Chiara Loschi
@drkiarastorm.bsky.social
Science & Technology Studies; Migration & Environment; University of Bologna @drkiarastorm@mastodon.bida.im
On Bluesky since August 2023 Likes≠endorsements
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On Bluesky since August 2023 Likes≠endorsements
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BRISMES Council wrote to Helmut Schmidt University to express concern over the forthcoming keynote by Dr Graicer, an instructor in the Israeli Defence Forces, entitled “Extracting Order from Chaos: Lessons from Military Design in an Eight-Front War.” 1/3 👉 shorturl.at/QQR7G
August 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
BRISMES Council wrote to Helmut Schmidt University to express concern over the forthcoming keynote by Dr Graicer, an instructor in the Israeli Defence Forces, entitled “Extracting Order from Chaos: Lessons from Military Design in an Eight-Front War.” 1/3 👉 shorturl.at/QQR7G
For nerds corner: Diablo workers, last of Blizzard teams, unionize over layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI
aftermath.site/diablo-union...
aftermath.site/diablo-union...
Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - Aftermath
Workers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, joining the teams behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft before them.
aftermath.site
August 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
For nerds corner: Diablo workers, last of Blizzard teams, unionize over layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI
aftermath.site/diablo-union...
aftermath.site/diablo-union...
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As pleased as I am to see EU governments offer funding to attract US scholars, there are loads of talented European scholars who’ve struggled to find permanent positions. They could use some help.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America
The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.
www.wsj.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As pleased as I am to see EU governments offer funding to attract US scholars, there are loads of talented European scholars who’ve struggled to find permanent positions. They could use some help.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Tick tock University of Amsterdam, tick tock…
June 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Tick tock University of Amsterdam, tick tock…
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⚖️ 🌐 #ClimateLitigation alert: follow today's hearing at the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris in the greenwashing case brpught by @amisdelaterre.org @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social & @greenpeace.fr against TotalEnergies.
Brilliant live reporting by @julietrenaud.bsky.social 👇
Brilliant live reporting by @julietrenaud.bsky.social 👇
⚖️Affaire Total #greenwashing : L'audience commence au tribunal judiciaire de Paris dans une salle pleine à craquer.
Ce recours a été lancé en 2022 par @amisdelaterre.org @greenpeace.fr et @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social avec le soutien de @clientearth.bsky.social
Suivez en direct les plaidoiries👇
Ce recours a été lancé en 2022 par @amisdelaterre.org @greenpeace.fr et @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social avec le soutien de @clientearth.bsky.social
Suivez en direct les plaidoiries👇
🔴C'est aujourd'hui !
A 14h, Total sera au tribunal, pour répondre de son greenwashing et de ses publicités trompeuses pour les consommateurs !
Les enjeux de ce dossier sont expliqués ici 👇
A 14h, Total sera au tribunal, pour répondre de son greenwashing et de ses publicités trompeuses pour les consommateurs !
Les enjeux de ce dossier sont expliqués ici 👇
June 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
⚖️ 🌐 #ClimateLitigation alert: follow today's hearing at the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris in the greenwashing case brpught by @amisdelaterre.org @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social & @greenpeace.fr against TotalEnergies.
Brilliant live reporting by @julietrenaud.bsky.social 👇
Brilliant live reporting by @julietrenaud.bsky.social 👇
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This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester
They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar
SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar
SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester
They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar
SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar
SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
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@drkiarastorm.bsky.social and I have a new article out in International Migration on the multiple modes of ordering in the EU border regime that come with introducing interoperability btw databases of migration control. Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime
Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis-laden management of migration....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
@drkiarastorm.bsky.social and I have a new article out in International Migration on the multiple modes of ordering in the EU border regime that come with introducing interoperability btw databases of migration control. Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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I was on @dwnews to unpack how the dismantling of USAID has hobbled rescue and response efforts following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Q0...
USAID cuts hit Myanmar relief operation | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
m.youtube.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was on @dwnews to unpack how the dismantling of USAID has hobbled rescue and response efforts following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Q0...
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SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
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What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?
👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?
👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
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🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below
March 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below
More than glad to share our Manifesto on the #Datafication of #Mobility Across #Borders by ERC ProcessingCitizenship, PI A. Pelizza, published by @estsjournal.bsky.social Thanks to ESTS editorial team & the co-authors: we could not have aspired to a better conclusion! estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
View of Manifesto on the Datafication of Mobility Across Borders
| Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
estsjournal.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
More than glad to share our Manifesto on the #Datafication of #Mobility Across #Borders by ERC ProcessingCitizenship, PI A. Pelizza, published by @estsjournal.bsky.social Thanks to ESTS editorial team & the co-authors: we could not have aspired to a better conclusion! estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
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Until now Trump has followed court orders. Now we enter the realm of arbitrary power ubchecked by the judiciary.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge's Order: Trump Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Until now Trump has followed court orders. Now we enter the realm of arbitrary power ubchecked by the judiciary.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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Today in Copenaghen, Aalborg university, to discuss study of infrastructures and possible projects on air pollution, regulations, shutting down data infrastructures, with the great research team of TANTlab led by Torben Elgaard Jensen
www.kultur.aau.dk/forskning/fo...
www.kultur.aau.dk/forskning/fo...
The Techno-Anthropology Research Group (TANT), Institut for Kultur og Læring, Aalborg Universitet
Forskningsgruppen TANTlab undersøger centrale processer inden for social og teknisk innovation, der er afgørende for de udfordringer, nutidige og fremtidige samfund står over for.
www.kultur.aau.dk
March 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Today in Copenaghen, Aalborg university, to discuss study of infrastructures and possible projects on air pollution, regulations, shutting down data infrastructures, with the great research team of TANTlab led by Torben Elgaard Jensen
www.kultur.aau.dk/forskning/fo...
www.kultur.aau.dk/forskning/fo...
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of m...
www.eff.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.
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EPA's Lee Zeldin wants to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases — along with 30 other key regulatory actions stretching back decades. Story from @zcolman.bsky.social & @alexguillen.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
EPA launches attack on ‘holy grail’ of climate science — and dozens of enviro rules
The move is the most aggressive attack yet by the Trump administration to undo previous efforts to limit the emissions that are warming the planet.
www.politico.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
EPA's Lee Zeldin wants to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases — along with 30 other key regulatory actions stretching back decades. Story from @zcolman.bsky.social & @alexguillen.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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my own views on 'defending Europe' in a new release of our Security Praxis blog
(translated from op-ed published on Sunday's edition of il Manifesto)
www.securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-mo...
(translated from op-ed published on Sunday's edition of il Manifesto)
www.securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-mo...
The Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pact
Either it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. Once again, conflicts over borders and nati...
www.securitypraxis.eu
March 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
my own views on 'defending Europe' in a new release of our Security Praxis blog
(translated from op-ed published on Sunday's edition of il Manifesto)
www.securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-mo...
(translated from op-ed published on Sunday's edition of il Manifesto)
www.securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-mo...
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Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?
March 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?
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In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Are you a #SocialSciences researcher seeking a publisher for your #Research?
Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing
Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Are you a #SocialSciences researcher seeking a publisher for your #Research?
Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing
Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing
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from now, when an Italian researcher goes on a mission in a context where electronic payment is unavailable, the expense is considered income and taxed up to 43%. That's how we kill the internationalization of research, discriminate research in/on the global south, and bunkerize it in big hotels
January 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
from now, when an Italian researcher goes on a mission in a context where electronic payment is unavailable, the expense is considered income and taxed up to 43%. That's how we kill the internationalization of research, discriminate research in/on the global south, and bunkerize it in big hotels
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I asked DeepSeek three questions:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
January 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I asked DeepSeek three questions:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers:
- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?
- Is Taiwan part of China?
- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?
Here are DeepSeek's answers: