Big thanks also to her thesis reviewers, @thorstenquandt.bsky.social and @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social! 🙏 - as well as the defense chair, @hajoboo.bsky.social. We saw very proud supervisors today w/ @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social 🤗

Mit Jason Stanley und Tim Snyder verlassen zwei wichtige Forscher zu Faschismus und Autoritarismus die USA für Kanada. Sie wissen, was kommt. Auch @brynntannehill.bsky.social, die schon vor Jahren vor dem warnte, was jetzt geschieht, geht nach Kanada ins Exil. Lest ihr Buch „American Fascism“.

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

I hereby predict, @archive.org will be among the Trump administration's next target, following Orwell's famous dictum that "[t]hose who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

Does the concept of oligarchy clarify the political-economic aims of the second Trump administration? Not at all, our columnist Ross Douthat writes.

Trumps Angriff auf die Wissenschaft#Trump#Wissenschaft

How do conspiracy theories spread across digital platforms—and how does their style evolve? A new study by Annett Heft, Xixuan Zhang, and myself in New Media & Society analyzes veiled conspiracism across 4chan, X/Twitter, and far-right partisan media from 2011–2021. 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

If you're curious how a democracy transitions from a free press to state-run media, this is the kind of step you'd expect to see.

To get a sense of some of the specific types of grant research being affected at universities by the anti-DEI McCarythism here is excellent student reporting with details…

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

I min første artikel på dansk skriver @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social og jeg om indflydelsen fra tech-oligarker og digitale platforme i den aktuelle tyske valgkamp. Tak til @videnskab.dk! videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

🚨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.

I am happy to announce that I will be defending my PhD with the title: "Burn it Down: Anti-Systemic Narratives and Counterpublics in Digital Alternative Information Environments" 🎉 🔥

OUR BOOK IS OUT!!! It's called "The Institutional Development of #Podcasting" and is co-authored with Thomas Spejlborg Sejersen, published by Routledge. It's been a long process. I'm happy we succeeded in getting to this point. This is a big f***ing deal. www.routledge.com/The-Institut...

"Journalism and Alternative Media" Open seminar in the Nordic Journalism Research Seminar Series (NordJourn), with presentations by Stephen Cushion and @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social. When: December 7, 3-4:30pm Where: Virtual (on Zoom)