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Nicholas Loubere
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Associate Professor, Lund University. Chinese rural development, migration, resource extraction. Co-editor @madeinchinajournal.com. Views my own. @ndloubere@toot.community

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
Link to article here, fully open access and free to download: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
This demonstrates how susceptible institutions and populations are to 'official misinformation', particularly when trusted sources of information get co-opted and turned into amplifiers of falsehoods. Obviously, this is a crucial thing for us to come to grips with in our current reality. 7/

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
Public institutions and media both doubled down on messaging that went directly against international scientific consensus. What's more, this messaging got substantial buy-in across the population, resulting in very strange anti-mask outcomes. 6/

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
Gathering the data for this article was eye opening. The case of Sweden during the pandemic is fascinating and disturbing. Even in a place that prides itself on rationality and 'following the science', having the wrong people in positions of power resulted in intractable 'official misinformation' 5/

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
This is evident in our current moment as we watch trusted institutions being co-opted and transformed into disseminators of dis/misinformation. Particularly in the US, we are witnessing the wholesale takeover of the public health infrastructure by people who produce and spread harmful falsehoods. 4/

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
We conceptualise this as 'official misinformation', and argue that this kind of misinformation has the potential to do even more damage than the 'unofficial' anti-establishment misinformation that is generally focussed on. 3/

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
We demonstrate that SVT consistently amplified mask sceptic talking points from the Swedish Public Health Agency, which aligned with far right anti-mask dis/misinformation globally, and contributed to low levels of trust in mask efficacy among the general public in Sweden. 2/

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · 14d
Really glad to see this article with @mbgoransson.bsky.social and @pauloshea.bsky.social published in the Global Social Challenges Journal. The article presents a systematic review and analysis of how SVT covered the use of face masks in 2020. 1/ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Sep 22
Discussion forum in Area:

'Open access book publishing: A forum for debate'

Read 5 responses to Matthew Gandy's 2023 commentary on OA book publishing and the neoliberal academy, with a further reflection by Gandy on the issue two years on ⬇️

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A graphic advertising a collection of commentaries in Area on the topic of 'Open Access Book Publishing: A Forum for Debate' with contributions from Andrea E. Pia, Clancy Wilmott, Frank Houghton, Gerda Wielander, Jenny Lunn, Julie Cupples, Kate Lajtha, Matthew Gandy, Nicholas Loubere & Simon P.J. Batterbury. These names appear as a list on the pages of an open book with a black background and the Area and Royal Geographical Society logos at the top.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jul 23
Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass

www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
www.404media.co

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · May 11
This week it will be mine!!! 😂

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · May 8
The latest issue of the @madeinchinajournal.com is out. As always, fully open access. Read and share widely, there are fantastic pieces in here.
madeinchinajournal.com Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · May 8
The new Made in China Journal is out! Is journalism in China dead? As state control grows and old outlets vanish, new forms are emerging—from citizen exposés to cross-border investigations. This issue explores journalism's reinvention. Download for free at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/22/c...

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · May 8
The new Made in China Journal is out! Is journalism in China dead? As state control grows and old outlets vanish, new forms are emerging—from citizen exposés to cross-border investigations. This issue explores journalism's reinvention. Download for free at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/22/c...

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Dr. Martina Angela Caretta @drmacaretta.bsky.social · Mar 14
We have met regularly since 2023, but we finally are also visibile on the web! We are a group of @lund-university.bsky.social researchers focusing on extractivism. Keep an eye on the webpage for future events! www.keg.lu.se/en/research/...
Extractivism Research Group
Lund University. Meeting regularly since 2023, participants of the group conduct research in different geographical contexts and scales, using a range of methods and analytical framings. This rich poo...
www.keg.lu.se

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Mar 6
The new issue of GCP is out! How is Mandarin evolving in a changing world? Our contributors explore its transformation at China’s frontiers and beyond—where state control meets public innovation, and global encounters spark new hybrids. Download for free at globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Feb 14
From the 19th-century gold rushes to the current scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of the global capitalist system.

Join us in Lund from 16-19 June for the 2025 Global China Summer School. Deadline 14 March, apply here: www.ace.lu.se/article/glob...

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · Feb 11
Check out this online open lecture by Lizhi Liu as part of the Perspective Asia Lecture Series here at Lund University. It's open to all, just register at the link.

www.ace.lu.se/calendar/cli...

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Feb 11
Our new module is up! In it, we offer some perspectives on the challenges of doing research in and on China these days, specifically the ways in which various authors have grappled with the ethical and epistemic dimensions of studying China.
Approaches, Methods, and Challenges in Chinese Studies
This module offers some perspectives on the challenges of doing research in and on China these days, specifically the ways in which various authors have grappled with the ethical and epistemic dimensi...
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Dec 23
The latest issue of Global China Pulse is out! This one delves deep into the online scam industry, and the human trafficking and cyber slavery that accompanies it. As always, it is fully Open Access and free to download. globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · Dec 22
a very klingon festivus

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · Dec 18
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
www.theverge.com

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Dec 17
Vulgarity has a long history in China and three decades of internet development have only amplified its relevance. In this essay in Global China Pulse, Gabriele De Seta describes how different registers of vulgarity overlap across Chinese everyday life and media contexts.
Ball-Ache, Cow Pussy, and Dick Hair: Vulgarity in Chinese Internet Language
In July 2024, ByteDance’s Douyin app—the Chinese version of TikTok—introduced a system through which live streamers are ranked on a six-tier scale of ‘health points’ (健康分 jiankangfen), with the platfo...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · Dec 13
Mycket tal om desinformation i sociala medier just nu. Det är rimligt och viktigt.

Men vi ska inte glömma när ett fullständigt medialt simulacrum skapades av myndigheter och respektabla medier om att svenskar var följsamma mot FHM:s smittskyddsråd.

Detta var en luftskapelse.

Överdriver jag?

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AAUP @aaup.org · Dec 12
BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU.

“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.

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www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU
The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...
www.aaup.org

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · Dec 12
This is peak something. I'm not really sure what, but definitely it is peak something...

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · Dec 11
Honestly, the insanity of the healthcare system and the evilness of the private insurers was a key reason that I decided to leave the USA (where I was born and raised) nearly two decades ago and never think once about returning to live in the country.

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Dec 11
Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.
After Art: Precarity and Expulsion in Songzhuang | Made in China Journal
Wang Chunchen’s 2010 monograph on the changing role of art in Chinese society opens and ends with accounts of the forced resettlement of artists and the sudden demolition of their studios in Beijing’s...
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Dec 9
At Chinese restaurants in Nairobi, interactions between Kenyan employees and Chinese customers are often tense, hampered by language barriers. In this essay in Global China Pulse, Amanda Kaminsky recounts an example where pidgin English facilitates fleeting moments of affinity between strangers.
Playing with the Rules at Duck Express: Workplace Banter at a Chinese Restaurant in Nairobi
‘I’m getting good at dealing with these Chinese guys,’ Grace (a pseudonym, as are all other names of people and businesses in this essay) told me one day after joking around with a customer. Grace was...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · Dec 8
as said many times before, campism is incredibly West-centric bc it's never concerned in the slightest with the agency of non-western peoples, reducing struggles elsewhere and everywhere to a fake anti-imperialist analysis centering US foreign policy

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Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social · Dec 7
Really very, very grim stuff here. And important to remember that the Swedish pandemic experiment and subsequent refusal to acknowledge what a disaster it was has played a key role in legitimising this kind of thing.
gavinyamey.bsky.social Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Dec 7
Oh good, MAGA leaders will go after “woke” universities & cut their funds!

Dr Bhattacharya “weighs withholding massive research grants from universities that are too ‘woke’”

Gotta end that woke research on LGBTQ health, structural racism, & climate science!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s team looking at withholding massive research grants from ‘woke’ schools
Trump’s nominee to head the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, wants to target so-called ‘cancel culture’ at top universities
www.independent.co.uk