And the consequences are probably vast...

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

📢 New publication! Who climbs the Ivory Tower? It’s not just a coincidence, as @aresherman.bsky.social, @astridsandsor.bsky.social, and Nicolai Topstad Borgen observe, even in egalitarian Norway. Read the full paper 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Well, they are funding the war in Ukraine. Nothing indirect about it.

If you are interested in Norwegian Education Policy, @marielken.bsky.social & I have a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics (edited by great colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social) entitled "Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation" t.co/qHsCMXMgZT

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.

Dutch late night TV has its take

How to feel old in academia, Vol.26: When students are genuinely surprised when you catch their Horizon Zero Dawn reference. #highered #academia #academicsky

2 weeks until deadline! :)

The saga of trying to buy a bus ticket in Thessaloniki. Two days, still dont know how. Have been told to buy from bus driver (not possible), then inside the bus (no such machines existed) and now from a kiosk (two have said nope). Must be some secret bus ticket selling society somewhere.

Conference time in Thessaloniki @ecpr.bsky.social. Curious mix of academic work, warm weather and a campus with a lot of eh.. identity?

Somehow further validates South Park S27 E1... even more.

About restaurants. And universities too. youtu.be/3EwduM3pAyA

Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag. This of course is very different.

On June 16, Doctors Without Borders sent an open letter with a very clear message to EU leaders: The #EU can and must act now to stop mass atrocities in #Gaza. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Not often I would post links to Twitter here, but here is e1 of s27 of South Park... launched a few days after they signed a new contract with Paramount, who owns CBS who cancelled Colbert.. This just deserves to be shared. I am looking forward to the fallout. x.com/timetravelje...

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime. Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

Å peke på det problematiske med å bruke borgerkrigsretorikk og hundefløyter er en sånn gøy deltidsjobb jeg har hatt de siste fjorten årene uten å be om det, det blir liksom aldri gammelt men av og til så er det nødvendig å forklare enkle sammenhenger og synd for dere i dag er en sånn dag igjen.

Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!) www.neonnet.no

What could go wrong.

#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres. Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

You can't make this up.. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Not sure whether use of chatGPT makes the report worse than what it would have been otherwise.

Communist regimes determined what could be taught and researched at universities, insisted on programs in Lysenkoism and Scientific Marxism-Leninism, abolished other departments, and controlled who could attend and teach. This, of course, is entirely different.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

State of the world. People sympathetic to Postmodernism, Social Construction and Pluralism insisting on historical facts. People professing that there is a single true version of reality deliberately suppressing historical facts, and making stuff up.

If Joe Biden said this kind of word salad on "Meet The Press," I imagine it would be a major story. And this is one of his more coherent responses in an interview transcript that has to be read to be believed. (Link to complete interview in next post.)/1

This. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

1/4. If the US were engaged in an attempt to bring peace to Ukraine, it would place more tariffs on Russia, rather than exempt Russia entirely.

Har du tenkt på kva som krevst av toppakademikarar med arbeidarklassebakgrunn? Kva må dei få til på eiga hand som fleirgenerasjonsakademikarar «får inn med morsmjølka»? Svara frå forskarane Nicolai Topstad Borgen og Svenn-Erik Mamelund vil kanskje overraske. open.spotify.com/episode/6IJ5...

Well, isn't this nice, showing work-life relevance of bachelor degrees... Also, what the actual f. 🤯

Even if half of this is true, this is some crazy stuff. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Oh snap. theonion.com/teen-warned-...

To anyone thinking Ingebritsen occasionally might react differently than your usual jovial type, here is some context. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

The real uncomfortable fact is the sheer scope of stupidity among American politicians these days.

76 years ago, 20,000 Estonians were deported to Siberia by the Soviet dictatorship. They tried to wipe us off the face of the earth, but we stood firm, regained our voice and our independence. And today, we help new victims of aggression, whose tactics have not changed in the new millennium.

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now... because the assumption is in the intelligence community, if you are using unclassified means, there is the potential for and likelihood that foreign governments are targeting those accounts."

Hah. But her emails, right? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

You can’t get to peace by repeating the obvious lies of the aggressor. Even if you have no moral qualms about becoming the propagandist of a foreign power, practically speaking it just can’t work.

Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.

"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least there’s no economic upside." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Estonia will increase its defence spending to at least 5% of our GDP from next year. Our aim is clear - to make any aggression against us unfeasible. Russia has not changed its goals and imperialistic ambitions. This is a real threat to both Europe and NATO.

So I finally watched The Boys. 3,5 seasons this far and I am horrified. Mostly at the fact that a series about evil influencer-supes and corporations does not seem outrageous or depressing compared to reality out there these days. If anything, the creators have had sharp skills at prediction.