Angelika Adensamer @abendsommer.bsky.social and I wrote a contribution to the AFAR Projec‘s symposium on the impacts of digitization in asylum/migration governance in @verfassungsblog.de - focus on LLMs and automatic translation in Austria’s asylum system! verfassungsblog.de/navigating-t...

In unserem neuen Blogbeitrag für den Asylblog stellen wir das Projekt A.I.Syl vor, beschreiben die Anwendung von KI im Asylverfahren und zeigen Gefahren für Rechtsstaat und Menschenrechte auf! Mit @abendsommer.bsky.social www.blogasyl.at/2025/10/asyl...

Wer mehr über Technologien im Asylverfahren und deren rechtliche Grundlagen erfahren möchte, hat jetzt im aktuellen Jahrbuch- Asyl und Fremdenrecht die Chance @laurajung.bsky.social s und meinen Artikel nachzulesen!

Darcy Leigh and @laurajung.bsky.social's article on antisemtism, ambivalent insider/outsider figures, and racial bordering is now published in EJIR and is available online (open access). Read it here: t1p.de/z9w5m

Austria is introducing AI tools in key parts of its asylum procedure- but at what cost? Thank you to @hertiecfr.bsky.social and the AFAR Project for inviting @abendsommer.bsky.social and I to present our AISYL project results last week in Berlin!

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT! White supremacy = this. Genocide = this. NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

@msf.ca (Ärzte Ohne Grenzen) spricht explizit von einem Genozid in #Gaza: „In Gaza, the ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli Government constitute genocide. And this genocide is being perpetrated with absolute impunity“.

#Europa Europa sind wir alle - alle Mitgliedsstaaten. Es wird schweigend, tlw. dankbar hingenommen, was 🇬🇷 jetzt macht. -Notstand ausrufen - Aussetzung aller Asylanträge für aus Nordafrika Kommende - alle werden festgenommen und in Gewahrsam - Internierungslager - dramatische Versorgung #Schande

"Records reveal how deeply the government’s biometric surveillance reaches into the lives of migrant children, some of whom may still be learning to read or tie their shoes—yet whose DNA is now stored in a system built for convicted sex offenders & violent criminals" www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 2 - cup.org/4mydp0L w/ papers by @charlottemertens.bsky.social, @laurajung.bsky.social, @arthurduhe.bsky.social, @zgc.bsky.social, @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social & more

there's a lot of talk about the potential use of AI in border and migration management in this report, @laurajung.bsky.social & @abendsommer.bsky.social carefully and critically take stock of what is actually possible/going on and with what consequences 👇 tinyurl.com/59ts8b2m

Automatische Gesichtserkennung, Large Language Models und Lügendetektoren - welche Rolle spielt KI im österreichischen Asylverfahren? Lest nach in unserer druckfrischen Handreichung - hier zum Download: aisyl.uni-graz.at/de/handreich... @abendsommer.bsky.social @elasticborders.bsky.social

Very happy to share that Darcy Leigh’s and my article “Antisemitism and international relations - the international politics of the Jewish enemy within” has just been accepted by @ejir.bsky.social - published online in 6-12 weeks! Until then, a sneak peek of the abstract:

Heute Abend im Forum Stadtpark, Graz! @abendsommer.bsky.social @elasticborders.bsky.social @uni-graz.at Mit: Daniela Grabovac (Antidiskriminierungsstelle STMK) Bianca Nöst (Caritas) Klaudia Wieser (Pushback Alarm Austria) Moderation: Bilgin Ayata (Uni Graz)

@abendsommer.bsky.social und ich stellen heute Abend die Ergebnisse von unserem AISYL Projekt vor - zur Nutzung von KI im Asylverfahren. Ab 19 Uhr im DEPOT, Breite Gasse 3, Wien! Mehr Infos auf unserer Website: aisyl.uni-graz.at/de/veranstal...

„A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

I‘m presenting some ongoing research on the EU‘s migration prediction tools this morning at @isanet.bsky.social - join us! Parlor Room 779, Chicago Hilton

Ich sage es wie es ist: von der Linken (Partei) lernen heißt siegen lernen.

Heute vor fünf Jahren wurden bei einem rassistischen Terroranschlag in Hanau neun Menschen ermordet. Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar, Kaloyan Velkov. #saytheirnames #hanau1902

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Die extreme/Tech Rechte will mit Trump zusammenarbeiten, um „radikale Meinungsfreiheit“ online durchzusetzen- zb durch Aushöhlung des Digital Services Act (DSA) in der EU. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Das Perfide an dieser Idee ist, dass nicht davon auszugehen ist, dass es hier um Millionen Euro geht. Was soll jemand auf der Flucht schon dabei haben? Es geht um das Ketterl der Großmutter und das Handy um daheim anzurufen. Es geht hier um Demütigung.

„Tiefrot sind einige Punkte überdies im Bereich Asyl und Migration: etwa das Aussetzen des Asylrechts per Notgesetz, die Aufkündigung des UN-Flüchtlingspakts, eine österreichische Grenzsicherung "durch technische Sperren" – etwa durch Zäune“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

The US first detained migrants and refugees at Guantanamo in 1991, when Haitians and Cubans intercepted at sea were held there. Detainees who tested + for HIV were put in a separate facility and had to meet higher standards to claim asylum. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

Timely moment to dust off this piece, as a self-declared elite of „high-IQ“ individuals takes the axe to intl aid, critical research, anti racism, accessibility, trans rights - or what they cast as „low-IQ“, coddled, dysgenic dependents. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/0...

Important piece by Judith Butler, calling on us to embrace „passions of our own— for freedom, equality, and the protection of nature- to oppose the delight taken in 47‘s parade of obscene cruelty. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

„Germany’s much-lauded culture of historical memory seems to have maintained an appearance of success only because the German ruling class had, until recently, less occasion to expose its historical delusions than … Brexiters dreaming of imperial-era strength“ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Letzte Sitzungswoche vor der Bundestagswahl. Was wir beschließen könnten: ▪️Mietendeckel ▪️ §218 aus dem Strafgesetzbuch ▪️Tariftreuegesetz ▪️Rentenniveau sichern Was wir tun: Ablenkungsdebatten führen zu Grenzkontrollen und Zurückweisungen. Vergiftet die Stimmung, löst kein Problem. #Bundestag

An LLM "creates textual claims, and then predicts the citations that might be associated with similar text. Obviously, this practice violates all norms of scholarly citation. At best, LLMs gesticulate toward the shoulders of giants." Bender, West, and I contributed to this pro/con piece in PNAS.

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

„Investors have taken note. The stock price of Geo Group, a private prison operator that sells monitoring technology to ICE, has more than doubled since Mr. Trump won November’s election.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...

📢 Call for Papers: Tagung für junge Migrationsforscher*innen (Deadline 17. Februar) Thema: "(Irr)Wege der Migrations- und Integrationspolitik – Herausforderungen, Perspektiven und Reformen" 📅 Datum: 17.–18. Juni 2025 📍 Ort: Franz-Hitze-Haus, Münster www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...

UK gov plans to build environmentally harmful data centers and nuclear reactors to help UK become „world leader“ in AI, while offering public data to private companies to train their models. What a recipe for disaster. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

too many theoretical claims about AI, too little inquiries into actual use cases these days @laurajung.bsky.social and @abendsommer.bsky.social with an important empirical intervention 👇

Das BMI hat uns Einblicke gegeben, wie und wo KI im Asylverfahren bereits eingesetzt wird. Aber wir haben auch offene Fragen - könnt ihr helfen? Links zu Zusammenfassung, Fragen, und PDF der Beantwortung unseres Auskunftsbegehrens hier: 👇

Thrilled to see this article out - a labor of love over many years! It looks at post-war Germany's troubled reckoning with Nazism to challenge the notion of a "transformation" - found often in IR scholarship on Germany's integration into the liberal international order.

Proofs for my article are here!! 🎉 The article critiques the notion of a German „transformation“ after 1945, and looks at continuities/adaptations of racism and antisemitism in post-war west Germany. Out soon with @risjnl.bsky.social