✨ In my latest paper, I used 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 instead of “pregnant women", because pregnancy is not exclusive to those who identify as women 🤰 📢 Using inclusive language is part of our responsibility as scientists to fight erasure of transgender and nonbinary people 🏳️‍⚧️ #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈@sabiagini.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 Did you know that non-invasive prenatal screening (𝗡𝗜𝗣𝗦🤰) data can be repurposed for large-scale genomics? 🧬 Our new study shows how to turn low-coverage data into valuable insights, analyzing >32,000 genomes from Belgium. #genetics #imputation #NIPS #AcademicSky genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9...

The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.

I still hear some claiming elections can't be cancelled, and that democracy is too big to fail. The agenda is transparent and clear.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Happening right in front of us

I still do not understand why progressives are not reappropriating the term "woke". With everything that is happening it's high time we all wake up and act on steady of being sleepy and gullible.

It's not hard to imagine a scenario where migrant workers in the US are detained in ICE raids, thrown into Trump's migrant camps, then are sent off to work at the same farms and orchards they were originally picked up from, with the state taking what would have been their wage.

Not after witnessing the crowd of the #PrimaveraSound

Euractiv@euractiv.com · last yr.

UK must show EU it ‘can be trusted again’, minister says

Watch my conversation with Becca Branum, Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Free Expression Project, talking about how bad and awful the 'Take it Down Act' is and how the media and Democrats are complicit in pushing censorship bills

The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer

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#SANREMO2025 "quest'anno non ci sarà politica". Tutto è politica, la scelta di dire, la scelta di non dire. Cosa dire e cosa non dire. Cosa rappresentare e cosa non rappresentare. Scelte politiche, sempre.

📢Funding Opportunity On 17 February @civitates.bsky.social will launch a new Tech and Democracy open call to make online spaces safer, more trustworthy, and inclusive. Up to €150,000/2 years for CSOs in 🇭🇺 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇸🇰 🇷🇴 🇳🇱 📅 Apply by 14 March 💻 Q&A Webinar 26 Feb: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Proud of my colleagues for launching this new open call supporting media in 7 EU countries. And particularly happy Italy and Spain are among them 🫶

Civitates - The European Democracy Fund@civitates.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 Apply now! We offer up to €160,000 in core funding for 2 years to media outlets in 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇮🇹🇪🇸🇧🇬🇸🇰🇭🇷. 📅 Apply by 2 March 2025 23:59(CET) 💻 Join our webinar on 17 February. 🔗 Details: tinyurl.com/2ap7scv2 Spread the word—reshare this post! #IndependentMedia #FundingOpportunity #Civitates

👋 Hello, BlueSky! We're so glad to be here, along with our director @elisapeter.bsky.social A bit about us: We're a 5 year old pooled-fund bringing 23 foundations together working to promote and protect: - civic space (online and offline) - the right to assemble - access to trustworthy information

Anyone else going to the EU Open Soirce Policy summit in Brussels this Friday? summit.openforumeurope.org

I'm halfway the Zuckerberg interview when they talk of jiujitsu. After the censorship & overregulation rant, before the comment on masculine energy. They have convinced me. I'm not quitting jiujitsu like I was thinking of. There's no way I'm letting that sport and art being captured by toxic men.

"Presidente, lei calpesta le formiche?" è un "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" che non ce l'ha fatta

Man creates toxic dump site: “Please plant flowers here.”

I think it just comes down to philosophies of free speech,” he says. “The last couple of years have seen a paradigm switch into a ‘one size fits all’ approach that’s dictated to you by billionaires www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Bluesky: the ‘safe space’ social media

Like many Bluesky users, Aaron Rodericks joined after leaving X. Now head of trust and safety, he explains why ‘free speech absolutism’ isn’t his phil...

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✨️CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITY✨️ At Civitates we are looking for two external evaluators to support the proposal assessment in our upcoming #Tech & Democracy open call, focusing on Southern and Central Eastern Europe. Full TOR: civitates-eu.org/wp-content/u... Some more details in the thread 👇

a woman in a black dress is walking down a street with #schitts creek written in the corner

ALT: a woman in a black dress is walking down a street with #schitts creek written in the corner

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On uncle's duty 🐈

🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports. The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

How does looking at the #SpotifyWrapped or the #Replay24 changes your music consumption? 🤔 Because I do change what I listen in the weeks or even first month's after in a (useless) attempt to steer or diversify next year's results

Ok, now I just need the private lists and I am at peace

Let’s talk about this insulting notion that Dems should “moderate” on issues regarding vulnerable communities and “wokeness” People having rights, protections, and access to accurate information isn’t “Leftist.” Our paradigm is intentionally misleading jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

What the Hell is Going On: An Explainer in these Strange Times

A jumping off point for those looking to understand how we got here, where we're going, and what we can do

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It's a wrap for the second Civitates Steering Committee meeting of the year! ❄️We met in Oslo with representatives of 23 foundations to discuss what the Super Election Year taught us and how to support democratic causes and communities. Excited for the plans ahead in 2025!

Where is Bluesky legally established in the EU what are its user numbers? Even modestly sized platforms need a page with such details as per the Digital Services Act. A spokesman for @ec.europa.eu said on Monday that the search is now on "for any trace" of @bsky.app in the EU's 27 member states.

I would be scared of pissing off the Tiny Desk Concerts fans... but ok, your call... 🤷‍♂️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans will take a look at defunding NPR

1/ I’ve become an unofficial evangelist for Bluesky. (I don’t work here.) As a former dir of product mgmt @Twitter, I’m impressed w/ the innovative and courageous choices Bluesky has made. They’ve come up with a better way to do social media. Some have asked me how I explain this outcome. A🧵>>>

I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.

Meet three incoming EU lawmakers in charge of key tech policy areas

Meet three incoming EU lawmakers in charge of key tech policy areas

The European Union looks to have clinched political agreement on the team of 26 commissioners who will be implementing President Ursula von der Leyen’s policy plan for the next five years. A final vote is still pending next week, but on Thursday,…

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