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Feminist first and foremost. Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies @ University of Stavanger

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Cybernormer #37: Epsteins techforbindelser I seneste afsnit af vores podcast undersøger vi hvad Epstein filerne afslører om hans forbindelser i silicon valley

Pssttt, har du set vi har udgivet et afsnit af Cybernormer om Epsteins techforbindelser? Lyt med her cybernauterne.dk/podcast/cybe...

05.03.2026 11:35 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Trans Panic: Far-Right Ideology or Cross-Political Malaise? - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism Political mobilisation against trans people has escalated exponentially since the pandemic. This serves a clear far-right and reactionary agenda, but as demonstrated by the case of the UK, also has si...

- Since the pandemic, anti‑trans mobilization has become one of the sharpest weapons of the far right - and, as the UK shows, its damage extends far beyond the far right. New blog post by former C-REX postdoc @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social #TransRights #UKPolitics www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

03.03.2026 13:27 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 3

Please help my good friend Rowan with securing treatment for Arnold. I can confirm that Rowan is an excellent human and Arnold is the best doggo.

27.02.2026 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes (...)showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

18.02.2026 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

13.02.2026 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Join us on March 9 at UiS for a research seminar with Naja Dyrendom Graugaard a Danish-Kalaaleq(Inuk) researcher at Copenhagen University where she will talk about "Cryolite Colonialism,
Epistemic dispossession and Kalaallit Inuit Narrative Sovereignty." Register here: nettskjema.no/a/597455

13.02.2026 08:07 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"What Epstein shows us is that we live in a paedophiliac culture.
Obsessive, pervasive sexual interest in teenage girls - and to some degree, boys - is threaded insistently through our culture. We just choose to ignore it. We redact it. It’s a darkness that we cover with more darkness."

11.02.2026 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world The most disturbing revelation so far

Possibly the best piece I've read on the Epstein files so far:
broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-all-liv...

11.02.2026 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Transkamp er kvinnekamp ble nettopp vedtatt på 8. mars-parolemøtet i Stavanger 🏳️‍⚧️

10.02.2026 18:58 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Meticulous citation is a marker of well-researched, serious scholarship. Citations do a lot more than attributing credit; they situate claims within the context of existing research and enable scrutiny. When authors cite carelessly, for example by referencing famous figures and articles while overlooking original sources, they make two important errors. First, they credit ideas to the wrong person and, second, they reveal a limited understanding of the relevant scholarship. Misattribution disproportionately harms underrepresented voices, whose work has been shown to be consistently more innovative than that of established researchers1. Research led by women tends to be less cited than comparable research led by men. Similarly, research from underrepresented groups, as well as from amateurs and beginners, tends to lead to more breakthroughs and innovation, yet remains less cited than follow-up work from established researchers.

Screenshot from article that starts as follow: Meticulous citation is a marker of well-researched, serious scholarship. Citations do a lot more than attributing credit; they situate claims within the context of existing research and enable scrutiny. When authors cite carelessly, for example by referencing famous figures and articles while overlooking original sources, they make two important errors. First, they credit ideas to the wrong person and, second, they reveal a limited understanding of the relevant scholarship. Misattribution disproportionately harms underrepresented voices, whose work has been shown to be consistently more innovative than that of established researchers1. Research led by women tends to be less cited than comparable research led by men. Similarly, research from underrepresented groups, as well as from amateurs and beginners, tends to lead to more breakthroughs and innovation, yet remains less cited than follow-up work from established researchers.

Roxana Radu and I wrote a short letter about the need to uphold the sanctity of citations in academia, and not giving in to AI. The craft and art of attributing and situating knowledge are in danger, and we believe this would first harm under-credited, often erased work.

09.02.2026 11:44 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

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!

09.02.2026 05:34 👍 41 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 1
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Senterleiar ved Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforsking (294816) | Universitetet i Bergen Stillingstittel: Senterleiar ved Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforsking (294816), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: måndag 2. mars 2026

Vil du leie eit internasjonalt og tverrfagleg kjønnsforskingssenter? Vi søker ny senterleiar frå august 2026! Åremålsperioden for stillinga er på fire år, med høve til å søkje om inntil ein ny åremålsperiode. Søkar må kunne eit skandinavisk språk. Frist: 2. mars.

www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

04.02.2026 15:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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PhD Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Gender Research (294877) | University of Bergen Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Gender Research (294877), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

We're hiring! SKOK is seeking a motivated and academically strong candidate for a #PhD Research Fellowship in interdisciplinary #gender #research, commencing 1st August 2026 or as agreed upon. Deadline: 1 March. Read more below 👇

#gendersky🌈🎓

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

04.02.2026 15:45 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

"... feminists as the problem: they have fewer babies, promote abortion, reduce white birth rates and accelerate demographic change. Women who refuse to submit to male authority, refuse heterosexual relationships or reject their ‘natural’ roles as reproducers of the nation are seen as the enemy."

02.02.2026 12:53 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Come do a MSCA postdoc with the Research Group on Populism, Anti-Gender, and Democracy at the University of Stavanger. You will be working with excellent people in our beautiful city on the fjord.
www.uis.no/en/research/...

30.01.2026 08:38 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Norske forskere NRK kunne intervjuet om bruk av KI i jobbsøknader og rekruttering I dag publiserte NRK en artikkel om hvor fint det er å bruke KI til å skrive jobbsøknader uten å ta med kritiske perspektiver. Det er nesten en ren PR-artikkel for tekselskapene som selger KI. Norg…

Kjære journalister: ikke vær mikrofonstativer for tekselskapene som vil selge oss mer KI for å tjene mer penger. Her er noen av de mange norske forskerne med kompetanse på KI og etikk og arbeidsliv - og jeg har nok glemt mange, for vi er mange og dette er en kjapp liste. jilltxt.net/norske-forsk...

29.01.2026 11:21 👍 59 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 1
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Et talerør for skeive Hvor mye krenkelse skal transpersoner tåle i presseetikkens navn, spør Blikk-redaktøren i sin leder i Blikk 1/26.

NYTT nummer av BLIKK ute nå 🦄
I Lederen spør jeg: Hvor mye krenkelse skal transpersoner tåle i presseetikkens navn?

28.01.2026 19:42 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Jeg ser etter en person som nettopp har begynt å lure på om de kansje er trans og som kan tenke seg å snakke med meg og opptakeren min nå og en tid fremover for publisering senere (selvsagt samtykkebasert)
Noen som kjenner noen?
Jeg vil følge fra de utforsker til de lander og endringene mellom.

26.01.2026 18:53 👍 27 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 0
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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

26.01.2026 08:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New special issue on “Decolonisation” in the Danish gender journal Kvinder, Køn & Forskning. Bringing together decolonial and Indigenous scholarship with feminist and gender studies, the issue is especially timely given renewed geopolitical attention to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).

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21.01.2026 10:53 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Nyt på min blog om #dkmedier's fortielse af Elon Musks racisme.

Jeg ser denne fortielse som udtryk for journalistikkens optimistiske syn på Vesten for Musks kombination af racisme og magt modbeviser den positive fortælling om vesten som god og retfærdig.

eftermedierne.substack.com/p/hvorfor-fo...

13.01.2026 17:20 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

for moralpanikk og transfobi, og politiske utspill som forenkler komplekse spørsmål, bidrar til å forsterke denne risikoen. Derfor er det særlig viktig at politiske debatter og innspill bygger på kunnskap – ikke på forenklede fremstillinger som kan øke stigma."

06.01.2026 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Transfolk eksisterer faktisk. Forskningsrapporter utarbeidet både her i Norge og andre land viser at transpersoner, ikke-binære og andre skeive minoriteter er blant de mest utsatte for diskriminering, utenforskap og psykiske helseutfordringer. Transkvinner er allerede en særlig skyteskive

06.01.2026 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bufdirs råd handler om å skape trygghet for mennesker som ofte opplever utrygghet DEBATT: Når demokratisk valgte stortingspolitikere uttaler seg i media, og særlig om kontroversielle temaer som kjønnsmangfold, LHBT+ og identitetsspørsmål, har de et særlig ansvar for å være etterret...

Min kollega @elengebretsen.bsky.social i et knivskarpt svar til en Stortingspolitikers uvidenskabelige påstand om at der kun findes to køn:
www.aftenbladet.no/meninger/deb...

06.01.2026 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My latest: Keira Bell and co’s legal threat targeting gender affirming care in the UK is being backed by a major global anti-abortion group with links to pro-Putin oligarchs and the far right.

And worse, that group is ramping up its work in the UK. Read my full story here ⬇️

17.12.2025 09:16 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Måske man ikke burde blive overasket længere, men hold da op hvor er det en voldsom kommentar 😟

16.12.2025 14:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anbefaler sterkt folk å underskrive på denne kampanjen mot store kutt i ProSentrets ressurser.

09.12.2025 19:23 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Feministiske organisasjoner og fagmiljøer står sammen for en inkluderende feminisme – Inkluderende feminisme English version På transminnedagen i 2025 gikk 25 norske og nordiske feministiske organisasjoner, partier og fagmiljøer sammen om en konsensusuttalelse for en inkluderende feminisme – og krevde et opp...

27 feministiske organisasjoner & fagmiljøer har i høst gått sammen om en uttalelse for en inkluderende feminisme. 🩷🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Vi vil ha et tydelig oppgjør med #transfobi – også i Norge.

08.12.2025 09:05 👍 48 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3
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Why you should quit using Spotify for music, and what to do instead | Ada Ada Ada Get more from Ada Ada Ada on Patreon

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04.12.2025 12:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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