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Federica Genovese
@fgenovese.bsky.social
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Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her

https://www.federica-genovese.com/

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 8h
GB losing in curling: 😭

ITA winning in curling: 🚀

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12h
winners and losers, i see winners and losers

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12h
AOC’s point here is generalizable: in a democracy ppl can organize if their community is ID’ed as recipient location of isolated migration centers

In Italy this has ~never happened bc the targeted hotspots are usually very marginalized to begin w/. That said, ppl hate these things in their backyard
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12h
heard somebody softly complaining about coding something and surely my brain must have reached peak obnoxious levels because my immediate thought was “darling back in my day we did all of that without claude”

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12h
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.

Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
ottoenglish.bsky.social Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h
This is pretty menacing.

Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."

When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Reform UK threatens to cut funding for Welsh university after debating society bans party from campus want to go to Bangor University' said nobody ever. Especially if Bangor University is stripped of government funding and student loan facilities by @reformparty_uk Is that "in line with your values,' poppets?

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14h
major stuff

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14h
If this is what chaos with Ed Miliband means, I’ll take it
drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15h
BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.

All due online by 2029.

Reposted by Andréas Nilsson, Federica Genovese

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15h
BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.

All due online by 2029.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 16h
Cyclones, floods, landslides, collapsing towns. Extreme weather events meet decades of bad urbanisation and decaying buildings.

No, it is not the faraway Global South. It is Sicily, Europe.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘We’ve lost everything’: anger and despair in Sicilian town collapsing after landslide
People in Niscemi struggle to comprehend loss of homes and businesses and feel disaster could have been avoided
www.theguardian.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
but, fwiw, the work-life/diversity issue *is* a more divisive by age, gender and education levels

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
^ results from a conjoint experiment of working age adults asked to select across job profiles

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
Farage is pushing this for efficiency (DOGE!) but also bc he gets that work forms identity and it shapes (sometimes coercively) political ideology

But maybe his position is popular?

Well, idk... A survey of ours (from 2 weeks ago) shows that GB men & women w/ various edu actually really prefer wfh
Results from recent UK survey by Genovese Pring and Salamon

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
Take in the victory of Seguro in Portugal. Yes, it is bleak that the center-right would not endorse him against the racist provocateur named Ventura, and yes it is true that Chega got 1/3 of the votes, but you gotta take the wins.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
listing nations of America from south to north, absolutely love it

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
bad bunny putting up a show that would cause a cardiac arrest to half the Republican caucus if they only watched it

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DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · 1d
Jeffrey Epstein suchte die Nähe zu genialen Wissenschaftlern. Und sie seine. Auch, als sein System aus Missbrauch und Vergewaltigung aufflog. Es lockte mehr als nur Geld.
Jeffrey Epstein: Seine Interessen: Frauen ausbeuten und mit Forschern abhängen
Jeffrey Epstein suchte die Nähe zu genialen Wissenschaftlern. Und sie seine. Auch, als sein System aus Missbrauch und Vergewaltigung aufflog. Es lockte mehr als nur Geld.
www.zeit.de

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
me watching: 🫣

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
i mean how is luge a health and safety compliant sport

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d
mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
Essex is a bellwether, but more eyes should be on Clacton, a community still left behind but where things are happening (small start ups, offshore energy projects, East Anglia middle class moving in because of housing, etc).
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d
I am in Billericay, Essex, where I was told that "there is a lot going on in politics" (twice, separately, but in identical words). There are somewhat contrasting views of what is likely to happen & what should happen. The in-laws were median belwether voters 1979 to 2016-19, who have shifted right

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d
I am in Billericay, Essex, where I was told that "there is a lot going on in politics" (twice, separately, but in identical words). There are somewhat contrasting views of what is likely to happen & what should happen. The in-laws were median belwether voters 1979 to 2016-19, who have shifted right

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
i don’t know how you can watch any sport in the olympics without constantly going “this is truly insane”

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
I have faith in men to regulate a lot of behaviors and make academia better, but this faith relies on the assumption that we can provide a context where this correction can be done (let alone be incentivized), and this is what worries me.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
I have worked with lots of amazing men that had my back. I have big esteem of men who criticize my work with fairness and seriousness. I have many male coauthors I trust immensely.

I‘ve also had advances from older male profs and job negotiations w/ male pros that were rude to say the least.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
I believe US universities made the social sciences better and I see US influence in university-building around the world in the 20th c as a big net positive.

But US liberalism has a dark side, the JE model is a product of it, and one implication is reinforced sexism and masculine cult in academia.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
There are many phenomenal men in the sector that walk the talk of truth-seeking by method and no other bias.

There are also many that only nominally honour the craft of scientific inquiry but are driven by status and selectivity and cherish a world where that power is concentrated among the ingroup

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
Look, if you are genuinely surprised, you haven’t really interacted deeply and widely within academia, you dont know its strengths and weaknesses, you dont understand its political economy, and you have not paid attention to claims and investigations when ten years ago MeToo made the academy shake.
nature.com Nature @nature.com · 4d
Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known.

go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.
go.nature.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
which begs the question, has the majority of the US elite class, even the liberal one, been anything but hierarchy driven and masculinity-affirming?
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d
*That's* what it looks like when US elites care about something & want to advance it. That's the benchmark.

And with that benchmark in mind, we can ask, are they -- or were they ever -- similarly committed to climate or diversity?

LOL.