Big thanks also to her thesis reviewers, @thorstenquandt.bsky.social and @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social! 🙏 - as well as the defense chair, @hajoboo.bsky.social. We saw very proud supervisors today w/ @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social 🤗

Mit Jason Stanley und Tim Snyder verlassen zwei wichtige Forscher zu Faschismus und Autoritarismus die USA für Kanada. Sie wissen, was kommt. Auch @brynntannehill.bsky.social, die schon vor Jahren vor dem warnte, was jetzt geschieht, geht nach Kanada ins Exil. Lest ihr Buch „American Fascism“.

Brynn Tannehill@brynntannehill.bsky.social · last yr.

This is like watching all the animals fleeing inland right before a tsunami. They know what's coming. So did Einstein in 1932 when he left. Doctors Stanley and Snyder are two of the top experts on authoritarianism, and have called it quits. I'll be joining them in Canada this summer.

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

I hereby predict, @archive.org will be among the Trump administration's next target, following Orwell's famous dictum that "[t]hose who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

404 Media@404media.co · 2y ago

​Archivists recreate pre-Trump CDC website, hosting it in Europe. ​ 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-r...

Does the concept of oligarchy clarify the political-economic aims of the second Trump administration? Not at all, our columnist Ross Douthat writes.

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is About Ideology, Not Oligarchy

Trump’s agenda doesn’t serve the superrich.

nytimes.com

Trumps Angriff auf die Wissenschaft #Trump #Wissenschaft

Trumps Angriff auf die Wissenschaft

Der Kahlschlag am US-Staatsapparat betrifft auch die Wissenschaft. Kommt es zu einem Exodus nach Europa?

tagesschau.de

How do conspiracy theories spread across digital platforms—and how does their style evolve? A new study by Annett Heft, Xixuan Zhang, and myself in New Media & Society analyzes veiled conspiracism across 4chan, X/Twitter, and far-right partisan media from 2011–2021. 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

If you're curious how a democracy transitions from a free press to state-run media, this is the kind of step you'd expect to see.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2y ago

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."

To get a sense of some of the specific types of grant research being affected at universities by the anti-DEI McCarythism here is excellent student reporting with details…

Senate committee flags $11 million in Penn research grants for advancing DEI, ‘neo-Marxist’ values

The committee's database cited 15 grants awarded to Penn faculty by the National Science Foundation, identifying them as “woke” and “questionable” for advancing DEI and “neo-Marxist class warfare prop...

thedp.com

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

I min første artikel på dansk skriver @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social og jeg om indflydelsen fra tech-oligarker og digitale platforme i den aktuelle tyske valgkamp. Tak til @videnskab.dk! videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Det tyske valg er en generalprøve for EU’s evne til at håndtere valgindblanding

Elon Musk forsøger at påvirke det tyske valg. Men kan Tyskland og EU overhovedet gøre noget ved det?

videnskab.dk

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I am happy to announce that I will be defending my PhD with the title: "Burn it Down: Anti-Systemic Narratives and Counterpublics in Digital Alternative Information Environments" 🎉 🔥

OUR BOOK IS OUT!!! It's called "The Institutional Development of #Podcasting" and is co-authored with Thomas Spejlborg Sejersen, published by Routledge. It's been a long process. I'm happy we succeeded in getting to this point. This is a big f***ing deal. www.routledge.com/The-Institut...

"Journalism and Alternative Media" Open seminar in the Nordic Journalism Research Seminar Series (NordJourn), with presentations by Stephen Cushion and @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social. When: December 7, 3-4:30pm Where: Virtual (on Zoom)