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Mauro Gatti
@maurogatti.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of EU Law, University of Bologna. Research on EU foreign policy and freedom of religion.

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Clem Fon @clemfon.bsky.social · 1d
Relying on LLMs to get your diploma and is similar to forging PhD research for boosting your political career in Germany

You think it creates shortcuts and notability for getting the top job. But as you are only interested in the CV line, you don't learn anything.

And one day, you are exposed.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 1d
Toddler : “do Witches exist?”

Husband, a law professor: “of course not”

Me, someone in religious studies: “well, actually…” *proceeds to listing all the Pagan and Wiccan practitioners I’ve met in my life

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 1d
Erik Nielsen with another good example of why bureaucracy isn’t really Germanys main woe.

The US wastes 3x the resources on healthcare admin 👀

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Cristina Correani @moonlightshad1.bsky.social · 3d
Le scuole non sono un talk show dove viene imposto un pluralismo d'accatto perché se parla uno deve parlare anche un altro. Dov'è finita l'autonomia scolastica? Perché docenti e dirigenti non si ribellano ai diktat di un ministro reazionario?

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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 4d
✊ From the late 19th century, socialist movements adopted the raised fist as a symbol of unity and strength.

One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.
A red fist, representing collective power, emerging from a crowd of workers waving the red flag.

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Giulio Cavalli @giuliocavalli.bsky.social · 6d
Gabriele Nunziati, cronista a Bruxelles, ha perso il lavoro per una domanda su Israele. La portavoce della Commissione l’aveva definita «interessante». L’agenzia Nova l’ha giudicata «sbagliata» e ha interrotto la collaborazione.
Fare domande oggi è rischio.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 7d
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 8d
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 8d
Gaza and Academia: repression, IHRA definition of antisemitism, educide - Seminar online now (3/11, 10:00 CET) tinyurl.com/RUPTwitch
With: Aya Ashour; Collettivo Academics for Justice; Donatella Della Porta; Nicola Perugini; Federica Stagni

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Eddy Wax @eddywax.bsky.social · 10d
Still way too much US news on here

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 10d
Happy #Halloween!
This Roman miniature skeleton with flexible joints, jumps and dances when shaken.
The Romans called these skeletons larva convivalis, meaning banquet ghost, and were handed out to guests at dinner parties to remind them to have fun while they were alive.

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Jacopo Di Miceli @jacopodimiceli.bsky.social · 10d
2/ In this video, meanwhile, fascist chants and shouts in praise of the Duce can be heard coming from the Meloni party’s headquarters in Parma, also used by the Brothers of Italy youth wing. The video has been recorded on October 28, the anniversary of the March on Rome.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 17d
Do you want to attend a great workshop? Also online? Check this out!

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18d
Italy, Denmark & Netherlands host meeting in Brussels on "innovative" solutions to migration issues. For "innovative" read paying Libyan militias even more to imprison & torture migrants and increased funding for the Tunisian régime to round up migrants and dump them in the desert to die.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 18d
I loved working& living in the Netherlands, but my department in Rotterdam only wanted me for teaching and did not want me to apply to grants.

So I got a big and prestigious research grant but in another university and told them I was leaving and they would get 0 of my money 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Mauro Gatti

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18d
“Quand les mots changent, la politique change : comment le centre fait le jeu de l’extrême droite”
Quand les mots changent, la politique change : comment le centre fait le jeu de l’extrême droite
Assiste-t-on à une extrême droitisation du champ politique ? Avec le politiste Antoine Lemor, nous avons cherché à répondre à cette question en analysant les discours de politique générale des Premie…
blogs.mediapart.fr

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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 19d
The ICJ found against the United States in a contentious case against Nicaragua in 1986, proceedings which lead to the US withdrawing from the Court's compulsory jurisdiction.

Here was the reported reaction of the US administration at the time:

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 19d
Would you hug Jesus?

Apparently, a recent trend is using AI for posts and videos of Jesus hugging people.
me hugging Jesus

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 21d
France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
sciencebusiness.net

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 21d
The woman who "invented" the Erasmus exchange programme, Sofia Corrado, formerly Professor of Adult Education at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, has died aged 91. She was affectionately known as "Mamma Erasmus."
Sofia Corradi, che ha inventato l’Erasmus “per amore di un americano”. L’ultima intervista a d
Aveva 91 anni e 5 milioni di “figli”: tutti gli studenti partiti con il programma di scambio culturale che ha inventato quando, a fine anni 50, è partita negli…
d.repubblica.it

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22d
The front page of nytimes.com currently features:

0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government

1 article about otters stealing surfboards

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24d
this clip is apparently from February but evidently there may be a lesson here for who romanticizes prizes
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27d
Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Henning Lahmann 🟥 @hlahmann.bsky.social · 24d
Here’s a thought: Any legal analysis that goes deeper than a simple “the US administration’s attempts at justification are obviously blanket bullshit and the conduct is glaringly illegal and thus amounts to murder plain and simple“ is dangerous and damaging to the prohibition of the use of force.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 25d
Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?
porcupunk.bsky.social Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · 26d
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25d
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
porcupunk.bsky.social Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · 26d
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 26d
This should have never happened. When we disembarked in La Spezia on Friday, we overheard health professionals on the shore saying, that given the condition of the people on board, La Spezia should have never been assigned as our harbor. bsky.app/profile/en.s...

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Matsu Basho 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 @matsubasho.bsky.social · 27d
« La ministre [italienne] de l’égalité des chances du gouvernement Meloni a critiqué les voyages scolaires à Auschwitz, qui, selon elle, associent injustement l’antisémitisme à l’extrême droite. »

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
En Italie, vive polémique autour de la mémoire de la Shoah
La ministre de l’égalité des chances du gouvernement Meloni a critiqué les voyages scolaires à Auschwitz, qui, selon elle, associent injustement l’antisémitisme à l’extrême droite. De quoi relancer le...
www.lemonde.fr

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 27d
Today officials from both Tripoli & Benghazi are visiting Frontex in Warsaw and then tomorrow the European Commission in Brussels. These people are funded by the EU to imprison and torture migrants, extort money from them and then shoot at them and throw them into the sea when they attempt to cross.
Missione riservata in Europa: Frontex riceve per la prima volta funzionari libici di Haftar
La delegazione sarà composta da uomini di Tripoli e Bengasi, insieme. La Libia divisa si mostra unita con l’Europa, che vuole più controlli alle frontiere e più rimpatri. Dopo Varsavia (quartier gener...
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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · Oct 11
Opponents of the Italian government - from activists to bankers - are being targeted by spyware. I wonder who may be behind this.
vaspanagiotopoulos.com Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · Oct 11
NEW: ⚠️ Andrea Orcel, CEO of UniCredit – one of 🇮🇹 Italy’s largest and most influential banking groups – was also targeted with Graphite #spyware by the Israeli firm #Paragon Solutions, according to @irpimedia.eu & @lastampa.bsky.social.

✍️ @faffa42.bsky.social

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · Oct 11
NEW: ⚠️ Andrea Orcel, CEO of UniCredit – one of 🇮🇹 Italy’s largest and most influential banking groups – was also targeted with Graphite #spyware by the Israeli firm #Paragon Solutions, according to @irpimedia.eu & @lastampa.bsky.social.

✍️ @faffa42.bsky.social

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