle cis Menschen, die mir folgen: die USA treiben die staatliche Auslöschung von trans* Personen voran, und ihr könnt sicher sein, dass dieselben Kräfte schon längst hier am Werk sind (wer erinnert sich noch an das Treffen der CSU-Delegation mit De Santis?) ->

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Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Feb 20

Meanwhile, the US-based colleagues of the Film Festival Alliance (FFA) are running a Festival Worker Employment & Compensation Study. Here you get to the survey if you work at a film festival (in the US, but also abroad).
#FilmFestivalLabor #FilmFestivalAlliance

Festival Workers Survey - Film Festival Alliance

filmfestivalalliance.org

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Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Feb 20

German #FairFestivalAward 2025 was given out by Festival Labor @verdi-medien.bsky.social this week at the #Berlinale2025 based on a survey asking film festival workers to evaluate their film festivals as employers. Congrats Short FF HH.
The larger report will be published shortly. #FilmFestivalLabor

Presentation of 3rd Fair Festival Award

On February 17, 2025, the Workgroup Festival Labour within ver.di will present the 3rd Fair Festival Award to the fairest film festival in Germany. We are very happy and invite you to check out the sh...

festivalarbeit.verdi.de

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Medienmagazin-M @medienmagazin-m.bsky.social · Feb 17

Wann ist ein #Filmfestival fair? Wenn es so läuft wie hier: @verdi-medien.bsky.social ehrt Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg mit Fair Festival Award 2025. 🥳https://www.verdi.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/++co++70ba5558-ed1b-11ef-bbdf-890f1199ae9d

an empty movie theater with a countdown clock showing the number one

ALT: an empty movie theater with a countdown clock showing the number one

media.tenor.com

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Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Feb 14

Meanwhile in NOR: "In 2022, ca 44% of PhD cand & 74% of postdoc fellows at NOR higher-ed institutions from abroad. [] law unlikely to strengthen Norwegian as scientific language. 3-month courses won’t provide proficiency needed “to partake in aca discussions or write academic texts in Norwegian”.

Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus

Mandatory language courses for foreign researchers could harm Norway’s ability to attract the best talent, Nobel laureate says, as rule prompts legal challenge.

www.nature.com

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · Feb 12

"Die SZ hat Wissenschaftler i verschiedenen Ländern z d aktuellen Entwicklungen id USA befragt. Unklarheit & Ungewissheit waren () Leitthemen id Antworten. Die immer neuen Restriktionen, alle abrupt verordnet, verunsichern d Wissenschafts-Community massiv."
www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/trump...

Wie die Wissenschaft unter der US-Politik von Donald Trump leidet

Die Trump-Regierung hat wissenschaftliche Programme beschnitten, unterbrochen oder zensiert. Die Folgen werden weit über die USA hinausreichen.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Feb 14

"Wir dürfen die EU-Forschungsförderung nicht den Wettbewerbspolitikern überlassen"

Interview mit Georg Schütte über Sorgen um das #Forschungsrahmenprogramm, Macrons KI-Vorstoß, Europas #Innovationsrückstand – und Prioritäten für die nächste Bundesregierung.

Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/https-www.jm...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Feb 14

I published this piece yesterday, and today JD Vance went to Munich (yes, Munich) and lectured German politicians about why they ought to break down the firewall that has kept the far-right out of German politics for decades, and work with the Holocaust-minimizing AfD. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Feb 14

I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...

JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins

On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Na...

religiondispatches.org

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Deutscher Frauenrat @frauenrat.bsky.social · Feb 11

Gestern wurde der Gesetzentwurf zur Entkriminalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen im Rechtsausschuss gestoppt und ist damit de facto gescheitert!
Das obwohl 80 % der Deutschen wollen, dass selbstbestimmte Abbrüche aus dem Strafrecht verschwinden.

Wir kämpfen weiter!

#stimmefürfrauen

In Zeiten zunehmenden Rechtsrucks erwarten wir von der Politik, alles zu tun, um Frauenrechte bestmöglich zu schützen - statt vorbildlich demokratische Willensbildungsprozesse zu ersticken.

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social · Feb 7

"Alarm, Alarm, Gender Studies" (Paywall)

Die AfD will die Gender Studies abschaffen. Betroffen wären Professoren wie Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky. Hier erklärt sie, warum ihr Fach so ein gutes Feindbild abgibt.

www.zeit.de

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Eva Marburg @evamarburg.bsky.social · Feb 7

Der Täter war offenbar ein Rechtsterrorist, die Schule ein Ort an dem Eingewanderte schwedisch lernen können. Natürlich sagen dt Medien er hätte kein ideologisches Motiv gehabt. Es ist furchtbar.

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Feb 6

While I didn't know this happend today and so didn't join the protests in South Bend, I am happy to know people from ND went!

Hundreds protest rapid changes from immigration to gender issues under Trump and in state

Event in downtown South Bend came on same day as protests at state capitols across the U.S.

www.southbendtribune.com

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · Feb 6

#GLAADinstitute alum Omar Noureldin gives a perspective on how important civil servants are to our lives, and a look at why purging the civil service, especially LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities, is going to hurt the USA.

This is how Trump’s war on federal workers threatens democracy

Two former political appointees in the Biden-Harris administration explain why "defending an unbiased civil service preserves the vital link between 'we the people' and a government truly of, by, and ...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · Jan 31

Exactly. We are not hearing enough from University leaders in the US. This silent complicity is toxic - for academia, science, freedom.

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Jan 31

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

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Jawbreaker @jawbreaker0834.bsky.social · Jan 23

Mississippi Senator Bradford Blackmon isn’t playin around.

In answer to the GOP’s ridiculous “life begins at contraception” law, he’s introduced Senate Bill 2319 stating that “CONTRACEPTION BEGINS AT ERECTION” and it makes it illegal for a man to cum if he does not intend to fertilize an embryo.

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Jagoda Marinić @jagodamarinic.com · Jan 25

Danke, Berlin!

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · Jan 22

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!

In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org

Auf der Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin steht: „Heil Tesla!“

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Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Jan 25

more detail here: www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/cf...

CfP NECS 2025 “Discovering/Uncovering”, Lisbon, Portugal (June 18-21) | Film Festival Research

www.filmfestivalresearch.org

Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social · Jan 25

For those still looking to form a panel on #FilmFestivalResearch for #NECS2025, please see the detailed CfP for the pre-constituted panels in the FFR Workgroup here: www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/cf...

CfP NECS 2025 “Discovering/Uncovering”, Lisbon, Portugal (June 18-21) | Film Festival Research

www.filmfestivalresearch.org

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