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Cornelia Grobner
@corneliag.bsky.social
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trying // feminism // science journalism // vienna

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blaetter.bsky.social
Auch nach über zwei Jahren Krieg ist ein Ende der weltweit größten humanitären Krise nicht in Sicht. Im Vergleich zu anderen Konflikten erhält der Krieg im #Sudan international wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Wie konnte es überhaupt zu dieser katastrophalen Eskalation kommen? www.blaetter.de/dossiers/sud...
Sudan: Der vergessene Krieg
Auch nach über zwei Jahren Krieg ist ein Ende der weltweit größten humanitären Krise nicht in Sicht. Im Vergleich zu anderen Konflikten erhält der Krieg im Sudan international wenig Aufmerksamkeit.…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nadiazaboura.bsky.social
„there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.“
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 16d
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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tamaraehs.bsky.social
Lektüreempfehlung polit. Buch: "Crooked Cross" v Sally Carson – die (Wieder-)Entdeckung des Jahres. Carson beschreibt (fiktionalisiert), was man schon 1932/33 (auch als Touristin) in einem bayrischen Dorf über KZ und NS-System wissen konnte. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
Ancient Roman science fiction! Prester John getting mixed up with Mongol invaders! The pyramids of Cahokia! Foucault!

All this AND MORE in the latest entry in my series on the ancient history of drone technology:
The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: Forgotten Technologies, Towers, and Roman Shitposting
Humanity has long dreamed of being able to see everything around us. From the perspective of a bird. From the perspective of a god. From the perspective of a vast network of god-like eyes. Today, we ...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
corneliag.bsky.social
American journalist, attorney, and law professor Kate Klonick about our political and digital future: It has never been about free speech, but about their speech spotify.link/X0WFasNGIXb
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October 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Oct 19
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Oct 11
That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.
dontbeonline • 1d ago Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more • Contains: Bad Boys (The...
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
corneliag.bsky.social
„Glaub an den Nutzen des Nutzlosen!“ Über die drei Chemienobelpreisträger: www.diepresse.com/20180493
Chemie-Nobelpreis für Molekül-Architektur, die der Umwelt nützen...
Den Chemie-Nobelpreis 2025 teilen sich ein Japaner, ein Australier und ein US-Amerikaner. Ihre Forschung könnte Bedeutung für die Lösung von Umweltproblemen haben.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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superscienceme.bsky.social
SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB Termine zum Mit- und Vorauslesen:

28.09.2025 "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" von Hiromi Kawakami

26.10.2025 - Österreich und andere Nationen-Fiktionen in der SF

23.11.2025 "Die Wand" von Marlen Haushofer

14:00 auf @radioorange940.bsky.social

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September 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading "AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
corneliag.bsky.social
Wann rentiert es sich, ein Kind zu retten, fragt der Autor Elias Hirschl:
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Wann rentiert es sich, ein Kind zu retten, fragt der Autor Elias...
Du bist auf dem Weg zur Arbeit, als du in einem Teich neben der Straße ein Kind ertrinken siehst. Springst du ins Wasser? Dein Anzug wird nass, und du verspätest dich etwas zur Arbeit. Es würde...
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October 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
corneliag.bsky.social
„But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement.“ bsky.app/profile/fish...
fishkin.bsky.social Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Oct 1
@pastpunditry.bsky.social 's column in the NYT is terrific. This is why we need historians writing opinion pieces!

It also underscores something I keep thinking about lately. During the Second Red Scare era, 75 years ago, one key piece of background was there really were Soviet spies around!

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Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either
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October 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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mmiedl.bsky.social
ich war letztens beim 16. dialogforum mauthausen und hab über die notwendigkeit lokaler gedenkorte geschrieben

topos.orf.at/mauthausen-l...
NS-Tatorte und das Ringen ums Gedenken - ORF Topos
Wohnsiedlungen und Gewerbeparks statt würdiger Erinnerungsstätten: Wie mit einstigen NS-Tatorten umgegangen wird, ist auch 80 Jahre nach der Befreiung oft genug strittiges Thema. Speziell, wenn es um ...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
Historians, entirely unsurprised by genetic ancestry research since 1949
September 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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eintagimjahr.bsky.social
Liebe Tagebuchfreund*innen, am Samstag ist es wieder soweit: Wir schreiben den 27. September auf! In der Tradition von Christa Wolf u.a. haben wir eintagimjahr.wordpress.com 2015 gestartet - und schreiben dieses Jahr schon zum 10. Mal (!) "Einen Tag im Jahr" ausführlich auf. 🥳Seid gespannt!
Ein Tag im Jahr
Ein vielstimmiges Tagebuchprojekt, immer zum 27. September.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.
Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas
Tradwives influencers’ throw-back aesthetics mask a divisive ideology about women’s roles, two scholars of extremism explain.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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smotus.bsky.social
There's a wrong way and a right way to report this
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
A picture is worth 1000 words:

At what I think was one of the most extreme, kooky, anti-science press conferences in history, you see Trump & RFK Jr’s henchmen—3 medically trained men doing their anti-vaxx bidding, Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, & Oz

The damage these MDs are doing is incalculable
Today’s Trump press conference
September 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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fishkin.bsky.social
I think this argument (see picture) by Jamelle Bouie, and the points that followed from David French, are exactly right.

The right has gotten the idea that politicians and elites control American culture in a very top-down way. This is mostly, as Bouie says, "a bit of projection"...
When Vance talked about going after NGOs earlier in the year, Elon Musk had similar words: We defunded or we destroyed U.S.A.I.D. We’ve done a blow to the left. What they believe is that liberal politics, liberalism, social justice politics — all these beliefs — are top-down phenomena of elites that they don’t like. So if you get rid of them, if you go after George Soros, if you go after the Ford Foundation, if you go after U.S.A.I.D., if you go after television comedians, then people will stop believing this stuff. You will then secure your victory because none of this is real. It’s all just top-down. I happen to think this is a bit of projection about the nature of their political movement — that it is quite top-down. It is funded by, you know, secretive billionaires who can allow someone like Charlie Kirk to work out the kind of performance they’re doing without really having to worry about earning money in any way. There’s this huge infrastructure of money and influence on the political right that does what I think they imagine happens on the political left. And I think the weak point in this strategy is simply that the stuff they hate flows organically up from the bottom. The reason George Floyd became a cause for millions of Americans isn’t because a bunch of liberal elites in television studios were telling people, “You have to care about George Floyd.” This was an organic reaction of society to something that many people felt was wrong. Their feelings that it was wrong, in turn, are a product of organic changes in society. It’s a product of integration among people. It’s a product of scholars and historians doing their own work, slowly changing our understanding of what American history is. It’s just a product of civil society and democratic life happening spontaneously. That’s not something you can control from the top down. Successful authoritarians know this. [text is getting cut off - full text gift link in the linked post below]
September 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
corneliag.bsky.social
"Unlike speaking, which humans develop organically, reading is an acquired skill that literally rewires the brain. (...) Every bedtime story, every conversation about a book, every moment of focused attention is rewiring our children’s minds for the better."
lithub.com/how-to-raise...
How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction
People make certain assumptions about you when you’re the CEO of a children’s book company. Some assume I must have spent my childhood summers in a hammock reading Rebecca of Sunnybrook…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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beritmiriam.bsky.social
Mein erster Tipp an Eltern von Teenagern, die sich Sorgen um Social Media machen, ist übrigens regelmäßig Links mit den Jugendlichen zu teilen.

Das hat 2 Effekte:
1. Man verbringt selbst aktiv Zeit auf der Plattform, wo sie sind
2. Jeder geklickte Link verändert den Algo ihrer Timelines
September 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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johannesfranzen.bsky.social
Wer das Internet und seinen Irrsinn besser verstehen will, sollte diesen Newsletter abonnieren.
beritmiriam.bsky.social Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · Sep 13
"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."
Brainrot Morde oder wie man einen Abgrund überwindet
In den USA ist am 10.
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September 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM