I voted ! What a privilege to be able to vote in local elections, in a country where I am not a citizen. Also funny to see all kinds of people from @w-u-r.bsky.social on the ballot.

Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!

there is no ethical use of ai

How can serious games help us explore sustainable strategies for transforming food systems? Join us 17 February (16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT) online or in-person in Oxford or Wageningen to learn more about serious games & play! Register online or in-person: buff.ly/dXXJ8GK @oxmartinschool.bsky.social

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I want to see every former US president forming a direct action group on signal and heading to Minneapols to form a human shield to protect people from the federal government.

Trump’s government has unequivocally crossed a threshold now where even well -documented truth is irrelevant and the murder of US citizens by the state is formally sanctioned. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

His name is Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was 37 years old. He was a licensed nurse. He was recording ICE and defending a female protester from their aggression. And they executed him.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

“At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.” Let that sink in. They publicly executed this observer, a nurse. They wanted him dead. Why? As a warning to others who might try to hold them accountable?

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

Per his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.

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sooo honored to have my seminal essay on food and cultural appropriation from 13 years ago (!!!) republished on @theflytrapmedia.com today. one might say this is the one that started it all for me. go subscribe!!! www.theflytrapmedia.com/craving-the-...

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.

Wouldn't that be cool if you could invoke the 25th Amendment? Wouldn't that be cool Ed? Because I live in an apartment, Ed. I can't invoke the 25th Amendment Ed. Let me know when you find someone who can, Ed. Try the bathrooms there are mirrors in there.

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

Ciska Ulug and I are thrilled to be hosting the summer school for the food commons @w-u-r.bsky.social from June 15-19. We have some amazing lecturers @adamcalo.bsky.social , and inspiring site visits to food commons around the Netherlands wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

Oh fuck yes, I love this.

True story, I ordered a bagel and received a toasted sesame bun with a hole carved into the center. Only in the Netherlands #dutchfood

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

Save the new school for social research from the terrible financial decisions of their board and president. Fire them not teachers. www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

My colleagues and I wrote a thing, we want a university this is driven by the interests of students and teachers not administrators. www.resource-online.nl/index.php/20...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Wow, caring infrastructures work ! www.vox.com/policy/46963... #feministcity

The Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have pulled out of Eurovision, Iceland and Belgium still deciding nltimes.nl/2025/12/04/n...

“After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under the current circumstances, participation cannot be reconciled with the public values that are fundamental to our organisation.” clearer ethical principles than @w-u-r.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Care for my students has now extended to care for their fermentation babies, how did this happen ?

A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown. Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility. If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you. Brought to you by @olifro.st

Congratulations Dr. Kristina Ulm, for leading this exciting research on the governance of public gardening in Sydney. Thrilled to see this out. Spoiler: let the people garden !

@prorail.bsky.social Ede Wageningen station is an insult to anyone with a disability or a small child. It is impossible to get from the bike parking to the station in a wheel chair or stroller, and there is insufficient bakfiets parking.

child friendly bathroom at Lisbon airport. They also have free strollers and a big soft play area. #feministcity

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

Thrilled to be listening to demands for and inspiring examples of the right to food and food as commons at the @ec.europa.eu @ecolise.bsky.social policy dialogue on Housing and Food ecolise.eu/event/housin... #foodstudies

He is proposing five municipal grocery stores

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom. Please sign.