Mari Elken
@marielken.bsky.social
Associate prof in higher education at University of Oslo @unioslo-uv.bsky.social. Side gig at NIFU @nifu.bsky.social.
#Highered stuff on org, policy and governance, but mostly distracted..
#Highered stuff on org, policy and governance, but mostly distracted..
And the consequences are probably vast...
A new digital era is emerging, and it’s even more anti-social than the last. Damon Beres reports on the false promise of AI companionship:
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
And the consequences are probably vast...
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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📢 New publication! Who climbs the Ivory Tower?
It’s not just a coincidence, as @aresherman.bsky.social, @astridsandsor.bsky.social, and Nicolai Topstad Borgen observe, even in egalitarian Norway.
Read the full paper 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s not just a coincidence, as @aresherman.bsky.social, @astridsandsor.bsky.social, and Nicolai Topstad Borgen observe, even in egalitarian Norway.
Read the full paper 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Who Climbs the Ivory Tower? Social Origins of Academic Faculty in an Egalitarian Welfare State - Nicolai T. Borgen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør, 2025
Although there is an extensive literature on intergenerational mobility in education, including the completion of PhD degrees, far less is known about the trans...
journals.sagepub.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
📢 New publication! Who climbs the Ivory Tower?
It’s not just a coincidence, as @aresherman.bsky.social, @astridsandsor.bsky.social, and Nicolai Topstad Borgen observe, even in egalitarian Norway.
Read the full paper 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s not just a coincidence, as @aresherman.bsky.social, @astridsandsor.bsky.social, and Nicolai Topstad Borgen observe, even in egalitarian Norway.
Read the full paper 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Well, they are funding the war in Ukraine. Nothing indirect about it.
German companies pay Russia €1.72bn in taxes, indirectly funding war
German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.
www.euronews.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Well, they are funding the war in Ukraine. Nothing indirect about it.
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If you are interested in Norwegian Education Policy, @marielken.bsky.social & I have a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics (edited by great colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social) entitled "Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation"
t.co/qHsCMXMgZT
t.co/qHsCMXMgZT
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61540/chapter/537135514
t.co
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If you are interested in Norwegian Education Policy, @marielken.bsky.social & I have a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics (edited by great colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social) entitled "Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation"
t.co/qHsCMXMgZT
t.co/qHsCMXMgZT
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Reposted by Mari Elken
KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.
Provoserende husmødre på NRK
KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.
www.forskersonen.no
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
How to feel old in academia, Vol.26: When students are genuinely surprised when you catch their Horizon Zero Dawn reference.
#highered #academia #academicsky
#highered #academia #academicsky
September 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
How to feel old in academia, Vol.26: When students are genuinely surprised when you catch their Horizon Zero Dawn reference.
#highered #academia #academicsky
#highered #academia #academicsky
2 weeks until deadline! :)
Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!)
www.neonnet.no
www.neonnet.no
Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge
www.neonnet.no
September 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
2 weeks until deadline! :)
The saga of trying to buy a bus ticket in Thessaloniki. Two days, still dont know how. Have been told to buy from bus driver (not possible), then inside the bus (no such machines existed) and now from a kiosk (two have said nope). Must be some secret bus ticket selling society somewhere.
August 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The saga of trying to buy a bus ticket in Thessaloniki. Two days, still dont know how. Have been told to buy from bus driver (not possible), then inside the bus (no such machines existed) and now from a kiosk (two have said nope). Must be some secret bus ticket selling society somewhere.
Conference time in Thessaloniki @ecpr.bsky.social. Curious mix of academic work, warm weather and a campus with a lot of eh.. identity?
August 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Conference time in Thessaloniki @ecpr.bsky.social. Curious mix of academic work, warm weather and a campus with a lot of eh.. identity?
Somehow further validates South Park S27 E1... even more.
August 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Somehow further validates South Park S27 E1... even more.
Uncle Jimmy's Warning - Scene | The Bear | FX
YouTube video by FX Networks
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag.
This of course is very different.
This of course is very different.
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
nbcnews.to
August 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag.
This of course is very different.
This of course is very different.
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On June 16, Doctors Without Borders sent an open letter with a very clear message to EU leaders: The #EU can and must act now to stop mass atrocities in #Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
Palestine: MSF statement on the EU’s failure to protect people in Gaza again | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
The EU ignores calls to end Gaza’s siege, enabling Israel’s attacks on civilians amid ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
July 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
On June 16, Doctors Without Borders sent an open letter with a very clear message to EU leaders: The #EU can and must act now to stop mass atrocities in #Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
Not often I would post links to Twitter here, but here is e1 of s27 of South Park... launched a few days after they signed a new contract with Paramount, who owns CBS who cancelled Colbert.. This just deserves to be shared. I am looking forward to the fallout. x.com/timetravelje...
Nick on X: "South Park Full Episode season 27 https://t.co/DxHo9pk5p9" / X
South Park Full Episode season 27 https://t.co/DxHo9pk5p9
x.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Not often I would post links to Twitter here, but here is e1 of s27 of South Park... launched a few days after they signed a new contract with Paramount, who owns CBS who cancelled Colbert.. This just deserves to be shared. I am looking forward to the fallout. x.com/timetravelje...
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Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime.
Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.
Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.
International Academic Appeal Against Repression in Serbia
We, members of the Serbian academic diaspora and our colleagues from the international academic community, are raising our voices in strong condemnation of the escalating violence, repression, and int...
docs.google.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime.
Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.
Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.
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Å peke på det problematiske med å bruke borgerkrigsretorikk og hundefløyter er en sånn gøy deltidsjobb jeg har hatt de siste fjorten årene uten å be om det, det blir liksom aldri gammelt men av og til så er det nødvendig å forklare enkle sammenhenger og synd for dere i dag er en sånn dag igjen.
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Å peke på det problematiske med å bruke borgerkrigsretorikk og hundefløyter er en sånn gøy deltidsjobb jeg har hatt de siste fjorten årene uten å be om det, det blir liksom aldri gammelt men av og til så er det nødvendig å forklare enkle sammenhenger og synd for dere i dag er en sånn dag igjen.
Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!)
www.neonnet.no
www.neonnet.no
Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge
www.neonnet.no
June 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!)
www.neonnet.no
www.neonnet.no
What could go wrong.
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
What could go wrong.
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#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres.
Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...
Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...
Palestine: Dozens of Palestinians massacred at U.S.-Israel backed food distribution sites | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Dozens of Palestinians killed, hundreds injured while seeking food at Gaza humanitarian assistance distribution sites backed by the U.S. and Israel. MSF teams join the mass casualty response amid repo...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
June 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres.
Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...
Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...
Not sure whether use of chatGPT makes the report worse than what it would have been otherwise.
NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Not sure whether use of chatGPT makes the report worse than what it would have been otherwise.