This would be a crime against humanity www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon.... Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.

Two different coffee experiences today, Nespresso at the optician fixing my smashed glasses (the brown frames) and Samuli’s excellent Daisy Acevedo geisha (my bag from home) that I shared with the guys at Time.Copenhagen (a playground for coffee nerds) europeancoffeetrip.com/cafe/timedot...

Tänk om vi kunde sätta upp sådana här saker i våra städer där det finns hemlösa.

This is glorious. (From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)

This is absolutely insane. 🤯 Social science research argues and shows that Labour/Social Democrats need to do the exact opposite. Does Blair want to kill Labour for good? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A story in three parts from the ECB's financial stability review

The shift among some to using AI generation for making a point, reminds me more and more of the Andrew Lang quote: "He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination."

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

Giro d’*Italia*, you say?

I want to know exactly how popes write their encyclicals. Do you think Pope Leo is actually a scholar who has simply read a lot of digital media studies/STS/digital culture scholarship? Or does the Vatican hire scholars? Are such jobs posted to Euraxess? Or is the Vatican full of priestly scholars?

The paper can be read open access here (@spsr.bsky.social): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In most advanced democracies, newer generations and younger citizens are less likely to vote. In this new paper, Thomas Jocker (@uva.nl) and I ask *why* this is the case. We try to answer this question by analyzing the answers that *non-voters themselves* give to this question 👇

Det her er simpelthen så sjovt. Dagen efter sidste Late Show dukker Colbert op som vikarvært på lokal-tv i Monroe i Michigan. Med berømte gæster. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Today is a good day to remember that wars are almost never started, managed, or concluded by the people who die in them.

This and all the social media stuff on ‘lower your cortisol’. Please don’t unless you know from a doctor’s diagnosis that it is high. Some of us doesn’t produce cortisol or very little of it, in this situation you wouldn’t wish to get any lower. The first cardiologist in 2022 called it ‘menopause’.

[DK, off-topic] Her i maj løber jeg 195,12 km. for at samle ind til @scleroseforeningen.bsky.social og dens forskning. Som pårørende ved jeg, hvor stor forskel det gør. www.scleroseforeningen.dk/yougo/indsam...

I realise that this isn't a hill worth dying on but "enshittification", once upon a time, had a very specific and useful meaning, it didn't mean "thing used to be good: now thing bad", I know it's a fight we've all lost but still

Copenhagen (Frederiksberg) 20 degrees and coffee outside the frame ☕️

The sheer irony of people who like to worry about the “deep state conspiracy” wanting to replace the civil service with machines.

Please read this about drowning - it could save someone’s life.

I’m someone who often carries a standard 250 gram bag of coffee beans in a pocket in my jacket. Fortunately jackets often have two pockets, so this paperback seized Remarkable notebook weighing the same as a bag of coffee is a true out of the house companion.

I should come to the European quarter more often - both for accidental meetings (👋 @sophia-russack.bsky.social ) and for the ever so subtle dissing of the Trump administration on European institution buildings.

Most importantly: as a cis woman; a feminist; a historian - this will *never* be in my name. Then: an equalities body that chooses to exclude a specific group; chooses to limit human rights of one community - it is an equalities body that has already dismantled itself and any legitimacy with it.

As is common these days, too many people are more afraid of that term now than the actual first steps needed for fascism to emerge and consolidate. As a historian—also specifically as a German—that horrifies me. As a collective we humans appear to be as stupid as it gets, really.

The second is that transphobia is a fascistic agenda. There is no question about this. We have all the knowledge we need on this in our own history. And you either stand up to fascistic agendas. Or you do not.

There are, however, two choices that absolutely are binary only: The first is about human rights. They are either universal. Or they are not. For as soon as you limit the rights of one community, you limit them for all. For “First they came” is never where it ends.

💥 It's publication day for the paperback edition of 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦! I'm really grateful @hurstpublishers.bsky.social decided to release the book in paperback 🙏

Chose the Remarkable way ✏️

Good work from Khan here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Well, I am a native speaker of Polish, and I read the original piece in Gazeta Wyborcza. Tokarczuk was not making jokes, she was honest about her paying for the highest tire of an AI provider and using it to create ideas or expand paragraphs. Also,Polish is NOT a small language. It has 45+mln users

You can see my struggle handwriting on my iPad :) Is there any of you who use either an iPad or a Remarkable for handwritten notes? And do you have any recommendations for either?

#Earthquake (#jordskælv) confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M3.9 || 25 km S of #Copenhagen (#Denmark) || 3 min ago (local time 16:14:34). Follow the thread for the updates👇

Andre der lige har fået rystet deres arbejdsborde eller bogreoler i København uden nogen høj lyd eller andet?

I am very proud that the final part of my Ph.D. dissertation, the article ‘Boring but important’: the paradox in news coverage of climate change, has now been published in @jscicom.bsky.social. 1/7 doi.org/10.22323/172...

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I think all of us who managed to write a book without using AI should get to kill one robot

ever think about how umbrella means ‘little shadow’ ☂️

I win in the bookmark category 🔖 The author Signe Parkins has added a hand drawn bookmark to the new book I bought from her 👌🏻

This is a very bad take from Olga Tokarczuk. Writers, be careful: if your work is full of the tics and tells of a specific era of AI product, your legacy will end up wrecked, whatever level you started from. (Quoted from mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...)

Oh my. I love her writing and was thinking of reading through all the novels I could find in English, but will restrict myself to those already written, though rapidly going off that idea too.

In any functioning country, this would lead to mass protests and the fall of the government. He might as well have backed a truck up to the treasury, filled it with money, and handed it out to himself and his supporters.

Hvorfor skal jeg læse et uredigeret læserbrev fra de her to i @information.dk ? Fortryder næsten at have betalt for et år frem i forrige måned.

Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

Læs den. 🎁 #dkpol #EUpol

overused point at this stage but this really is one of those things that would make someone from like 2015 fully go "oh fuck so we're about to go full dystopia then" if you mentioned that this would happen in 2026

The study finds that "democratic rationalisation is a universal feature" but that "In troubled democracies with recent experiences of backsliding, people engage extensively in rationalization. In old, well-functioning democracies, people are less likely to do so."

👇🏻💡 "People do not give up democracy in a calculating way to gain politically. Instead, they find ways to convince themselves that they are getting their desired policy and democracy. They still act as undemocratically as concluded in the literature; they just do not perceive it that way."

Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.