Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ University of Groningen.
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
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Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume is the first book-length collection of research on language, gender and sexuality in the societies of Central and Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
Do you want to know how Trump won? You love reading about the Middle Ages and hate racists? I have an OPEN ACCESS book for you!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Do you want to know how Trump won? You love reading about the Middle Ages and hate racists? I have an OPEN ACCESS book for you!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
And if you respond with scientific articles about stochastic parrotry and bullshit, these kinds of people get VERY aggressive…
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
And if you respond with scientific articles about stochastic parrotry and bullshit, these kinds of people get VERY aggressive…
I will show this to the next person who says that “AI is unbiased”
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I will show this to the next person who says that “AI is unbiased”
Another day, another mediocre uninformed man tries to mansplain and insult. Oh the fun of being a woman in academia!
Just another day on LinkedIn, where some guy publicly claims there’s no far right in Europe — only “extreme left and extreme woke” — and suggests I should have brain surgery to have my “extreme woke left-wing thread” surgically removed. 🤷♀️ 🧠
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Another day, another mediocre uninformed man tries to mansplain and insult. Oh the fun of being a woman in academia!
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📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over het fenomeen "pinkwashing": het strategisch verpakken van extreemrechtse politiek in een feminien jasje. 👇
De aanwezigheid van vrouwen binnen extreem-rechtse partijen helpt beschuldigingen van misogynie af te weren, terwijl de kern van hun ideologie onverminderd patriarchaal blijft.
Vrouwen spelen binnen extreem-rechts een steeds zichtbaarder rol
De aanwezigheid van vrouwen binnen extreem-rechtse partijen helpt beschuldigingen van misogynie af te weren, terwijl de kern van hun ideologie onverminderd patriarchaal blijft.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over het fenomeen "pinkwashing": het strategisch verpakken van extreemrechtse politiek in een feminien jasje. 👇
Plenty of sequel material for Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals". Some things never change (apart from the intellectual part)
Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Plenty of sequel material for Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals". Some things never change (apart from the intellectual part)
Please retire the label “populist”. She is a white nationalist and Qanon/pizzagate believer among other things. Just call a racist spade a spade.
A prominent far-right German activist has applied for political asylum in the U.S., as the Trump administration has signaled plans to prioritize protections for White refugees and Europeans who claim they are being targeted for their populist views.
German far-right activist seeks asylum in U.S. as Trump ties deepen
Social media influencer Naomi Seibt, a supporter of the nationalist AfD party, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Please retire the label “populist”. She is a white nationalist and Qanon/pizzagate believer among other things. Just call a racist spade a spade.
Kiddo came home saying that everyone in his class voted for #D66 apart from 2, who voted for “Partij voor diertjes” (which is apparently a party he would vote for). He was worried that the “Pif” party might still win, “because they want to send all the foreigners out and we are foreigners”.
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kiddo came home saying that everyone in his class voted for #D66 apart from 2, who voted for “Partij voor diertjes” (which is apparently a party he would vote for). He was worried that the “Pif” party might still win, “because they want to send all the foreigners out and we are foreigners”.
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation “Enemies at the gates: existential threat narratives in Putin’s Russia”. I had chapters on Ukraine, the West, homophobia, migrants and “spiritual bonds”. And the argument still freaking holds, damn.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation “Enemies at the gates: existential threat narratives in Putin’s Russia”. I had chapters on Ukraine, the West, homophobia, migrants and “spiritual bonds”. And the argument still freaking holds, damn.
As I was giving feedback on a clearly ChatGPT generated lit review, I realized that I am just feeding new prompts to the student to feed to his genAI. It’s exhausting and meaningless.
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
As I was giving feedback on a clearly ChatGPT generated lit review, I realized that I am just feeding new prompts to the student to feed to his genAI. It’s exhausting and meaningless.
September 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Had a blast synergising @deconspirator.bsky.social and ARM project with @mariellew.bsky.social at the @clingendael.bsky.social REKA conference. Discussed current approaches to #FIMI and the challenges European democracies face. Despite our happy faces, we were not always optimistic...
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Had a blast synergising @deconspirator.bsky.social and ARM project with @mariellew.bsky.social at the @clingendael.bsky.social REKA conference. Discussed current approaches to #FIMI and the challenges European democracies face. Despite our happy faces, we were not always optimistic...
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume is the first book-length collection of research on language, gender and sexuality in the societies of Central and Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
For no discernible reason, I will be re-reading this excellent article “Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape” by @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape
Abstract. This article makes a critical contribution to the study of digital reactionary movements by tracing the resonant circulation of “the cuck” memes
academic.oup.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
For no discernible reason, I will be re-reading this excellent article “Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape” by @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Tested out a Russian (pre-war) “patriotic education” board game with my students, but they didn’t come away loving the Motherland too much. What I am doing wrong?*
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
May 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Tested out a Russian (pre-war) “patriotic education” board game with my students, but they didn’t come away loving the Motherland too much. What I am doing wrong?*
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
It's eugenics. It's all eugenics, folks.
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's eugenics. It's all eugenics, folks.
Probiotic disinformation
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” is something I would say at the risk of alienating the younger readership of this blog, but given that most of us are old here, it should be fine. I have been busy working on Russian Neo-Nazis, so I almost forgot that…
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” is something I would say at the risk of alienating the younger readership of this blog, but given that most of us are old here, it should be fine. I have been busy working on Russian Neo-Nazis, so I almost forgot that…
Probiotic disinformation
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” is something I would say at the risk of alienating the younger readership of this blog, but given that most of us are old here, it should be fine. I have been busy working on Russian Neo-Nazis, so I almost forgot that back in the simpler times I was also interested in how…
www.duckofminerva.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.
May 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
I love how finding out the head of HHS doesn't believe in germs isn't the craziest part of that fucking sentence
A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
May 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I love how finding out the head of HHS doesn't believe in germs isn't the craziest part of that fucking sentence
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AG Bondi: “In accordance with Due Process, we gave the toddler 24 hours to file a habeas corpus petition.”
April 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
AG Bondi: “In accordance with Due Process, we gave the toddler 24 hours to file a habeas corpus petition.”
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Geen studentensportvoorzieningen meer. Geen studium generale meer. Geen universiteitsmuseum meer. Geen publiekslezingen meer. Geen hortus meer.
Dan ook geen Bildung meer. Geen universiteit meer.
Eppo maakt echt alles kapot. 🤬
delta.tudelft.nl/article/kabi...
Dan ook geen Bildung meer. Geen universiteit meer.
Eppo maakt echt alles kapot. 🤬
delta.tudelft.nl/article/kabi...
Kabinet maakt einde aan goedkoop sporten voor studenten en personeel - Delta
Universiteiten en hogescholen mogen geen goedkope sportfaciliteiten meer aanbieden. Anders verstoren ze de markt, vindt het kabinet. Ook het culturele aanbod en de kantine worden duurder – en nog veel...
delta.tudelft.nl
April 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Geen studentensportvoorzieningen meer. Geen studium generale meer. Geen universiteitsmuseum meer. Geen publiekslezingen meer. Geen hortus meer.
Dan ook geen Bildung meer. Geen universiteit meer.
Eppo maakt echt alles kapot. 🤬
delta.tudelft.nl/article/kabi...
Dan ook geen Bildung meer. Geen universiteit meer.
Eppo maakt echt alles kapot. 🤬
delta.tudelft.nl/article/kabi...
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Gisteren staakte Wageningen tegen de roekeloze bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs, en morgen gaat de estafettestaking door in Maastricht!
Laat ook je stem horen, vóór de toekomst van Limburg, om 12:30 op het Vrijthof.
Zie ik je daar?
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #WOinActie
Laat ook je stem horen, vóór de toekomst van Limburg, om 12:30 op het Vrijthof.
Zie ik je daar?
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #WOinActie
Gisteren in #Wageningen.
2000 Wageningse studenten, docenten, psychologen, promovendi studieadviseurs, alumni, receptionisten en anderen op de been tegen bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.
Dit beleid raakt ons allemaal. @woinactie.bsky.social #stopdesloop
2000 Wageningse studenten, docenten, psychologen, promovendi studieadviseurs, alumni, receptionisten en anderen op de been tegen bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.
Dit beleid raakt ons allemaal. @woinactie.bsky.social #stopdesloop
April 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Gisteren staakte Wageningen tegen de roekeloze bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs, en morgen gaat de estafettestaking door in Maastricht!
Laat ook je stem horen, vóór de toekomst van Limburg, om 12:30 op het Vrijthof.
Zie ik je daar?
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #WOinActie
Laat ook je stem horen, vóór de toekomst van Limburg, om 12:30 op het Vrijthof.
Zie ik je daar?
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #WOinActie
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel