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Keren Weitzberg

@kerenweitzberg.bsky.social

#biometrics #borders #digitalidentity #migration #austerity #STS; senior lecturer in School of Politics and International Relations & IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University of London

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Duncan Money@mininghistory.bsky.social · last mo.

I ran a workshop on jobs in history outside universities for PhD students at the University of Vienna earlier this year and got very good feedback from participants, so I'm looking to run it again later this year. Please get in touch if this would interest your students or department.

Blue-coloured slide with the title "History Works" in white text. Underneath is the sub-title "Jobs and Careers Outside Universities for Historians and Other Experts of the Past" in light blue text.
Nanjala@nanjala.bsky.social · last mo.

As someone who has written a whole book about the importance of Twitter to public discourse I cannot emphasise enough important it is for people to log off the current incarnation of the site.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last mo.

“What we have is a shifting baseline,” said Dr Rob Robinson @btobirds.bsky.social... “People engaging in nature today are going to think the numbers they are seeing are normal, particularly children. But if you go back 50yrs, they would have been able to experience a much richer environment"

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

theguardian.com

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · last mo.

I wish UCU would actually push some cases of fake redundancy to court. Our own plan is to leave 3 people to do all the teaching. Next year that would be 37.5 hours in class alone each - the full week, without doing any preparation, research, marking etc. That’s not a real redundancy situation.

Aaron Martin@sixfouronea.net · last mo.

"[Rwanda's] immigration service, with the support of the Ministry in charge of refugees and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is currently conducting a [biomretric] registration campaign in all refugee camps as well as in urban centers." www.sosmediasburundi.org/en/2026/06/1...

Rwanda : the biometric card that could change refugees' lives - SOS Médias Burundi

SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, Rwanda, June 16, 2026 – Rwanda is continuing its digital transformation with the gradual rollout of a new biometric identity card for all its citizens and residents. This la...

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to train artificial-intelligence tools'.

Bots are scraping open data — how should researchers respond?

The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control of their information.

nature.com

United Tech & Allied Workers@utaw.tech · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Google DeepMind workers in UK have voted 98% in favour of unionising — demanding an end to AI use by Israel and the US military for perpetrating genocide in Gaza. If successful, they’ll be the first frontier AI lab in the world to unionise.

GOOGLE DEEPMIND WORKERS IN UNION RECOGNITION BID - 98% of Google DeepMind members vote YES
Keren Weitzberg@kerenweitzberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out this interview with my excellent colleague, Ib! And check out his new book, already nominated for a major prize in his field: academic.oup.com/book/60056

China and African Parliaments

Abstract. This book maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilization of three Parliament buildings in Southern Africa th

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School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University@qmulsse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ib Batsani-Ncube brings a new perspective on Chinese soft power in Africa looking at parliamentary buildings in the continent built by China. Interview by @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

Keren Weitzberg@kerenweitzberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congrats to my colleague Ib: His innovative new book, China and African Parliaments, is shortlisted for the prestigious L.H.M. Ling award! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University@qmulsse.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to Dr Innocent (Ib) Batsani-Ncube, whose book has been shortlisted for L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. Ib examines China's expanding influence, using parliament buildings as a lens for understanding China–Africa relations. Read more👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

Keren Weitzberg@kerenweitzberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"If humanitarian data is no longer the sole responsibility of traditional actors like UN humanitarian agencies...and humanitarian NGOs – assuming it ever was – we must ask ourselves if existing concepts and tools for governing humanitarian data are still tenable in a new era." tinyurl.com/34w6remb

All Data Is Humanitarian Data — Data Studies Bibliography

If in this new era all data has the potential to become humanitarian data, then it will be important for critical data scholars to further explore and theorize the humanitarian implications of seeming...

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